The Anti-Liberty, Anti-Household Make Their Move.
"We were the ones defending the neighborhood when you took a powder. Now you’re taking our guns?" This is the puzzled disbelief of New Orleans homeowners evacuating their homes while surrendering their weapons to an armed mix of U.S. Marshals, Police and Military the week of September 9th.
A gun confiscation baffled me, and put up a red flag.
At first, the evacuation sounded like the set-up for an immense land grab – declaring the area unsafe and blighted, liens and loans cannot be repaid, property values drop to nothing, corporate donations are redirected to pay for properties, a Czar is named and the land is reconveyed through eminent domain to people who can make better use of the land. On this, we shall see.
But gun confiscation is immediate and in many ways worse: a trial balloon to see how the public everywhere will react to disarming law-abiding citizens while they are weary and still in shock, further evidence on how America doesn’t care about poor folks, right? These are the people who stayed to the last man and woman to protect the community. Forget about the looters; these are the people to take out if you want guns and property you can do more with.
But Americans do care about fellow Americans, poor folks included.
House-to-house confiscation of weapons has always been feared by liberty enthusiasts, Black and White, expected to come someday soon under color of some emergency, and for some larger reason. Now it’s happened.
Evacuation may be legal under emergency codes, where there is the presumption that the homeowners will return, but gun confiscation is not legal, whether the guns are returned or not.
Louisiana statute Title 14, Section 329.6 provides for the regulation – not the prohibition as appears elsewhere intentionally in the language of the statute – of many things from flammable liquids to bullhorns and even weapons, but it does not authorize taking (prohibiting) them. That would be illegal under Louisiana’s Constitution, and Section 329.6 does not authorize taking weapons. They are already regulated by registration, concealed carry permits and other rules.
It makes sense that the Legislature would acknowledge how individuals in a rural and frontier state as Louisiana protect their own community and thereby participate in their own recovery when first responders are inundated, literally and figuratively. But any government movement that doesn’t make sense to the people or which is blatantly illegal, such as Mayor Nagin’s order to take weapons from law abiding, should be suspicious.
And we’re back to the Why again, and I’m not the only one: Here’s Representative Maxine Waters speaking in The San Francisco Chronicle this morning:
"We have to watch the redevelopment in New Orleans for a lot of reasons, and one of them is to make sure that the shadow government of the rich and the powerful does not end up abusing eminent domain to take property that belongs to poor people in order to get them out of the city," Waters said.
Waters' comments came after the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first hearing on legislation to cut off federal funding for cities that use eminent domain to condemn private property for economic redevelopment, including such private uses as shopping malls, hotels and condominiums.
Somewhere along the line,The Chronicle points out, even more officials [The Senate Judiciary Committee] suspected this, and took steps to block funding for cities that use eminent domain to condemn private property for economic development. But will it stand? Will that be enough?
Of course, I support Representative Waters on this. We all should.
It’s clear that confiscation of weapons was only a prelude to pronouncing areas blighted in order to size-up the protest – if any – from the not-so-poor around the country.
Take it away from the people nobody seems to care about, and you have a more solid precedent, right?
Ah, but friends, Liberty is the true wealth we all share. In this, we are all rich, if we can just hang on to it! As such, there is no longer a division between people of New Orleans and Americans anywhere else in the nation.
Without enough protest, the trial balloon flies, only it won’t end there. It never does. Confiscations will spread if we don’t all hang together onto our liberty.
With a strong California earthquake [and San Francisco is contemplating a total gun ban], or the next fire, flood or landslide – or any local evacuation – the precedent of how the people reacted to a gun confiscation elsewhere can be summoned to embolden more illegal activity anywhere – again – as a prelude to a much larger move, such as condemning private property. Ask Suzette Kelo.
And who is to stop them? And how?
California, Washington, D.C. and New York lead the nation in being anti-gun, and that means, as it has for the people of Louisiana, being anti-household, as the murder rate rises anyway even without a crisis and as the threat of eminent domain now looms over everyone. This is a verrry bad combination, as crime contributes to the definition of Blight.
Once they took the guns and the people were evacuated, the homes were unprotected; abandonment may enter the picture as a later argument that the people left willingly, on the record; guns may not be the only things confiscated; as the disaster broadens, there are more blighted areas, and with more blight comes more remedy, or eminent domain for those who can do more with the land. Hell, even the not-so-blighted land is threatened.
But for now, for those who want to disarm the public – and do nothing to reach the criminal – this is a real experiment to see how the rest of the nation will react in protecting everyone’s right to protect their households and communities, including land confiscation.
Where many are pointing to the possible future abuse of the Kelo Ruling, here is the present reality of it.
This is where the flooding of New Orleans spills over to the rest of the nation. I don’t like the way this is shaping up.
Not to sound like a broken record, but it heralds the beginning of the real nightmare.
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John Longenecker is author of The Battle We Fight - Battling Potomac Fever To Recapture Our Homes And Communities. His e-mail is John@NationwideConcealedCarry.com and he welcomes all correspondence.
A gun confiscation baffled me, and put up a red flag.
At first, the evacuation sounded like the set-up for an immense land grab – declaring the area unsafe and blighted, liens and loans cannot be repaid, property values drop to nothing, corporate donations are redirected to pay for properties, a Czar is named and the land is reconveyed through eminent domain to people who can make better use of the land. On this, we shall see.
But gun confiscation is immediate and in many ways worse: a trial balloon to see how the public everywhere will react to disarming law-abiding citizens while they are weary and still in shock, further evidence on how America doesn’t care about poor folks, right? These are the people who stayed to the last man and woman to protect the community. Forget about the looters; these are the people to take out if you want guns and property you can do more with.
But Americans do care about fellow Americans, poor folks included.
House-to-house confiscation of weapons has always been feared by liberty enthusiasts, Black and White, expected to come someday soon under color of some emergency, and for some larger reason. Now it’s happened.
Evacuation may be legal under emergency codes, where there is the presumption that the homeowners will return, but gun confiscation is not legal, whether the guns are returned or not.
Louisiana statute Title 14, Section 329.6 provides for the regulation – not the prohibition as appears elsewhere intentionally in the language of the statute – of many things from flammable liquids to bullhorns and even weapons, but it does not authorize taking (prohibiting) them. That would be illegal under Louisiana’s Constitution, and Section 329.6 does not authorize taking weapons. They are already regulated by registration, concealed carry permits and other rules.
It makes sense that the Legislature would acknowledge how individuals in a rural and frontier state as Louisiana protect their own community and thereby participate in their own recovery when first responders are inundated, literally and figuratively. But any government movement that doesn’t make sense to the people or which is blatantly illegal, such as Mayor Nagin’s order to take weapons from law abiding, should be suspicious.
And we’re back to the Why again, and I’m not the only one: Here’s Representative Maxine Waters speaking in The San Francisco Chronicle this morning:
"We have to watch the redevelopment in New Orleans for a lot of reasons, and one of them is to make sure that the shadow government of the rich and the powerful does not end up abusing eminent domain to take property that belongs to poor people in order to get them out of the city," Waters said.
Waters' comments came after the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first hearing on legislation to cut off federal funding for cities that use eminent domain to condemn private property for economic redevelopment, including such private uses as shopping malls, hotels and condominiums.
Somewhere along the line,The Chronicle points out, even more officials [The Senate Judiciary Committee] suspected this, and took steps to block funding for cities that use eminent domain to condemn private property for economic development. But will it stand? Will that be enough?
Of course, I support Representative Waters on this. We all should.
It’s clear that confiscation of weapons was only a prelude to pronouncing areas blighted in order to size-up the protest – if any – from the not-so-poor around the country.
Take it away from the people nobody seems to care about, and you have a more solid precedent, right?
Ah, but friends, Liberty is the true wealth we all share. In this, we are all rich, if we can just hang on to it! As such, there is no longer a division between people of New Orleans and Americans anywhere else in the nation.
Without enough protest, the trial balloon flies, only it won’t end there. It never does. Confiscations will spread if we don’t all hang together onto our liberty.
With a strong California earthquake [and San Francisco is contemplating a total gun ban], or the next fire, flood or landslide – or any local evacuation – the precedent of how the people reacted to a gun confiscation elsewhere can be summoned to embolden more illegal activity anywhere – again – as a prelude to a much larger move, such as condemning private property. Ask Suzette Kelo.
And who is to stop them? And how?
California, Washington, D.C. and New York lead the nation in being anti-gun, and that means, as it has for the people of Louisiana, being anti-household, as the murder rate rises anyway even without a crisis and as the threat of eminent domain now looms over everyone. This is a verrry bad combination, as crime contributes to the definition of Blight.
Once they took the guns and the people were evacuated, the homes were unprotected; abandonment may enter the picture as a later argument that the people left willingly, on the record; guns may not be the only things confiscated; as the disaster broadens, there are more blighted areas, and with more blight comes more remedy, or eminent domain for those who can do more with the land. Hell, even the not-so-blighted land is threatened.
But for now, for those who want to disarm the public – and do nothing to reach the criminal – this is a real experiment to see how the rest of the nation will react in protecting everyone’s right to protect their households and communities, including land confiscation.
Where many are pointing to the possible future abuse of the Kelo Ruling, here is the present reality of it.
This is where the flooding of New Orleans spills over to the rest of the nation. I don’t like the way this is shaping up.
Not to sound like a broken record, but it heralds the beginning of the real nightmare.
________________________________________
John Longenecker is author of The Battle We Fight - Battling Potomac Fever To Recapture Our Homes And Communities. His e-mail is John@NationwideConcealedCarry.com and he welcomes all correspondence.
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