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 ...
I don't know. I have always thought they needed to get people out due to the disease factor and such. But the pictures they were showing were of dry areas. They showed the "guards" going through any open houses etc. If the area was flooded then I would understand if they were checking for trapped people. Perhaps they are searching for people in hiding or something. I don't know. It was bizarre to see this on American TV.
So, let's see. We now have them for violating the Second and Fourth Amendments, and they did this in the most Second Amendment friendly Federal court circuit.
The lawsuits of "civil rights violations" alone will bankrupt Louisiana.
"Welcome to Nazi Germany"
So President Bush is Hitler?
What good are they and their weapons if they are looting at Wal-Mart?
http://www.zippyvideos.com/8911023771013466/countdown-looting-in-walmart/
Massive land grab?
Yup.
In respect to the report on ABC there were no floods in these homes.
Who's doing the confiscating? The NOPD? If martial law has not been declared, then the darn cops are breaking the law if they seize legally registered weapons.
massive swamp grab, you mean
Boy the bootlickers will love this.
Massive gun grab. Maybe all those cops who deserted took their firearms with them and this is Nagin's way of replenishing in the cheap.
It was the Nat'l Guard. One guy from the Oklahoma Nat'l Guard said it was weird to be doing this in America. His name was Fred Bible. He said it or one of the other guys did. It was NOT NOPD.
Who cares what the law is, obviously if you're in NO and want to keep your weapons you must either hide them or use them. When the next large scale disaster strikes, the precedent is now set, the authorities, are going to grab all the guns they can then no matter how bumbling or incompetent you will be at their mercy. This is going just the way the government wants, not a government of the people but one separate and above the people.
Good Grief.. Oh, yes, you couldn't be more right. They've actually lost their minds, haven't they. .
Weird, it's FRIGGING ILLEGAL. Where the heck is 43? Gonzales? They're letting Nagin act like a dictator.
You might want to ping some other folks on that thread now that we have more than an e-mail to go by.
A swamp that's about to be filled with federal money.
Let that levee flood it again - forever - might as well - it can't be part of this country anymore.
Okay, it finally sank in. The NG is actually participating in this?!
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