Posted on 09/08/2005 3:40:23 PM PDT by RDTF
Waters were receding across this flood-beaten city today as police officers began confiscating weapons, including legally registered firearms, from civilians in preparation for a mass forced evacuation of the residents still living here.
No civilians in New Orleans will be allowed to carry pistols, shotguns, or other firearms, said P. Edwin Compass, the superintendent of police. "Only law enforcement are allowed to have weapons," he said.
But that order apparently does not apply to the hundreds of security guards whom businesses and some wealthy individuals have hired to protect their property. The guards, who are civilians working for private security firms like Blackwater, are openly carrying M-16's and other assault rifles. Mr. Compass said he was aware of the private guards, but that the police had no plans to make them give up their weapons.
Nearly two weeks after the floods began, New Orleans has turned into an armed camp, patrolled by thousands of local, state, and federal law enforcement officers, as well as National Guard troops and active-duty soldiers. While armed looters roamed unchecked last week, the city is now calm. No arrests were made on Wednesday night or this morning, and police received only 10 calls for service, a police spokesman said.
The city's slow recovery is continuing on other fronts as well, local officials said at a press conference late this morning. Pumping stations are now operating across much of the city, and many taps and fire hydrants have water pressure. Also, tests have shown no evidence of cholera or other dangerous diseases in flooded areas, though health officials have said the waters contain levels of E. coli bacteria and lead 10 times higher than what is considered safe.
Efforts to recover corpses have also started, although only a handful of bodies have been recovered so far.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The goverment and the media think we are all ritards and don't notice things like that.
Lon Horiuchi, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
We know that it has been a while since your talents have been needed. Line 2.
They have found no cholera.
Ping
"Has this ever happened in the USA before? "
No Guns, no Food??? - Now I remember Stalin, Duranty in Ukraine 1932!!
Those have been people who drank it, pretty much an obvious no-no.
Thanks.
We actually differ only in that I see the realities as necessarily controlling in this instant, but something to be worked against.
By the way thanks for the heads up on the other article (about the seizures) I am finishing up another editorial on that one which I hope to publish tomorrow.
Cheers
Lon Horiuchi, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
We know that it has been a while since your talents have been needed. Line 2.
Better news for those that could, possibly, maybe, sort of be tasked with moving "commodities" that are stranded. I will stake my nefarious reputation on the likelyhood that there is much more to this story.
Color me jaded,
This is a good way to get some people killed.
Lon "Hootch" in New Orleans...imagine that. "Anyone holding a baby will be shot on sight".
Just made my skin crawl.
If we learn nothing from history, we are all condemned to repeat it. Dangifiknow for the attribute.
No doubt
That would be a dead man on my porch......to plan, prepare, survive and not be a burden on my gobbermint only to be shot (at) or threatened by agents in my own home ? This is friggin INSANE for the leadership to act in such a manner. These ass clowns are treating every home as a dynamic entry.....use a bull horn, knock on the door and folks will talk. stick the muzzle of that scatter gun in my home in such a manner ya need more than a screen door for yer survival at that point.....
BTW is this the same mandatory that was mandated prior to the storm and right after or is this a different mandatory that really isn't mandatory if ya sign a waiver if ya don't agree that mandatory is mandatory etc etc . Is this the City, States, Federal version of rumored Mandatory ?;O)
What a goobermint goatphuc...
Well said...agree 100%. Such a citizen is eyes on the ground to assist to to be a burden. The weenies trying to kick em out need more help, support and poodleing than some of the survivors in NOLA region.......doom on such a plan.
That one has been around for a long time- yet no one seems to heed it. And no truer words been spoken.
We in this country have let trash take over the great expieriment our forefathers established for us - we have lost.
On the same note- while we have to fight two wars overseas, we have let the invasion at home go unchecked.
Millions upon millions have come from the south- not just Mexifornia's - but those that wish us dead.
We have been invaded and they will be allowed to vote, legally.
OK- thru ranting...
In later posts I mentioned that the best thing these LEO's could do with such people is to organize them into armed neighborhood watches in the relatively undamaged areas that they are finding them and thereby free up more of their own resources. These folks would probably do it in an instant.
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