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To: Tiger Smack

Just scanning the posts and hearing of prisoners released, possible bus hijackings, shooting of soldier, major breakins.

Sounds like prisoners looting, getting guns, stealing buses and getting out of Dodge.

Sure hope they have not been released - that would be idiocy.

But, don't have time to wade through a 1000 posts to get the facts.


2,220 posted on 09/01/2005 12:25:21 AM PDT by ClancyJ (Life is a God-given inalienable right to all Americans - not just the chosen ones.)
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To: ClancyJ
But, don't have time to wade through a 1000 posts to get the facts.

Of course not...your doing such a good job of MAKING STUFF UP!

No prisoners have been realeased so if you dont knwo the facts then dont post made up CRAP

2,225 posted on 09/01/2005 12:27:07 AM PDT by Tiger Smack
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To: ClancyJ

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/weather/index.ssf?/base/national-50/1125536041100733.xml&storylist=hurricane

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It's really difficult because my opinion of the looting is it started with people running out of food, and you can't really argue with that too much," Nagin said. "Then it escalated to this kind of mass chaos."

Gov. Kathleen Blanco 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.

Bob Mann, an aide to the governor, said dozens of law officers are being brought in from around the country and Canada to help stop the looting. Officials said they hope the 4,000 National Guard troops already in New Orleans, who have been engaged in search and rescue, will be available for police actions.

"We will restore law and order," an emotional Blanco said at a news conference. "What angers me the most is that disasters like this often bring out the worst in people. I will not tolerate this kind of behavior."

John Matessino, president of the Louisiana Hospital Association, said he had not heard of anyone breaking into the hospitals, but he added that thieves got into the parking garage at one hospital and were stealing car batteries and stereos.

New Orleans' homeland security chief, Terry Ebbert, said looters were breaking into stores all over town and stealing guns. He said there are gangs of armed men moving around the city. At one point, officers stranded on the roof of a hotel were fired at by criminals on the street.

Authorities said an officer was shot in the head and a looter was wounded in a shootout. The officer and looter were expected to survive.

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2,272 posted on 09/01/2005 12:41:01 AM PDT by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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