Corpses, Guns Found in New Orleans Homes

Associated Press ^ | Sep 9, 10:56 AM EDT | DON BABWIN

[300magnum]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Soldiers and police confiscated guns from homeowners as they went house to house, trying to clear the shattered city of holdouts because of the danger of disease and fire. Police on Friday also marked homes with corpses inside, with plans to return later.

As many as 10,000 people were believed to be stubbornly staying put in the city, despite orders from Mayor Ray Nagin earlier this week to leave or be removed by force. By midmorning, though, there were no immediate reports of anyone being taken out forcibly, police said.

Police are "not going to do that until we absolutely have to. We really don't want to do that at all," Deputy Chief Warren Riley said.

Some residents who had previously refused to leave - whether because they wanted to protect their homes from looters, they did not want to leave their pets behind, or they simply feared the unknown - are now changing their minds and asking to be rescued, police said. "They realize they're not going to this awful situation like the Superdome or the Convention Center," Riley said. "As days go by, it seems less and less likely that we'll have to force anyone."

He added: "I don't know of any incidents where people are being bellingerent."

Police and soldiers seized numerous guns for fear of confrontations with jittery residents who have armed themselves against looters.

"No one will be able to be armed. We are going to take all the weapons," Riley said.

Thomas say forced evacuations would be a mistake.

On Thursday, in the city's well-to-do Lower Garden District, a neighborhood with many antebellum mansions, members of the Oklahoma National Guard seized weapons from the inhabitants of one home. Those who were armed were handcuffed and briefly detained before being let go.

"Walking up and down these streets, you don't want to think about the stuff that you're going to have to do, if somebody's pops out around a corner," said one of the Guardsmen, Chris Montgomery.

Police also went door-to-door checking for bodies or anyone in need of rescue. Houses where corpses were found were marked so that authorities could go back later.

[It's me]

I can't help but believe that this city will be haunted.

It had such a "colorful" history as it is and now with all these people dying in such a horrible way...

[Gamecock]

***Corpses, Guns Found in New Orleans Homes***

Two things that are Bush's fault.

[Niteranger68]

We've seen exaggerations before. In the aftermath of 9/11, weeks later, people were still guessing that 25,000 were dead. It was only 11% of that number.

I wonder if the final death toll will be inflated with "estimates" of how many may never be found. I'll bet anything they won't be able to show a pathology report and a death certificate for everyone said to be killed. It will be the Census issue all over again, where estimates are deemed to be more accurate than an actual count.

[Sender]

I suspect that many NO gun owners will never see their guns again. They will all be tagged and piled in some 'secure' evidence warehouse, to be freely 'liberated' by anyone with a key or a coathanger. Years from now there will be no apparent record of any gun belonging to you, Mr Smith. Perhaps the records were lost in the flood.

[dirtboy]

Corpses, Guns Found in New Orleans Homes

Expect this headline to be used by the Brady Center to demonstrate that guns in a home increases your chance of dying in a hurricane.

[sfimom]

WOuld you be so kind as to post this over here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1480533/posts?q=1&&page=651

[RedMonqey]

"I will reiterate: the death toll will be far, far lower than the media is spinning it to be."

I've been saying this for many days. I said there would be about 300 in NO at worst 500 ....TOPS.

How do I know? Ive been around a dead body(cow)


The strench alone from the mythical "10,000" dead victims would be so intolerable that nobody could get into the city with a filtered mask.

In extreme heat, bodies tend to bloat and actually burst, spewing its liquidified contents.

The city stinks but that is from sewage and a witch's brew of chemicals in the water. Plus a few bodies.

But not in the numbers the chicken little politicans cry about.


Now in Miss., it may be a bit higher, when ithe rural areas are finally reached.

Miss. will be higher than NO.

[DocRock]

Amendments to the Constitution of the United States

II. A well regulated Militia, being necessary tot he security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

IV. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

XIV. Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

[spunkets]

Thanks for the videos: Jackboots at work.

[RedMonqey]

"I wonder if the final death toll will be inflated with "estimates" of how many may never be found."


True, at the beginning. But as this refugees start filing for federal aid and the list is compared to residents of the parishes flooded, they will be refuted.

Of course some, like Je$$e and Sharpton will claim otherwise.

[NCC-1701]

This is just an oppurtunity for one huge gun grab. Everyone is out of town so the powers that be is also taking advantage of the situation, the same as looters. I wonder how many guns will make it to the trash heap and how many will make it into the hands of those who are taking them.

[green iguana]

I do hope we are on the same page.

That link didn't work for me, but I'm pretty sure we are even without seeing it.

[G.Mason]

Your wish is my command.

Give me a minute and it shall be there.

By the way ... thanks goes to DocRock for posting this in his post #11.

[wyattearp]

So the cops are going door to door searching houses for people, living or dead. If they find corpses in the house, they leave the corpse and mark the house as having a dead body in it. Then they search the house, and steal all of the guns.

Break in, steal the guns, leave the bodies. In what way are the cops any different from the looters?

[green iguana]

Good questions and I don't have any answers except that without the imposition of the Insurrection Act, I don't believe there's any legal authority (and there may not be then.) I'd also ask 'em what they're smoking if they tried to take mine. Of course, I wouldn't be walking around brandishing arms at a time like this either. They wouldn't know what I have...

[300magnum]

Excellent point. Couldn't have said it better.

[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

That idiot sheriff should be sued into oblivion and made to personally redistribute each STOLEN weapon back to its rightful owner!!!!

[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

I agree. There was no way that woman was a threat to him or anyone in there. Outrageous!!!

[Johnny Crab]

Louisiana = La = Law Abandoned.

Now I'm REALLY glad we don't live in NOLA anymore. Thanks for the video. My wife, children, and mother-in-law(evac'd from NOLA BEFORE the storm hit, will be with us a while) will see it tonight.

[P-Marlowe]

That is really disturbing. The violation of the 4th and second amendments is very disturbing to watch. Frankly I do not understand the mandatory evacuation at this point. They are in the process of draining the city. People should be returning to their homes, not being forced out.