My socialist girlfriend has a point however.
She thinks I have a lot of nerve sitting on my leather sofa in my 4 bedroom house with the CAC cranked up watching my hi-def TV...saying looters should be shot.
She says that what has happened in New Orleans is anything but typical and that these people have the absolute right to steal everything they can get their hands on in order to survive.
Many have nothing but the clothes on their back and they need jewelry and the like to sell for cash in order to survive.
They have no job, they depend on the monthly check from the government.
That's a big reason many stayed...they needed to cash the check that should be arriving tomorrow morning.
So....I have a lot of nerve judging anyone who is going thru what those poor unfortunate, unlucky folks are having to endure.
And...I think she's right.
Methinks you should ditch the bit...
I disagree,so that gives some the reason to rob homes ,rape ,steal drugs from hospitals,and you must have an AK47.Being poor is no excuse.
My foot. A large portion of these are part of the professional criminal class and those who go along with them. They make a living off of preying off those who look like easy targets, part of the drug culture that grew on the back of the welfare society that has wreaked havoc with New Orleans for years.
Don't make excuse for these people. They are users who prey on the poor and week in their own areas, and anybody else they see as an easy target.
you seem smart, get a new girlfriend. If she thinks it's OK to steal from a business "to survive", what about stealing from another family? What about stealing from you or her? After this 'precedent', what about the next disaster that happens? I can hear it now, 'looting was OK in New Orleans, why can't I get some free stuff now?' Hey, there's a disaster in New Orleans but gasoline is four bucks a gallon so I just took it, so what if I live in Alexandria...and on and on. Terri Schaivo lasted two weeks in her weakened condition before she passed away. I don't think too many people are close to her condition yet. Surely as a socialist, she has faith that our socialist government will step in and feed and water the masses. Isn't that what about half of my income is confiscated for?
You earned your leather sofa and all, and you had enough sense to live somewhere above sea level, and presumably not in a hurricane zone.
Shoot 'em.