Posted on 09/03/2005 11:06:20 AM PDT by wagglebee
Rev. Al Sharpton said Thursday that looters who terrorized flood-ravaged New Orleans this week acted out of anger that the services paid for with their taxes were not available.
"The ones that are looting are people there that work paycheck to paycheck, [who] paid their taxes for an infrastructure that collapsed on them," Sharpton told MSNBC's "Countdown." "People in that kind of environment are responding in all kinds of insane ways," he explained. "It doesn`t justify TVs being stolen, but clearly to get water and to get food and to get milk for babies, even though it is not refrigerated, certainly, you could [not] call that looting."
The firebrand agitator blamed President Bush for the looting, saying much of the unrest took place while the "pharaoh diddled in his suburban Rome in Crawford, Texas."
"The president stays on vacation, comes back a day late and a dollar short? I mean, this is an outright . . . " he complained, without finishing the sentence.
I wasn't aware there were any actual, for real, no foolin' "taxpayers" anywhere amongst the scabrous, slope-browed lot Sharpton counts as his base/supporters.
I'm STILL not aware of that, come to think.
I didn't know it was legal for taxpayers to loot if they get mad at the government!!
Hell, prior to this week, Al Sharpton and his ilk acted as if paying taxes made people happy.
Everytime he opens his mouth he does grave damage to race relations in this country.
I hope if nothing better comes out of this disaster it will be these people finding out that their so-called religious leaders are blow hards and the majority of the American people are good, caring, people and want nothing more than to see them safe and sheltered.
Someone needs to send the article in the Baltimore Sun to Rev. Sharpton. Ask him how he explains these people taking their own hostage in a school, taking their shoes so they could not escape, taking their food and terrorizing them for days and sleeping all day so they could specifically go out after dark and cause mahem among the remaining citizens???
For Pete's sake. If Kerry and Edwards were in office those corpses would be walking by now!
They'd damn sure be voting!
LOL. When they don't tell you, that's how you know.
How many snipers are former taxpayers?......LOL
Get me one while you're at it. And if you can't find one that you like go to Comp USA.
LMAO!
Sharpton is an angry tax EVADER. Maybe he was trying to show due respect to the rioters.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
I'm an angry taxpayer and I don't steal.
Me too.
The government steals from us and gives to the poor. That is welfare.
SHARPTON AND JESSE ARE TWO OF THE MOST ASSININE NITWITS
HATAHT EVER HIT THEE PIKE....DISGRACE TO THE HUMAN RACE
AND THE BLACKS, SHOULD REBEL AND REPEL THESE TWO MONEY
GRUBBING "LEADERS"....BARF, BARF...Jake
Sharpton's lying. Or he's a fool. But I'm ever so sure CNN will find one looter who was employed. And if not, this will be a non-story.
Is that a reference to the black pharaoh of Afrocentric lore who invented electricity and airplanes?
I'd like to thank Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the CBC for going a long way towards insulating President Bush from any mistakes the feds made early on. The word of the day is 'backfire'. Keep talking, Al.
You saw this, right?
Ack! No, I did NOT see that. Oh my goodness.
Most of those folks don't even pay taxes. And this constant excuses for looting, murdering and raping has GOT to stop.
Thanks for the ping!
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