Hey Hey Hey! guys, this action covers all people who have contact with people who might be infected! so don't make it big, when the chinese govt quarantine people who might be infected, A mayor position doesn't make him speicial! As for monitoring the call. I don't know what's so special about this mayor!

Honestly, I hope they keep him. What is the mayor of a mid-size city from a poor state like La doing in China anyway?
Id bet anything that hes there at taxpayers expense but what for?
Hes as crooked as they come in La politics and thats saying a LOT.

This is way over the top, even by my standards.

They will be back home safe and sound and doing what they do, nothing.

Originally posted by whatukno
Under the guise of "quarantine procedures" Communist China has taken New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin hostage.

Further proving that this is a hostage situation and not a quarantine procedure as Beijing would like us to believe is this (unfortunately from Fox News)

BEIJING -- They take their quarantines very, very seriously in China. They don't even allow phone calls.

The mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, is under lockdown in a suburban Shanghai hotel after a passenger on his flight from the U.S. exhibited symptoms of swine flu -- and now his Chinese hosts are screening his calls "to keep him safe."

Please visit the link provided for the complete story.

Monitoring his phone calls like a criminal awaiting trial, Nagan faces the possibility of execution if the Chinese government goes the N. Korea route and decides to charge the mayor with espionage.

Ok, couple of things here...
First, the assertion that he is being held hostage is poo. It's quarantine.

Second, the inference that he is being held incommunicado is poo. If you read Fox...it says that the Chinese are not passing messages upstairs without permission of the Health Authorities...it's not like they confiscated his phone, and I'm betting he can make phone calls out.

Therefore, the best thing that can be said about this thread is that Stormdancers response ranks among the funniest four words I have read in a long while.

Everything else is poo.

Originally posted by whatuknoDoesn't this strike anyone as odd? What would Ray Nagin be doing in China in the first place traveling to an Economic development summit? Also why would he be flying coach?

He was attempting to get business interests currently looking at New Orleans to form a more solid plan of locating their businesses here. The reason he is flying coach is because he is currently in one of his many scandals, particularly in this case flying first class to vacation destinations which were paid for by businessmen who were awarded high price contracts by the city.

If it is just a standard 7 day quarantine, why are his calls being monitored? After all he supposedly isn't under suspicion for anything other than being potentially sick.

I doubt his phone calls are being that brutally monitored. He mostly uses a Blackberry to text anyway.

I read the messages loud and clear that there are those that don't like Ray Nagin. I have no opinion of this man other than what is brought up here. He is an American citizen. The facts right now are, this man is being detained against his will, and China does not have a good human rights record.

Oh please, they are going to risk getting other people infected so a mayor that does nothing much of good can go back to a city that is happy he is gone? Have you kept up with the other H1N1 threads on this site and the potentially explosive amount of people it is theorized to have infected that we didn't hear about? I'm not concerned about this man, he has a security guy with him. As far as I'm concerned in this case, if the State Department isn't moving in on this, there's no reason I should either.

Originally posted by niteboy82
Oh please, they are going to risk getting other people infected so a mayor that does nothing much of good can go back to a city that is happy he is gone? Have you kept up with the other H1N1 threads on this site and the potentially explosive amount of people it is theorized to have infected that we didn't hear about? I'm not concerned about this man, he has a security guy with him. As far as I'm concerned in this case, if the State Department isn't moving in on this, there's no reason I should either.

This is what makes me wonder about this situation, H1N1 from what I have seen is no more deadly than the average run of the mill flu. If a person's immune system is for some reason compromised then yes it is deadly, but the amount of people that die each year from the yearly strain of the flu is much more than what H1N1 has done.

I wonder why we haven't heard from the State department on this issue. This seems odd as well. Perhaps it is nothing, but something about this particular case does not bode well with me. Perhaps the state department already is in contact with the Chinese government and all is well. But I don't know.

Perhaps this man's unpopularity as a Mayor means he is expendable for a false flag op in China. Perhaps I am jumping to conclusions, but I don't trust the Communist Chinese Government. I don't know why anyone else would either.

Him coming back with this flu is even more dreadful.....
Summer in NOLA and the Grand Poopah Mayor infected....
This city deserves better..
Agreed..Keep him as long as they feel necessary..

Peace...

Does China have a fund to send money to so that they will keep him???!!???


If so, where do I send my check???

Originally posted by whatukno
One known for BS charges, human rights violations, killing innocent protesters. They are the good guys.

I find it amusing that you post as though those are exclusive to China.


WMDs, Guantanamo Bay/Abu Graib, Operation Iraqi Freedom.



[edit on 6/10/2009 by eNumbra]

Ok I got it, no one likes Ray Nagin. How he got re elected is beyond me. Fully understood, the man is unpopular and people don't like him. I GOT IT!

However what I was trying to point out and obviously failed in doing so is that Americans (this unpopular one in particular) are being detained against their will in a Communist country.

Originally posted by whatukno However what I was trying to point out and obviously failed in doing so is that Americans (this unpopular one in particular) are being detained against their will in a Communist country.

Well, given the circumstances, if it happened on an Air Canada flight to the Great White North, that might generate the same results.

And for all you frat boys that want to play the Beer Card...Tsing Tao is a damn fine brew as well.

I also like the idea of sending money to China to keep him...Har, har, har!!!

I have nothing against the man per se...I just repect a funny line.

Until they decide what to do with him, couldn't they put him in some recreational facility, like Angola?

Just a thought.