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Posted on 04/05/2007 10:55:25 AM PDT by traviskicks
The Dickersons were among hundreds who tried to flee New Orleans for safety on Sept. 1, but said that police from suburban Gretna confronted them and forced them to turn around. Police later said they blocked the evacuees because there were no supplies or services for them on the other side of the river.
Civil rights activists, many who claimed the law enforcement officers' actions were racist, held two protest marches across the bridge in the months after the hurricane.
"Although the right to interstate travel is clearly established by our jurisprudence, the United States Supreme Court has not decided the question of whether the Constitution protects a right to intrastate travel," U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon wrote.
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Once again we see a perfect inversion of the Constitution. It was written as “everything is allowed except what we prohibit here”; it is interpreted in exactly the opposite way.
so I guess ‘public roads’ aren’t so ‘public’ after all... :)
Not in the case of a natural disaster, apparently.
Amen! That is so true.
All rights, except as defined, are retained by the people.
Last time I checked, there was no amendment to the C that we have no right to travel on public roads.
In Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, it used to be illegal to be Black on Tuesdays.
yea and i guess gun rights can be violated as well... seems that anything goes as far as expansive government power and intrusiveness during a ‘disaster’.
This is actually a different situation. This goes back to the Barron v Baltimore ruling by John Marshall's court that the Bill of Rights only apply to the federal government but not to the state governments.
Most of the Bill of Rights specified in first 8 amendments have been subsequently "incorporated" via the due process clause of the 14th amendment however. (The 2nd amendment and the prohibition against quartering troops have not.)
This highlights the problem with the "incorporation" approach of applying the Bill of Rights to the states since it allows the courts to approach the first 8 amendments as an exhaustive list.
We really do need a constitutional amendment to overturn Barron v Baltimore.
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Anarchy is bad even when it involves public roads. The Dickersons had time to get out, didn’t, and then tried after the clock had run out. Their own fault.
What? You mean they could have just left the area by road? I thought it was some sort of specialized equipment that was off in Iraq that prevented their departure. /sarc
Yes, see post #9.
The hundreds of yellow school buses were off limits.
The police had no cause to prevent the movement of people out of a disaster area.
agreed ....
These people were trying to get out of a disaster area and were PREVENTED from doing so by LEO’s whos job it is to “serve and protect” ... it sickend me when it happened ... and then they tried to blame the people on the bridge ... hell I would have rioted, to get out of there ...
I get angry about some the the crap spouted here ... you framed you answer much nicer than i would have
There I fixed it for you.
I would take Anarchy over Martial Law any day.
If a 'Right' is inalienable, granted by the Creator, is it wrong to assume that a state cannot revoke it?
You've got it backwards. What part of the 10th Amendment do you not understand.
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