Legal Firearms Seized From New Orleans Victims
By any other name, New Orleans is now a police state under martial law. Citizens can kiss the constitution good-bye in any emergency, unless they are wealthy. The New York Times reports that the firearms confiscation doesn’t apply to “security guards hired by businesses and some wealthy individuals.” To date, citizens have been held against their will at the Superdome, citizens have been forcefully removed from their homes, and legal firearms owners are forced to forfeit their property, and the only exemption to all of these constitutional crimes by the U.S. government applies to the wealthy upper class citizens of New Orleans.
When you wake up and realize that at any moment the government only needs an excuse to strip you of all your rights and freedoms, you will then be aware of today’s reality. No law-abiding citizen should be stripped of their legal property and right to defend themselves, being forced to rely on the government for protection. The government has already demonstrated a complete ineptness at protecting citizens, now people are forced to accept inadequate government protection under undeclared martial law.
Police, and military forces have seriously injured New Orleans residents who resist, during the forced evacuation. Fox News’ Tony Snow had a laugh on his radio program today while discussing with a guest how a man’s nose was broken by an armed officer when attempting to resist removal from his ‘dry’ New Orleans home.
“I did not actually count the number of automatic weapons pointed at me, but there were at least five, and I was certain they were all locked and loaded, or whatever that military phrase is signifying that a gun is ready to blow a hole in somebody.” […] “Don’t point your f — gun at me!” White shouted, and an already tense situation turned into a hair-raising standoff.”
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco is given broad authority under the Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act. It allows her to “direct and compel” the evacuation of citizens. “The Federal government deal with a Katrina situation, exercising the unilateral and concentrated power of an Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin.”
It looks like something you see on the news happening in another country, yet this nightmare is real, and it is happening in America. Members of the black community may feel the forcefulness of the military state is a racial issue, but not necessarily. It is blatantly an issue of class, whether or not you can afford to pay for freedom; oppression is for the poor, freedom afforded only to the wealthy.
September 9th, 2005 at 8:07 pm
This is from another blog I checked their facts!
The Mayor of New Orleans is attempting to do in a couple of days that which has eluded the power of the anti-gun factions in this country for 218 years, strip law-abiding citizens of their right to keep and bear arms. In spite of the fact that the Constitution clearly reserves this right for the people, and under the 9th and 10th Amendments proscribes those rights among the many Americans have, specifically from the Federal and State governments; this is being allowed to occur.
I object to the usurpation of my Constitutionally guaranteed right to keep and bear arms. I object to the seizure without due process, of private property and even more so because that property is protected by the 2nd Amendment as well as the 5th, 9th and 10th Amendments, recent Supreme Court decisions to the contrary (Kelo v. New London). There are those of us, who hold those rights sacred.
Law abiding citizens have gathered together in their neighborhoods for their mutual security. That is, in essence, a militia. A militia, even a “well regulated” one is an all voluntary force of citizen-soldiers (so far, so good National Guard) who are controlled exclusively by the individual states (oops, I guess that excludes the National Guard), whose officers are elected by a majority vote of the soldiers, and whose soldiers are expected to provide their own weapons.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
–Thomas Jefferson