Reply #50: I'm glad someone is "focused" enough to see through the BS. [View All]

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For the life of me, I can't understand this urge among some here to dismiss the looters as anything other than the rotten thieves that they really are?

I'm sorry to burst the bubbles of some of the daydreamers here, but
whom's fooling whom here with the BS excuses that these ass-hats are some sort of noble latter day Robin Hood types stealing to survive or take care of their families?

"Oh, but it's Winn Dixie and they deserve to be robbed in broad daylight because they exploit the poor". Stealing is still stealing, but because poor people may be involved it can be condoned.

What utter crap and nonsense.

And as I posted in another thread on the same subject...

Yes, regretfully people are dying, but luckily not nearly at the magnitude that had originally been predicted.

Those that are still in life endangering situations still need all the help they can get, and that would include the assistance of the fine "looters" of New Orleans.

If they have that much energy, time and enthusiasm for breaking down store fronts to score a few six-packs of warm beer, cigarettes and potato chips, certainly they have the same energy, time and enthusiasm to assist in the relief effort. I wouldn't count on that though. Most thieves are to selfish to think about anyone other than themselves (unless there was some money to be made).

Anyhow, just to appease the apologists and hand-wringers here, lets use all available resources in NOLA in the relief effort. If that means pulling police and other crowd control measures from stopping the looters, then fine... do what needs to be done.

However, once the crisis has passed to a degree where life threatening situations have been defused, there should be a genuine effort by police to arrest and charge any looters with whatever crime they're guilty of. Since the media is so "focused" on this, I'm certain that there's plenty of video footage to at least identify and arrest some of the thieves. Even if it's only a handful, it shouldn't matter.