White men on hotel balconies

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Cat-5 hurricaines don't look so bad actually. I've just watched 24 hours straight of live coverage of white middle-aged men standing on hotel balconies. I guess it's kind of novel that they are standing on a balcony. But not enough to keep me another 24 hours. Maybe only 12 more. Who's living through this disaster with me? Reaching out.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Re: White men on hotel balconies

The more I sit on my own balcony in France ponding multiple theoretical aspects of hurricanes, the more I realize there is a Biblical justice to all of this. For instance:

New Orleans: Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters

“Of all the nightmares during Hurricane Katrina, this must be one of the worst,” said Corinne Carey, researcher from Human Rights Watch. “Prisoners were abandoned in their cells without food or water for days as floodwaters rose toward the ceiling.”

According to inmates interviewed by Human Rights Watch, they had no food or water from the inmates' last meal over the weekend of August 27-28 until they were evacuated on Thursday, September 1. By Monday, August 29, the generators had died, leaving them without lights and sealed in without air circulation. The toilets backed up, creating an unbearable stench.

As the water began rising on the first floor, prisoners became anxious and then desperate. Some of the inmates were able to force open their cell doors, helped by inmates held in the common area. All of them, however, remained trapped in the locked facility.

“The water started rising, it was getting to here,” said Earrand Kelly, an inmate from Templeman III, as he pointed at his neck.“ We was calling down to the guys in the cells under us, talking to them every couple of minutes. They were crying, they were scared. The one that I was cool with, he was saying ‘I'm scared. I feel like I'm about to drown.'

“It was complete chaos,” said a corrections officer with more than 30 years of service at Orleans Parish Prison. When asked what he thought happened to the inmates in Templeman III, he shook his head and said: “Ain't no tellin’ what happened to those people.”

“At best, the inmates were left to fend for themselves,” said Carey. Human Rights Watch compared an official list of all inmates held at Orleans Parish Prison immediately prior to the hurricane with the most recent list of the evacuated inmates compiled by the state Department of Corrections and Public Safety (which was entitled, “All Offenders Evacuated”). However, the list did not include 517 inmates from the jail, including 130 from Templeman III.

This important story tells us that prisoners need to fend for themselves during hurricanes, like everyone else. When the guards leave because the water is up to their necks, it's time to innovate and take advantage of the Freedom™ that God gave America. THINK! Or you'll DROWN fast. That's the kind of motivation that produces results. At the very least, they should find a balcony and stick it out like middle-aged white men.

[BrotherLarry]

Re: White men on hotel balconies

Dr. Toole:


I find your posts both intelligent and compassionate. Based on the law of averages, most likely if a person is imprisoned, they have been suspected of negative behavior or convicted of such. The LORD tells us that we must obey those in charge of us. The offender population did not obey GOD, and therefore must suffer retribution deemed appropriate by God and His Sovereign Will.


I propose that all jails are built with appropriate balconies in hurricane or flood prone areas so that prisoners can at least see what's happening to them as the waters rise to suffocate them, saving taxpayers thousands of dollars and ridding the world of people who go against the teachings of the Bible.


Can someone tell me if Freehold has a jail? If so, what persons are housed there and for what reason? I know Mayor Hold has helped enact so many Christ-centered ordinances it is hard for me to picture that anyone living in Freehold would break them. I should also think the gates would keep undesirables from entry.


God bless you, Dr. Toole, for your fascinating and insightful observations over the course of the dreadful weather the homers brought to one of our most beautiful states.


BrotherLarry