Looters will be shot on sight
I sometimes am amazed at the capacity of people to do harm to each other. Not as much anymore are I used to be. With age comes wisdom, or cynicism I suppose.
I have been watching the coverage from New Orleans in the few brief moments that I get a television to myself these days. What has happened there goes beyond anything that could have ever imagined. I cannot be the only person in the world that has wondered what would happen if a Cat 5 hurricane ever hit the US. I can't be the only person that kind of roots for the storm to climb in strength just to say that we withstood the max that nature could throw at us.
What a foolish thing to wish for.
I have a friend in Mississippi that had a house three blocks away from the ocean. His house is now ocean front property because everything that was there before has been swallowed up by the hurricane. His house was lifted off the foundation, and set back down on a skew. By the time he gets back to it, it will be a total loss.
The same TV news show that I was watching showed looting and vandalism. Rampant looting and vandalism. The radio at lunch reported that the looters have armed themselves with guns they stole from Wal-Mart. Its too bad that I am not the King. The looters had better thank their lucky stars that I am not.
As King, I would do the following:
1. Declare immediate martial law in any of the affected counties/parishes in Mississippi and Lousiana,
2. Mobilize every national guard unit that was not already in Iraq, and request whatever units that were available in neighboring states.
3. Begin round the clock overflights of the flooded areas using helicopters with loudspeakers and leaflet drops ordering all civilians to report to evacuation areas or signal for pick up by whatever means are available.
4. 24 hours after the air campaign begins, start overflights with helicopter gunships loaded with rubber bullets, bean bag shot guns, or other non lethal means to deter looting.
5. Those that return fire, or resist dispersal will be dealt with using lethal means
6. All looters that can be will be arrests and placed into tent city type camps, similar to those in Arizona.
7. All looters will be forced into chain gangs to remove debris and help rebuild the city. The term of the chain gain service will be the cities are restored or the prisoner is dead, whichever comes first.
8. Any and all property belonging to the looter will be forfieted to the state to pay for food and clothing the prisoner consumes/uses.
Gawd people make me sick
Troubador
I have been watching the coverage from New Orleans in the few brief moments that I get a television to myself these days. What has happened there goes beyond anything that could have ever imagined. I cannot be the only person in the world that has wondered what would happen if a Cat 5 hurricane ever hit the US. I can't be the only person that kind of roots for the storm to climb in strength just to say that we withstood the max that nature could throw at us.
What a foolish thing to wish for.
I have a friend in Mississippi that had a house three blocks away from the ocean. His house is now ocean front property because everything that was there before has been swallowed up by the hurricane. His house was lifted off the foundation, and set back down on a skew. By the time he gets back to it, it will be a total loss.
The same TV news show that I was watching showed looting and vandalism. Rampant looting and vandalism. The radio at lunch reported that the looters have armed themselves with guns they stole from Wal-Mart. Its too bad that I am not the King. The looters had better thank their lucky stars that I am not.
As King, I would do the following:
1. Declare immediate martial law in any of the affected counties/parishes in Mississippi and Lousiana,
2. Mobilize every national guard unit that was not already in Iraq, and request whatever units that were available in neighboring states.
3. Begin round the clock overflights of the flooded areas using helicopters with loudspeakers and leaflet drops ordering all civilians to report to evacuation areas or signal for pick up by whatever means are available.
4. 24 hours after the air campaign begins, start overflights with helicopter gunships loaded with rubber bullets, bean bag shot guns, or other non lethal means to deter looting.
5. Those that return fire, or resist dispersal will be dealt with using lethal means
6. All looters that can be will be arrests and placed into tent city type camps, similar to those in Arizona.
7. All looters will be forced into chain gangs to remove debris and help rebuild the city. The term of the chain gain service will be the cities are restored or the prisoner is dead, whichever comes first.
8. Any and all property belonging to the looter will be forfieted to the state to pay for food and clothing the prisoner consumes/uses.
Gawd people make me sick
Troubador
posted by Troubador @ 11:44 AM
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