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Thread ID: 20355 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2005-09-23
2005-09-23 14:26 | User Profile
[url]http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2005/sep/23/092301356.html[/url]
Ann McMullen, 52, of Killeen, Texas, who works as a school administrator at Fort Hood, says she worries about gang violence, simply because of the prodigious numbers of people flowing into Texas communities.
2005-09-23 19:05 | User Profile
This is one of the first things I thought of when Katrina evacuees were headed off to other towns and cities. I kept seeing images of towns opening their arms to hundreds and thousands of new people without so much as a care. Within a day or two I read that trouble was already brewing in a Houston high school with Houston and Louisiana students mixing it up on the school grounds.
That was the tip of the iceberg because yesterday it was reported that nearly half of the evacuees have prison records and some of them for felonies like rape and child molestation. And yet these communities all over the country are greeting these displaced persons as if they're heroes from some war.
Evidentally, someone somewhere has decided that these folks need to be vetted and the ACLU has said this is unconstitutional and it can't be done. Now these poor folks who opened their purses, schools, churches and homes to these people are having second thoughts but it's too late. There's not a damn thing they can do about it except allow them to rob, rape, kill and molest.
I'm afraid there's another disaster in the making but this one will be allowed to play out to its fullest extent but ironically, this time charity will be the catalyst.
2005-09-23 22:00 | User Profile
As you could guess, most of the refugees from New Orleans have criminal records. And, considering the very low rate of solved crimes in New Orleans, you can be there's a lot of people guilty of some serious things, but with no criminal record.
The major reason it looked like the blacks were left to the storm is because the whites were hold up in their homes, while the blacks ran around looting and otherwise causing trouble. I couldn't help but to notice that after troops brought the city under control, we started see a lot of white victims of the storm.
"State police did criminal background checks on every refugee and found that more than half had a criminal arrest records -- a third for felonies.
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/22/katrina.criminals.ap/index.html[/url]
2005-09-24 00:03 | User Profile
[QUOTE]And yet these communities all over the country are greeting these displaced persons as if they're heroes from some war. [/QUOTE] Except in Rhode Island....
2005-09-24 02:47 | User Profile
More than half of the nigger "evacuees" have a criminal record:
[url]http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050922-111326-5228r.htm[/url]
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. (AP) -- The federal government flew Brian Murph and more than 100 other victims of Hurricane Katrina to Rhode Island, where they were greeted by the governor and cheered by residents. Then the handcuffs were placed on Mr. Murph. State police did criminal background checks on every evacuee and found that more than half had a criminal-arrest records -- a third for felonies. Mr. Murph was the only one with an outstanding arrest warrant, for larceny and other crimes. Across the nation, state and local authorities are checking evacuees' pasts as they are welcomed into homes, schools, houses of worship and housing projects. In some states, half the evacuees have police rap sheets. "It's a balancing act," said Kyle Smith, deputy director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. "We don't want to treat them like criminals after they have been traumatized, but we want to make sure they are in no danger nor the families they are housed with." The American Civil Liberties Union calls the checks thinly veiled race and class discrimination against people who have suffered already. The checks are made on those who were evacuated or forced to seek help from charities or others -- in other words, people who are often black and poor. "I think it's happening partly because who these people are and where they came from," said Steve Brown, executive director of the Rhode Island ACLU. "The mere fact that people have past criminal records in and of itself doesn't say anything about harm to the community." Some state and local governments screened just those people evacuated by the federal government. Others screened anyone placed in private homes -- and screened the hosts. In South Carolina, state police checked every evacuee flown there by the government. Of 547 persons checked, 301 had criminal records, said Robert Stewart, state law-enforcement division chief. While most had been law-abiding for years or had committed minor offenses, the group included those convicted of rape or aggravated assault. Two had warrants but were not held because the states weren't interested in extraditing them. "This was all done for everyone's protection," Mr. Stewart said. "If you're going to be sheltering people, it would be prudent for people taking them in to know what criminal pasts they might have." In Texas, with more than 300,000 refugees, local officials have run 20,000 criminal background checks on evacuees, as well as on the relief workers helping them and the people who have opened up their homes. Most of the checks have come up with little for police to be concerned about. In Middletown, a community just north of Newport, several evacuees shrugged at the prospect of background checks and said they understood the state's desire to learn more about them. "I would like to know if there's any skeletons in the closet with my neighbors or the community," said one evacuee, 38-year-old Carmen Williams.