Another Mission Accomplished - the Looting factor

[SunDrop23]

They've done it again...they have managed to shift attention away from the lack of action from Bush to the Looters. EVERY talk show's central theme has been the looters.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. And turn a lot of victims, poor people, into criminals.

I'm not saying that everyone is a "saint", I'm saying that the focus is leaving the rescue effort. I feel I must now add that as a disclaimer to everything I post here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4505481

[knowbody0]

7. cnn showed the same "looting" footage

five times in a row at the beginning of Aaron Brown, then again toward the end three times in a row. (a black man whose pants were falling down carrying his looting in a bag)
there is no excuse for this. it was intended to imprint our minds. can you hear me screaming?

[Frances]

2. If Bush had sent in the National Guard

there would be no looting.

But of course the National Guard is in Iraq.

[wli]

3. enough racial bias they may as well have burned a cross in the field n/t

[tsuki]

4. Too bad they don't talk about the Corporate looters the way they

talk about the poor looters. Speaking of Corporate looters, how's Kenny Boy Lay doing. Resting comfortably in his homesteaded Florida Mansion built with dollars looted from the employee's pension fund. What about Tom DeLay looting the National Treasury to give his corporate bud's 1.5 billion? What about Uncle Dick's buddies KBR and the dufflebags of looted Iraqi money?

I cannot talk about the looters in NOLA. That is a bunch of frightened poor, not a lying, swindling, conniving boardroom.

[tyedyeto]

5. Looters who think toilet paper is a precious commodity? n/t

[KoKo]

6. Exactly...it was looters, looters, looters. Not as much information as

what they had on all day with photos of the devastation. Also..how come no one shows whats going on inside the SuperDome.

I think lots is being covered up, including the death toll. Some Florida folks said that they thought the death toll in Punta Gorda, Fla. was covered up last year, too. They wait for the "official count." And, that can be skewed.

I don't know what they get out of trying to spin this as a story about looters when folks are suffering and can't get out of New Orleans because the bridges and I-10 have washed out. I didn't hear anyone mention that tonight. Also an interview with a Male Nurse who had been in the Military and was taking care of those in the SuperDome said today on CNN that there are 30,000 people in there. The number is up because Coast Guard had to evacuate folks there because there's no dry land anywhere else. Also, more folks stragled in there this morning seeking shelter when their houses started to flood when the levee broke.

Why would CNN/MSNBC lie about the number of folks in the Super Dome tonight saying there are only 10 to 15 thousand instead of 30,000?

[bpilgrim]

8. and it PISSES me off to no end, to come in from the cold, to my refuge, DU

and find a few howling monkeys throw'n shit all over the frigg'n place by repeating the very same rw wacko BS, here :argh:

peace

[KAZ]

9. Certainly worked on this forum.

Hundreds, if not thousands dying, a major city washed from the map, and GD, along with most of the media, focus on not much else. Where's the banner?

[chicagiana]

11. Not washed from the map ...

Submerged under water. And it will remain that way for weeks.

I doubt it will recover to it's former status. It will stagnate and decline. Those office towers will go empty as it is too unsafe to locate in a cereal bowl where a couple sticks of dynamite on a levee can completely devastate billions of dollars in investment.

[chicagiana]

10. There are crooks in every lot ..

... and in the absence of civil authority those crooks will go wild. And is it any wonder that others will follow their example???


Honestly, I'm not shocked by people getting food. It's people breaking into houses and hauling off TVs that offends me.


New Orleans residents who evacuated will be chomping at the bit to get home in a flat bottom boat and a couple rifles to protect what is left of their homes.

You cannot allow looting. You cannot allow the breakdown of civil order as it is too hard to build. I thought the Bush administration learned this in Baghdad.