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09/23/05, Second Amendment Foundation
FEDERAL JUDGE
HALTS NEW ORLEANS GUN SEIZURES
For Immediate Release:
9/23/2005
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of Louisiana this afternoon issued a temporary
restraining order on behalf of the Second Amendment Foundation
(SAF) and National Rifle Association (NRA), bringing an end to
firearm seizures from citizens living in and around New
Orleans.
District Judge Jay Zainey issued the
restraining order against all parties named in a lawsuit filed
Thursday by SAF and NRA. Defendants in the lawsuit include New
Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Police Chief Edwin Compass III.
“This is a great victory, not just for the NRA and
SAF, but primarily for law-abiding gun owners everywhere,”
said SAF founder Alan M. Gottlieb. “We are proud to have
joined forces with the NRA to put an end to what has amounted
to a warrantless gun grab by authorities in New Orleans and
surrounding jurisdictions.
“Over the past three
weeks,” he continued, “residents who had lost virtually
everything in the devastation following Hurricane Katrina had
also essentially been stripped of something even more
precious, their civil rights, and their right of self-defense,
because of these gun seizures.
“SAF and NRA had no
alternative but to take action,” Gottlieb added. “If these gun
confiscations had been allowed to continue without challenge,
it would have set a dangerous precedent that would have
encouraged authorities in other jurisdictions to believe they
also could suspend the civil rights of citizens in the event
of some other emergency.
“What must happen now, and
quickly,” said Gottlieb, “is for authorities in the New
Orleans area to explain how they will return all of those
firearms to their rightful owners, and do it promptly. What
this ruling affirms is that even in the face of great natural
disasters, governments cannot arbitrarily deprive citizens of
their rights. Thanks to some great teamwork between SAF and
the NRA, this sort of thing will hopefully never happen
again.”
The Second Amendment Foundation is the
nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research,
publishing and legal action group focusing on the
Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess
firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more
than 600,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs
designed to better inform the public about the consequences of
gun control. SAF has previously funded successful
firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles; New
Haven, CT; and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners,
a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers & an amicus
brief & fund for the Emerson case holding the Second
Amendment as an individual right.
http://www.saf.org/
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9/06/05, Prison Planet
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/060905femasabotaging.htm
FEMA
Deliberately Sabotaging Hurricane Relief Efforts
Multiple
parishes revolt, use armed guards to defend against
feds.
Numerous credible sources have come forward with
examples of how the Federal Emergency Management Agency is
deliberately sabotaging Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in
New Orleans. This represents a ruthless attempt on the part of
FEMA to impose a federal takeover of the area for their own
benefit amid a tragedy that has already claimed anything up to
10,000 lives.
The mainstream media has picked up on
this story but is whitewashing it as just another 'failure' of
the federal government in dealing with the crisis.
In
reality the actions are part of a coordinated campaign to
deepen the scope of the disaster in order to force through
bumper funding increases for FEMA.
Jefferson Parish
President Aaron Broussard (pictured below) appeared on Meet
the Press Sunday and broke down in tears as he described
FEMA's criminal activities.
"We have been abandoned by
our own country. Hurricane Katrina will go down in history as
one of the worst storms ever to hit an American coast, but the
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina will go down as one of the
worst abandonments of Americans on American soil ever in U.S.
history."
We had Wal-Mart deliver three trucks of
water, trailer trucks of water. FEMA turned them back. They
said we didn't need them. This was a week ago. FEMA--we had
1,000 gallons of diesel fuel on a Coast Guard vessel docked in
my parish. The Coast Guard said, "Come get the fuel right
away." When we got there with our trucks, they got a word.
"FEMA says don't give you the fuel."
Yesterday--yesterday--FEMA comes in and cuts all of our
emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice.
Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line.
He posts armed guards on our line and says, "No one is getting
near these lines."
Why would FEMA, an organization
supposedly tasked with helping in a time of crisis,
deliberately cut police communication lines? This is a blatant
example of sabotage and a sick push to make the disaster
worse. In carrying out these actions, FEMA are no better than
the animals who shot at rescue workers and
helicopters.
Watch the video of the Meet the Press
interview.
The mission of FEMA has never in reality
been to bring people food and water and help in times of
crisis. Alex Jones has attended numerous FEMA drills where the
whole point of the exercise is to round people up, break up
families and institute a brutal police state
crackdown.
FEMA need to create a chaotic atmosphere in
New Orleans so they can legitimize what they are
doing.
We now have multiple reports of police being
ordered to guard key infrastructures in order to defend them
from FEMA federal agents. Sheriffs in numerous different
counties are guarding highways to keep FEMA out. FEMA is being
treated as the enemy because they are sabotaging key
facilities in an effort to intentionally worsen the already
desperate scenes of horror in New Orleans.
FEMA is
sabotaging lines of communication so their activities cannot
be exposed to the wider relief authorities and the
media.
Commenting on the sabotage by FEMA of
communication lines, Washington insider Wayne Madsen
states,
"Jamming radio and other communications such as
television signals is part of a Pentagon tactic called
"information blockade" or "technology blockade." The tactic is
one of a number of such operations that are part of the
doctrine of "information warfare" and is one of the
psychological operations (PSYOPS) methods used by the US
Special Operations Command."
Radio host Carol Baker who
has been tracking the FEMA sabotage stated that Plaquemines
Parish Sheriff Jeff Hingle had his deputies patrol the county
line under orders not to let FEMA in.
As is discussed
in the Meet the Press interview, Jefferson Parish Sheriff
Harry Lee also has armed guards patrolling the county line in
order to prevent the FEMA sabotage.
FEMA has a number
of executive orders that outline the total federal takeover of
any US city.
For a full synopsis of FEMA's executive
orders in light of the hurricane, click here.
FEMA is
clearly using this human catastrophe as a means of executing
its decade long plans and providing the pretext for future
takeover scenarios of all major American
cities.
Amongst a litany of government inaction and
outright dereliction, this is the most alarming evidence to
emerge yet that clearly indicates an agenda for the federal
government to profit and expand its power from exploiting the
aftermath of the hurricane.
We will continue to track
this story as it
develops.
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