Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Housing projects were/are a bad idea. Concentrating so much poverty, misery and vast disfunction all together in isolated areas is a recipe for, well, for just about what we've gotten ourselves into at the current time. Scott Chris Williams wrote: >Well the gangs in New Orleans only know mass murder. Get rid of them and >the situation is at least a little easier. > >If anyone has ever been in the projects of New Orleans, you'd see what I'm >saying. > >It was so bad 11 yrs when we first moved here that the military was >threatening to move in to stop violence. Chief Pennigton restored allot of >order by kicking out the corrupt police. He moved on 2yrs ago to Atlanta. >Then murders started going back up. Sometimes 3 or 4 a night within blocks >of each other. The city thought moving some projects would help. Some were >moved to NO East and Slidell. Guess what, Slidell crime when skyrocket. > >I can tell you in my area that when they moved the projects out, our crime >went way down, more shops opened and walking around at night became >something we could do. I used to have to watch out for our house and car >after Mardi Gras parades because gangs would knock out windows. Police >would have to escort them back to the projects. > >If they don't care for human life, why should we care about them? > >By the way, Bush had to spend 30 minutes in AL posing for photo ops??? >Gimme a fecking break. and they say they are in a hurry. > >7 Minutes during 9/11, 30 minutes for 2 million displaced. > >Chris > > >Chris Saganich <chs2018@med.cornell.edu> wrote: >Oh yea that is a solution which has never been tried. How simple. I'm >always amazed at how little we Americans understand about our own >society. Such blindness will never make us strong, or help us solve >problems in any other way but mass murder. Go for it Chris. Get out there >and make a difference. > >Chris > >At 08:40 AM 9/2/2005, you wrote: > > >>The Ward Gangs in N.O. are heavily armed, always have been. We're talking >>AK-47s, Uzis, etc. They do not care for human lives. Even before this >>photographers would be risking their lives going into project areas. I've >>seen coroner photos for years in New Orleans. >> >>It's not worth it to risk your life down there. Though I feel sorry for >>the vast majority of poor still stuck in New Orleans, these project people >>are not worth it. Just like in Iraq, the only way to get rid of insurgency >>is to kill them, or get out and save yourself. >> >>Even the NOPD friends I know would kill them given the chance. And these >>are black friends saying this. >> >>Chris >>New Orleans >> >> >> >>Scott McLoughlin wrote: >>I wonder if the Toronto and NYT jounalists were shooting discrete MP's >>and Noctilux (on topic - see) if they could have avoided police >>violence. For >>that matter, I wonder why with all the looting and gun violence going on >>why >>police would have wasted their time with lone journalists wielding just >>a simple >>camera of any stripe? >> >>Maybe FEMA should issue a warning to photo journalists and other press >>personel to avoid dangerous, armed roaming police personel at all costs. >>Sheesh, what a miserable country we live in - or so I'm sometimes led to >>think. My Ukrainian g'friend pretty much hates it here, and I defend this >>country to teeth. I'm gonna have a field day tomorrow when I see her. >>Can't help it, I'm crying here. >> >>Scott >> >>Timothy Atherton wrote: >> >> >> >>>if anyone is thinking of photographing in N.O..... >>> >>>>From Donald Winslow at the NPPA: >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>Subject: Photojournalists Covering Katrina Fall Victim To Growing >>>Violence, Chaos >>>Importance: High >>> >>> >>>Full Story Online At: >>>http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2005/09/hurricane2.html >>> >>>Photojournalists Covering Katrina Fall Victim To Growing Violence, Chaos >>> >>>AUSTIN, TX (September 1, 2005) ­ As photojournalists continue to >>> >>> >>document >> >> >>>the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?s violent assault on the Gulf Coast, >>>today they also found themselves documenting new violence and death among >>>the survivors, the refugees, and the looters and police and rescuers in >>>New >>>Orleans, while some photojournalists even fell victim to the violence >>>themselves. >>> >>>Two veteran photojournalists - NPPA member Rick Wilking of Reuters and >>>Getty's Mark Wilson - were robbed of cameras and computer equipment today >>>while on assignment in a neighborhood in New Orleans, and a >>>photojournalist >>>and a reporter were confronted at gunpoint and slammed against a wall by >>>police following a shoot-out between looters and cops that left at least >>>one >>>person dead. >>> >>>Another photojournalist - Lucas Oleniuk of the Toronto Star - was knocked >>>to >>>the ground by police, his gear taken from him initially, when he >>>photographed them shooting at looters and then beating one. A New York >>>Times >>>photojournalist and Times-Picayune reporter Gordon Russell were slammed >>>into >>>a wall by police at gunpoint after they witnessed a shoot-out between cops >>>and looters that left at least one person dead. >>> >>>In response to the growing violence and an increasing sense of despair >>>among >>>the stranded survivors, some television networks have hired armed private >>>security firms to protect their journalists as they work to cover the >>>story. >>> >>>Full Story Online At: >>>http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2005/09/hurricane2.html >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Leica Users Group. >>>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >>--------------------------------- >>Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > >Chris Saganich, Sr. Physicist >Weill Medical College of Cornell University >New York Presbyterian Hospital > >Ph. 212.746.6964 >Fax. 212.746.4800 >A0049 > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? 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