Originally posted by svenglezz
I feel so bad for her kids.
Me too, what kind of jerkoff of a parent sits there while a category five hurricane is slowly steaming on to your below sea-level 200 year old city?
Protective services should probably pick them up.
if it was my store I'd take my gems out'a there
So now the owners who were smart enough to leave the city as this massive hurricane the size of the country of france hit them, they have to return to
this lawless, martial law ruled, rioting and violent looter filled city to put their gems in a sack and
then try to make it out? Er,
no, looting is illegal, it will lead to complete chaos in that city, and the people who are going to be needed to rebuild it, sensible business
owners who's stores survived the storm, are going to be destroyed by these looters.
something wrong with these pictures
The looter has stolen a big black bags worth of stuff, the other people are carrying
bread. Besides, whats wrong here? There are two sides
to every story, theres the human tragedy of having to scrounge for food, and there's the illegal looting. The same act is at the same time two
things. One of those pics is for a story about the human tragedy, the other is about the out of control looting.
mistfit
on your state of welfare within your current way of life
I'm basing it on the fact that this woman was stealing. There were five days of warnings about this hurricane hitting the gulf coast, and there was
more than enough time to leave the city. After it hit, there are plenty of governmental services for people. She chose to stay in the city. She
chose to not buildup a stockpile of food and water. She chose to steal. This was what, a day or two after the event? And again, she's stealing
disposable diapers? She should've gotten some cloth diapers at least and washed them for her kids, not broke into some store, stolen a bunch of
stuff, and then ran from the police so that they had to take her to the ground. She's a criminal, its simple. They had to arrest her. Having said
that, I can see the judge being very lenient, or even charges not beign pressed, because the major concern is stopping the looting, not putting people
in jail. Meanwhile, they should pick up her kids and family and move them to shelters.
GTWill
had no access to leaving the area
Thats BS. There isn't a wall around the city, they're not shackled to their flooboards. They should've left, they don't get to stay, and then
loot and claim its perfectly allright.
jsobecky
How do we compare price-gougers with looters? What they do *may* be legal, but is it right? Should they also be penalized?
Price gouging in these situations is illegal. Charging lots of money for luxuries like tvs is not.
StickyG
So the blacks "loot" and whitey "finds"
The woman in the first pic is black and playing the part of jean val jean, literally taking a loaf of bread. The person in the other photos has a
huge bag of stuff. You think its full of bread and evaporated milk?
zaphod58
There has already been a police officer shot in the face, he's expected to survive thank god, and a police station got shot up by an AK47.
And thus the shock and stun of disaster slowly turns from benevolent anarchy into violent chaos, with lots of people insisting that the theivery and
complete disrespect for the law is absolutely necessary.
the power to stop this BY ALL MEANS NECESSARY. this crap won't happen
It hardly justifies killing everyone to prevent them from killing each other. The veneer of civilization is thin, it can be broken by savagery, like
looting, or by wanton abuse of power. There is a civilized middle ground. Looting is illegal, and dangerous, its the cracking of the veneer. It has
to be stopped, by rounding up and arresting people that do it, and by putting police and military on the streets. Louisiana has 11,000 national
guardsmen, 3,000 are in Iraq, and apparently half or less of the remainder were active to be ready for this hurricane. All of them need to be
activated, and neighbhoring states will need to activate theirs and send them in. I don't know if Louisiana has any militias, but they'd need to be
sent in too. Hopefully enough boats and such can be commandeered also to aid in presenting a massed police pressence.
And they have to
prevent
everyone from looting
anything. The Police
can comandeer grocery stores and disperse foodstuffs, but looting should
allways be an arrestable offense. No need to gun everyone down tho. Its martial
LAW, not savage dictatorial rule.
