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Looting Begins in New Orleans
NOLA.com ^ | 30 August 2005 | ALLEN G. BREED

Posted on 08/30/2005 10:14:57 AM PDT by aomagrat

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With much of the city emptied by Hurricane Katrina, some opportunists took advantage of the situation by looting stores.

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Denise Bollinger, a tourist from Philadelphia, stood outside and snapped pictures in amazement.

"It's downtown Baghdad," the housewife said. "It's insane. I've wanted to come here for 10 years. I thought this was a sophisticated city. I guess not."

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Around the corner on Canal Street, the main thoroughfare in the central business district, people sloshed headlong through hip-deep water as looters ripped open the steel gates on the front of several clothing and jewelry stores.

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Looters filled industrial-sized garbage cans with clothing and jewelry and floated them down the street on bits of plywood and insulation as National Guard lumbered by.

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"To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: hurricanekatrina; katrina; looting; neworleans; take; thieves; thirdworld; thugs; urbanbarbarians
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To: Shawndell Green; Cathy
Even a cop joins in the looting

And bankers too...

from http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050831/ap_on_re_us/katrina_new_orleans

Sean Jeffries of New Orleans had already been evacuated from one French Quarter hotel when he was ordered out of a second hotel Tuesday because of rising water. The 37-year-old banker — who admitted to looting some food from a nearby supermarket — said the hotel guests were told they were being taken to a convention center, but from there, they didn't know. "We're in the middle of a national tragedy," he said as he popped purloined grapes in his mouth. "But I know this city. We will be back. It may take awhile. But we will be back."

Time to start shooting them as a deterrent...

241 posted on 08/30/2005 8:59:44 PM PDT by eldoradude (When all else fails, vote from the rooftops.)
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To: eldoradude

Not the bankers!!!!

What a mess. My neightbor was in New Orleans till Sunday and he said there was absolutely no panic in the French Quarter about the hurricane. He could not believe how lightly people were taking the evacuation.


242 posted on 08/31/2005 4:51:38 AM PDT by Cathy
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To: zendari

Blanco can't shoot the looters because they are the Democrat voters that put her into office. In fact, many of them probably voted for her several times in the last election. LA certainly is suffering for their mistake.


243 posted on 08/31/2005 4:55:56 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: kittymyrib

She'd sure want to shoot them when she realizes that the looters aren't paying any taxes on their ill gotten booty.


244 posted on 08/31/2005 4:58:06 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult ("Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Wil H

I was in NO once as a hurricain was approaching. I packed up and went to the airport as soon as I got the news. I went standby on the first plane that came closest to home. It took 24 hours to get home but I got out. Usually you can get on some plane. If not, the Grayhound bus will run right up until the last minute.


245 posted on 08/31/2005 5:00:57 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: aomagrat

Just on Fox, some woman New Orleans official begging for the feds to send soldiers in. Could have been Louisiana's Gov.


246 posted on 08/31/2005 5:01:20 AM PDT by hershey
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To: English Nationalist

Thats what we did in Charleston when Hugo came through...city officials said looters would be shot...didn't see a whole lot of looting after Hugo.


247 posted on 08/31/2005 7:58:29 AM PDT by Blue Scourge (Team Charleston...second to none...)
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To: paulat

The '01 Seattle quake was a joy ride. Nothing like the devastation in the South right now.


249 posted on 08/31/2005 6:41:50 PM PDT by WKL815
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To: WKL815

'89 SF was no joy ride


250 posted on 08/31/2005 6:48:17 PM PDT by paulat
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To: paulat
The looters will ultimately be dealt with. Most might probably be absolved because of their evident distress, despite the distraction they created during the height of search and rescue, and the possible deaths that that distraction wrought. But the city will probably recover from even this moral depravity. But possibly then, just as the rebuilding and healing is in full swing, with optimism for the future and community fellowship again rekindled, a new unexpected depth for humanity might yet be fathomed.

Lawsuits could finally breach the City's last defences, flooding in from every angle, and submerging the last hopes of raising Atlantis.

251 posted on 08/31/2005 7:43:33 PM PDT by kcar (theUNsucks.com)
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To: mickie

A FEMA chief put a reporter in his place when he started to ask about looting. FEMA said "we'll talk about that in a year or so but not now"!!


252 posted on 09/01/2005 4:40:32 PM PDT by Phosgood (Kerry was a Shill for Hillery)
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To: Dallas59

It should be amazing to see how this all pans out. I can understand the hardship, and even looting out of necessity (i.e. food, clothing, etc.). But when someone takes a T.V. or a stereo out of a store during the aftermath of a disaster like this, no one can honestly defend them. The ACLU may try.
No doubt a race card will be played. When that doesn't work, the federal government will be attacked for not doing enough to help prevent/clean up the disaster.
Never mind that these so called "stranded" individuals have begun taking pot-shots at the helicopters that are trying to rescue them. In my humble opinion, any necessary step should be taken to protect the lives of the military and rescue personell involved in these operations. Put a Nat'l Gaurd sniper with a trusty M-25 on one of those choppers. Impose martial law. Since the looters don't care about the rights or property of others, why should we care about theirs? If youtake a pot-shot at the chopper, expect a round right back. These people are putting themselves in harms way to rescue the people of New Orleans.
Show some respect.


253 posted on 09/01/2005 8:21:34 PM PDT by uncle_walter87
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