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New Orleans Gun Confiscation is Blatantly Illegal
The Volokh Conspiracy ^ | 9/9/05 | David Kopel

Posted on 09/10/2005 5:59:21 AM PDT by Brian Mosely

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To: dljordan
"I think this is turning into a big land grab."

There you go. The Airport will be opened 19 Sept to bring in baby doc nagin's good buddies to split up the spoils. SCOTUS blessed and rendered this kind of activity lawful.

81 posted on 09/10/2005 9:00:53 AM PDT by spunkets
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To: spunkets
Wrong thread. Your following answer belongs in a thread about; "who should be next nominated for USSC"..

"Not Gonzales, you can be sure of that."

hehehe..just kidding..well kinda.
82 posted on 09/10/2005 9:01:12 AM PDT by Beagle8U
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To: brazzaville

. . . and be sure to take this bar of 'soap'.


83 posted on 09/10/2005 9:01:59 AM PDT by Eastbound
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To: dljordan

Amazing, is there any level on which this disaster has not been mismanaged?

The disarmament order is from the state/local lever right?


84 posted on 09/10/2005 9:05:51 AM PDT by NormB (Yes, but watch your cookies!!)
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To: Brian Mosely

bttt


85 posted on 09/10/2005 9:08:13 AM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: Brian Mosely
As I said on the other thread, I have heard no official indicate that the order is not to own guns. I have only read interpretations by the MSM in reports like this. There are no quotes, or even "unnamed sources" attributed to that statement.

I have heard from friends here on FR in direct contact with LEOs and contractors there indicate that the order is not to be on the street with guns. Those are vastly different and until I hear specifically, from someone in authority that the LA officials are confiscating guns from owners in their homes as a part of their official order...I will defer to the reports I have heard from friends here on FR.

Confiscating guns from the hands of legal residents in their homes or on their property, who are healthy and able to defend their own property...would be blatantly illegal, unconstitutional, and intolerable.

86 posted on 09/10/2005 9:09:16 AM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: savedbygrace
"Large numbers of NOPD officers RAN from the street gangs, but in this case, they apparently found a few who were courageous enough to approach this dangerous woman and take her down. "

That wasn't generalissimo compass's troops. That was CA Hwy Patrol. See, they're importing goons from around the country that are interested in collecting career points. Gen. Compass's other troops include the OK guard, who aren't bothered enough by this to tell baby doc nagin and supreme leader blanco to go pound mud.

87 posted on 09/10/2005 9:09:59 AM PDT by spunkets
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To: fooman
" someone should ask the mayor if that fat guy will be charged."

Someone should ask the mayor if he's like one last hit on the crack pipe before they hang him.

88 posted on 09/10/2005 9:11:55 AM PDT by spunkets
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To: Travis McGee
Trav, I have heard no official indicate that the order is not to own guns. I have only read interpretations by the MSM. There are no quotes, or even "unnamed sources" attributed to those statement.

I have heard from other friends here on FR in direct contact with LEOs and contractors there indicate that the order is not to be on the street with guns. If that is true, then those are two vastly different situations. The latter is understandable in the emergency...the former is blatantly unconstitutional IMHO.

Until I hear specifically, from someone in authority that the LA officials are confiscating guns from owners in their homes as a part of their official order...I will defer to the reports I have heard from others here on FR.

Confiscating guns from the hands of legal residents in their homes or on their property, who are healthy and able to defend their own property...would indeed be blatantly illegal, unconstitutional, and intolerable.

89 posted on 09/10/2005 9:11:59 AM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: spunkets

Fox now reporting the NO police have been telling him "I have not heard from a superior since before the hurricane." (Adam Housley report.)


90 posted on 09/10/2005 9:12:31 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: Brian Mosely

This should be sent to the NRA. They (the NRA) obviously need all the help they can get. Good to see others getting this information out. The NRA is too busy being a money-machine to do what's needed!


91 posted on 09/10/2005 9:18:21 AM PDT by Spottys Spurs
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To: blackie
"THis is the state gov't and not the feds, right!"

No. The 82nd Airborne is there to back them up. The feds and the 82nd said they would not get involved in Gen. Compass's sweep. The 82nd however will back the imported goons and thug outfits like the OK guard if the encounnter some difficulty. Bush of course knows what's going on.

92 posted on 09/10/2005 9:20:11 AM PDT by spunkets
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To: Brian Mosely
I wonder if there is a way to subtly bring this up at election time that the RATS care not for their neighbors right to self defense even in such a progun state...and to use this to political advantage THEN and not now, because that's what the RAT machine is doing to bash BUSH. We're better than that. However, when the time is right, I would start in the upper class neighborhoods that were hit with ABC news filming the confiscation of their firearms....
93 posted on 09/10/2005 9:22:05 AM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: namsman

FMCDH Ping!


94 posted on 09/10/2005 9:27:43 AM PDT by SW6906
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To: Jason_b
"What we have now is a lot of people knowing their rights and no one doing anything to protect them."

The gummint knows our rights as well, and it is not doing anything to protect them either. Isn't that what it is hired to do?

To be clear, we installed gummint to protect our right to protect ourselves -- not to protect our lives.

The immediate solution to this fiasco is to call for the dis-armament of all gummint employees, federal, state and local.

It's time for the people to resume the responsibility of protecting ourselves, our property, and our neighborhood. We've been out of the loop too long and have suffered the consequences of our laziness and dependence on gummint far too long.

If that is not evident to all by now it will never be.

95 posted on 09/10/2005 9:33:07 AM PDT by Eastbound
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To: ExSoldier

LMAO...I love your tag line!

May I have permission to submit it to my local paper for their "One liners" column they print every sunday?


96 posted on 09/10/2005 9:38:48 AM PDT by Beagle8U
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To: Beagle8U
Sure, but you'll appreciate this even more: I didn't say it originally. Benjamin Franklin did.
97 posted on 09/10/2005 9:58:32 AM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: Eastbound; ExSoldier; Brian Mosely; Lurker; Noumenon; Travis McGee
Alright, after seeing the following two links I am beginning to feel differently entirely. I had not seen the following two links until today, audio for ABC and video for CNN (for those of you I pinged, here are the links):

ABC

CNN

I retract my earlier posts regarding waiting to see. Now I have three different experiences saying the same thing. After seeing these in conjunction with the video yesterday of the older lady...I am more convinced now that the order is to disarm law abiding citizens who are safe in their homes, homes that are dry and in good shape, people who are well provisioned and safe and only wanting to defend their homes.

The situation is intolerable and those people have every right to be upset...and, IMHO, to resist.

These idiot officials making these decisions are wholly ignorant of the constititution at the state and federal level, they are either just stupid and totally incompetent or they are tyrants waiting to happen. They are going to cause more deaths...and set a horrific and destructive precedent for us that cannot be allowed IMHO.

What they should simply do is organize those people to watch their own neighborhoods so the "officials" don't have to. I believe most of them would be more than willing to do so, and that would be the American way.

The situation is disgusting and those NG troops and LEO should refuse those particular orders on the grounds that they directly violate their oaths.

98 posted on 09/10/2005 10:00:58 AM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: Jeff Head; Travis McGee
Travis, do you think this might be the start of an EFAD scenario that might go nationwide, using NO as a test vehicle? Jeff, do you honestly think the vast majority of the American populace will resist? I don't. I'm not surprised at the obedience of the national guard or police either. Here we have it at last: The plan initiated forty years ago in the public schools finally bears fruit.
99 posted on 09/10/2005 10:06:13 AM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: ExSoldier
Most Amerians will not. Most Americans did not resist the British either...only between 20 and 30% actively were part of the indepoendence movement.

I pray this is stopped by outrage and by demonstration that makes clear what the costs will be if the persist.

I am writing all of my reps, today, right now, state and federal and making that clear to them today.

This is intolerable and cannot be allowed to stand.

100 posted on 09/10/2005 10:10:10 AM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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