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Warning As Mobs Get Bolder
The New York Post ^ | September 1, 2005 | Kevin McGill

Posted on 09/01/2005 7:16:17 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne

NEW ORLEANS — Mayor Ray Nagin ordered 1,500 police officers to leave their search-and-rescue mission last night and return to the streets to stop looting that has turned increasingly hostile as the city plunges deeper into chaos.

"They are starting to get closer to heavily populated areas — hotels, hospitals — and we're going to stop it right now," Nagin said.

The number of officers called off the search-and-rescue mission amounts to virtually the entire police force in New Orleans.

The out-of-control thievery had escalated while cops joined National Guardsmen in focusing on saving lives.

In some cases, New Orleans police officers took part in the looting. One cop was seen carting off a computer and a 27-inch flat-screen TV, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Earlier yesterday, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blan- co said she has asked the White House to send more people to help with evacuations and rescues, thereby freeing up National Guardsmen to stop looters.

The looting got worse as people brazenly ran- sacked stores for food, beer, clothing, appliances — and guns.

There have been some citizen-vs.-criminal standoffs, with one shopkeeper posting an ominous sign: "You loot, I shoot."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boats; boatsbeingshotat; buses; katrina; neworleans; statetroopers; urbanbarbarians
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To: Rodney King

Can't we all just loot a little?


21 posted on 09/01/2005 7:31:17 AM PDT by palmer (If you see flies at the entrance to the burrow, the ground hog is probably inside)
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To: wagglebee

The Kennedys are already ranting about it. Teddy bellyflopping off a boat in the Gulf would cause water to overflow most levees, but alas, he is under the protection of Greenpeace!


22 posted on 09/01/2005 7:31:49 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: TheForceOfOne

A graphic example of what the bad elements in society do to the good. That's 1500 police who could have been saving lives, which will now be lost.


23 posted on 09/01/2005 7:32:18 AM PDT by Williams
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To: TheForceOfOne

My wife commented on this last night, and I used it to press the case that she needs to learn how to use our gun.


24 posted on 09/01/2005 7:32:36 AM PDT by RonF
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To: TheForceOfOne

Caught a glimpse of O'Reilly's rerun around midnight, and his sage advice on the looters was "PROSECUTE 'EM"!

ROFL...sure, Bill! Business as usual...except that cop cars, paddywagons, police stations, holding cells, prisons and courts are ALL UNDER WATER! What a pompous jackass.


25 posted on 09/01/2005 7:33:08 AM PDT by WestTexasWend
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

The guys on the ground are probably the postal employees.


26 posted on 09/01/2005 7:34:09 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: PBRSTREETGANG
Boy, they sure have some tough mailmen in Texas.

LOL! Those bad boys on the ground must have been re-using stamps!

27 posted on 09/01/2005 7:34:50 AM PDT by headsonpikes (The Liberal Party of Canada are not b*stards - b*stards have mothers!)
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To: evets

That is an excellent photo of an APC (Armored Postal Carrier)


28 posted on 09/01/2005 7:35:07 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Line the border with trebuchets. Provide the invaders free flights home.)
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To: wagglebee

"Maybe Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton can appeal to the people to stop looting."

Where's the $$$$ in that?


29 posted on 09/01/2005 7:35:42 AM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: A Jovial Cad
Ah, but we've got FReepers hereabouts whom are delighted to no end about the looting going on, and wax rhapsodic about the "hero's" committing said acts of theft in NO right now...

Can you direct me to an example of such a post?

30 posted on 09/01/2005 7:36:58 AM PDT by malakhi
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To: TheForceOfOne

"YOU LOOT, WE SHOOT!"

nuff said...

Semper Fi,
Kelly


31 posted on 09/01/2005 7:37:00 AM PDT by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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To: flashbunny; Congressman Billybob; neverdem; Howlin; Carry_Okie
You're making excuses: The FIRST ones photographed looting were grabbing merchandise, clothes, electronics, shoes, radio's, TV's, and liquor/beer/drugs (drugstores), and anything portable.

They were NOT getting food and water bottles or soft drinks (until later.) The "morally correct" (truly needful) residences getting food and water/soft drinks were still holed up in FEAR of the initial flooding and looters roaming the streets.

More tragic: Every photo or radio report of a looter REDUCES BY THOUSANDS the number of people donating to the legitimate and moral people needing help; and reduces by MILLIONS the amount given by the rest of America!

The resentful thought naturally becomes (after hearing about looters running wild in a disaster area) "Why should "I" donate to people who are stealing things that I can't afford for my own family"?
32 posted on 09/01/2005 7:37:12 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
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To: TheForceOfOne
There have been some citizen-vs.-criminal standoffs, with one shopkeeper posting an ominous sign: "You loot, I shoot."

Isn't most of the stuff being "looted" already paid for by the fat insurance settlement the storeowner has probably already filed?
33 posted on 09/01/2005 7:37:29 AM PDT by LetsRok
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To: flashbunny

I think DVDs is stretching 'essentials'...but food and water are fair game.


34 posted on 09/01/2005 7:38:35 AM PDT by cambridge (prayers for all)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

Maybe they have DVD players with power,who knows.

All of this is kinda moot until it is determined what the cops took and at whose behest it was taken.


35 posted on 09/01/2005 7:39:14 AM PDT by flashbunny (Defending the free market on FREE republic is like having to defend the flag at a VFW convention.)
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To: RonF

She will thank you for a thousand years if she is ever caught in a violent situation that endangers her life and the gun was there to maintain her survival. Guns are not bad, criminals are and we all have the right to defend our own lives.


36 posted on 09/01/2005 7:39:50 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: rodguy911
They did not appear to be on a mercy mission,IMHO.

The video I saw was on MSNBC, two female cops pushing a cart around looting shoes, the reporter asked what they were doing? "Watching for looters" The reporter said they are all over in here, look! The cop said "Yea, so are you" implying he could be arrested for being in the store! LOL. The reporter just shook his head and the cops continued to loot.

37 posted on 09/01/2005 7:39:54 AM PDT by Joe Miner
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To: TheForceOfOne
Time to start shooting and time for libs to shut up.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
38 posted on 09/01/2005 7:39:54 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: ASA Vet
"Going postal!"

It's not just for USPS employees anymore!

39 posted on 09/01/2005 7:40:10 AM PDT by thulldud (It's bad luck to be superstitious.)
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To: A Jovial Cad

Examples? Taking food and water is something that we would all do in such a situation. Those are defensible. Has anyone on FR defended the other looting?


40 posted on 09/01/2005 7:40:33 AM PDT by cambridge (prayers for all)
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