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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."

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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

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

They can't. They're both out of breath from carrying that big plasma TV.


41 posted on 09/01/2005 7:42:10 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (A good friend helps you move. A great friend helps you move a body.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
I'm not making excuses. I haven't seen the video with the cops, so I have no idea what they were taking. All I could offer up was a theoretical.

The looting did start even before the storm, and people were stealing luxury items. THAT is when the crackdown should have started- a few looters getting shot by store owners or the police would have lead to less looting later.

In fact, if they had competent leadership, they should have announced that evacuation was mandatory, and subsequently ANY looters would be shot on sight.

The city and state being run by liberal probably stopped that from even being a possibility.
42 posted on 09/01/2005 7:42:17 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: evets
They must have been after those guaranteed sweepstakes winner letters from Ed McMahon! lol
43 posted on 09/01/2005 7:43:06 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: TheForceOfOne

I heard that a hospital was barricading itself for fear of gangs coming in to steal drugs. Looters who ran out of stores were kicking in people's homes to steal their things!! There is no time to coddle the crooks; people like that should just be shot. Then they can get on with rescuing survivors.


44 posted on 09/01/2005 7:44:00 AM PDT by KittyKares
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To: TheForceOfOne

FOX NEWS just broke another story: There have been people volunteering their own boats and time to try to rescue people. They were going to set out at 6 am today for another day of rescuing. The first couple of boats were shot at so the rest of them have been told to stand down. WOW!


45 posted on 09/01/2005 7:45:08 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Islam is not a religion, but rather a means of world conquest" - ALAN BURKHART.COM)
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To: TheForceOfOne

This looting never should have been allowed to get out of hand in the first place. I fault the mayor, for failing to give the right order now and, evidently, for allowing all sorts of corruption to spread in his own police department.

There was no excuse to stand by and let looters make off with TVs and other gear. Food and water, maybe, but even that should have probably been controlled and rationed, not left for the biggest and strongest to hog for themselves.

It's one of the first lessons of politics 101 that once you let looters and mobs loose, they become difficult or impossible to control without shooting people, and often unfortunately it's not the worst perps who get shot. Better to shoot a few people early than to wait around and have to shoot a lot of people.


46 posted on 09/01/2005 7:45:18 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: kellynla
If I remember correctly, during the riots in LA. the Korean grocery store owners sat on the roofs of their buildings daring anyone to try and loot them.
47 posted on 09/01/2005 7:45:54 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: rodguy911

I saw that piece too. Disgusting!!! Democrats of New Orleans at work. Both police officers should have been jailed, and the keys thrown away immediately. But, don't fret America, this kind of action will be coming to your towns and cities shortly, if the Cindy Sheehans and the Democrat "Traitor/Treason" Party get into power and pull our troops out of Afgahnistan and Iraq. The terrorists will have a field day destroying America, you and your children!!! Your future is in your hands. Destroy the enemies among us at the ballot box, or reap what you yourself have sown!!!


48 posted on 09/01/2005 7:45:56 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: Enterprise

i remember rioting in Brooklyn in 1977, during a power outage. Without my guns, I would've been quite dead..


49 posted on 09/01/2005 7:47:09 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: sheik yerbouty

In times of strife, guns save your life.


50 posted on 09/01/2005 7:48:03 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Islam is not a religion, but rather a means of world conquest" - ALAN BURKHART.COM)
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To: flashbunny
Some freepers defended the looting, saying "you don't know what you would do in the same situation!"

This kind of comments makes me furious. When Hugo left his mark on SC I was living practically in the woods, with a 3 week old baby. I remember ripping off sheets, pillowcases, towels... anything that could be used as a diaper! Meanwhile, my hubbie was out with a chainsaw, trying to cut a path in the road. When we finally made it to town, just to find out that everything was boarded up or torn, no power, no water, it did not cross our minds to break into the local WalMart or grocery store and help ourselves to the things we needed so badly. Civilized people don't do that, regardless of the situation. What we are seeing in NO is people born and bred in the welfare system. They have never worked for, or paid for, anything in their lives so how can we expect them to begin now?

51 posted on 09/01/2005 7:49:02 AM PDT by Former Fetus (fetuses are 100% pro-life, they just don't vote yet!)
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To: Enterprise

If the looters are shooting then we shoot to kill. No different than everyday police work.

We may need to send in the marines with one objective, clear out the violent criminals fighting law enforcement and recovery efforts.

One platoon?


52 posted on 09/01/2005 7:50:54 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: LetsRok
Ah, another "populist" who has little respect for the rule of law or private property.

Looters should be shot. Period.

53 posted on 09/01/2005 7:51:45 AM PDT by Clemenza (Proud "Free Traitor" & Capitalist Pig)
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To: Enterprise
Note to self: Never turn in my guns. In times of chaos, warlords quickly appear, and the authorities disappear.

Sound reasoning.

54 posted on 09/01/2005 7:51:54 AM PDT by Freebird Forever (AMERICA FIRST !!!)
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To: sheik yerbouty

ok, now you have to share your story.


55 posted on 09/01/2005 7:52:25 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: LetsRok; All
Isn't most of the stuff being "looted" already paid for by the fat insurance settlement the storeowner has probably already filed?

First, I highly doubt anyone in New Orleans has been busy filling out paperwork lately.

Second, why did you write "looted"?

Based on your remarks, I am guessing you not only think it's not really stealing on the part of the criminals, but it is also okay because you think the stuff is already paid for. Who cares if we stick it to the big fat insurance companies, right?

Very DU of you.

56 posted on 09/01/2005 7:53:06 AM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

IN the early 1930's mailmen were regularly robbed in rural TX, some are issued colt .38's. It stopped shortly after that.


57 posted on 09/01/2005 7:54:02 AM PDT by TXBSAFH (Free Traitors are communist China's modern day "Useful Idiots")
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To: TheForceOfOne
"They are starting to get closer to heavily populated areas — hotels, hospitals — and we're going to stop it right now," Nagin said.

Oh, they are shaking in their boots at this warning.

The only thing now that will resort any kind of order is a directive to shoot to kill those firing at workers - and doing it a few times and hanging the bodies from lamp posts as a warning. We've gone back 100 years in time in three days.

58 posted on 09/01/2005 7:54:09 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: Enterprise

Note to self, get handgun and shotgun ASAP.
Never owned anything stronger than a BB gun before...

Praise the Lord and pass the ammo!


59 posted on 09/01/2005 7:54:22 AM PDT by NormB (Yes, but watch your cookies!!)
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To: msnimje

Speaking as an outside observer, to me he seems to come off like Winston Churchill next to that Governor.


60 posted on 09/01/2005 7:54:42 AM PDT by GadareneDemoniac
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