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Louisiana Lawmakers Want to Make Rescuing People Illegal without a State-issued Permit!
The Good Samaritans who rescued hundreds, maybe thousands of people during the Great Flood of 2016, are not happy after a state lawmaker announced that he wants government regulations on future actions by the citizen heroes.
Some of those Good Samaritans, a loosely-organized group called the ‘Cajun Navy,’ are being interviewed by media around the country, but that attention is nowhere near the pushback lawmakers are discussing when it comes to possibly breaking the law in the future if they save lives again.
It didn’t matter if it was during the day or night. People with boats took it upon themselves to save strangers, hundreds upon hundreds of them, even when their own property was flooding.
The Facebook community dubbed them the ‘Cajun Navy.’
“For the most part, these people are not going to wait for assistance. They’re doers,” said Cajun Navy member Dustin Clouatre of St. Amant.
He got in his pleasure skiff and with others, cleared out entire neighborhoods under water.
“At one time in my boat, I had a guy I dropped off at a Buddhist temple. I had a black guy, and I had a Mexican guy. And when we dropped them all off, everybody hugged, high-fived, loved on each other and sent them on their way,” remembers Clouatre.
He and members of the ‘Cajun Navy’ are speaking out against talk of government regulation.
Republican State Senator Jonathan Perry of the Vermillion, Lafayette area, is working on legislation that could require training, certificates and a permit fee to allow these Good Samaritans to get past law enforcement into devastated areas. He said some were turned away.
“At the end of the day, there are going to be two things that are going to be the hurdle when you approach it from the state’s standpoint,” said Sen. Perry in a radio interview. “Liability is going to be number one for them. They don’t want the liability of someone going out to rescue someone and then not being able to find them (the rescuers) and, secondly, there’s a cost.”
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Members of the Cajun Navy don’t understand the regulations.
“How can you regulate people helping people? That doesn’t make sense to me,” said Clouatre.
“And we’ll never know how many people got rescued, right? Because there were no bureaucrats with clipboards marking down how many. They just went and did it,” said publisher Scott McKay. “The fact that John Perry is a Republican, right? It’s like ‘Hey, you ran on small government. Now you want to regulate the Cajun Navy.’ What are you doing?”
Senator Perry did not return phone calls for a comment.
Members of the Cajun Navy said they know the flooded areas better than the official rescuers who came in from out of town. They said they did things officials would not have been allowed to do to save lives.
Some we talked to are not opposed to taking a rescue safety course but said it would be better through the private sector.
Listen to Senator Perry’s comments on the KPEL radio show:
http://kpel965.com/state-sen-jonathan-perry-working-to-put-more-authority-behind-the-cajun-navy/
The Hayride opinion:
https://thehayride.com/2016/08/no-we-dont-need-the-louisiana-legislature-to-regulate-the-cajun-navy/
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In an effort to at least partially comply with any new law that prohibits people from helping others during calamity, we should establish a list of government officials, their families and properties so anyone rescuing can avoid including them in our efforts. We wouldn’t want to force the human emotions compassion and empathy down the throats of these selfishly brilliant minds depriving them of a freedom of choice and their new law. That wouldn’t be fair! With them excluded from the rescue effort the rest of us can better concentrate on helping citizens in distress who need and want our brotherly assistance. I say this sarcastically! As human beings, as Christians we need to help everyone we can no matter who they are, but what I wrote is to demonstrate the ridiculousness of this politician and any such legislation.
Sounds like time to recall all these corporate Louisiana Lawmakers traitors. If they are that stupid, they need to go. Good luck getting a jury to convict someone who is out there saving lives.
Good to know. I’ll be sure not to piss on a gov’t official that is on fire. I’ll let them burn
Senator Perry, Were the MASTER and You’re OUR SERVANT, and when WE THE PEOPLE come to the Aid and Rescue of OUR fellow MASTERS, You and your Company Employees, Can either HELP are Stay the Hell out of OUR WAY, I’m Sure Your Ideal or plan is Just another Scam to make Money for you and Your Fellow SERVANTS.
TAXES and CONTROL are the motivations for all US law.
Recurring fees for application, training, certification, licensing are the economic motivation for law. Fees are Taxes. Every cent collected by a government is a Tax!
The insatiable desire by government to identify, locate, and manage what might otherwise be considered private resources are the Control aspect of this law.
The US government supersedes all and everything. All laws and taxes are designated for the exclusive use of the government. Some of these taxes may be distributed among the citizens by the government, but the benefit is for the government and only incidental to the people!
The government owns all and anything that may be incorporated. By the way, this includes God. A religious entity must come under the Control of a 401C3 or pay Taxes to worship!!!!