Dear Cajun Navy,

The “arm chair” journalists and related media would have us believe that the only people who can assist in situations like this is the state/fed government, local LEO/Fire and Military. In their view, volunteer civilians simply cannot have the necessary training or even remotely understand how to assist others in an…

Yeah let’s shit all over volunteers, who are using their own resources and risking their own lives to go try and help people. Not to mention the fact that they’re answering a plea from law enforcement (the professionals, in other words) that asked anyone with a boat to come and help with search and rescue efforts.

Whether or not Cain’s story is true does not change that it wasn’t the cajun navy firing guns. I’m not really sure what is the point of this misleading article.

How dare you leave your family and comfortable home behind and try to rescue people in need. You should be ashamed of yourself.

A boat pulls up to a group of people stranded on the roof. “What pronouns do you use?” The boat operator asks. “Why does it matter?” say the people on the roof, ignorant to the meaning of the question. The boat operator merely sighs, shakes their head in disgust, and leaves.

Fuck Gawker, fuck Eric Shilling, fuck CNN. I’m here, I’ve seen these things happen. I’m on these boats. You’re actually trying to detract from the people pulling out flood victims? You deserve your own special place in hell.

Maybe, but if he is telling the truth, it would seem wise to be warn people to be cautious as they help people. Getting murdered for your boat as a volunteer would suck the most.

Well, that’s that. They better pack it up and go home. Damn them for trying to help and do good in this imperfect world.

I’ll hazard a guess that many in the Army National Guard are not skilled seamen.

Please, let’s crap on volunteers risking themselves in order to save people from their flooded homes and cars. Maybe they were shot at, maybe they weren’t. That doesn’t and shouldn’t diminish their efforts in at a very dire time where it’s literally all hands on deck to help.

“...interview with CNN and subsequent Facebook live post seemed to only add fuel to the chaos on the ground...”

The Cajun Navy is Good, Erik.

Depends on if National Guardsmen know how to operate boats. More boats are good under people who know how to operate boats in shallow water. That isn’t a common training scenario for the army.

“We’ll probably never know, though it’s fair to say that Cain, for one, should probably stop talking about it, since his interview with CNN and subsequent Facebook live post seemed to only add fuel to the chaos on the ground, in a situation where some people probably already have itchy trigger fingers.”

Floodwaters can move fast. Getting out of the truck = going in whatever direction the water does, which is not necessarily a direction that keeps your head from getting immediately bashed in, swimming ability or no swimming ability.

One of the more interesting things about this story is one you only touched on. KHOU’s station was flooding and the staff had to move upstairs to continue broadcasting. However, the entire station soon lost the ability to send anything out to the transmitter and the station told Brandi that “she was it, you’re all we…

Its because the Japanese and the West Germans have been killing us on trade for years, believe me. Believe me. Sony is dumping their Trinitrons on us below cost, same with the Blaupunkts. Our negotiators are a bunch of low energy dummies. We won’t have that any more. We’ll have new trade polices, tremendous deals,…

They’re communications equipment. Driving around scanning the countryside and heavens for potential buyers for FCA

It was fundamentally insulting, not only to the people and for the reasons detailed in the article, but to the intelligence of everybody that has any above goldfish level.