Whoops, I meant-- New Orleans should be Baghdad's sister city because both have whopping levels of violence that aren't officially admitted. My Comcast cable start page runs news that's mostly Administration spin. Today there's a picture of 2 smiling Iraqi leaders and the headline "Constitution to be finished soon." That's because the country's blowing itself to pieces and Bush wants to hang his exit on an advanced Constitution-writing timetable.
I don't know why more people don't know that New Orleans is a killing ground--I guess it's at odds with the tourist image of the Big Easy. New York used to be like that, violent as hell, until some control freaks came into the constabulary with "advanced police methods" (e.g., statistically tracking where crimes were being committed and increasing patrols there). New York isn't as fun anymore but the control freaks proved a city can be made less murderous. There's no excuse for New Orleans to be like this. Is deeply entrenched racism the main reason, would you say?
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- tom moody 8-13-2005 11:42 pm