Stormtroopers And Gestapo Turned Loose In New Orleans

"Innocent" Americans, hardly describes the ones I saw getting guns pointed at them???

We're also saddened that you are an American, if in fact you really are

Because those people who can live "OK" today will be the ones needing medical evacuation tomorrow.

Why

I'd be happy to buy you a ticket to leave any time. I'm sure there are many countries around the world where one can live in more freedom than in America.

I hope you can find some much-needed solace in the knowledge that you're far from alone in your sadness that you're an American.

I suspect that what *I* see in that comment will fly straight over his head and hit the wall with a resounding *splat*

Your comments are overwrought but I largely agree.

There are parts of New Orleans that are not now and never were flooded. Why are people being forced to evacuate these areas?

A story on the front page of yesterday's Wall Street Journal told of a man living in Audubon Place (that's a gated street across St. Charles Avenue from the park). He has running water. He has a generator. He has a helicopter landing in the park and bringing him food and armed guards to protect his and his neighbors' houses. I bet they won't make him evacuate: he knows the right people.

Meanwhile, a woman who owns a restaurant and has it up and working was forced out, along with her employees, at gunpoint. She thought to be able to provide food and drink to the workers and the remaining residents, but the politicians don't want her to do that.

A photo on the front page of today's Washington Post shows two policemen breaking down the front door of a house. There may have been some flooding there, but not much. You can tell because there isn't a lot of mud on the porch floor. The residents evidently locked up their house and evacuated. Now come the police to trash the place.

It's commonplace in New Orleans for there to be as much as a foot of water in the streets after a heavy rain. My son's former house on Perrier near Jefferson Ave (that's south of St. Charles Ave. in an area that was not flooded by Katrina) had water up to the top of the front steps after one heavy rain, but no water in the house. Until the 1950s almost all New Orleans houses were built on crawl spaces a couple of feet high. (If you haven't guessed, I am a New Orleans native, though I haven't lived there since I was a teenager.)

My cousin's apartment on the third floor of a building on Gravier between Carondelet and Baronne (that's right downtown two blocks off of Canal on the uptown side) is in an area that may have seen water in the streets but not the buildings. I hope they don't trash his apartment. His son's house in Lake Vista was never flooded, but a tree blew down on it. He won't be permitted to fix that. They know about the apartment and the house because they drove into the city last week in a pickup loaded with plywood and 2x4s to repair wind damage to the son's office building in Metairie. No water there, but also no opportunity to carry on his business. He's in commercial real estate and trying to find office space for his flooded-out or forced-evacuated clients using a cell phone from a rented house outside Baton Rouge.

The stupidity of the politicians increases daily. It's as if they are trying to compensate for their earlier inaction by over reaction now, and only making bad things worse than they need to be. People forced to leave dry, safe homes will have nowhere to go. What sense is there in that?

There really isn't a safe place there. The law enforcement is gone, the bodies in the water and the street are making the environment toxic. There is no plumbing so diseases will be rampant. Even if people stay away from the black water and don't drink the tap water (which, if it is running is contaminated) can be infected with diseases by mosquitos, who will be legion, and will be infected with stuff that is unusual.

The people who live there don't really know if it is safe to live there.

At base I don't think we should forcibly evict anyone. But staying should render it impossible to sue for anything bad that happens as a result of not evacuating.

Julie

Large areas of the city are on high ground and were never flooded. They don't have any black water. If they have generators and can boil their water and can flush their toilets there is no reason why they shouldn't stay and protect their property. At a minimum people should be permitted to come in and repair wind damage in unflooded areas.

A woman evacuee was interviewed on NPR the other day. Her job was to drive one of those tourist carriages around the French Quarter. She was worried about the mules. One of her cow orkers stayed to care for them, but he would be running out of feed, and now he'll be forced to evacuate.

And what about the animals in the Zoo?

What we have here is a paternalistic government treating citizens like children.

And criminals. Using the military and police to confiscate legally owned firearms from citizens who only want the means to protect themselves.

Cheto

I wonder if the firearms will be returned after the people are relocated?

No, he's referring to the die-hard holdouts who are refusing to be evacuated. I saw footage of an old white lady being dragged from her home. It's a shame. I don't think I would want to live in a city filled with such disarray and filth, but it should be the homeowner's choice. They need to be left to their own devices, however. If they choose to stay, then no help.

Thanks for the update f********er. I have a few stormtrooper in my collection but no gestapo figures. My stormtroopers didn't come with a lot of weapons, and the HOF bodies lacked articulation.

Not only do they want the firearms, they OBVIOUSLY need them. Anybody who can watch the total chaos which ensued when law enforcement broke down and the criminal element ran wild and NOT see the need for private firearms has their blinders on.

ROFL

Why is it that no one seems to notice that not ALL of Louisiana was destroyed. West and North of Baton Rouge is OK. Here is the real question..... Why is it that no one from New Orleans is being relocated THERE??????? Notice how neighboring states are NOT taking them.....Texas excluded? Wonder why? Look at the statistics.......draw your own conclusions....

30% unemployment, most on welfare, most are parolees. A lot of criminals were set free when the jails flooded, AND RELOCATED!!!! There is a LOT more to this then is on the nightly news. There was NO evacuation plan for the jails and they knew they would flood! Keep digging...and you will be amazed at what you find.....

How is it that the rest of the civilized world can get along without mass public ownership of firearms. Crime and murder rates are lower to boot. Americans, open your friggin eyes and hearts for gods sake.

If it weren't for mass civilian ownership of firearms the Swiss would be speaking Hochdeutsch and we would still be a British colony.

Carl

You seem like a intelligent sort of person, if so, please explain to me how a mechanical device is capable of committing a crime.

Ask the British how that's working out for them. Firearm crime has SKYROCKETED in the past few years, and the British have among the strictest gun control laws in the world. Better yet, ask the people in the Superdome who were stabbed and beaten to death how they feel about that. You really don't have a clue, do you?

Yeah, British firearm crime has skyrocketed to roughly 8% of the american rate.