What they say is that this is a clear violation of the Constitution, specifically the part that cedes certain powers to the individual states. One of those powers that is given to the states is the power to have their own Pigs. The states in turn pass that right down to the individual counties and cities and towns contained within them, so you have all these myriad types of Pigs in America, but no National one. The FBI does not count, as they are an investigative unit, not actual law enforcing Pigs, as they have always had to work with local Pigs on cases and such, so there is no National Pig force in America at all. The one that they sent to New Orleans is a cobbled together thing that Washington made out of its various employees that they thought could do the job, and that's what has many upset, these people are not Pigs of any kind really, mostly they are military people with some private security mercenary forces thrown in for god measure. Not many of these people are sworn Pigs or are even trained in Pig work, and that's what many are freaking out over. They point to things like the edict that the Feds gave that reporters cannot take pictures of or report on removal of the dead or else they are going to be kicked out, and how these soldiers have been kicking in doors of private residences and how they are confiscating every gun they see, even legally registered ones, and when you add to that the state of Martial Law that has been declared in New Orleans, and the curfew that comes with it and the shoot to kill orders that have been given to the Pigs many feel that this is the start of a Police State in America and so forth and so on. This seems to be a rather overblown view of things, because what's going on in New Orleans is not out of line considering what has happened there at all. The ban on reporters covering the recovery of the dead has its practical reasons, the Pigs don't want them getting in the way and falling all over each other to see and get pictures and footage of the dead like they are chasing celebrities or something, and that's how it would end up eventually, so the Pigs did something about it. There will be pictures and footage released to the public, and yes, it will have been shot by the Feds themselves, but how many dead bodies do people have to see, releasing a limited number of pictures of them lets the public see the horror of it all, and it also reserves just a speck of respect for the dead, who died without any respect at all and deserve some now. So it is not about covering up the dead like they do with the war, it is about getting the job done without it becoming a spectacle. As far as soldiers kicking in doors, they are doing that, but not right away as many make it seem. They are going house to house to see what and/or who is there, and they knock and yell and announce their presence first and then if they get no answer after a while, they kick in the door. If there is a drowned family in that house, there is no one there to let them in, so they have no choice except to kick in the doors. Reasonable time is given for someone to come to the door or whatever before they kick it in. Yes, they are taking guns, even registered ones, but they have no choice except to do that. There were an awful lot of guns and ammunition stolen from stores after the hurricane, and these guns are floating around everywhere in New Orleans and have been used a lot too. Many of the dead bodies that will be recovered won't be drowning victims, but shooting victims and the people trying to fix things have been repeatedly shot at by snipers, so they have to do something about that. They have ti take every gun now because there's No way to verify if it is legally registered, most people have lost their personal records in the storm, and the computers are all down, so those records are not accessible right now, so the Feds have to take the guns and ask questions later. They shopuld be making notations when someone says that it's a legal gun and when things are back again, check that out and ensure that it is, and give that gun back. However, they do need to keep all those other ones off the streets to get things started again. The situation is not as dire as many are saying, and it's being handled because of what happened and the things that caused everything to happen like it did.
Specifically, I mean the utter failure of the New Orleans and Louisiana Pigs to handle this situation with any competency or professionalism whatsoever. Their performance was as much a catastrophe as the hurricane itself and is a shameful thing. Things like 200 New Orleans Pigs abandoning ship during and after the storm, leaving their force critically shorthanded at the worst time in their history show just how bad they were. When the going got tough, they cut out as fast as they could, leaving those that depended on them up the creek. The same thing happened at the New Orleans jail, where the guards just split during the hurricane, leaving the prisoners to fend for themselves, only returning when the prisoners started escaping en masse because the roof was torn off of the jail, these fuckers were just out for themselves and did not care about the responsibility that their jobs gave them. The same holds true for the Louisiana Pigs, they were no help at all either, they were the ones stopping relief supplies from getting into the city and telling those that wanted to volunteer to help that they were not needed. Everywhere you looked, there was a total failure by the local Pigs to do anything meaningful. That makes you wonder just what kind of people were getting hired for these essential service jobs there and what kind of training they got. The answer to that Is shitty all the way. The Pigs obviously got subpar training in both Louisiana and New Orleans and that was due to one reason, money. By now, everyone has seen that Louisiana in general, and New Orleans in particular are poor areas, not populated by the wealthy and elite of America. Seventy percent of New Orleans was black, and almost all of them were poor, and there were a whole lot of whites and other races that lived just as poorly there as well. That means that the tax base is not particularly large, except for the business part of it, and due to that, Louisiana did not have a lot of clout in Washington and was not able to siphon any of the federal money for themselves that Washington doles out. That meant that they and their communities could not train their Pigs anywhere near as well as the Pigs are trained in New York or Chicago and that meant that they had to hire people that were not well suited for the job and should not have had It to begin with. The pay scale must not have been very high, and the risk factor was about as high as it got, so qualified recruits went to other places to be Pigs and get better training and equipment and salary and Louisiana was left with the Gomers and Jethros that it obviously had on the payrolls. These people have had to be totally pushed aside on their own home turf by the Feds just so that order could be restored and recovery could begin. There is no worse insult that you could throw at a Pig department than to do that to them. Nothing like this happened in New York four years ago and nothing quite like this has ever happened in America before in any disaster of any kind. So this has shown that New Orleans was woefully unequipped to handle this disaster because their Pigs were nowhere near as well trained as Pigs in other cities and states and now people are paying for it.
That can make one wonder just what is the problem with a National Pig force to begin with? If there was a National Pig force in place in New Orleans last month, they would have been far better equipped to handle things and maybe avert some of the catastrophe. They would have been every bit as well trained as Pigs in Chicago or New York, as the Feds have the most money of anyone and would be able to dole it out equally in training all over the country. You would have national Standards for the whole thing, like who they could hire and such, and that could help weed out these bumbling bumpkins like they have in New Orleans and increase efficiency. Wherever you were in America, you could count on a Pig that you might encounter having the same level of training as Pigs elsewhere and not have to worry about some Barney Fife types making a mess of things like they have now. That sure must sound good to the folks in New Orleans right now, who have obviously had to suffer under the most incompetent Pigs this side of Los Angeles and have been fucked over big time by them now. That seems to be what they are going to get for a while, at least until Washington figures out what to do about this whole mess. However, there is another side of this whole Federal Pig thing too, and that has to do with what Washington brings with it everywhere it goes, and that's A lot of red tape and rules and regulations and the like. A national Pig force would be a ripe target for cronyism and ghost payrolling up in the higher business echelons of it as the bureaucrats would have a field day in such an agency. There is already a lot of that going on in New Orleans now, with the Fed Pigs came those bureaucrats and they are gumming up the works with their red tape and paperwork. As the situation improves, so will the amounts of both of those things, as the pencil pushers start to do their thing in earnest. A national Pig force would be awash in bureaucracy say the critics, and that would tangle the courts up even more than they are tangled up now. Besides that, go the naysayers, that would lead to a Police State, as a national Pig force is part of those. Yes that is true, but they are also not parts of that in many societies, notably Canada, where they have the Mounties, the National Pigs of Canada, and Canada is not a Police State by any definition of the word. Having National Pigs is not the same as having a national Police State, it all depends on how you use those National Pigs. America could have a National Pig force and not have it be a Police State just like Canada has it is just that many do not even want to try that idea in case it became reality. The thing is, just how many more abuses of power could a national Pig force commit then the State and Local Pig Departments do all across America? They break all the rules, beat the shit out of people, illegally spy, are corrupt, steal money and shit and abuse their powers every day in America. You hear stories about that shit all the time in the news. You also hear about how the local and state governments try so hard to cover it all up and try and pretend it does not happen as well. What would be the difference if it was Federal Pigs that did all that same shit and that it was Washington that was trying to cover everything up and pretend? A Pig abusing power is a Pig abusing power whether he is some small town Pig or a Federal one. The only difference might be that the Federal ones would not be punished as often as the others are now, but those others are rarely punished as it is and when they are it is just because they got so far out of line that they had to be a scapegoat for others that were part of the whole thing too. Federal Pigs would make little difference if they were punished less than the Pigs now are for that shit, it would be at best a fraction of one percent. Taxpayers would pay the salaries of National Pigs just the same as they do for local ones so there would be no difference there either. It may be an idea whose time has come, but there will be fierce opposition to it no matter how it goes in New Orleans, because many don't like that idea, especially those that would lose their jobs as a result of it. They need to make sure that their employers train them adequately so that if a disaster strikes them, that they do not perform like the New Orleans Pigs did, and make the question of a National Pig force a viable one to ponder and raise.