I totally understand being skeptical – and as I claimed in my first post I was NOT told about any account where somebody was ‘killed’ and their body dumped at a morgue, and I don’t believe McKinney’s claim.

I surely don’t want to accuse anybody of any wrongdoing – because I know of none. I think all these guys who worked so hard for so long under such awful conditions are nothing short of heroes for their efforts.

The comment stuck with me, though.

I’m not even saying it was wrong. It’s probably all they could have done. You face a gun toting thuggish looter who is preventing you from rescuing someone or inspecting a house for a possible rescue and you aren’t going to be given a whole lot of wiggle room before the hammer comes down.

The only fault I place during that period are on Nagin and Blanco’s shoulders for not having a better evac plan or requesting aid from President Bush sooner.

Jindal showed us how it should be done – although I think after about 3 or 4 ‘false alarm’ evacs we’ll be right back to pre-Katrina indifference toward hurricane evacs in NOLA.

Mr. Purple I’m not beating up on you OK? There is just no way in hell that anything like what was described by your Deputy buddy could have happened, that is all I’m saying.

She is a moron for repeating this especially because its oh so easy to refute…

I am not trying to verify or debunk McKinney’s claim. I personally do not believe 5000 people were executed as McKinney claims.

That doesn’t mean that this ‘drop off a body no questions asked’ procedure wasn’t in place. Maybe this Sherrif’s Deputy just made it up and lied to a group of us. Possible. I tend to believe his story since I know him to be a reputable guy.

Dez – if somebody does wish to follow up on McKinney’s report I simply added a detail which many people may not have heard. If they are investigating it – then they have another avenue to follow (a ‘lead’).

MrPurple.
You can call it a lead if you so desire, but, as has been pointed out by many esteemed S&Lers, its a false lead.
Cops find a drowning victim and move on to search for the living in need of help without wasting time on paper work.
Its similar to a thing called triage, in other words, dont waste time on those that cannot be helped.
And welcome to S&L.

So, no reports of lots of bodies being turned in at the morgue having been shot “execution style,” leads me to believe there’s not a connection. That, plus the fairly obvious reasoning that if there is some shadowy government hit squad down there making a lot of people disappear, they’re going to stay disappeared and not be lying around to be collected and have people start asking questions, makes me think there’s nothing here at all.

Yes, it was specifically during the aftermath of Katrina.

I agree I believe it was more a matter of expediency than something sinister – as I explained in my first post (comment #6).

I have no info on anyone’s particular demise or any of the other scenarios you present.

I am simply relaying what was told to me by a Sheriff’s Deputy.

In police work I believe this would be called a ‘lead’. Good police work would involve investigating it – not dismissing it out of hand and ridiculing the person supplying the info.

Oh no! was that a racist remark? oops, I meant helicopters that are painted really really dark and flat so they can’t be seen, not, like ‘black’ helicopters -

Ok MrPurple, you ‘re reporting about a deputy down in New Orleans being able to drop a body off at the morgue, no questions asked. Now is that the regular daily practice or was it just around the time of Katrina? If it was during “normal” times, well, my first thought is “but it IS New Orleans,” but that does raise a mite of suspicion.

However, if it was during Katrina, than that’s another matter. A natural disaster had happened, bodies were naturally expected to be found as a result of it, and it sounds more like a question of expediency than something sinister. The main determiner would be whether someone died as a result of the catastrophe or criminal action. The same with finding guns or whatever.

So what sort of untimely demise are we talking about?

If a deputy finds a body with a .45 caliber hole in the head, dropping it off at the morgue and driving off would make him negligent in his duties, even if there was a natural disaster. However, I could see a limited investigation because of time/manpower limits–but still it should have been recorded for when the disaster had passed. And if multitudes of bodies were showing up with .45 caliber holes in the forehead, someone would have noticed. However, victims of drowning or other incidents related to the disaster would likely be simply processed by the morgue staff.

So let’s assume further, that the person with the body (not to imply anything about anyone) was somehow involved in the demise. Why take the chance of dropping it off at the morgue? Why not either leave it or take advantage of the ample evidence burial opportunities the landscape of New Orleans provides?

You see, I think you’re trying to imply something from nothing.

“But Andrea isn’t through. She goes on to promise proof of her outlandish claims:
I don’t have the energy to explain, so I’m just going to tell you all how it is. ‘They’ are trying to take our city from us. Thousands upon thousands of poor, mostly African American citizens of New Orleans were murdered. Those levey breaks? Dynamite. Don’t ask me for proof yet – just give us some time, we will get it to you. The ones that didn’t die were starved. The rest, ‘evacuated.”’

another thread states that “witnesses” had seen convoys of government vans transporting the bodies in a long line after midnight back to the cruise ships…..I remember how I laughed at such stupidity then, and how appalled I am that a breathing human can buy into it this late. McKinney is an ass.

I’ll leave this offer to this website (and I’ll probably do the same later tonight on HotAir).

This website can contact me and I reveal my name, my source’s name, and the company we work for. Establishing that I would have had the opportunity to hear such a claim from such a person should be fairly easy to prove.

I’m not revealing any of that info in this thread, however.