Must see: NRA--untold story of Katrina Confiscations

[JWarren]

I'll have to confess to being a bit surprised that the good citizens weren't stirred to organized revolt by this outrage

I hear ya. I can only say that we were too busy with a few other pressing issues. Also, we are all cut off from each other for the most part. We could hardly organize anything beyond your neighbors and you either getting the tree off your house, clearing the road out of your house, or looking FOR your house.


-- John

 

[TheOld Man]

Local talk show interviewed some guy from Brady Association, Helmsley(?) or something like that. Talk show dude brought NO up and Brady guy dismissed it with "...oh, that's just an urban myth..."

 

[Ratzinger_p38]

"...oh, that's just an urban myth..."

I dont understand this. Did they not see the NOPD chief's order, on TV? I seem to recall a helicopter shot (not shown in that video posted) of rifles/carbines/pistols all thrown out on the lawn of a house, booty from a neighborhood collection drive. (If anyone can find that picture please post it here)

 

[JWarren]

"...oh, that's just an urban myth..."

That will be the new strategy-- deny the existence of anything that damages you. The new strategy is also the old strategy.

Repeat it enough, and people WILL believe it.

-- John

 

[Logan5]

People who were there will remember that Texas was pretty solid (OTR, a joy to work with for the most part) and LA fell apart. I have nothing positive to say about NOPD as I interacted with them, so I will say nothing on that score. The citizens of Texas, I cannot praise highly enough. My opinions are based only on my own experience, and at this late date no one cares who was great and who caused harm.

 

[jeepmor]

I think these type of actions explain unequivocally why the police were being shot at.

It also clearly explains to me why there were reports of officers leaving New Orleans and not following orders. Because they were good Americans who refused to violate peoples rights. My hat is off to those people that the press portrayed as cowards for leaving. They were not cowards, they were men and women of conviction. Sad our press is so controlled they won't portray it that way.

 

[willbrink]

At least something came of it. One poster on the yutube site posted:

"As a result, NRA made passage of Emergency Powers legislation its top national priority. Since Katrina , 13 states have passed legislation to prevent the state governments from confiscating firearms from law-abiding citizens. Last fall President Bush signed the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill which included "The Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act" to prohibit the confiscation of legal firearms from law-abiding citizens during states of emergency"

Glad to see this, but was our rights to have firearms during an emergency not already protected by a little thing called the 2A???!!

 

[orionengnr]

disgusting! Watching this video made me want to puke

here, let me fix it for you:

Disgusting! Watching this video made me want to join the NRA/TSRA/GOA, etc...

Now, go out and do it!

 

[ozwyn]

a good reminder to show how easily elected officals can become tyrants, law enforcement officers can become agents of tyranny, and free citizens can become slaves.

Katrina and videos like that woke a lot of people up. Some of them bought guns, some of them recognized that their rights have to be defended, and that they have to be responsible for that defense.

 

[IllHunter]

Lessons I got from this video....

1. We (like minded right thinkers ) must establish communication links (CB?) to be used in tough times.
2. We must impress on the (like minded LEO's) that those times are when push comes to shove and they must choose to disobey illegal orders and stand on the side of the people and not on the side of tyranny.
3. We all must punish the politicians/officials, whose power grab/paranoia issued those illegal orders, at the ballot box and in the courts, after the facts.

Again, where exactly is the ACLU when 2am rights are violated?

 

[Carl N. Brown]

"...oh, that's just an urban myth..."

An urban myth, reported by ABC, CNN and Channel 2 news from
San Francisco?

The confiscation order was real, not myth.

Video reporting at the time showed police handcuffing
lawabiding citizens, and uncuffing them only after they
had taken their guns, in compliance with that order.

The California Highway Patrol tackling Patricia Konie
and taking her off with a dislocated shoulder was
videotaped by a California newscrew who followed
the CHiPs: NO A MYTH, it happened.

Myth is the Brady Bunch ever telling the truth.

 

[Chui]

Hint: When you find an article or picture online for something you consider important download it immediately.

 

[JWarren]

Hint: When you find an article or picture online for something you consider important download it immediately.

Chui,

That has to be some of the sagest advice I've seen in a forum in quite some time.


I have all the Katrina confiscation videos burned to CD's already.

 

[ProguninTN]

Film

That film should be mandatory viewing for everyone.

 

[Tob]

During Hurricane Rita we suffered through power outages, high water, and a lack of supplies. The people near the coastline are accustomed to this, having seen many storms and almost yearly high water which covers roads, yards, and enters many homes. We deal with it. We supply ourselves before each storm. We prepare. We overcome.

There is a distinct difference between rural communities and city/urban life. IMO. This may be a debate better suited to its own thread.