‘Cajun Navy’ of volunteers SAVE flood victims, so gov’t official wants to REGULATE THEM

by SooperMexican

This is the perfect anti-government morality tale. When the terrible Louisiana floods struck, tens of thousands of Americans were hit with an enormous natural disaster. The government wasn’t able to take care of the citizenry, so neighbors stood up to help each other in a beautiful demonstration of personal responsibility and local self-governance.

So what does a government official want to do in response? REGULATE IT OF COURSE!!!

Wow. What a moron and what an unbelievable response to regular people heroically rising up to help their neighbors. THIS is what they get? A FINE!?

From WWLTV:

The Good Samaritans who rescued hundreds, maybe thousands of people during the Great Flood of 2016 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.’

Instead of slapping them with a medal and maybe a gift certificate to Popeyes, they want to regulate them!!!

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.

This is somewhat reasonable, but when people are in distress and the government refuses to help, does it make sense to keep their neighbors from helping them too?

These crazed tweeters say NO:

And that, is how government ruins everything.


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