Yes, thanks, I was reading this last night. The whole house-to-house search and forced evacuation is troubling enough, and now they're confiscating the residents' guns. Why stop there? They should probably confiscate the resident's jewelry and other valuables, to make sure the looters don't get them.
I bet this thread goes over 1000 replies!
Why stop there? I suspect they want more than the usual loot. They want property and power. They need to get all possible witnesses out of there. The citizen property owners especially. The reporters last, they may be useful if they report what they're told, and if they're kept in corral.
Want to bet the real estate records will be lost in the shuffle, and buildings will come down even in areas little affected by the flood? They'll be burned or demolished, and the blame will fall on vandals, arsonists, looters.
And when the federal agencies are no longer useful in any other way, the locals will turn on them, expel them and use them in a condemnation of the Bush administration.