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New Orleans Begins Confiscating Firearms as Water Recedes
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| September 8
| ALEX BERENSON and TIMOTHY WILLIAMS
Posted on 09/08/2005 3:40:23 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: Sir_Ed
Okay, they'll get paid for their belongings, but what about their stuff? I know of a guy who has a really expensive Blues record collection, it's stored on the 2nd floor, and hence should be safe, but will they just come in and bulldoze his restaurant and house to the ground, and "oh well, your SOOL"? I think they'll do whatever they think they can get away with.
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:35:54 PM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: RDTF
The folks in NO are over reacting. They don't need guns. The police will protect them.
</sarcasm>
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:36:27 PM PDT
by
Half Vast Conspiracy
(The left won't be happy until Judge Roberts performs an abortion on the Senate floor.)
To: mewzilla
this is your future for owning a legal firearm under any "rat" government----vot 'rat' at your peril--"this is not a drill"
To: Double Tap
The words "martial law" do not appear in Louisiana's Constitution or code. Nor do they appear in the US Constitution or code. Tough to declare something that doesn't exist.
To: Congressman Billybob
This thread is rapidly devolving into "Beast Government" / "NWO" paranoia. Our enemies can tweak other types of extremists besides MoveOn, then exploit the situation, if you get my drift. In any case, extremists being tweaked can actually become somewhat of a self fulfilling prophecy and end up ultimately attacking our freedoms.
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:38:15 PM PDT
by
GOP_1900AD
(Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
To: RedMonqey
I remember that. The Korean storeowners banded together atop their stores and defended it like Fort Apache. Yes, Los Angeles 92 riots, but it wasn't just the Koreans. I vividly recall seeing hundreds of blacks, whites, Koreans, Mexicans etc on their rooftops of their homes, businesses, and groups of neighbors, fully armed standing in their driveways etc.
Seeing those sites gave me more confidence in America than I think *anything* I have ever witnessed.
To: Double Tap
I said in plain English that I had "heard that martial law had been declared." I also said "I have not seen that confirmed." And I said that what is being done now is only constitutional "if martial law has been declared."
Hell, I know what the Constitution says. I know as well as anyone that only martial law, declared in accord with the US and Louisiana constitutions, can trump the Bill of Rights for American citizens. That, or taking up arms against the government, which I do NOT, EVER say that this citizens in their homes are doing.
John
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:38:41 PM PDT
by
Congressman Billybob
(Mayor Nagin is personally responsible for 6 times the American deaths as the Iraq War.)
To: TXBubba
At this time it should be only gangbangers left. Law abiding citizens should have left long after the MANDATORY evacuation, or even before the hurricane hit for that matter.
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:40:11 PM PDT
by
chudogg
(www.chudogg.blogspot.com)
To: Nov3
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:40:51 PM PDT
by
WillMalven
(It don't matter where you are when "the bomb" goes off, as long as you can say "What was that?")
To: chudogg
At this time it should be only gangbangers left. Law abiding citizens should have left long after the MANDATORY evacuation, or even before the hurricane hit for that matter.Yeah right, whatever floats your boat. (No pun intended.)
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:41:57 PM PDT
by
TXBubba
( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
To: Choose Ye This Day
Nope, and the Constitution doesn't work there either. By law, people cannot be evicted from their homes for these pretenses (as per Judge Napolitano, the legal eagle). Taking their arms is also illegal.
To: Hank Rearden
Ashrcroft's DOJ wrote a definitive statement that in no uncertain terms, the rights of law abiding, non felon individuals to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. They put to bed the arguments set forth by the gun grabbers. Bush is an NRA member.
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:44:07 PM PDT
by
GOP_1900AD
(Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
To: RDTF
Where is the NRA? File a suit against them to stop the confiscation of firearms from law-abiding citizens!
To: Graymatter
"And where is Mayor Moonbat today?"
I think the CIA finaly got him...LOL
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:45:48 PM PDT
by
Revel
To: BlackjackPershing
Amen! Get those do-nothings at the NRA to DO SOMETHING. Get a judge to issue an injunction!
To: jwalsh07
The words "martial law" do not appear in Louisiana's Constitution or code. Nor do they appear in the US Constitution or code. Tough to declare something that doesn't exist. Exactly right. The only Constitutional provisions I can find that even vaguely seem to refer to a restriction of rights in emergency situations are:
The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. -- Article I: Section 9
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. -- Amendment III
Obviously neither of these has anything to do with either seizing guns or any broad "martial law."
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:47:11 PM PDT
by
Sloth
(Archaeologists test for intelligent design all the time.)
To: RDTF
Guess big bro will take their stockpile of food and water next.
The "official" would have a bad day around me on the gun issue.
Glad I'm in Florida, what a bunch of feel-good maroons. I guess the bloods and cripts do own N.O.
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:49:27 PM PDT
by
JamminJAY
(This space for rent)
To: GOP_1900AD
Ashrcroft's DOJ wrote a definitive statement that in no uncertain terms, the rights of law abiding, non felon individuals to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. They put to bed the arguments set forth by the gun grabbers. Bush is an NRA member. So, what's Bush's administration doing to stop this gun confiscation? Anything?
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:50:40 PM PDT
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: chudogg
"At this time it should be only gangbangers left. Law abiding citizens should have left long after the MANDATORY evacuation, or even before the hurricane hit for that matter."
Well, from what I have been reading there is a portion of NO that is not underwater, passable and safe for the homeowners. There is no reason to go in and make these people leave. I sure wouldn't.
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:51:46 PM PDT
by
Stew Padasso
("That boy is nuttier than a squirrel turd.")
To: CatoRenasci
"3. The upper class and businesses that can afford private security can still protect their property by hiring armed guards."
The local cops who are disarming everyone but the private security that is guarding the property of the upper class and businesses has more than likely been told to leave them alone. They are the people who pay the taxes (and their salaries) and keep the city from going under (and of course, pay all the bribes to the politicians.)
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:52:16 PM PDT
by
penowa
(I've been Quinnoculated, have you?)
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