Today during dinner, I watched on Hannity and Colmes, videotaped footage of the rampant looting taking place in the swamp that was New Orleans. These people didn't even care that they were being filmed. They smugly mugged for the cameras, and did little dances and waved. It made me sick. Looting peoples' possessions when they are already at their most vulnerable is one of the most cowardly and maddening things a person can do. It is because of this that once upon a time, the standing order in a situation like this used to be that looters would be shot on sight. The most recent example of this I can think of was the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.
I actually saw policemen in the video footage trying to deal with the looters. They would yell at the looters, strip the looters of their ill-gotten gains and throw the merchandise on the ground, push some of the looters out the door of the stores from which they were stealing. Aside from shooting them, there is really nothing else the police or National Guard can do to stop the looters. They can't really arrest them; there are so many of them and where would you put the prisoners anyway? No, start shooting them, and the looting would end right quick. But once again, we come up against what a local radio talk show host here in Sacramento calls the "pussification of America". Shooting looters just isn't done anymore. This would be especially true in New Orleans considering that 99% of the looters I saw on the film were black. You can just hear the shrieks of racism.
The funniest part of the Hannity and Colmes broadcast was when they mentioned the looting to the Attorney General of Louisiana, whom they were interviewing. Louisiana's AG just shrugged it off as people trying to survive in a desperate situation. Hmm; I saw some looting of food, but what about the clothes, shoes, and electronics. They must be desperate to watch some TV down in da Big Easy on da bayou.
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2 comments:
my family and i have been watching the coverage of this situation on CNN. yesterday we watched the same footage of the looters stealing the "necessities" for survival. flat screens, stereos, and of course the life saving alcohol. i made a comment to my husband that it seemed like most of the looters were black. were they unable to evacuate or did they choose to stay? i can almost forgive the food, water, diaper and clothing looters since those are necessary things. desperate situations sometimes call for desperate actions. but those that are going into stores and other's homes just to steal make me sick. unfortunately, even if they did shoot all the looters, where would they put the bodies??? what an awful situation those people are facing.t
To ads: Are you for real? First of all, DON'T WRITE IN ALL CAPS. It means that you are yelling the entire comment and it is also much harder to read. Second, aren't you a little late to the party? The cleanup has already begun, and the looting situation ended a couple months ago, so it is not a warzon (your spelling) anymore. The state of your mental health is made apparent by your linking of this hurricane to our involvement in the affairs of Israel and Palestine. I don't think the Israelis should give anything to the "Palestinians" either, but I don't think we got hit by a hurricane because we let the giveaway of Gaza happen. Take you meds, calm down, and start thinking rationally.
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Chanman
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