[chemicalman]

Also see:

Contempt Motion Filed Against New Orleans Mayor, Police Chief

and

SAF: CONTEMPT VIOLATION AGAINST NEW ORLEANS MAYOR, POLICE CHIEF

I was listening to the morning talkshow on my way to help rebuild my parent's camp in Grand Isle, when there was a call in discussion on this. It is not being "played" by any of the local media, so word has to get out to help keep our amendment rights before it spreads across the country.

[exnavy]

In the immortal words of Ben Franklin, "...a republic, if you can hold on to it..."

[Grut]

So, where are the federal prosecutions of local officials for violating 18 USC 241 and 242? Is the Bush Justice Department once again showing its support for the Second and Fourth Amendments?

[manwiththehands]

Acting under an emergency statute which had never been used before, and on the orders of the Governor and Mayor, police in New Orleans, later supported by National Guardsmen, began going house to house and confiscating privately owned firearms in direct violation of the Second Amendment, leaving honest citizens who were already without water, food, electricity and decent shelter at the mercy of looters and other criminals. All these citizens wanted to do was to defend their homes and instead having already lost everything, they lost their last freedom, the freedom to defend themselves.

And President Bush and our government are rewarding these people with billions of our tax dollars.

[sgtbono2002]

If you live in New Orleans and Louissiana you should remember this when you go to the polls and put a new Mayor and Governor in charge.

[CPOSharky]

In most states you can use deadly force to resist armed robbery.

Someone coming to your house with a gun to illegally take your legal property sure sounds like armed robbery.

[MarkL]

All the more reason to have some guns "legally," and some where there's no record whatsover. Of course, I'd never do something like that, since it would be illegal.

But it's hard for the government to take something from you, if they don't know you have it...

Mark

[FerdieMurphy]

HOORAY FOR THE NRA!

[Eastbound]

From your first link:

""New Orleans was the first place in American history to disarm peaceable citizens, house-by-house, at gunpoint," LaPierre said. "And I promise you this standing here today: We at the NRA are going to make sure it's the last place it ever happens.""

Randy Weaver or Waco (and dozens of other lesser-knowns) didn't even get honorable mention, huh?

Well, I'll admit it wasn't house-by-house. It was just 'house.' I guess that makes it okay. And those weren't about confiscating guns anyway. It was only about taking down 'enemies of the state.' ;(

What we need is a national organization that works against tyranny in general, to include property confiscations, eminent domain, no second-hand smoke laws, taxation without representation, arbritrary police powers, judges who make more money under the table than they get paid in salaries, congress critters likewise, etc.

Yeah, that's what we need. A quick-response anti-tyranny team to nip the wannabe despots in the bud, regardless of what level of government service they are in.

I know the basic rule is that you have to go to court to claim your rights at great expense . . . an expense few can afford, even though everybody agrees you were born with those rights.

Problem is, few are aware of the basic rule. The other problem is there are no penalties for gummint folks who violate your rights and their oath of office . . . those who kill, cheat, rob, and violate the rights of Citizens they are sworn to protect.

Replacing 'ne-er-do-wells' at the polls each year seems like the only remedy. Not too effective, I fear, as we get more of the same from the incoming shipment of public servants.

Immediate and sure remedies to correct the errant ways of our public servants ought to be in force. Great minds should start working on this.

[Doc91678]

It is just another way for the "progressive leftists" Democratically run State of Louisiana to impose their rules not laws on the people of NO and the rest of the state.