I hope you're right and I'm wrong. The number I quoted was reported on WWL radio a few weeks ago and while I thought it was high I had no reason to doubt it.

In a case like this I sure don't mind being wrong -- or corrected.

Thanks.

 

So do you think every poor person in NO is looting then? You and I both know there are some that aren't looting. So obviously some people have morals that transcend a temporary situation. You are making excuses for the looters. If you have 2 people in the same situation, both poor and could loot a store, and one does and one doesn't then it is obviously a situation that isn't "that" dire. I don't buy it.

A lot of food is going to go bad and you need water to survive. I don't really have a problem with people taking what they need. The national guard should give people a break who have a reasonable amount of food and water....especially water.

 

Easier said than done Dave. As a law enforcement officer, I personally couldn't take somebody's life or seriously injure somebody over a 19" TV. These people who are looting for personal gain will get what's coming to them. What goes around comes around.

 

exactly.
thats a real good way to make things worse fast.
start shooting at these gang members over TV's and see
how you put your fellow officers and rescuers in more danger.

and the NO police arent the most honest police force in the country either.

check out this blog from some guys who are held up somewhere downtown.
http://mgno.com/

the police cant handle the situation.
the military needs to take over, like yesterday.

 

People often assume the worse is true but overall muder rate in the US is as low as it was in the late sixtys and there are more guns than people now. School violence is so low that you have to go back to the sixties as well and I'm not talking rates I'm talking the actuall number of incidences in both cases. However when you hear about columbine people draw the conclusion that its worse when in fact its nearly as good as it ever was.

Knowing that these things get inflated I had to verify that number. Glad I did.Glad to find it's not that high, but its still outragous. However with the reports I'm hearing now who knows what it will be. Sounds like you could get away with murder there now.

 

Yes I can. Poverty doesn't give you the right to loot. Or is that a new law?

 

If Conditions were:

Financials:
Would not matter poor or rich

Situation:
Hurricane demolished everything and I (me and family) have no food or water or clothes PLUS help has not arrived in one or two days.

Equals:
Looting like crazy BUT only getting what I (me and family) needed to survive.


Those who say different are either lying to themselves or stupid. You pick

 

Very true. During freshmen orientation at Tulane, they gave us emergency 24/7 contact numbers for the Tulane campus police/security. They informed us if we were ever harrassed by a NO cop, to identify ourselves as Tulane students and immediately call the Tulane police for assistance.

During my junior year, a freshman girl was raped by a NO cop. Tulane police arrested him. The girl and her family sued the school and the city for millions.

 

You haven't been in that situation. I have. So until then keep your assumption to yourself before you call anyone else stupid. Because they don't think like you do....

 

We being a civilized and first rate nation can go low down to being like animals.

Looting to profit=nono

looting for survival in cases of food, medical=yes



Many people still havent learn of what warnings and evacuation meant. Didn't the tsunami teach them something?

Dont even start with poor people, the city had free shuttling service. The people that are left stranded in the city waiting to be rescued are at their own fault. The only left to do is hurry up with the rescueing process. Take a chunk of equipment from bordering states/city and put it to use for the rescue effort.


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