Definitely a hero.

I'm naturally suspicious of this guy because he's a cop, but if he actually wants to help people instead of putting them in jail, that's awesome.

Feds aren't supposed to help anyone.

I'm confused.

He says his children live in Houston but that New Orleans is still close enough to see them when he wants to do so.

Sorry, that's still kinda toolish, but then, I don't really have a soft spot for absent fathers.

helping... black... people?



/hotlinked goodness

kntgsp

YixilTesiphon: I'm naturally suspicious of this guy because he's a cop, but if he actually wants to help people instead of putting them in jail, that's awesome.

But all cops rape children and murder women.

I think you have cops mixed with Marines in Iraq.

John Kerry is needed to validate my statement.

We're going to need some more FBI guys I guess.

With this story in the papers, he would now stand a better chance to be elected to an office. Funny how that works.

Props to him.

/Still don't like G-Men.

AthensBoy: We're going to need some more FBI guys I guess.

A shiat... how did I not get to that reference first.

/Good thinking.

seminole87: Honestly they are little better than monkeys.

You are trying way too hard.

1/10

We're going to need some more FBI guys I guess.

True dat yo.

seminole87: I worked in D.C. for six years, those chimps are hopeless.

seminole87: Honestly they are little better than monkeys.



/Had to be done.

ACEllis: AthensBoy: We're going to need some more FBI guys I guess.

A shiat... how did I not get to that reference first.

/Good thinking.

Why thank you.

Forgot to add that.

Hero, my ass. He's as self-serving as the next guy. He's talking about becoming a politician, for god's sake. I call "no clothes on the emperor."

seminole87: When you are going to get your lunch and two 12 year old black kids at the street corner say "You're a cop, aren't you?" it colors your perspective.

Imo cities that are primarily black tend to be savage places.

seminole87: Imo cities that are primarily black tend to be savage places.

At least they aint Florida.

seminole87: Cities that are primarily black poor tend to be savage places.

There are lots of savage poor people where I live (Dublin), and they are some of the whitest people I've ever seen. Even on the South Side, there are places that are scarier than some of 'hoods in New York.

I'm surprised no one's calling him a racist for saying it's African-American kids who are dealing drugs. What's the saying about a small shovel?

I'd rather live in n'walins than DC too. Even if it is a crime ridden hellhole

/but I live just outside DC
//weeps
///rather live somewhere rural, cool, and hilly than either, though

Change the drug laws and there will be no incentive to "gravitate toward the street drug trade." Then this man can devote his efforts to something even more noble.

Looka like mista FBI man found hisself a hustle and don't wanna let it go...

/good on him

just_dis_guy

I'd rather live in n'walins than DC too. Even if it is a crime ridden hellhole

Aren't they both?

seminole87: Honestly they are little better than monkeys.

seminole87: The average black man has children spread across the entire southeast U.S.

seminole87: When you are going to get your lunch and two 12 year old black kids at the street corner say "You're a cop, aren't you?" it colors your perspective.

Imo cities that are primarily black tend to be savage places.

You sir, need a life. It's Saturday afternoon and you're busy trolling the Fark forums? A pretty garbage job at that, if you need to say three things in a row to get some attention.

just_dis_guy:

/but I live just outside DC
//weeps
///rather live somewhere rural, cool, and hilly than either, though

Come to Harrisonburg. It's quite nice if you can stand the periodic poultry shiat wind that blows in from time to time.

The reason he is resigning and staying in New Orleans has nothing to do with trying to help. The man has huge political goals and wants to enter the local fray in New Orleans. FBI Regulations require he either resign or be transferred due to his situation. He chose to resign because he wants to run for office in New Orleans, the rest is a smoke screen.

HighOnCraic: There are lots of savage poor people where I live (Dublin), and they are some of the whitest people I've ever seen. Even on the South Side, there are places that are scarier than some of 'hoods in New York.

I take your point, but blaming all bad things on poverty just does not really work. A lot of very dirt poor rural white and black people are good law abiding citizens. But they are not part of an Urban mentality.

The (predominantly) black urban culture which has developed since the 1960's in the USA tends to create more poverty, chaos, and crime of every sort. The bad thing is, that culture has some academics and a few politicians who make excuses for it and try to protect it.

ultraholland: just_dis_guy:

/but I live just outside DC
//weeps
///rather live somewhere rural, cool, and hilly than either, though

Come to Harrisonburg. It's quite nice if you can stand the periodic poultry shiat wind that blows in from time to time.

I've been; I'd live there if the girlie didn't work in DC proper (I work in Sterling, so it'd be commutable for me.) Seriously, h'burg is just about my speed, or somewhere like it.

ultraholland: Change the drug laws and there will be no incentive to "gravitate toward the street drug trade." Then this man can devote his efforts to something even more noble.

yeah, but how much you want to bet that option is NEVER on the table. Democrat, Republican, they none of them really want to end this ridiculous war on drugs.

Hmm. A place full of atmosphere and elegant history, complete with Cajun food and strolling jazz musicians, which has a crime problem -or the meat-and-steel version of a Barrel Of Monkeys game?

I wonder how he made that tough, tough decision...

/DC is twenty pounds of fail in a ten-pound sack
//At least New Orleans has some style
///Tarty harlot or crack whore? Easy choice, mais amies, c'est vrai.

Because, you know.... there are no troubled black youths in DC that would ever get involved in drugs or crime....

mes?

seminole87: Imo cities that are primarily black tend to be savage places.

I wish I could say that wasn't true, I really do. I've grown up with hardly any bias, but once you spend a week or 2 in Detroit things change. Once you become the object of anger from a collective race your views change involuntarily. God, I hate that place.

seminole87: Honestly they are little better than monkeys.

I hate the FBI too.

So the FBI is providing job training, after school activities, internships, etc. to poor black children in New Orleans?

Yep, I DNRTFA. Now that I have, guy's much more admirable. I thought he meant he was helping black youths in New Orleans by arresting them for dealing.

YixilTesiphon: I'm naturally suspicious of this guy because he's a cop, but if he actually wants to help people instead of putting them in jail, that's awesome.

I help others by putting people in jail, so I'm really getting a kick outta your reply.

i know we're all either gooshing up or flying off the handle here, but, "primarily the African American kids an opportunity so they don't have to gravitate to the street drug trade."? learn to english.

if they ended the war on drugs, what new excuse for federal funding would they come up with?

Yes but is he a YAT?

BusHiatler: i know we're all either gooshing up or flying off the handle here, but, "primarily the African American kids an opportunity so they don't have to gravitate to the street drug trade."? learn to english.

That's unpossible.

Finally, someone with a little sense invades N.O.

The Lwas know they could use all the help they can get.

Good luck. The drug trade is a measure of success in most black inner city culture. Becoming a baller is the equivalent of a white suburban kid getting into an Ivy League school.

Watch some TV if you don't believe me.

/South Side of Chicago.
//Not racist, just realist.
///Counter-argument?

/Approves

Thats an 827: Yes but is he a YAT?

FTW

and no, he isn't.

Jeff Bobaganoosh: Good luck. The drug trade is a measure of success in most black inner city culture. Becoming a baller is the equivalent of a white suburban kid getting into an Ivy League school.

Watch some TV if you don't believe me.

/South Side of Chicago.
//Not racist, just realist.
///Counter-argument?

So I'm assuming your comprehensive and nuanced perspective of inner city black issues is entirely derived from reruns of the wire

Fed turned pol, magical.

Don't take your eyes off him.

Here's the backstory along with the perspective of a local (kick/replies):

(1) Bernazzini was forced out of his position in charge of the N.O. FBI office, after he gave several media interviews saying he was considering running for mayor. Besides the possible legal violation of electioneering while holding a federal office, the FBI was very concerned that (as they are already doing) defendants charged and convicted of corruption and other crimes would say "they just trumped up my charge so Bernazzini could eliminate me as a political threat, and/or put another skin on the wall to make himself look good." Obviously he had to go: you just cannot have the chief federal law enforcement officer using his official position to set up a political campaign for himself.

(2) If you could put his machinations into a picture it would need an EPIC FAIL tag, because he seemed unaware he could never have run for mayor in 2009: the city charter requires a 5-year residency, and Bernazzini will not have that much time living here by the next mayor's term. So he could not have been a candidate.

(3) Nonetheless it is touching to me that someone who was a complete outsider came here after a full career and liked the city so much that he wanted to stay and remain involved, and apparently still wants to, even though none of his family lives here. To me, that is great (preferable to him being caught on a mic saying "god I can't wait to get out of this hellhole"). Also, I will miss his news conferences with the thick Boston accent and dark suits. Perhaps he can be an extra in a Dick Tracy remake.

(4) This is still a black majority city and will remain so and I don't think we are going to have a white mayor. Nor do I think we will have a white DA, although there are two very good white lawyers currently running for DA.

BigDamn: Looka like mista FBI man found hisself a hustle and don't wanna let it go...

/good on him


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Impudent Domain:
The (predominantly) black urban culture which has developed since the 1960's in the USA tends to create more poverty, chaos, and crime of every sort. The bad thing is, that culture has some academics and a few politicians who make excuses for it and try to protect it.

Wasn't forced busing great? It turned my neighborhood from all white to all black in less then 10 years. It used to be a nice neighborhood but now is a place I would be scared to drive around.. in daylight.