Posted on 09/10/2005 7:54:06 AM PDT by mtrott
NEW ORLEANS - Just blocks from a smoldering fire and walking distance from bodies floating in the floodwaters, John Crouch and Andy Guzman debated what to make for dinner.
As the sun set, the men had hurriedly chained up the cast-iron fence and locked themselves into the 10,000-square-foot, gray-green Greek Revival mansion for the night. Three dogs, three handguns and five shotguns kept them company.
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So because they are (rich) that word that lately has become a four letter word to the MSM as if it were something evil....."rich"...oh no, not those rich folk.
This rich/poor garbage is getting ridculous, like it's a crime to have money and not be poor. And if you aren't mooching off everyone and the govt that's a bad, bad thing.
The "average" to "poor" are being disarmed and forced out of their homes so the looters can have free reign. Too bad they didn't have enough money to hire guards and pay the necessary bribes. New Orleans is back operating as usual.
The only 'fair thing to do' is to turn fire hoses on the house and have the 82nd Airborne Division start lobbing mortar rounds on the house!
The point is, those who can afford it are allowed to hire armed guards. Those who can only afford a gun without a guard attached are not permitted to keep it.
Mrs VS
I think this is a great story. It's proof of what a person can do to protect themselves and how people can take the initiative and do something rather than wait for government to come by and screw things up. Liberals want to spread misery and these capitalists are willing to defend what they have and have built.
It's a great American object lesson as far as I'm concerned. These guys planned and acted while others waited and then ran to the Superdome for protection.
You know, if the morons running Nawlins had spent the money they squandered on their ill-advised firearm manufacturers lawsuit on disaster preparedness,...oh never mind. They would have still screwed it up.
Anyone see that lawyer in NO yesterday? MSM type told him the authorities were going to forcible remove his family from the city. He went off on them, said just leave us alone, we ask nothing but benign neglect, if they come with force, he was not going and he promised there would be gunfire, just leave him and his family alone.
While many of the poorest parts of the city became a toxic swamp of unspeakable things, its wealthiest areas -- including the central business district, the French Quarter and the area around St. Charles Street that includes the Garden District, the predominantly white neighborhood where Crouch and Guzman are staying -- escaped almost damage-free.
BARF! So it would have been "fair" to PMSNBC if the rich mansions have been reduced to toothpicks, but the looter's hovels were left unscathed in their pristene beauty?
Security guards are exempt. There are over 300 teams in New Orleans protecting private property legally.
Reminds of the GEICO commercial where the exec tries to apologize to the cavemen.
that mindset is what made them rich in the first place .. no one ever seems to get the connection between people who use their minds, stay in school, get educated, work, plan, and sacrifice with having money vs. dropping out of school, having babies as teens out of wedlock, sitting back and just taking "something for nothing" in the form of a government handout.
Especially, too many people who live and work around DC.
Guzman's father, 82, a retired carpenter
No welfare here.
Maybe the rich people weren't in water, flooded out. The uptown area was dry. There was no toxic soup around up to their windows.
I saw him. He was one tough hombre.
ummmmmmm, that was my point .. they are "rich" because they worked their arses off
A friend's brother was trapped at the Fairmount Hotel until Thursday nite.
The hotel hired "mercenaries" who came in heavily armed and rescued them taking them to buses that escaped comandeering and rode them out, lights out, heavily armed.
They paid money for it. I am waiting for the people to start screaming that how come rich people got mercenaries and poor didn't. Like are we all entitled, do we have a right to mercenaries?
It is a truth, welll to do people have resources in times like this that protect them. A big incentive to work, save money and keep your powder dry.
Those kids toting around AK's could have made a better living in the days after the storm by organizing and becoming mercenaries. They could have made college tuition I would guess just escorting people out of the hotels and the Quarter. Instead they acted like criminals and that doesn't pay, it just doesn't.
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