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The situation in NOLA is such that: (1) former police commissioner Compass (2) current Mayor Nagin and the remainder of the civil administration should be charged with negligent homicide. Their abdication of leadership coupled with the corruption of the city was DIRECTLY responsible for the deaths in NOLA–These people are scum–police officers looting walmart, police officers stealing cars etc–is this NORMAL behavior for a civil society? A mayor that abdicated his responsibility? a police department that deserted? these people are animals.

No, she is not.

In the country where I reside there is something called the rule of law and that includes due process.

In 1999, Masaharu Nonaka, a 58 year old employee of Bridgestone in Japan, slashed his belly with a sashimi knife to protest his forced retirement. He died later in the hospital. This suicide was dubbed risutora (corporate restructuring) seppuku by the mass media, and was said to represent the difficulties in Japan following the collapse of the bubble economy.

In the country where I reside I’m not aware that anyone has a sense of shame. Isn’t it un-American to have a sense of shame?

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/vincent200412130852.asp

In 1970, famed author Yukio Mishima and one of his followers committed public seppuku at the Japan Self-Defense Forces headquarters after an unsuccessful attempt to incite the armed forces to stage a coup d’etat. Mishima committed seppuku in the office of General Kanetoshi Mashita. His second, a 25-year-old named Morita, tried three times to ritually behead Mishima but failed; his head was finally severed by Hiroyasu Koga. Morita then attempted to commit seppuku himself. Although his own cuts were too shallow to be fatal, he gave the signal and he too was beheaded by Koga.

Has any Japanese politician committed seppuku since 8/15/45?

Mayor Nagin, should he choose to stand for reelection, will face the voters next year. Governor Blanco, should she choose to stand for relection, will face the voters in 2007. A number of police officers in New Orleans will undoubtedly stand before judges and administrative boards. The people of New Orleans and Louisiana, subject lawful constraints, will pass judgement and that, in my opinion, is as it should be.

Here’s where the blogosphere strikes back. After all the crowing from the MSMers about “speaking truth to power”– what Steyn gloriously called speaking to goofs in power” like Nagin– it’s time for the bloggers and PJM to pick apart the lies and nonsense and self-congratulatory hype pushed by the MSM with solid follow-up. Parish by parish, NOLA municipal department by department, story by story, at each point in the timeline: show where the MSM got it wrong, dead wrong, or completely whiffed, didn’t show up, refused to look.

And do the same for the $200B carnival of looting (of the public purse) that’s about to commence. Trace each appropriation and get on-the-scene reports about levees not built, sham construction projects, phantom housing etc.

Katrina gave the MSM its swagger back? Bah! We have not yet begun to fight. The next round belongs to the blogosphere.

Indeed, she is not. There is very little doubt in my mind that, as corrupt as the New Orleans police force evidently is, the citizens of New Orleans are safer with it than with no police force at all, which is what New Orleans would have immediately following the action of firing all police officers.

The police chief is gone. I don’t know whether state or local law allows the voters in New Orleans to recall the man posing as their mayor; if it does, they should exercise their power to do so. Then the city needs to hire a strong, moral, incorruptible, and thoroughly intolerant police chief. He needs, however, a police force to start off with, and a bad one is far better than none at all.