Chris, Please, just because the media (or the mayor) reports that druggies are the ones with the guns, you choose to believe it because you're against legalization of drugs? You didn't fall for all the politicians trying to assess where the blame lies for the extent of the Katrina disaster/murder. Though drug-related deaths will be high in N.O., deaths due to legal drugs will be hundreds of times higher. If you throw in the stats on alcohol related deaths, the number of street drug related deaths is negligible by comparison.
The percentage of druggies is marginal compared with the far greater numbers involved in other crime in New Orleans. Start with the politicians and government bureaucrats, the police, etc. But there, the number of pimps and pickpockets alone will far outweigh the usually very poor (as in unable to afford a gun) drug addicts. Many addicts are addicted to legal medicine, and you can include the Paxal/Ritalin/Prozac, as you know. When I was there during the "Battle of New Orleans" (The famous Mohammed Ali/ Sphinx fight in the early 70's) 70,000 people came to town, and probably just as many pimps, hookers, pickpockets, who you could easily spot weaving through and working the crowds thanks to the strippers who would perform dance numbers on the balconies of Bourbon Street to distract everyone. It even happened on the canvas ring before the big fight. Most criminals with guns are mafia and related gangsters. I realize N.O. is a large port, but the ones who bring in or deal the d! rugs were no where near the flood waters, being amongst the wealthier classes. Remember that the non-druggie type people who crave food and water are addicts too, food and water being the first addiction, then to coffee, tea, white flour products, meat, and sugar. Excepting the food and water, I fully realize you don't approve of any of these either. Those desperate enough, as these people were (and still are in many cases), are bound to be rather pissed, and given the right to bear arms as another wide spread and respectable addiction, who ya gonna blame but the drug addicts for shooting and looting? I don't disagree that there was an opportunity for testing martial law in N.O.. In Canada, we've already lived with martial law, as enacted by Pierre Trudeau for a kidnapping in Quebec. No big deal. Lots of resentment, of course. We had a bad winter storm in the late 90's in south eastern Ontario and western Quebec, disaster declared, Feds looted the unemployment insurance reserves to pay for it. It's not the drug addicts we worry about, because they are mostly only harmful to themselves, it's the ones who are suit-psychos, addicted to controlling the masses, who are the problem. Martial law would be difficult to enforce in Canada--it's just too darn big, and we're used to roughing it. Camping/survival is part of the school curriculum, and we have enough beer (High in B Vit's)and granola to see us through anything! Natalia All mail scanned by NAV ----- Original Message ----- From: Christoph Reuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 7:30 AM Subject: [Futurework] Drugs and Martial Law (was Re: Geography lessons: theBattle of New Orleans) | Ed Weick wrote: | > I thought I'd better say something about this one. Some things I've heard | > suggest that the cops and troops in New Orleans have little alternative but | > to shoot to kill. Apparently the place was crawling with drugs and addicts | > before Katrina hit. A lot of the addicts have not been able to get their | > drugs since the hurricane. They are, understandably, in a state of high | > tension and, with guns, are very dangerous. Even I might consider shooting | > to kill under the circumstances. | | Then, perhaps Dubya should air-drop drugs along with food... | But relief is not the goal -- a test-run for martial law is. | So the dry druggies are a welcome pretext. | | So, Ed, do you still advocate drug legalization? Then the next enviro | disaster in Canada will mean martial law too, due to the many dry druggies | running amok in search of stuff... | | Chris | | | | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword | "igve". | | | _______________________________________________ | Futurework mailing list | [email protected] | http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
