I'm Disgusted By The Anchor-Bots Attitude Toward "Looters"

[K8-EEE]

"Disaster bring out the best and unfortunately the worst in people" and like comments from these bimbos and empty suits are making me hurl!

Jeez you'd think that these anchors who are high and dry (and overpaid) would withhold judgement on people who are stealing FOOD when their own food has likely been destroyed and there is no legal way to GET food! All the footage I've seen of "looting" is people carrying boxes of food from closed grocery stores, unless they are selling them on the black market or something give them a break, they are trying to survive!

If I was stranded in a disaster and my home was destroyed and my kids were hungry -- yeah after a day or two I'd be "looting" the supermarkets, wouldn't you?

[skooooo]

1. agree..people aren't stealing diapers..

..to get rich.

[LisaM]

2. Yes, and it's not as if there is any way for them to buy it

The only person I saw had was looked like either toilet paper or diapers and a bottle of milk. Wow, what a hardened criminal. If the people were stealing clothes or jewelry, it would be different.

[Cleita]

6. That's so true. It's blaming the victim for trying to survive.

Not only that those goods would have to be thrown out anyway. Any time perishable goods are in a disaster like fire or floods, it's the law that they can't be resold per the health department rules. Insurance and government disaster funds will reimburse the businesses.

[txaslftist]

13. WHAT!?! Stealing TOILET PAPER!?!? DIAPERS!?!?

Shoot his ass!

Looters really make me mad!

Why can't he just wipe his ass with his hands!?! And what makes his baby so special he can't wait until the storm blows over and BUY diapers?

Stealing is ALWAYS wrong!!!

They should give the rescuers rifles so they can prevent this kind of anarchy!

[LisaM]

21. Don't worry - they are

they've declared martial law.

[ima_sinnic]

3. I SO agree -- but in this country, material things and "ownership"

are more sacred than life itself.

[K8-EEE]

4. The Ownership Society

has no tolerance for extreme conditions that necesitate breaches in ownership!

[Cleita]

5. It just goes to show that they have no credibility as real

journalists. Real journalists report only the facts and do not pass judgement or insert personal opinion into their reporting.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

7. Most of that stuff will be written off anyway

There's no way they will be allowed to sell food when it's been sitting in a flooded supermarket for days. What the hell do they care? Just let the people eat, for goodness sake.

[Cleita]

17. Having been through a fire at a business, I know that

perishable goods can't be sold that have been in a flood or fire. It's a health department rule. Even if they seem perfectly good you have to throw them out. The owners even had to throw out perfectly good cases of beer and wine that were in a storeroom and that the fire didn't reach, yet they were considered damaged goods. What they did is put the cases by the dumpster and look the other way. The insurance reimbursed them with no argument because they had the authorization from the health department demanding that all the goods be thrown away.

[ugarte]

8. It's not "looting" they're upset about

It's about black people. If it were upper middle-class white people looting, something tells me their tone would be more understanding.

[VADem11]

14. There was a black anchor

on WDSU. He seemed just as upset as the other anchors at the footage of the Winn Dixie. It's not just about race, it's about class.

[Cleita]

19. Maybe it's about his job.n/t

[Tyranny_R_US]

15. Perhaps when we see looting in Mississippi.

all will be well... oh wait they arent going to broadcast video of white people looting.

[Cleita]

18. You'd better believe it. It's all very racist in tone. n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Rich comfortable news anchors don't understand, do they?

Shove them out into that horrific situation and see how they react and what they do to survive!

[tnlefty]

20. This is exactly the thought I've had about Soledad O'Brien the

past 2 days. She's been more than a little nauseating, and I couldn't help thinking what an overpaid, useless head she is on tv. Then I thought send her ass along with all of those kids she keeps having (is she up to 4 or 5 now) and let's see what she'll do to try and care for them. Oh yeah, and no nannies either.

[K8-EEE]

25. I Hate How She Works Her "Concern Face"

They are all such phonies -- actors and bad actors at that.

[kenny blankenship]

10. Hatred of the poor is a centerpiece of America's national religion

the Church of Greed

[NYC]

11. People need food and water, especially water.

If there is no water available, whatever liquid they can drink.

It is impossible for these people to shop. Taking food and water from grocery stores is not looting.

[unrepuke]

12. Win-Dixie will recoup, the poor folks grabbing the junk food aren't

making much of a party out of this. It's a different thing going into homes for VCRs and TV sets, but Jean valJean gets 25 years for a loaf of bread to "put on his family".

BTW - I wonder just how many flood cars will be for sale here in SoCal in about 2 months, sorta half-assed "fixed up", and sold As Is, for about $200 under Blue Book? There are several dealers close by who deal exclusively in these wrecks, a quick trip to Uncle Earl Scheib, swear it never went under water, and dump it on a sucker. (Check in the fender seams for mud)

There's more than one way of looting.

[txaslftist]

16. Did they actually film him going into the store?

The film I saw was a man going down the street with a big plastic thing of toilet paper...

Was it just assumed he took it from a store because of his, um, complexion, or did they actually film him going into the store.

You know, as an aside, did any of the cameramen in the boat offer him a ride out of there?

I'm just askin.

[RaleighNCDUer]

22. Or conceivably, the large sealed plastic package filled with

material that is as much air as paper, makes a good bouyant item to keep from going under in the flood water?

He was waist deep in flowing water, and just a single foot of flood water can take your feet out from under you.

These people are trying to stay alive, folks.

[RebelOne]

23. OK, I can see people looting for food, but

it's another story when they are stealing TVs and other luxury items. Those are the low-life scum thieves.

[kenny blankenship]

24. Sure someone looting a tv now is a lowlife

but in the context of a massive humanitarian emergency--this is newsworthy? I don't think so--it doesn't merit dwelling on pornographically. There are life and death struggles going on all over the LA / MS coastline.