Arrested for being at home after Katrina, in jail for 7 months

[tetedur]

and his case is dismissed because...?

"Magistrate Judge Daniel K. Knowles III did not state his reasons for the dismissal..."

Judge dismisses NOPD, city and mayor from ACLU suit
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-34/1192056147213280.xml&storylist=louisiana

On Sept. 11, 2005, Terry was at his home, according to an ACLU news release. Members of the Iowa National Guard spotted him on the porch, then climbed the surrounding fence and broke into the house without a warrant or probable cause of criminal activity, the release said.

The New Orleans Police Department was called in and officers arrested Terry.

City attorney James Mullally, representing the city and the police, argued that the suit was filed too late....

After his arrest Terry was taken to the bus station, which had been converted into a temporary jail, and held there for two days, the ACLU said. He was then transferred to Hunt Correctional Center, where he was housed in a maximum-security cellblock and later in a carpentry shop on a mat on a concrete floor, the group said.

Terry remained incarcerated until April 4, 2006, when he was released for unknown reasons.

With the magistrate's ruling, only Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman and Cornel Hubert, warden of Hunt Correctional Center remain defendants in the suit, which asks for monetary damages.


This is the future.

[Skidmore]

1. What is wrong with this nation?

How do abuses like this keep happening without an uprising?

[opihimoimoi]

2. WELCOME to the REPUBs Brown Shirting of AMERICA...the assholes

[Richard Steele]

3. That really is the future. Brace yourselves. nm

[babylonsister]

4. Rec'd. This could have been any one of us. nt

[demnan]

5. No Habeas Corpus rights

Welcome to the roll back of your rights 800 years. Leave it to Bush, the Congress, the Supreme Court and the Patriot Act. Rolling back Roosevelt's changes weren't enough for them, they had to rescind the Magna Carta.

[Toots]

6. Well thank goodness he didn't have a gun or he would be dead

They would have shot him dead without giving it a thought just for not evacuating his home..Or do the gun nuts think he could have held off the National Guard and the Police with his hunting rifle?

[Solly Mack]

7. I wish more people understood that it YES - it could happen to you

instead of looking for ways to explain away injustices.


I know it's more comforting to believe - it won't/can't happen to me - but it's a fools comfort.

[BoneDaddy]

8. Ridiculous

nuff said

[flashl]

9. FEMA/DHS authority

This is what FEMA/DHS looks like unleashed:

EO 10990: "allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports."

EO 10995: Federal seizure of all communications media in the US.

EO 10997: Federal seizure of all electric power, fuels, minerals, public and private.

EO 10998: Federal seizure of all food supplies and resources, public and private and all farms and equipment.

EO 10999: Federal seizure of all means of transportation, including cars, trucks, or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports and water ways.

EO 11000: Federal seizure of American people for work forces under federal supervision, including the splitting up of families if the government so desires.

EO 11001: Federal seizure of all health, education and welfare facilities, both public and private.

EO 11002: Empowers the Postmaster General to register every single person in the US.

EO 11003: Federal seizure of all airports and aircraft.

EO 11004: Federal seizure of all housing and finances and authority to establish forced relocation. Authority to designate areas to be abandoned as 'unsafe,' establish new locations for populations, relocate communities, build new housing with public funds.

EO 11005: Seizure of all railroads, inland waterways and storage facilities, both public and private.

EO 11051: Provides FEMA complete authorization to put above orders into effect in times of increased international tension of economic or financial crisis (FEMA will be in control incase of 'National Emergency').

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Everyone really need to understand what happened/happening to the Katrina victims/refugees.

No one seem to have raised an eyebrow when Blackwater went into NOLA and started shooting up the place, but we are just appalled that they are shooting up Iraq.

[Selatius]

10. The 4th Amendment is dead. You see its rotting corpse in the Mississippi river.

Now, they can suspend it with the excuse that it's an "emergency."

[flashl]

11. You are right on target

Coast buyout: Day late, dollar short, ill advised

The federal government's idea to buy out as many as 17,000 homes along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and remake the land into a vast hurricane-protection zone is a case of too little, too late and not fully considered.

The $40 billion pricetag to taxpayers ought to give pause, for one thing, but the most frightening thought is that Big Government would step in to, essentially, remove private enterprise and the self-determination of coastal residents.

After Hurricane Katrina wiped the Coast clean Aug. 29, 2005, it's possible such a scheme might have had greater credence. But since then, the Mississippi Legislature has authorized the then-barge boat casinos to move inland and the state and federal governments have released billions of dollars in grants (plus the millions in insurance claims that have been settled) to rebuild.

[Selatius]

13. Most of the billions in grants were wasted due to graft and nepotism/favoritism

Bush FEMA's oversight over the funds was disastrously lax. My parents live down on the MS coast, and when I'm not in college classes, I'm usually on the coast. Small business has not really recovered. The only real survivors were the casinos, since they have access to the kind of capital needed to rebuild. Many of those big guys came back. Now, with all the homes and small businesses wiped away, developers are throwing up 30-floor condos and luxury apartments. There's four or five of those condo towers now in Biloxi. They're ugly as hell when they're being built; they look like gray fortresses.

[flashl]

14. Sadly, its the same throughout the gulfcoast

Shortly after Katrina, someone posted an architectural design of NOLA with casinos and those 30-floor high rises saying that this was the future NOLA. Building and rebuilding casinos was widely discussed before the first dollar was spent for recovery.

The profiteers that follows disasters and the subsequent land grapping after a disaster was a new lesson for me about what passes as "normal" business.

[BrklynLib at work]

12. Are there people STILL saying that using the analogy to Nazi Germany is going to far?????

:scared:

[intheflow]

15. Disturbing... K&R n/t

[peacebuzzard]

16. this tragedy of katrina is a never ending disaster

of a very bad administration

I do not have words for this