Indian Boy
05-20-2012, 08:26 PM
Has anybody else wasted their time reading this book? It's the true story of a Muslim man, Zeitoun, who remained in New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina, paddled through the flooded streets in a canoe helping people and feeding dogs, then was eventually arrested and detained by the authorities but denied a phone call.
My problem is with the way the story is written. I hated it. The author goes completely overboard trying to make the reader sympathize with what a good hearted, hard working Muslim Mr. Zeitoun was, and how evil and sadistic the New Orleans police department was during this crisis.
For those of you who read this piece of garbage and disagree with me, I'll say this. Zeitoun should have been arrested. Before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina the city of New Orleans was under mandatory evacuation. Mandatory evacuation. That means nobody was allowed to be there and if they were they were breaking the law and subject to detention. Muslim Zeitoun did not think this law applied to him. After Katrina, New Orleans was sadly overrun with gun toting criminals who relentlessly looted the city, raped women, killed one another, and shot at police. To say New Orleans was dangerous would be a joke of an understatement. That place was deadly. So anyone in that city after Katrina was subject to detention, Zeitoun included.
After his detention the author wants us all to feel sorry for poor, innocent, Muslim Zeitoun because he wasn't afforded the rights that should have been afforded to him under the US judicial system. Well too bad. Zeitoun shouldn't have been in New Orleans after Katrina in the first place, and once arrested, all of those rights that work effectively when the justice system is up and running, well those rights and methods don't work once the entire justice system has been destroyed and there's complete and total lawlessness. Think about it. New Orleans is overrun with dangerous armed criminals and the police are supposed to read miranda rights and allow phone calls to each person they can finally subdue and detain? No way.
I'm a huge fan of New Orleans. That city is absolutely beautiful. It's rich with culture unlike any other US city I've ever visited. The food, the music, the people, etc. Thank God the criminals were not allowed to destroy that city after Katrina. I'm glad the authorities did what they did to bring order back to that city and preserve that gem of the United States.
Hey Zeitoun and David Eggers! Shut up and stop whining.
Anybody else read this book and have an opinion?
My problem is with the way the story is written. I hated it. The author goes completely overboard trying to make the reader sympathize with what a good hearted, hard working Muslim Mr. Zeitoun was, and how evil and sadistic the New Orleans police department was during this crisis.
For those of you who read this piece of garbage and disagree with me, I'll say this. Zeitoun should have been arrested. Before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina the city of New Orleans was under mandatory evacuation. Mandatory evacuation. That means nobody was allowed to be there and if they were they were breaking the law and subject to detention. Muslim Zeitoun did not think this law applied to him. After Katrina, New Orleans was sadly overrun with gun toting criminals who relentlessly looted the city, raped women, killed one another, and shot at police. To say New Orleans was dangerous would be a joke of an understatement. That place was deadly. So anyone in that city after Katrina was subject to detention, Zeitoun included.
After his detention the author wants us all to feel sorry for poor, innocent, Muslim Zeitoun because he wasn't afforded the rights that should have been afforded to him under the US judicial system. Well too bad. Zeitoun shouldn't have been in New Orleans after Katrina in the first place, and once arrested, all of those rights that work effectively when the justice system is up and running, well those rights and methods don't work once the entire justice system has been destroyed and there's complete and total lawlessness. Think about it. New Orleans is overrun with dangerous armed criminals and the police are supposed to read miranda rights and allow phone calls to each person they can finally subdue and detain? No way.
I'm a huge fan of New Orleans. That city is absolutely beautiful. It's rich with culture unlike any other US city I've ever visited. The food, the music, the people, etc. Thank God the criminals were not allowed to destroy that city after Katrina. I'm glad the authorities did what they did to bring order back to that city and preserve that gem of the United States.
Hey Zeitoun and David Eggers! Shut up and stop whining.
Anybody else read this book and have an opinion?