[eak3]

The generators, food and water are private property, not city property. Until someone with the owner’s authority authorizes it, the city has no right to take it.

I'm sorry but people's live are at stake. Yes this stuff maybe a band-aid to the problem, but if it helps save lives then its worth it. People need to do the humane thing in this situation and if that means stealing the supplies that are just sitting around rotting, then steal them. I am more than pissed off at how NYC, the state of NY and Obama are reacting to this. PEOPLE ARE DYING...the way they get the stuff they need is irrelevant at this point. Just get them some help.

[thulldud]

People need to do the humane thing in this situation and if that means stealing the supplies that are just sitting around rotting, then steal them.

Wonder if you would say that if it was YOUR stuff being stolen. If you would steal "to save life" as you put it, then you would probably steal for a lesser cause, especially if it could be called "saving life".

Stealing is stealing, no matter who does it to whom.

When the government commandeers private property and then compensates the owners later, that is not stealing. The Constitution provides for that.