Re: National Guard have shoot-to-kill orders to deal with armed gangs
- From: "jose" <josefsoplar@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 4 Sep 2005 10:51:56 -0700
A Brick in the Wall wrote:
> "jose" <josefsoplar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1125769263.246276.234240@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > It's about time. It's too bad that the mayor didn't have the balls
> > to do his duty and give such an order to the NOPD earlier when anarchy
> > first reared its ugly head.
> >
>
>
> When they are done -- we can use them for the firing squads that should be
> used on the idiots that failed the country --- starting at the top......
The only idiots who have failed the country are the anti war whiners
and
the bombastic Bush bashers.
>
> >
> > National Guard have shoot-to-kill orders to deal with armed gangs
> >
> > By Tim Reid
> >
> > Police are avoiding duty as bullet-riddled bodies come to light
> >
> >
> > THE troops finally brought relief yesterday to a city filled with tens
> > of thousands of desperate residents living in terror of marauding armed
> > gangs.
> > As National Guardsmen arrived in New Orleans with shoot-to-kill orders
> > and a large consignment of food and medicine, hospitals reported scores
> > of deaths on wards with no access to electricity or medicine.
> >
> >
> >
> > Ray Nagin, the city's mayor, said that conditions were appalling, and
> > gave warning of thousands more deaths. "The people of our city are
> > holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night?
> > Only God knows."
> >
> > After a night in which police stations and hospitals came under sniper
> > fire, the estimated 40,000 people still stranded in New Orleans -
> > most without food or water for three days - were rocked by an
> > explosion at a chemical depot a mile from the centre. Throughout the
> > day, an acrid grey cloud covered the city, adding to the
> > post-apocalyptic scene.
> >
> > South of New Orleans, near the town of Venice, an oil lake has formed
> > after two ruptured storage tanks spilt their contents into the
> > surrounding marshes.
> >
> > Bodies began rotting on main streets, gunmen continued to fire on
> > troops and rescue helicopters, and police officials said that many
> > officers had stopped reporting for duty, cutting manpower by 20 per
> > cent.
> >
> > One New Orleans police officer wept as he described seeing bodies
> > riddled with bullets, and the top of one man's head shot off. He said
> > some looters were armed with AK47 rifles, and compared the situation
> > with Somalia, with police outnumbered and outgunned by gangs in trucks.
> > "It's a war-zone, and they're not treating it like one," he
> > said, referring to the federal Government.
> >
> > Michael Brown, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said:
> > "We are working under conditions of urban warfare."
> >
> > Alan Gould, waiting to be evacuated, said: "We've got small
> > children and sick and elderly people dying every day, small children
> > being raped and killed, people running around with guns. I'm scared
> > for my life, my wife and my five-year-old daughter's life."
> >
> > Many expressed anger and incredulity that it had taken nearly five days
> > to get troops on the ground, and the city's officials lambasted
> > President Bush for what they called a woefully slow and inadequate
> > response.
> >
> > A growing political crisis for Mr Bush was aggravated by Dennis
> > Hastert, the Republican Speaker in the House of Representatives, who
> > said that it was a waste of money to rebuild New Orleans because it sat
> > below sea level. "It looks like a lot of that place could be
> > bulldozed," he told a newspaper in Illinois. He later retracted his
> > comments.
> >
> > The Pentagon said that 14,000 National Guard troops were on the ground
> > along the Gulf Coast, with 30,000 expected in coming days. "These
> > troops are battle-tested. They have M16s and are locked and loaded,"
> > Kathleen Blanco, the Governor of Louisiana, said.
> >
> > Lieutenant-General Steven Blum, of the National Guard, said the 7,000
> > guardsmen arriving in Louisiana would be dedicated to restoring order
> > to New Orleans. He said half of them had just returned from overseas
> > assignments and were "highly proficient in the use of lethal
> > force". He pledged to "put down" the violence "in a quick and
> > efficient manner".
> >
> > Although thousands of survivors were evacuated to the Houston Astrodome
> > sports arena, another 30,000 refugees remained in the fetid and
> > body-strewn New Orleans convention centre. Soldiers began to arrive at
> > lunchtime, bringing food and water.
> >
> > An effort to remove patients and staff from Charity Hospital, in the
> > city centre, was suspended after it came under sniper fire. In other
> > hospitals, doctors worked to keep patients alive without oxygen,
> > insulin and other medicines. Some patients died in carparks as they
> > waited to be taken to helicopters.
> >
> > At the city's airport, a field hospital was overwhelmed by patients.
> > Conveyor belts normally used to move luggage were instead ferrying the
> > sick to a treatment centre and to aircraft and buses for evacuation.
> >
> > "I do not have the words in my vocabulary to describe what is
> > happening here," Ozro Henderson, a medical team commander, said.
> > "Catastrophe and disaster don't tell it."
> >
> >
> > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1763266,00.html
> >
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