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Children's Hospital under seige
Tuesday, 11:45 p.m.

Late Tuesday, Gov. Blanco spokeswoman Denise Bottcher described a disturbing scene unfolding in uptown New Orleans, where looters were trying to break into Children's Hospital.

Bottcher said the director of the hospital fears for the safety of the staff and the 100 kids inside the hospital. The director said the hospital is locked, but that the looters were trying to break in and had gathered outside the facility.

The director has sought help from the police, but, due to rising flood waters, police have not been able to respond.

Bottcher said Blanco has been told of the situation and has informed the National Guard. However, Bottcher said, the National Guard has also been unable to respond.

www.nola.com/newslogs/bre...Children's Hospital under seige

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Snipers...and targets.</b>
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NEW ORLEANS' BRAVEST AND FINEST [Rod Dreher]
Not. Times-Picayune reporters witnessed police and firefighters in New Orleans joining in the looting. Excerpt:

One man said police directed him to Wal-Mart from Robert's Grocery, where a similar scene was taking place. A crowd in the electronics section said one officer broke the glass DVD case so people wouldn't cut themselves.

"The police got all the best stuff. They're crookeder than us," one man said.

Thank God Orleans Parish is now under martial law. The good people need to be protected not only from thugs, but from their own public servants
corner.nationalreview.com/

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Snipers...and targets.</b>
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Shot police officer in surgery

The New Orleans police officer shot in the head by a looter Tuesday was expected to survive, officials said.

The officer, who has not been identified, was in surgery at West Jefferson Medical Center after being shot in the forehead, police said.

The officer was shot by a looter after he and another officer confronted a number of looters at a Chevron store at Shirley and Gen. DeGaulle.

Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies on the scene arrested four people in connection with the shooting. One of the looters reportedly was shot in the arm by an officer during a shootout.

www.nola.com/newslogs/bre...8.html#...

<b>There are two kinds of soldiers.
Snipers...and targets.</b>
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shit shit shit... meanwhile my MP unit sits on alert completely worthless right now....

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His/her first mistake, they shoulda put in a call to the NRA.

A 9mm MAY expand, but a 45 will NEVER shrink!

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Boomer its Louisana,
its requirement that you have a pick-up,a gun rack with a shotgun and rifle in it,a Dog and a busted headlight.
So they all are armed unless their from "Out of State",its the worthless "SHIT" Looters that get their hands on a Gun and think it gives them the right to take what they want.
Granted myself,not all "LOOTING" IS BAD. iF YOU NEED FOOD,WATER,MEDICNIE you get it out of a store,their covered,thats why the police were letting them at it.Not your next door neibhors house
LOOTERS ARE THE ONES WITH FLAT SCREEN TV's, expensive shoes etc....,where are you going to plug it in?

They try and steal from you "DROP THEM'EM!" I really think thats why their not counting bodies yet in the BIG EASY,

I just hope Mattlott is Ok and he tooK Snipers Advice "LOAD-UP"
protect your own.
iI still cant help wonder why they knew looting was going to happen they didnt guard the "GUNSTORES" DOWNTOWN,there's a huge one and it was looted.
They either should of guarded it or set it on fire to keep the weapons out of these "SHIT FOR BRAINS LOOTERS" hands

Goose

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Matt is indeed relatively well armed.

I gave him a quick refresher course on the method of operation of the two firearms in his possession, he's good to go so long as the water don't get him.

<b>There are two kinds of soldiers.
Snipers...and targets.</b>
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Reports of CH-47s taking small arms fire while evacing people.

This situation is beyond the control of civil police. NO is, for all intents and purposes, a war zone, and is going to need some serious muscle to bring order back in. Military muscle. In some places, it seems no different than a smaller-scale Somalia or Fallujah

We may very well see American soldiers needing to shoot and possibly kill other Americans, in order to restore the law.

This is not unprecedented, as was posted about a month ago here on this forum: The last time this was needed was in LA in 1992, when Marine units backed-up LAPD units in raids on homes in the Watts area.




Edited by - Type 7 on Sep 01 2005 06:39 AM

I've just read the same on the BBC website and thought WTF is going on...

<font color=yellow>Shots halt hurricane evacuation

Helicopters have been taking people to safety
The evacuation of stranded hurricane victims from New Orleans' Superdome stadium has been suspended after shots were fired at a rescue helicopter.
A spokesman for the Louisiana ambulance service told the BBC the crowd had grown unruly and he was concerned for the safety of his staff.

He said a national guard had been shot, but he had not been seriously injured. </font id=yellow>

Who in their right mind shoots somebody from the NG?

Stupid A$$holes, they need an injection of 5.56 reality...

You're born, you keep your head down and you die. If you're lucky...

and still my MP unit sits with a collective thumb up our ass because the LA governor and the TX governor won't agree to a "need for us" apparently or maybe the bitch is who'll pay us...

this getting a bit frustrating on my side...

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Edited by - Stinger on Sep 01 2005 07:13 AM

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You must be <img src=newicons/madani.gif border=0 align=middle>...

Knowing you can do something to sort this out and just having to sit and wait.

Hope you get the green light soon...

You're born, you keep your head down and you die. If you're lucky...

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You must be <img src=newicons/madani.gif border=0 align=middle>...

Knowing you can do something to sort this out and just having to sit and wait.
<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>very much so.... this is not raising my opinion of politicians any....

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Anyone else watching fox?

This is UNBELIEVABLE...i can't believe how mismanaged our response is to date.

AMAZING.

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Snipers...and targets.</b>
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Everyone's aware that FEMA was absorbed into Homeland Security, right? FEMA's budget was gutted last year to put the $$ towards Homeland Security so now, the very people trained to handle this type of disaster are no longer around. Of course, I'm not sure anyone can handle something of this magnitude, it has no precedent anywhere in this country...there's no script, no plan and from what I'm seeing, it's being played out hour by hour.

For the life of me, I don't understand the sniping of rescue aircraft and boats. What are these people thinking?

OC

What do criminals and sociopaths ever think?

Pffft.....who knows???

<b>There are two kinds of soldiers.
Snipers...and targets.</b>
<img src="http://www.creedmoorsports.com/images/SA9121-M21.JPG" border=0>

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[Shudder]...

No, I can't, but to be honest what we're getting on the BBC is bad enough.

You're born, you keep your head down and you die. If you're lucky...

stinger,

As an EMT, seeing the footage/photos, and being unable to help out, I have a small idea of what you are going through.

At this point though, I wouldn't go into that area unless I was armed.

"The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed in war."

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This man is holding the only thing he was able to salvage from the rubble that was his world.(His house is the big pile of timbers behind him).

<b>There are two kinds of soldiers.
Snipers...and targets.</b>
<img src="http://www.creedmoorsports.com/images/SA9121-M21.JPG" border=0>

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stinger,

As an EMT, seeing the footage/photos, and being unable to help out, I have a small idea of what you are going through.

At this point though, I wouldn't go into that area unless I was armed.

"The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed in war."
<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>neither will we, just got our initial tasking, we'll be pulling security on one of the larger 2-8K shelters, but maybe redeployed as needed....

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Some of NO's finest helping themselves to cartons of free cigarettes while the citizenry of NO are left defenseless.

Someone hang this twits.

Please.

VIDEO: http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Countd ... almart.wmv

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Snipers...and targets.</b>
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How thick is the irony.
I love N.O. and I'll always love it.
But, it is a big hub of city-government corruption; I'm not surprised by this.

stinger,

All the best, stay safe.

"The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed in war."

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and still my MP unit sits with a collective thumb up our ass because the LA governor and the TX governor won't agree to a "need for us" apparently or maybe the bitch is who'll pay us...

this getting a bit frustrating on my side...

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Edited by - Stinger on Sep 01 2005 07:13 AM
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Stinger, apparently a LOT of these folks are being shipped down TX way, you might be needed right where you are very soon to help "manage" the influx.

A 9mm MAY expand, but a 45 will NEVER shrink!

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He's already been called up Booms.

Pan up to his last post.

Good luck to him, it's good we have men of his caliber to help.

<b>There are two kinds of soldiers.
Snipers...and targets.</b>
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From the BBC Website,

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>US troops, armed with a shoot-to-kill policy, are being sent to New Orleans to quell growing lawlessness, four days after Hurricane Katrina hit. <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>

Good Luck Stinger, don't take any crap and watch youself...

BTW "US troops, armed with a shoot-to-kill policy", I'd rather be armed with an AR-15, but what do I know...

You're born, you keep your head down and you die. If you're lucky...