[mtrott]

It seems nobody is trying to force these folks to leave, nor confiscate their weapons. It does seem they had to resort to bribery to get back to their own property.

[stopem]

So because they are (rich) that word that lately has become a four letter word to the MSM as if it were something evil....."rich"...oh no, not those rich folk.

This rich/poor garbage is getting ridculous, like it's a crime to have money and not be poor. And if you aren't mooching off everyone and the govt that's a bad, bad thing.

[FreePaul]

The "average" to "poor" are being disarmed and forced out of their homes so the looters can have free reign. Too bad they didn't have enough money to hire guards and pay the necessary bribes. New Orleans is back operating as usual.

[Condor51]

Harrumph!
Outrageous, simply outrageous I say! How dare these rich people be allowed to have their property go undamaged.

The only 'fair thing to do' is to turn fire hoses on the house and have the 82nd Airborne Division start lobbing mortar rounds on the house!

[Archidamus]

"Just blocks from a smoldering fire and walking distance from bodies floating in the floodwaters, John Crouch and Andy Guzman debated what to make for dinner."

What? Because there is a fire someplace and some bodies floating someplace else, these guys should not have dinner? How stupid the MSM is.

[Morgan in Denver]

I think this is a great story. It's proof of what a person can do to protect themselves and how people can take the initiative and do something rather than wait for government to come by and screw things up. Liberals want to spread misery and these capitalists are willing to defend what they have and have built.

It's a great American object lesson as far as I'm concerned. These guys planned and acted while others waited and then ran to the Superdome for protection.

[Antonello]

Jim, brytlea, you better hurry and boot these guys out - for their own good, of course.

It makes as much sense as keeping them artificially stranded in the city just because they don't want to have to pay bribes each time in order to get back in on the fully usable roads.

[Felis_irritable]

You know, if the morons running Nawlins had spent the money they squandered on their ill-advised firearm manufacturers lawsuit on disaster preparedness,...oh never mind. They would have still screwed it up.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Anyone see that lawyer in NO yesterday? MSM type told him the authorities were going to forcible remove his family from the city. He went off on them, said just leave us alone, we ask nothing but benign neglect, if they come with force, he was not going and he promised there would be gunfire, just leave him and his family alone.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Night in New Orleans brings into focus the unfairness of Hurricane Katrina's wrath. This has always been a city of the very rich and the very poor, and the storm, which has changed so much, has done nothing to change that.

While many of the poorest parts of the city became a toxic swamp of unspeakable things, its wealthiest areas -- including the central business district, the French Quarter and the area around St. Charles Street that includes the Garden District, the predominantly white neighborhood where Crouch and Guzman are staying -- escaped almost damage-free.

BARF! So it would have been "fair" to PMSNBC if the rich mansions have been reduced to toothpicks, but the looter's hovels were left unscathed in their pristene beauty?

[TaxRelief]

Security guards are exempt. There are over 300 teams in New Orleans protecting private property legally.

[verity]

"Ariana Eunjung Cha"

WTF?

[StACase]

Guzman was on the sidewalk talking to a SWAT team from Texas when his father [82] walked out with his gun in a holster around his waist. Someone yelled: "Gun! We see a gun!" The entire team -- eight young men -- immediately cocked and aimed their weapons at Ernesto Guzman, who is a bony 5-foot-2.

So when the cops shoot him do you think we'll read about it, and if we do how will the story read?