They also decided to charge fees to the Cajun Navy before they were "allowed" to continue rescuing people.
I couldn't make this up.
The Libertarian Republic reported:
No good deed goes unpunished. The Cajun Navy is a group of volunteers that operates at its own expense to rescue people trapped in flooded areas in Louisiana. They use their own boats. They risk their lives. And now that people have noticed that they are far more effective than government rescue efforts, there are plans to require them to pay a fee before they are allowed to do any good. "Don't worry. It's just a small fee," legislators explain. "Maybe only fifty dollars. That would be worth it to put authority behind the Cajun Navy, wouldn't it?"
When the Cajun Navy members said, "No thanks" to the government who wanted to train them to do what the government wasn't even able or willing to do, they were treated like criminals.
That's right. The government deployed the police to prevent these good Samaritans that we all wish now were our own neighbors from continuing with their efforts.
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Like a horde of modern-day carpetbaggers, they began "helping" by forcing people who were struggling to rebuild to purchase permits. That's right. They forced people to ask for permission for the right to repair their own property.
