[Katya]

The media keeps playing the same looped tape of looters...in their stereotypical mind...all looters are always black. The white looters just don't fit their perceptions.

Pragmatically most of the stuff the looters are taking will be junked as soon as the water levels rise....lawlessness however builds as we see with the cop shooting. So the issue isn't really whether looting is morally heinous...it's how far they'll allow lawlessness to grow.

[Youngman442002]

stereotypical mind......they are all black...thats a fact..not a stereotype

[conservative cat]

Pragmatically most of the stuff the looters are taking will be junked as soon as the water levels rise....

Part-of me thinks that way, too, especially with groceries, but then I am sure most of these people would be doing it even with the waters rising. Do we know how much looting of houses is being done?

[Thrusher]

...lawlessness however builds as we see with the cop shooting. So the issue isn't really whether looting is morally heinous...it's how far they'll allow lawlessness to grow.

Crazy is contagious.

There are people (white and black) in NO that will shoot you in broad daylight for looking at them the wrong way on a good day. There are whole neighborhoods that even the cops don't want to go in, and places they are paid to stay out of. Some of the NO projects make Cabrini-Green look like Disneyland. This looting we are seeing on TV is just a little fun for them.

When the food and water starts getting low, this "fun" will turn ugly. That seems to already be starting to happen with the gun-battle near the French Quarter.

But it is really going to get ugly when the drugs start to run out.