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Soldiers Ignored Those in Superdome to Chase Looters Instead

By Last Night in Little Rock, Section Huricanes Katrina and Rita
Posted on Mon Sep 12, 2005 at 10:26:01 AM EST
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Paramedics from San Francisco in NOLA wrote on RawStory this weekend that National Guardsmen were playing "cat and mouse" with looters and ignoring efforts to get food from nearby stores that was going to go bad anyway without refrigeration and should have been salvaged.

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    • Soldiers Ignored Those in Superdome to Chase Looters Instead | 11 comments (11 topical)
    Re: Soldiers Ignored Those in Superdome to Chase L (none / 0) (#1)
    by roger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:42 PM EST
    I have a friend housed with the troops. Apparently, many are talking about how they are looking forward to shooting a few locals. False bravado? I hope so. Also, 63 refrigerated tractor trailers filled with bodies, when when we see this on TV ?

    Re: Soldiers Ignored Those in Superdome to Chase L (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:43 PM EST
    Uh, you do realize this story has been discussed over and over, even being sanitized by the NYT, right?

    Re: Soldiers Ignored Those in Superdome to Chase L (none / 0) (#3)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:43 PM EST
    Roger - This AM I heard that the count was under 400. Where do you get your info?

    Re: Soldiers Ignored Those in Superdome to Chase L (none / 0) (#4)
    by Johnny on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:43 PM EST
    Jim, there are times when you discount anything reported, and times when you gladly accept what is being reported. Like everyone else, you stick your fingers in your ear and shout "la la la la" when something you do not like to hear sprouts up. Rest assured that no corporate shill posing as a journalist will speak about 63 trailers full of dead human beings as long as the "official" count is 400... Besides, who's to say that they have only counted the first 400 and not the next 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 thousand?

    Re: Soldiers Ignored Those in Superdome to Chase L (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:44 PM EST
    WHAT is a mercenary outfit like Blackwater doing deployed by the federal gov't in Louisiana? Posse comitatus is one thing, but MERCS? Some of thse mercs have reportedly been DEPUTIZED (report on Dem. Now!). They wouldn't be allowed to work as police in the US under any normal Federal government. We have PLENTY of police to work in the disaster areas. We don't need mercenaries with high-powered ILLEGAL rifles WORKING FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT in our states. Jim, and other 'conservatives,' once again, SILENT on this issue. They haven't gotten their updated talking points, so they have to just sit on their hands and pucker in anticipation, right Jim?

    Re: Soldiers Ignored Those in Superdome to Chase L (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:44 PM EST
    MERCENARIES on US streets!

    Re: Soldiers Ignored Those in Superdome to Chase L (none / 0) (#7)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:44 PM EST
    Johnny - Nope. The last word I saw was 400, plus some general comments that the count was much lower than expected. So when I see 63 tractor trailers, I figured, 600 per trailer, and that's 36,100, which is a huge number, and a number that would be impossible to hide, no matter how paranoid you are. PIL - They're hired by various private companies and individuals for to provide security. Seems like 500 of the NO police disappeared. Maybe you can go down there and help out. I understand there are some Marines around.

    Re: Soldiers Ignored Those in Superdome to Chase L (none / 0) (#8)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:44 PM EST
    "Three mercenary companies have been reported to be in the New Orleans area: Blackwater USA, Steele Foundation, and Wackenhut. The reported burning of bodies could be an attempt by the White House to suppress the total death count to an "acceptable," "manageable,"  and "spinnable" level. FEMA is anything but a humanitarian rescue and recovery organization. It is once again a hotbed of security goons as it was under Reagan and GHW Bush. The past is prologue." wayne madsen report

    Re: Soldiers Ignored Those in Superdome to Chase L (none / 0) (#9)
    by Che's Lounge on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:44 PM EST
    "Dammit, the last number I saw was 400. That's IT." Jim, Whatever.

    Re: Soldiers Ignored Those in Superdome to Chase L (none / 0) (#10)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:44 PM EST
    PIL - "They're hired by various private companies and individuals for to provide security." REALLY! It's OK with you that companies can hire MERCENARIES? Who somehow can carry illegal firearms, and point them at reporters? "Seems like 500 of the NO police disappeared." I see. Which BLACK PEOPLE do you blame for this latest display of men-in-uniform cowardice? Maybe they signed up to be MERCS instead. I would expect ex-military like yourself to HATE mercs. But that would take being a professional soldier. Something to do with an honor code....

    Re: Soldiers Ignored Those in Superdome to Chase L (none / 0) (#11)
    by roger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:44 PM EST
    Jim, My info is from a friend with a FEMA contract. He has seen the trucks. If the 2d contract comes in this week, I will be joining him and will attempt to verify the story myself.

    Soldiers Ignored Those in Superdome to Chase Looters Instead | 11 comments (11 topical)