Posted on 08/31/2005 5:33:35 PM PDT by Syco
Martial Law was reported yesterday, but all that had been declared was "State of Emergency"
Same here. I saw on Fox n Friends this AM where they'd declared "Martial Law" but wasn't really called that. It was simply referred to as a state of emergency, but meant the same thing as a martial law declaration. Either way, they needed to do something more than stand by and watch looters taking clothes, etc. Food I can almost understand if they are starving.
Looting will stop when they start shooting looters.
Well, they are better trained to address looters than search and rescue. So long as they have enough people activated in the National Guard and from out of state to pick up the slack for search and rescue as lives take priority.
Extend shoot to kill to the ACBL.
Oh no now the New Orleans crimminals will have less rights than the gitmo goons....... LOL.
...it will be available as a prison camp once Operation Restore Order begins.
Anyways, I'm in the navy attached to a helicopter squadron. Our birds are preparing to leave. In fact, we are all working through the weekend to see to this. Lives are at stake and a helicopter squadron can provide an invaluable service to such desperate people...
...yet, I have a strange, sad feeling that these helicopters will be returning with bullet holes in them.
The most interesting news clips from yesterday (?) was when the various reporters (male and female) were asking Guardsmen if they were ready to enforce martial law in the New Orleans area.
My God, how stupid are these college graduates and experienced reporters?
Some of the Guardsmen they were talking to had done tours in Iraq and had been shot at.
Did the reporters, in their stupidity, think that Guardsmen were going to be scared of the street hoods? Did they thin k they would have nightmares when it became necessary to enforce the full extent of martial law?
It is an ugly thing that New Orleans had become long before Katrina. All the hurricane did was to remove the few remaining restraints on a learned behavior pattern - “I can do what I want when I want and no one is going to do anything about it because….”
Well, the Guardsmen were never part of that behavior pattern, like the New Orleans Police Department and its associated political machine. When they give an order it had better be obeyed. And if a street ganger thinks a shot or burst will slow down combat proven Guardsmen…..
Jeeez. I hope not; we avoid all sharp objects.
Blanco made a brief presser today,
saying they now have Marshall Law.
Bit late.
Blanco was on the verge of tears,
b/c she knows she did wrong from
the start.
The thugs already have
guns and ammo. Enough to start
a war.
I heard it on WWL and there will be no civil rights.
I'm sure all active duty combat units are on deployment rotation schedules. It's going to be hard to find them but the area needs tens of thousands of federal troops.
A couple snipers on the roofs of tall buildings could have put a serious damper on things with some very judicious target selection, and would have had a very low manpower footprint. Hoodlums are cowards if they think there is a small chance of getting spanked hard for gross violence, and nothing sends the message like watching a buddy get dropped.
Good insight.
Now thats a mayor I could vote for.
San Francisco eh ? My things have changed in 100 years. Now pissin on the sidewalk is a protected right.
I don't know if it's been posted, but when they announced this it was said they pulled 1500 police from their RESCUE efforts to deal with these thugs!!
I think lives are more important than things at this point. The looters are probably going to get sick and perhaps die from the water they're trolling through anyway. In which case those things they stole won't help them at all and those people who were abandoned by the police will also die!
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