Mercenaries guard homes of the rich in New Orleans

Guardian UK ^ | 9/12/05

[Fierce Allegiance]

Bush's fault

[Dallas59]

So?

[rhombus]

Well at least there are some openings for security guards.

[TheBigB]

I'm tellin' Rebelbase on you. ;o)

[pissant]

I'd have no issue with looters being shot thru the head.

[Perdogg]

That's because the LANG is guarding the LA Dept of Oil building. /s

[E Rocc]

Asked if they had encountered many looters so far, Mr Reagan said that the sight of his heavily armed men - a pump action shotgun was propped against the wall near to where he was standing - was enough to put most people off.

Simple logic that has apparently escaped the powers-that-be who are so busy violating the Second Amendment in NO.

-Eric

[FormerACLUmember]

The usual inaccurate Marxist Guardian propaganda. "The most easy going city" was Murder Capital USA, a hellhole of democrat party enslavement, crime and permanent poverty.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The Lord helps those who help themselves.

[E Rocc]

I'd have no issue with looters being shot thru the head.

It shouldn't be a problem. It's not like they'd lost their right to vote down there, or anything...

-Eric

[cajungirl]

Hmmmm,,I want a mercenary. To like cook and clean.

They use that word as if it is a bad word and it does have sort of an exciting darkly exotic feel about it.

But really they are just hired help with guns. What is so bad about that?

Perhaps I should arm my maid and call her my mercenary.

[R. Scott]

So now private armed guards - “rent a cops” – are “mercenaries”?
Class warfare instigation at its finest.

[dts32041]

As long as it is a double tap and not excessive five round burst, of course the worms have got to eat.

[Bon mots]

So why can Israelis carry around M-16s in America? Can I?

[Fierce Allegiance]

That's why I did it.

[linkinpunk]

SO?

Listen to these comments from DU:

Thugs What a despicable way to earn a living....maybe the police will mistake them for looters and shoot them ... I know the analogy to Germany's SS troopers will ruffle some feathers but I can't help but think of that when I hear about a privatly trained elite corp of soldiers. If I recall the SS were Hitler's own elite body guard and were seperate from the army and answered directly to him.... If I were ever to wish harm on a fellow human, it would be these thugs... Selling their souls for money... Anyone in this country working as a mercenary here or abroad should have their citizenship stripped from them and thrown in prison for a life sentence... Putting there lives and health in jeapordy and for what? MATERIAL wealth. Stupid I say, stupid

[Little Ray]

There is no dishonor in being mercenary, or in hiring them.

EPITAPH ON AN ARMY OF MERCENARIES.

These, in the day when heaven was falling,
The hour when Earth's foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling
And took their wages and are dead.

Their shoulders held the sky suspended;
They stood, and earth's foundations stay;
What God abandoned, these defended,
And saved the sum of things for pay.

[linkinpunk]

So why can Israelis carry around M-16s in America?

First of all, you must keep in mind that this was written by a reporter who probably never saw a gun in real life.

"M-16" could mean anything from an actual military assault weapon, a mean looking .22 or a pellet gun with a black stock and a scope.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Well at least there are some openings for security guards.

Local security firms here are hiring anybody with past LE or military training. I'd have taken them up, but I have enough on my plate already. I saw the ads in the local paper. I should have checked "Soldier of Fortune", I guess....