No good deed goes unpunished...

[Guest $iLk]

4000+ registered sex offenders were evacuated from New Orleans. Already two of them have abducted or attempted to abduct underage females from their host cities.

Yesterday in school, my fiance's cousin had her purse stolen by one of the evacuees - who was given a slap on the wrist because "she's an evacuee".

How much harder is it going to be next time to get such a large outpouring of support if the people we are helping turn around and stab us in the back like this?

[Soback]

Your cousin should pursue this further, and NOT let up. She should talk to a public prosecutor, newspapers...ect... and argue that the law applied to that evacuee just like it applies to her or anyone else.

When you have people who trash their OWN surroundings, and have no respect for themselfs, how can you even expect them to care about anyone elses property or respect others. For them, it's the fertile new ground to plunder, wreck, and @$%t on.

I was thinking once, why do liberals keep complaining about how the poor neighborhoods are disprivelleged, dirty and dangerous, and the rich or middle class neighborhoods are unfairly clean and safe to live in. What I came up with, is this: If you take all the people out of the run down, noisy, loud music blasting through car windows, dirty, crime ridden, corner drug selling, neighborhoods. And swap them with the people in the white fences, neighbors respecting each others space, clean (they value their houses and therefore don't trash the streets), quiet (they value their peace), neighborhoods. Within 3 months (if that), that middle class neighborhood will turn into the gheto, and the previous ghetto will be cleaned up and become the middle class. You see, it's NOT how much money you have, it's the quality of person you are.

There's a reason why pigs are left in the pig pen, if you bring them home, they will mess up the floor.

Also, think about you cousing getting a gun, and learning how to use it. If she doesn't have one already.

[Darkling]

I grew up in Rhode Island about 10 Blocks from a "Ghetto" Housing project. I remember when we first moved there, I was about 10 years old and one of them (about 17 or so) picked me up and slammed me on the floor for ABSOLUTELY no reason. I guess that was my Welcome Wagon.

At any rate, after they burned the place down twice in 5 years and the government replaced everything twice, the government finally wised up the 3rd time it happened and just razed the entire complex.

The area is now a nice quite middle class neighborhood. As for all the people that lived there, they were given vouchers to live pretty much anywhere, and when they stopped living together, all of a sudden crimed dropped, unemployment dropped and droves of them came off assistance. Point is, it's NOT a good idea to put a lot of negative, down on thier luck people, and cram them together in one area. It's better to integrate them with the rest of society, so they see how the rest of society lives, and can hopefully learn something from it.