From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 19:03:35 PDT
In case you don't remember a great portion of Germany and a coupla other
European countries were flooded about three years ago and a friend from
Germany told me a couple of days ago that it is happening again and this
time there is also fires all over the place and there has not been one
incident of looting over there. WHY? Because they are civil people, thats
why I think there has been none.
Sonny
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From: "Wes Knettle" <wsknettl@centurytel.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 8:25 AM
Subject: [MV] Nigel's comments on our military's response.
> Try to remember we have a law in this country against employment of
> federal troops against civilian populations. The local folks must declare
> and accept Marshal Law for the troops to be inserted. Also this is a huge
> flood surface with very little dry land to work with. The closest
> airfields capable of handling the airlift necessary untill yesterday like
> Alexandria LA are over a hundred miles away from New Orleans. Until the
> civilian leadership yields the command to the military the use of lethal
> force by the military is restricted to defensive only. The video available
> to date has all shown the civilian police being very restrained in the use
> of lethal force which encourages the behavior from the bad guys we have
> been seeing.
>
> Try to also remember we have 3 states lower portions with complete
> devestation. An area larger the England. This widens the area of land
> inaccessability and slows the arrival of National Guard personnel. Today
> with New Orleans airport open the Guard is landing in strength as we write
> these notes. It would be interesting to see your governments capabilities
> if all of England south of an east-west line through Norwich was currently
> flooded or full of hurrican debris and damage and full of gangs roaming
> the city streets.
>
> I haven't seen any European country deal with a national catastrophe
> involving a sudden death toll in the thousands in their own country in
> recent history. So I can't see any yardstick that can be used to
> accurately score our current response.
>
> An American
>
> Wes Knettle
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