[BITList] busy town, busy people

[David Harvey]

What a system. Is there anything about the "Separation of Powers" in the
American Constitution.

Dave

On 18 August 2011 02:14, <x50type at cox.net> wrote:

>   Hugh
>
> the prime cause  of murders/shootings in new orleans is drugs and in
> particular buyers not paying up, as well as drug turf wars. additionally,
> folks [particularly blacks but not limited to] under the influence, seem to
> be unable to argue without becoming overly emotional [and dissed {insulted}]
> and so resort to extreme violence.
>
> because of the way the chief of police is selected, any likely buddy of a
> current mayor can become chief of police – it is a political appointment.
> time after time, an utterly incompetent CoP was appointed by which ever
> mayor was in office at the time. so inefficiency, corruption, side jobs,
> favours and the like was the norm in the police department. it is likely
> cops were paid off by drug gangs to go easy on them. few gangland type
> murders went to trial [or were successfully prosecuted] because of sloppy
> police work, witnesses who were afraid to come forward to give evidence at a
> trial and a pretty useless district attorney. FYI – the district attorney is
> elected by peoples vote; it was discovered not long ago when we had a
> particularly useless DA [jay darden], that it was impossible to remove him
> from office before his elected term was up without 2/3 rds majority of
> voters demanding a recall....................!
> consequently, the climate is ideal for crime.
>
> not to put too fine a point on it, but black mayors have been the down fall
> of new orleans. the mayor can appoint his buddies to many, many positions in
> local government, but the positions require competence – this was generally
> lacking, and we see the results across the board.  you only have to look at
> the mess the last black mayor [ray nagin of a ‘chocolate city’ and Katrina
> fame] left the place in – and they waltz off, with no responsibility for the
> mess, having lined their own pockets and those of their buddies.
>
> it has been left to the federal prosecutors to prosecute police
> wrong-doers  [danziger bridge] here and local government crooks. even the
> long time senator for new orleans [‘dollar bill’ jefferson] and his family
> and relatives have been indicted for corruption, etc. his brother has just
> died in federal prison, his girl friend is heading for federal prison and
> ‘dollar bill’ himself was found guilty and sentenced to 9 years – but
> remains out on appeal.
>
> there is a white mayor now and a white CoP; the US department of justice is
> here monitoring and advising the police, hopefully crime will be reduced and
> the police force cleaned up.
>
> however, as we see with American politics, instead of all folks working for
> a common good – everybody wants to be john wayne..........................!!
>
> colin t
>
>
>  *From:* HUGH <chakdara at btinternet.com>
>  *Sent:* Wednesday, August 17, 2011 2:03 AM
> *To:* BitList <bitlist at lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [BITList] busy town, busy people
>
>  Colin,
>
> What's causing all the shooting in New Orleans? It can't be the guns, since
> these are sanctioned and made holy by the US Constitution (or is that the
> USS Constitution?).  My wife and I reckon it must be eddies of bad air from
> hurricane Katrina still lurking around in back alleys - or maybe it's the
> jazz.
>
> Hugh.
>
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