Ray Nagin Welcomes Illegal Aliens to America

Just when I thought that America's most incompetent mayor couldn't possibly say or do anything that would further tarnish his reputation or that of my adopted home city, New Orleans, Ray Nagin finds a way to prove me wrong.


Nagin and his toady, Police Superintendent Warren Riley, both of whom can be seen here demonstrating their idea of safe and proper gun-handling, have officially declared New Orleans to be a sanctuary city for Illegals.

Nagin said the Hispanic community has been invaluable to the city, before and after the storm.

"We want to say that you're welcome in New Orleans, " Nagin said. "You're welcome in this country. And we want to make sure that from a law enforcement standpoint, that whatever happens in our community, that you are treated fairly, you are treated just as any other citizen is treated in this community."

OK, first of all, Ray...welcoming them to New Orleans is one thing, but saying that illegal aliens are welcome in our whole country? That's a bit much, even from the guy who claims that God wants New Orleans to stay a "chocolate city". And saying that they are equal to those who are actually citizens? I guess that Ray has forgotten how outraged he was about "New Orleans being overrun by Mexican workers" back in October of 2005. Personally, I'm guessing that someone from Obama's camp tapped him on the shoulder and reminded him that Obama wants all of these illegals made leagl and registered as Democrat voters. Why else would he and Riley have completely flip-flopped on the issue? Nagin knows that if he has any sort of political future, it's going to be one that's attached to Obama somehow. Louisianans outside of New Orleans--and even many in New Orleans--look at him like he's Boo-Boo the Fool and want nothing to do with him.

So he's apparently now selling out the working-class poor in New Orleans and doing his best to ensure that Hispanics--legal or not--can safely undercut native-born US citizen laborers in New Orleans.

"We want them to know that -- unless you are the violator or the perpetrator -- there is no threat of deportation or arrest, as it relates to the New Orleans Police Department, " Riley said.

Riley said that when victims of crime come forward, but are later deported because of their status, it becomes a case of "double jeopardy."

"We are not going to make someone a victim twice, " he said.

I'm sorry...how is it "victimizing" someone when you let the consequences of their actions take their course? Most of these people aren't supposed to be here in the first place, and reasonable immigration inquiries don't affect the ones that are.

Riley estimated that between 20,000 and 60,000 illegal immigrants reside in New Orleans, though he acknowledged the number is extremely difficult to pin down.

Martin Gutierrez, director of Hispanic Ministries for the Archdiocese of New Orleans, credited the NOPD for the recent changes.

Gutierrez noted, however, that a severe sense of distrust of the police still exists, and that it's magnified by the fear of deportation. He said Riley's announcement should ease the concerns of many immigrants.

Hey, Illegals...you're supposed to be afraid of our police, same as any other criminal. If our politicians let the police do their jobs, you'd ideally either be too afraid of them to stay here or you wouldn't come here in the first place.

"We will not under any circumstances focus on deportation, " Riley said, noting that his department's goal is to protect and serve everyone.

So how exactly are American citizens served by being forced to pay more in taxes so that Illegals can flood the hospitals for free care and the social service organizations for free food and lodging? How does it serve Americans to have classrooms in the schools diluted with kids who don't understand English and whose parents are working for cash under the table and not even paying taxes into the school systems? And then there is the crime. How exactly are Americans served when they are robbed, raped, or murdered by illegal ilien criminals or mowed down by drunk-driving illegals without licenses or insurance? That stuff happens every day in America and it's entirely preventable just but locking illegals out and deporting the ones found here. But unfortunately, the politicians in Washington--and in cities like New Orleans--have decided that the cost is acceptable if it means the support and votes of Hispanic activist groups and possibly the votes of 12 to 20 million newly-minted US citizens should Obama get his way.

And as for Ray Nagin, do we really need to see any more examples of his "leadership"?

Burglars break into home of country's longest-serving police officer just hours after his death

Sgt. Manuel Curry, popular figure in Central City and Irish Channel neighborhoods and one of America's longest-serving police officers, is pictured here in 2004 as he was about to leave for D-Day ceremony in France. Curry participated in the famous World War II invasion.







A D-Day vet who subsequently served as a police officer for sixty-two years--making him the longest-serving police officer in this country--dies, and this is the respect that he gets from three shitbirds who will never be anything close to his equal.

Sgt. Manuel Curry's death last week of heart failure brought a wave of despair and an outpouring of support from the ranks of the New Orleans Police Department and the neighborhoods where Curry worked and lived.

It also apparently prompted three people to pounce on a criminal opportunity.

Within hours of Curry's death Thursday morning, police say, two local men and a woman broke into his home in the Irish Channel.

They rifled through his belongings, stealing several guns, plus money, jewelry and medication, according to a police report and his wife.
Kevin Carr, left, and Robin West are suspects in burglary of police officer's home.

Curry's wife of 51 years, Genevieve "Jackie" Curry, said she received news of the burglary while at a funeral home arranging her husband's burial.

Her response: "Oh, my goodness. Who would do this?"

Curry, believed to be the country's longest-serving, active-duty police officer still working full time, had never been a crime victim, his wife said. A World War II veteran, Curry participated in the D-Day invasion of Normandy; he died two days before that event's 65th anniversary.

In his 62-year New Orleans Police Department career, Curry wrestled bank robbers, responded to shootings, and nabbed pickpockets and all types of sordid characters in the 6th District, a tough triangular swath that encompasses Central City, the Irish Channel and the Lower Garden District.

He was the epitome of a community police officer, spending his whole career, save for a few months, in the same district.

Yet in death, he became a crime victim.

"He would have been shocked to see this, " his wife said Monday. "The place looked like a hurricane came through."

Curry's colleagues from the 6th District hit the streets alongside officers from other specialized units to search for suspects. Eventually, they found a witness who provided names and details of the break-in.

Robin West, 24, allegedly had served as the lookout, pacing the 2800 block of St. Thomas Street, while Eddie "E-Fat" Scott and Kevin "K" Carr, 19, ransacked the home, the report states.

West was picked up by police Friday at 11 p.m. in the 2700 block of Fourth Street, according to court records. Carr was arrested around that time near the intersection of Aline and Annunciation streets. Both were booked with burglary. An NOPD spokesman said Monday that a warrant had been issued for Scott's arrest.

Still reeling from her husband's death, Jackie Curry said the men and women of the NOPD have given her great comfort.

"Let me tell you, the police worked overtime and were great, " she said. "I am so thankful for them."

The burglary took place at the same shotgun house in which Curry had lived nearly his whole life. His family moved there when he was 15, his wife said. He never left.

He stayed at the house during the week as he worked and joined his wife at a country home in Lacombe on the weekends.

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Seriously, this is a case that calls for three lengths of rope and three tall trees. The criminals involved are nothing but dog shit and they will never be anything but dog shit. It's time to just scrape them off of the bottom of the shoe of society and be done with them. Anyone who would victimize any senior citizen on the day of her husband's funeral is unfit to live in this world, especially when the victim's husband devoted the majority of his life to serving this country and his community. Let's hope that, for once, the justice system in New Orleans actually works as intended and these scumbags pull some hard time behind bars.

Rest in Peace, Sarge. God knows you've earned it.


Oh--and in a related New Orleans note, bumbling Mayor Ray Nagin and his wife and a bodyguard have been quarantined while in China. Getting quarantined these days is understandable, what with all of the Swine Flu breaking out. What's not understandable is why that fool is in China instead of carrying out his duties in New Orleans. I'd also like to know how much his "business trip" cost the residents of New Orleans but I'm sure that we all know by know that "Mayor Chocolate City" feels confident enough to just ignore such questions. After all, he was re-elected after he totally bungled Hurricane Katrina, so why would he ever think that a little trip to Asia paid for out of city funds is going to cause him any trouble?

New Orleans, killed off again.

So New Orleans is once again the murder capital of America.

There was a time when I was sympathetic, but that was back before New Orleans—my adopted hometown and favorite city despite it’s problems—was the recipient of a golden opportunity but threw it away in the name of politics.

New Orleans has had problems for a long time. There never were too many jobs there, and the city was plagued with crime and poverty, particularly the areas around it’s numerous sprawling public-housing complexes, which ranked among the worst in America.

But then Hurricane Katrina came along and wiped out much of the city. And in it’s wake, New Orleans was given a priceless gift—a shot at a new beginning.

To begin with, everyone was evacuated from the city. Nearly every single person was removed. No one was deliberately left behind, including the thousands of useless layabouts and criminals in the public housing complexes. These people were redistributed among thirteen other states—in many cases put up in hotels or placed in local public housing apartments—and the city literally had the chance to start over.

First the clean-up and rebuilding began. For this, workers were needed and gladly accepted. Wages were high, but accommodations were scarce due to the damage that the hurricane had wrought. The city began working to rehabilitate enough residential space to house the workers who were necessary to rebuild the city. Had they just focused on this, they could have done like many of us suggested and simply rebuilt a smaller, more economically-viable city, populated mainly by people who were there to work. But politics soon reared it’s ugly head, and those running the city knew that they stood to lose in the next elections as any smart voter would hold them accountable for their numerous failings during the crisis. Worse—the political losses might even extend far enough up the ladder to affect the balance of power closer to the top of the ticket in this state which was narrowly but consistently controlled by one political party, the Democrats. The democrats knew that they could not win over people who had lost property and livelihoods due to their malfeasance, so they scrambled to dilute the voter base with more tractable, reliable voters. They reached out and called the welfare crowd back, knowing that this group of sheep would vote “Dem” on election day without giving it anything even remotely resembling a thought.

But to bring the welfare voters back, they had to give them someplace to stay. So the orders went out, diverting construction and rehabilitation projects away from market-rate units intended for workers and steering those resources into reopening as much of the old public housing properties as they could, and giving out Section Eight vouchers when that wasn’t sufficient. They ran around the country, trying to coax back every hood rat and Oprah-watcher that they could find, and even as the employers struggled to find enough housing for the workers needed to rebuild, the non-working masses were flooding back in, often getting priority for desirable housing. They weren’t interested in jobs and had no intention of helping rebuild, but they were sick and tired of living in places like Houston--where they were busy jacking up the crime rates just like they'd done in New Orleans--and the Democrats wanted their votes. So the scum were brought back, and the crime rate began to climb again. But what’s a little crime when Ray Nagin’s job was on the line? A little crime was acceptable if it meant that the criminals would vote him and his cronies back into power. And sure enough, they did. Nagin got re-elected, as did William Jefferson. Corruption and incompetency were unacceptable to many of those productive people who were working to restore the city but they did not matter to the criminals and welfare cheats who were brought back just to tip the election back to the Dems. The bad guys won, but now most of the people who had made New Orleans such a cesspool and who had actually been relocated were back again. And the city that almost rose from the dead has cancer again.

Now the city that only a few years ago had so much promise and opportunity for anyone who wanted to work is more violent than many third-world countries. It’s populated by losers like Darrion Scott, the seventeen year old mother of a two and a half year old, who stabs bus drivers just because she doesn’t want to follow simple rules.

NEW ORLEANS—Authorities say a woman who was repeatedly asked to fold up her baby's stroller on a New Orleans city bus refused, then poured milk on the driver before stabbing her in the chest.
New Orleans police and transit officials tell The Times-Picayune newspaper that the veteran Regional Transit Authority driver suffered a 4-inch deep wound but she survived.
Authorities say 17-year-old Darrion Scott boarded the bus with her 2 1/2-year-old baby and was asked to fold up the stroller. Authorities say Scott tore the top off the baby's bottle of milk and poured it on the driver before stabbing her.
She has been charged with aggravated battery.
The driver, Hanella Johnson, was released from the hospital Wednesday. She has been an RTA driver for 18 years.

Good job, Democrats. Thanks, Mayor Nagin. New Orleans was almost free of this sort of stuff before you fought to bring it all back. Post-Katrina, Darrion Scott was somewhere else for a while, and probably would have stayed somewhere else but for you guys working to bring her and thousands more like her back. The decent people who committed to trying to rebuild the city deserved better, but you put your political careers ahead of their lives and safety and you killed off a city that was in the process of being reborn, just because it was easier than trying to make amends for your ineptness or returning to the private sector.


CORRECTION: My first posting of this had former Mayor Marc Morial's name where Ray Nagin's should have been. I don't apologize as much to Morial as I do to New Orleans residents who have every right to at least have the correct mayor held responsible. Thanks to Bigezbear for pointing my error out. Mea Culpa. Or, in the words of Ray Nagin..."My bad".

Hey Ray!

Lagniappe just wanted to offer a few pointes on gun safety to New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin in the wake of the photo a few stories below. He says:

1. Always treat every gun as if it's loaded. (Especially ones pointed at high-ranking city officials like Warren Riley.)

2. "Always be sure of your backstop. (Police Superintendent Warren Riley is generally not an acceptable backstop.)

3. "Never point a gun at anything that you're not prepared to destroy." (This should include Warren Riley.)

4. "Keep your finger off the trigger until you're ready to shoot.

5. Always keep firearms out of the hands of children. (And irresponsible mayors of third-world "chocolate cities.")



Yo! I'm talking to YOU, Ray!

Caption this photo!

What's going on here?

Is New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin playing with some of the guns that the city confiscated from law-abiding residents after Katrina and still hasn't returned?
Or is this just how the police union has to negotiate next year's salaries?




The New Orleans Times Picayune is inviting people to caption this photograph by clicking HERE.

Come on, gun folks. let's remember how Nagin took all the guns away from everyone else during the hurricane, and let's not forget how New Orleans filed one of the first lawsuits aimed at bankrupting the gun companies not too long ago. Send the appropriate photo captions in, and just because I suspect the TP won't print most of them, you can post them in this site's comment section too and Lagniappe will pick the best one(s).

New Orleans to vote today

Well the City of New Orelans has a chance to change today, that is if the people who now live there don't have their votes cancelled out by the thousands of non-residents who are voting from other states or being bussed in from cities like Atlanta. Apparently when black Democrats are threatened, as Mayor Ray "Willie Wonka" Nagin is, they'll do anything to keep the power, including putting out the fiction that all of the people who were relocated last August after Katrina are somehow still New Orleans residents nine months later. You wonder about this but then read the other media stories about how New Orleans is now a mostly white city since the white people came back, and suddenly it's all too sadly clear. The black Democratic power structure has to claim that every black person who didn't move back by now is somehow still a resident even though they have ID cards and drivers' licenses from their new homes and get their mail delivered to apartments leased in their names in just about any city but New Orleans. As an example, I used to live there but I no longer do. Can I get a ballot too?

The sad thing is that the people who ARE back and who are valid New Orleans residents are the ones who are cleaning up the city, creating the news jobs, serving fellow residents and paying the wages and taxes. These are the people putting New Orleans back on it's feet but if the black Democrats have their way, they won't get to decide on the future of the city that they're rebuilding. The decision will be made by bus loads of welfare recipients from Atlanta, Houston, Memphis and other cities, mostly people who used to live in New Orelans but are being brought back now and handed sheets of paper telling them who to vote for. If enough of them are rounded up and shipped back, Nagin's (and the black Democrats') hold on the city will be preserved in spite of his ineptness which contributed so greatly to this disaster. If there were justice, the Nagin forces would be limited to using the busses that he left to be ruined in the bus yards in the advance of the flood. It's ironic how he wouldn't use busses to get people out of harm's way but now that his job is on the line, there's busses for everyone.

All I can do from here is hope that either Ron Forman or Mitch Landrieu is able to top the 50% needed to send Nagin packing. The city deserves quality leadership and it won't get that from a racist clown who didn't do a thing for the residents when his leadership was called for.

I hope that someone reads this and casts a vote for me. Give it to either Forman or Landrieu and help save my favorite city in the world.

How's that foot taste, Ray?

If Ray Nagin, soon-to-be outgoing Mayor of New Orleans (Oh, please God...) had any friends left in the world, they'd have put duct tape over his mouth by now. I mean he just keeps saying dumb stuff and proving to everyone that he's not the man to represent all of the residents and businesses of the Crescent City.

His latest gaffe was minor compared to some of his earlier ones but it still showed us all how he thinks. Addressing a crowd of ex-New Orleans residents in Houston and trying to give them a reason to vote for him. (Someone tell me again why people who aren't living in the city are being allowed to vote?) As he spoke to this crowd, rather than tell them why he's the best man for the job, or lay out his plans to undo the damage caused by his previous screw-ups before, during and after Hurricane Katrina, he tried to scare them into voting for him by pointing out that most of the people now running against him aren't black.
Nagin noted that 23 candidates entered the mayoral fray before the registration deadline last week. "Very few of them look like us," he told the crowd of black ex-residents who had gathered at an NAACP meeting to hear him.

So in Nagin's mind, he obviously thinks that his best chance to get re-elected is to forget about his track-record of ineptitude, including the Superdome, the Convention Center and all of those submerged school buses that could have prevented that horror and just raise the specter of some white guy running the city.

Does Nagin really hate white people that much? Or does he just think that black people are really that stupid that he can scare them into giving him another chance just by making some racist statements? Either way, he's clearly got no business in office. The city needs someone who can be inclusive, not divisice. Someone who will unite the people who are left, not divide them or use the people who aren't even there any more to try to keep the real residents from voting him out of office.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said Friday that it wasn't his fault city school buses weren't mobilized to facilitate the Hurricane Katrina evacuation he ordered.

Appearing on NBC's "Dateline," Nagin was asked by host Stone Phillips: "What was mobilized? Were buses ready to take people away?"

"No. None of that," the Big Easy mayor replied.

"Why is that?" an incredulous Phillips asked.

Nagin replied: "I dont know. That is question for somebody else."

Once more Ray Nagin shows why he's not fit to be the Mayor of New Orleans

OK, as a former resident of New Orleans and someone who hopes to move back someday, I confess that I was an early supporter of Ray Nagin when he first ran for Mayor of New Orleans back in May of 2002. As a former vice president of Cox Communications, he appeared to have business sense and the ability to make decisions and transcend the race-card-playing, partisan mudslinging that has been the hallmark of Louisiana politics for as long as anyone can remember. At last, I thought, New Orleans is on it's way back up. I'd hoped the city could finally recover from the mess left by former Mayor Marc Morial and his cronies.

And I thought he was doing pretty well, right up until Hurricane Katrina hit.

First he ignored the danger until it was too late. Everyone knew that a hurricane of that magnitude could and would someday hit the Crescent City and cause exactly the damage that Katrina did. Contingency plans had been drawn up decades ago and revised frequently. The plans were up to date and available but when crunch time came, Nagin didn't implement them. Instead he just contemplated the inside of his own rectum. (That's a polite was of saying he stood around with his head stuck up his ass.)
The floodwaters came and threatened thousands while 500 buses that could have evacuated most of them were left in low-lying lots to be destroyed by the advancing waters. His excuse for that travesty? A public comment about how hard it was to get city workers to come in even on a good day. That's right--he blamed the bus drivers even though records show that his administration never even bothered to try to call them in for this emergency.

Then he criticized the Bush administration for not stepping in fast enough, even though the primary responsibility for New Orleans lay with him and Governor Kathleen Blanco (A Democrat elected solely due to the powerful Democratic machine in New Orleans Parish--the rest of the state voted for her more experienced Republican opponent.)

Next, in the face of universal criticism by the voters of New Orleans, Nagin called on Blanco to postpone the February election because he is up for re-election and he knew that the voters would have held him responsible for his failings and elected anyone other than him. And to her disgrace, Blanco postponed the election until April, giving Nagin more time to try to rehabilitate his image. Nagin couldn't survive the February election that the law calls for but law and proceedure never really matter much to Democrats when one of their own is threatened.

Now Nagin's putting his feet back in his mouth again. In a Martin Luther King Day speech that sounded like it was co-written by Whitney Houston and Marion Barry during a crack-smoking binge, he claims to be a prophet of God. Nagin says that the Hurricane came because "God is mad at America over the Iraq war". He then says that God wants New Orleans to become "a chocolate city" again, meaning that it has to be rebuilt as a majority black city.

The areas hardest hit by the storm were some the poorest, most crime-ridden areas (like the lower 9th Ward) and as a result of the storm, most of the people who have been committing the majority of the crimes while laying around on welfare in the massive public housing projects and low-income rental neighborhoods were relocated all over the country by FEMA and in effect given one-way tickets out of town. This was an inordinate benefit to New Orleans and it created a chance for a smaller, safer, more prosperous city to rise from the ruins--a city of educated working people who would actually contribute to the culture of the city. But the second-handers and poverty pimps have been out in force ever since, screaming that racism caused the flood, racism caused the slow response (Ironicaly the biggest failings were Nagin's and he's black), and now racism is supposedly the reason why the federal government isn't shelling out more money to bring all the poor black people back to New Orleans.

And now Nagin's jumped on that bandwagon big time. As quoted in a CNN article,

"I don't care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day," Nagin said in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech. "This city will be a majority African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be."

I'd like to ask God about that. My money says God would say that Nagin's a liar and a fool.

But that's not all. Nagin also claims to talk regularly with the ghost of Martin Luther King, Jr. Now I'm not even going to bother with that one because that's just too whack for words. It's right up there with Hillary Clinton's claim that she channels the spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt.

New Orleans deserves better than Nagin. I'm sorry Ray, but you've lost my support for good. I hope that the voters turn you out in April or whenever it is that the Democrats decide to let them vote again. And I call on New Orleans boosters and residents to resist the demands from the paid hustlers who are exploiting the poor for personal profit. New Orleans doesn't need any public housing rebuilt in flood-prone areas and if some people want to live on the backs of the taxpayers no matter what color or race they are, they can stay in Houston or even Anchorage, Alaska if that's where the government puts them and they can be grateful.

New Orleans will always be a diverse city. Many of the well-to-do in that city are black and asian as well as white. The claims made by Nagin and others that all the blacks are impoverished ward of the state who are entitled to homes in New Orleans but won't be able to live there unless someone else pays for their house and moving expenses is an insult to every hard-working, successful black man and woman who lives there, even the ones who live in that Uptown area that Nagin disparages.