Posted on 08/31/2005 12:43:07 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20219
Hostage Situation in New Orleans
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Just a heads up, armed looters have taken over one of the medical centers in New Orleans where the injured people were being sent. They are holding the entire staff of the hospital hostage and firing at the national guard. An FBI SWAT team has just been flown in (from Baton Rouge I believe) and they are just now getting situated. I'm not sure of any online scanners that are up monitoring the state trs. That is where alot of traffic is going on at.
LSP Troop B is requesting immediate backup. Troopers, riot squad, and national guard. He said the crowd is triple the size it was earlier and they are about to be overrun.
The location is 610 and eleshafield(spelling?).
Should I make another thread that has events going on down there? Lots of stuff has gone on and half of it never makes it on the news or anything.
Karl Rove has amazing powers to orchestrate all this to defelect attention from himself (joking).
Haven't ever been to the "projects", have you?
There was rioting in Biloxi yesterday, probably continuing today.
It is easier to control in those areas though.
Kinda supports what JC Watts once said...."character and integrity are what you are when no one is looking." What we are seeing is what these people really are. What they were on Saturday was a false front that was there because of fear of being caught. Now that that fear is gone...they are being what they truely are. Amoral thugs and criminals.
Never thought of that. Some of these addicts are gonna be in a bad way without their fix. looks to only get worse.
Absolutely.
These are Sen. Landrieu's voters. Bet Louisiana Demms will insist they be bused back to La. before the next election.
Naaa..it's called opportunity....
how much viagra, cialis, and whatever wonder "love" drugs have been looted from those stores?
"you have to understand! These people have lost everything! How do you expect them to get their groove on without free woody pills?!?!?!?"
I guess I really am sheltered. I hadn't even considered the junkies going through withdrawals until now.
Looters in disaster areas should be: a) Shot on Sight b) Shot to Wound c) Arrested and detained d) Photographed and dealt with later
I'd like to see the results of THAT poll.
I'm looking, but can't find it either. FWIW.
The governor has already said that there is no such thing as "martial law" in Louisiana. She has declared a state of emergency, which allows law enforcment to do whatever is necessary to keep the peace and allows law enforcement officers to enter stores and take necessary supplies. Unfortunately, I'm afraid the looting started when some idle people saw the LEOs going into some stores and thought they were free game.
I agree it's probably the dealers, since trembling addicts in withdrawal aren't likely to have the ability to conduct such an operation. But what the heck do the dealers plan to do with the drugs? It's not like their customers are walking around with wads of cash right now, and their usual sources of cash -- panhandling and theft -- can't be yielding much cash. And I can't see the dealers accepted looted TVs and such, since they have no place to put them and no way to resell them in the foreseeable future.
The DC press corp was putting the Admiral on the spot asking about armed forces with the PD in N.O. They kept peppering him with questions about it.
I think they have some Spec War people in the area.
No Looter Left Behind!
"Not to say that athesist's are murderers obviously, but I know that MY Christian beliefs temper my more base human side."
Well, I'm an atheist, and I can guarantee you that I wouldn't be looting or any such thing. I wouldn't even be there, since I would have left with my family, pets, and a few other people a couple of days before the hurricane.
This has nothing to do with religion or the lack of it.
My sentiments exactly.
Don't be fooled by the justifiers, these looters are NOT trying to feed a hungry family.
Just listening to a lady in Baton Rouge blaming Bush for New Orleans not being ready. ::sigh:: I would be so ashamed if I still lived in that area.
well, since real bullets seem to be flying around NO now...I guess they didn't dodge the bullet. It was supposed to be a slight play on words to fit the situation, but I guess I didn't make it plain enough. My regrets.
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