They have M-16s and they're locked and loaded...shoot to kill...

[jus_the_facts]

"They have M-16s and they're locked and loaded," she said. "These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so, and I expect they will."
Friday, September 2, 2005; 7:23 AM

NEW ORLEANS -- An explosion jolted residents awake early Friday, illuminating the pre-dawn sky with red and orange flames over the city where corpses rotted along flooded sidewalks and bands of armed thugs thwarted fitful rescue efforts.

Congress was rushing through a $10.5 billion aid package, the Pentagon promised 1,400 National Guardsmen a day to stop the looting and President Bush planned to visit the region. But city officials were seething with anger about what they called a slow federal response following the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina.



A SWAT team drives past flood victims waiting at the Convention Center in New Orleans, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. Officials called for a mandatory evacuation of the city, but many resident remained in the city and had to be rescued from flooded homes and hotels and remain in the city awaiting a way out. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) (Eric Gay - AP)
"They don't have a clue what's going on down there," Mayor Ray Nagin told WWL-AM Thursday night.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/02/AR2005090200606.html

[berni_mccoy]

1. I Don't see any food and water being handed out...

:cry:

[madrchsod]

2. think about it---they can`t

it would cause a riot.

[ihaveaquestion]

4. WTF ?!?!?!

Not passing out food and water, because they're afraid it would cause a riot? What apologist rock did you crawl out from under? They aren't passing out anything because they DON'T HAVE anything - because nothing was prepared ahead of time!

:grr:

[jus_the_facts]

5. just the tanks and M16's.....

:evilfrown:

[fishwax]

6. yes, letting them dehydrate, starve, and die is the more peaceful solution

:eyes:

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. Oh fucking please

Get real. The people at the Convention Center have been helping each other and behaving in as orderly a way as possible.

Don't be a fucking racist asshole.

[fishwax]

11. great point

i think they've behaved admirably in conditions I can only imagine. Even many of the so-called "looters" have been responsible for sustaining life and order, by distributing food and water to people at the convention center when all the resources of the federal fucking government couldn't be bothered to get them food and water to sustain life. Total bullshit. Now they've got fucking tanks on the ground, and we're supposed to believe that 36 pallets of water and food is all they could get in there? Please :grr:

[jus_the_facts]

9. They have M-16s and they're locked and loaded......

"These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so, and I expect they will." :wtf:

[Ganja Ninja]

3. It's no wonder people are shooting at them.

Just looking at that makes me want to take a pot shot too.

[jus_the_facts]

7. chemical explosions are now burning unchecked near the French Quarter....

....but the tanks and M16's are locked and loaded and ready to blow your head off if caught stealing rotted polluted stuff. :nopity:

[jus_the_facts]

10. kick