http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Fri, 3 Feb 2006 21:59:01 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/02/03/045138.php#comment-315086 I only posted it last night, Baronius, so you didn't miss it for long. I really should have written it last fall, but in a way it's even more timely now because we've had time to forget about some of the abuses that happened in the wake of Katrina by now. Dave ]]> 315086@blogcritics.org Fri, 3 Feb 2006 21:59:01 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/02/03/045138.php#comment-315064 Wow. I'd missed this story the first time around. Thanks for posting it. ]]> 315064@blogcritics.org Fri, 3 Feb 2006 20:25:42 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/02/03/045138.php#comment-314974 And I might add removed with good reason. If you watch that video there's a really chilling quote from him. Dave ]]> 314974@blogcritics.org Fri, 3 Feb 2006 16:02:05 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/02/03/045138.php#comment-314842 Pat, check out the video link in the text. It's the first link under 'going house to house'. It shows the national guard going into a wealthy neighborhood where there's no need to evacuate people because there's no flooding, and seizing their firearms for no reason at all. These people were targets of looting and were staying int heir houses at great personal risk. The police had largely abandonned the city, and here come the national guard taking away their one means of defending themselves. Totally outrageous. <i>Someone hadda be nuts. I'd love to know who gave that order.</i> Basically, the governor authorized it, but the decision was made by the NO police chief, who has since been removed from his job. dave ]]> 314842@blogcritics.org Fri, 3 Feb 2006 09:59:32 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/02/03/045138.php#comment-314828 I'm supposing, not that this makes it right, but I would think that this stupid action was taken to avoid some sort of civil war type of situation in NO. IE...the cops didn't know who was good who was bad, so the position was to get rid of all firearms held by private citizens lest they get shot while defending their homes and property. It was, I must agree, a really, really dumb thing. I do recall reading about this but the order was stopped very quickly. Per the mantra, "remember New Orleans", I'd have to say it while pointing my gun at whoever was trying to take it, warning them to leave the property. I'll be damn if I'd be there defenseless while hoodlums roamed unfettered and natural disasters left me vulnerable. Someone hadda be nuts. I'd love to know who gave that order. ]]> 314828@blogcritics.org Fri, 3 Feb 2006 09:20:33 EST