Very sad news today...

I live near the historic city of New Orleans which is being absolutely ravished by crime and drugs. It's a tragedy.

Every time there is another outrage, the mayor and police chief hold a TV news conference. The truth is they don't know what to do. This stuff can't be stopped anywhere it seems.

 

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With all those abandoned houses it's a magnet for druggies which is a magnet for dealers which is gangs who bing gang violence and so on and so forth. It's a shame what's happening at the lower 9th and that it's spilling over. It's turned out to be such an insurmountable task to hit the pre Katrina reset button. I've heard that something like only 10% of the people that left the state after the storm came back

 

I met with Bentley twice this year to surrender some Centenarios.

He was a warm, wonderful person and I'm saddened by his absence.

He was outgoing and friendly with a ready smile.

On my FIRST visit we talked like old friends.

As I recall, his dad was with the O.S.S. in WW2 under "Wild" Bill Donovan, precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency.

We talked of his father's exploits, Alan Turing (cryptologist who cracked the German "Enigma" cipher machine), and my father's service in WW2.

On the second visit his wife was joining him for lunch in the shop while I was there, so it was a brief but cheerful exchange.

I can't believe that someone I know and like was actually murdered in my own home town.

 

Amen. I've always been a big fan of bringing back public hangings

 

I just learned from reading these posts the suspect was a female. This is rare that a female would do this type of robbery.

 

Maybe I'm just jaded by living in the big city, but I'm unsurprised that the source of this viciousness was a female.

 

Very sad news.

IMO, until you make the risk greater than the reward, the behavior won't stop. I'm for capital punishment. With the advancements in science today, it's much easier to establish guilt without a reasonable doubt.

I can't understand how Charles Manson is still alive in a CA jail. To me, this is just absurd. I'd love for someone to give me a reasonable explanation as to why he wasn't put to death decades ago.

 

Here's the legal reason...not a reasonable one, just a legal one.

 

He was lucky, although nine consecutive life sentences is not a good payout. That guy is such an idiot he doesn't know where he is. And he is so high profile that the prison people have to be sure he doesn't have an "accident" of the permanent variety.

 

@bdunnse , thanks for the legal reason.

States are broke, jails are full, yet we have known murders spending life in prison on the tax payers dime/nickel/dollar/quarter. I just don't understand it.

 

Bring back public hangings. The firing squad and the electric chair. Why should we keep these wastes of oxygen around. Who cares if the execution is painless and humane. They didn't care about that when they killed their victims

 

The Russians use a single bullet to the back of the head. What could be simpler and quicker than that? Quit making a Broadway production company out of it

 

Cheaper too.......