Saturday, September 10, 2005
Is no one concerned about constitutional rights?
CNN is giving 24 hour coverage to the devastation and other effects from Hurricane Katrina. (Is there no other news? )
One of the stories is about the forced eviction of residents of New Orleans. Also, police are gathering up fire arms.
CNN and other news sources report authorities' efforts to "clear the city of holdouts," and also the confiscation of guns from homeowners. Police are concerned about confrontations with "jittery residents who have armed themselves against looters." The mayor of New Orleans has ordered an evacuation of residents, but apparently about 10,000 people are "stubbornly staying put in the city." Police and the National Guard have been told to remove residents by force if they won't voluntarily leave.
Some people didn't want to leave because they couldn't take their pets. (Can you imagine a city of predator pets, uncared for and trying to find food among the dead and decaying remains of other animals?) Other people obviously needed to be removed because they were delirious, according to an Associated Press report.
"It's getting to the point where they're delirious," Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Jason Rule said. "A couple of them don't know who they were. They think the water will go down in a few days." (Did he conclude they were delirious because they thought the water would go down in a couple of days?) He and his crew pulled 18 people from their homes on Thursday.
The pressure on residents to leave has been intense (almost cohersion). Shelia Dalferes had 15 minutes to pack before she and her husband were taken from their home. "They were all insisting that I had to leave my home .... The implication was there with their plastic handcuffs on their belt. Who wants to go out like that?"
Reports indicate that most of New Orleans is above water. Although in areas residents do not have running water and electricity, some seem to be coping well -- "camping out" as some have described it. Still the city insists on its policy of forced evacuation. There is concern that the health conditions and potential for disease will even get worse.
Balance this against the constitutional right to own property and protect it from intruders and it looks like authority wins out. Terrorism has been used as a reason to take away the constitutional rights of a fast and fair trial. Now it seems that government will use natural catastrophe as a reason for depriving people of their rights to home ownership and bear arms.
http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/9/9/111449.shtml
One of the stories is about the forced eviction of residents of New Orleans. Also, police are gathering up fire arms.
CNN and other news sources report authorities' efforts to "clear the city of holdouts," and also the confiscation of guns from homeowners. Police are concerned about confrontations with "jittery residents who have armed themselves against looters." The mayor of New Orleans has ordered an evacuation of residents, but apparently about 10,000 people are "stubbornly staying put in the city." Police and the National Guard have been told to remove residents by force if they won't voluntarily leave.
Some people didn't want to leave because they couldn't take their pets. (Can you imagine a city of predator pets, uncared for and trying to find food among the dead and decaying remains of other animals?) Other people obviously needed to be removed because they were delirious, according to an Associated Press report.
"It's getting to the point where they're delirious," Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Jason Rule said. "A couple of them don't know who they were. They think the water will go down in a few days." (Did he conclude they were delirious because they thought the water would go down in a couple of days?) He and his crew pulled 18 people from their homes on Thursday.
The pressure on residents to leave has been intense (almost cohersion). Shelia Dalferes had 15 minutes to pack before she and her husband were taken from their home. "They were all insisting that I had to leave my home .... The implication was there with their plastic handcuffs on their belt. Who wants to go out like that?"
Police are "not going to do that [phyisically remove people] until we absolutely have to. We really don't want to do that at all," Deputy Chief Warren Riley said. Riley also said, "No one will be able to be armed. We are going to take all the weapons."
Reports indicate that most of New Orleans is above water. Although in areas residents do not have running water and electricity, some seem to be coping well -- "camping out" as some have described it. Still the city insists on its policy of forced evacuation. There is concern that the health conditions and potential for disease will even get worse.
Balance this against the constitutional right to own property and protect it from intruders and it looks like authority wins out. Terrorism has been used as a reason to take away the constitutional rights of a fast and fair trial. Now it seems that government will use natural catastrophe as a reason for depriving people of their rights to home ownership and bear arms.
http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/9/9/111449.shtml
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By what authority did the Oklahoma National Guard forcefully take firearms from residents in New Orleans? The answer is--NONE!!! They acted like the Gestapo. This type of government action poses an extreme threat to all rights of all American citizens. The guardsmen broke the law! This needs to be understood by all Americans. Joe H. Ferguson
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