Shoot looters

http://jewishworldreview.com ^ | Mona Charen

[manny613]

The looters are helping themselves to DVD and MP3 players, beer, flat screen TVs, clothing, booze, guns, candy and sporting goods. Some simply loaded up shopping carts with all they could hold and boldly pushed them out the doors and down the sodden streets. "With no police officers in sight," reported The New York Times, "people carried empty bags, shopping carts and backpacks through the door of the Rite Aid on Wednesday and left with them full. As they came and went, the looters nodded companionably to one another."

[Jeff Chandler]

Some of the scenes of the lawless thugs are beginning to resemble a rap video.

[flashbunny]

sshhh...you'll anger the freeper looter apologist brigade. I was labled a nazi for suggesting that looters be shot. Instead, we should let them roam free, gain strength, boldness, and weapons, and have them kill and rape innocent people.

Some freepers just want to wring their hands and sing kumbaya for the looters...

someone's looting, my lord, kumbaya
someone's rapping, my lord, kumbaya,
someone's killing, my lord, kumbaya,
someone's dying, my lord, kumbaya,
oh lord, kumbaya

[flashbunny]

oops, typo, real freeper kumbaya lyrics should be:

someone's looting, my lord, kumbaya
someone's raping, my lord, kumbaya,
someone's killing, my lord, kumbaya,
someone's dying, my lord, kumbaya,
oh lord, kumbaya

[kerosene]

"John Carolan was sitting on his porch in the thick, humid darkness just before midnight Tuesday when three or four young men, one with a knife and another with a machete, stopped in front of his fence and pointed to the generator humming in the front yard. [One] said, 'We want that generator.' [Carolan responded] 'I fired a couple of rounds over their heads with a .357 Magnum . . . they scattered. You've heard of the law west of the Pecos? This is the law west of Canal Street.'"

Aim lower, next time.

[AZLiberty]

The city of New Orleans is descending rapidly into a state of anarchy just when organization and cooperation are most essential. The New York Times reported one scene that is emblematic: "John Carolan was sitting on his porch in the thick, humid darkness just before midnight Tuesday when three or four young men, one with a knife and another with a machete, stopped in front of his fence and pointed to the generator humming in the front yard. [One] said, 'We want that generator.' [Carolan responded] 'I fired a couple of rounds over their heads with a .357 Magnum . . . they scattered. You've heard of the law west of the Pecos? This is the law west of Canal Street.'"

The Second Amendment in action.

[EagleUSA]

Regardless of the situation, NO ONE is above the law, at any time. These people have set a very bad example, and are not exemplary of good New Orleans citizens.

[Cobra64]

I know. There are a lot of bleeding hearts that condone bad behavior. Keep your head down, put on the Nomex, Kevlar and tin-foild hat. It gets pretty hot around here with those who do not believe in accountability or responsibility.

[curiosity]

Yes, yes, yes, and yes again.

The President should simply declare martial law in New Orleans and send in the Army. Anyone looting will be shot on sight.

Enough PC hand-wringing. Shot to kill.

Anarchy cannot be tolerated.

[curiosity]

Are you serious? There are actually Freepers who oppose shooting looters? Astonishing.

[Cobra64]

Soooo, what would you have done?

[Clemenza]

The past few days have seen several MORONS saying "its just property that will be destroyed anyway, let them have it!"

Such MORONS of course don't realize that if you give thugs an inch, they'll take your life...

[curiosity]

Too bad he didn't kill those punks.

This kind of situation calls for a Hobbsian solution. Marial law, anyone looting or violating curfew shot on sight. We cannot tolerate anarchy.

That this is happening in America absolutely disgusts me.

[CyberAnt]

Hmmmmm?? Aren't the people whining about this looting the very same peple who were whining about the looting in Iraq - and blaming Bush for that too ..??

Boy oh boy .. that Bush gets around! I'm stunned he gets blamed for so much .. being the dunce and cowboy he is ..?? Curious!

[Cobra64]

Why is that? /sarcasm

[prophetic]

Are you serious? There are actually Freepers who oppose shooting looters? Astonishing.

I'm totally speechless (NOT!!).

[Main Street]

From the Foreign Press....

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16466739%255E1702,00.html

The Australian

Hurricane Aussies fear for safety

September 02, 2005

Excerpt

AUSTRALIANS trapped in flood-ravaged New Orleans are in fear of their lives as the city descends into lawlessness.

Tourists stranded in the US Gulf Coast city and sheltering in its huge Superdome sports stadium in the wake of Hurricane Katrina have told of shootings, rapes and looting, and are growing increasingly concerned for their safety.

More than 50 Australians are believed to be trapped in New Orleans and surrounding areas.

Brisbane man Peter McNeil said his 22-year-old son John was stranded in New Orleans but had now moved with other foreigners out of the Superdome for their own protection.

Violence and racist behaviour had forced the group, including about 10 Australians, to take refuge in a hotel lobby after seeing people raped and murdered, he said.

"It's a real racist issue, apparently, between the locals, and they were segregated, and John said they would stab you as soon as look at you," Mr McNeil told ABC radio.

"He's never been so scared in his life. He just said they had to get out of the dark otherwise, another night, he said, they would have gone.

"He said the tension was just building so much it was impossible to stay in there."

Tim and Joanne Miller, from Rockhampton in Queensland, have also made contact with their family in Australia. They said they were too scared to move.

"The violence there is escalating. There are shootings – they've now got three dead bodies at the bottom of the stairwell where they are," their daughter Kelly-Rae Smith told ABC radio.

"There's so much violence going on there. It shows you how much violence when the SWAT (police) team locked themselves in their building."

And

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/articl...59825_2,00.html


Looting chaos hits New Orleans relief effort

September 01, 2005

Excerpt...

But security problems were clearly preventing police, fire officers and other rescue workers from getting to people in need as the Deep South came to resemble the Wild West.

Just outside New Orleans, gunmen held up a supply truck carrying food, water, medical supplies and pharmaceuticals, prompting officials to ask police and the US Coast Guard to help evacuate a working 203-bed hospital.

Some of the most graphic descriptions of the chaos have come from a blog run by employees of Directnic, a domain name registrar, who have stayed in the city to keep the company's servers going. One, who described himself as a security expert, wrote:

"It is a zoo out there though, make no mistake. It's the wild kingdom. It's Lord of the Flies.

"That doesn't mean there's murder on every street corner. But what it does mean is that the rule of law has collapsed, that there is no order, and that property rights cannot and are not being enforced. Anyone who is on the streets is in immediate danger of being robbed and killed. It's that bad."

www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor,

Reported that dozens of New Orleans police officers had simply abandoned their posts.

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Rescue crews report that they cannot enter some areas because of rampant violence. Hospitals report that patience are dying because groups of one hundred or more thugs are preventing them from leaving, and are trying to steal all the ambulances. So far Guardsmen have been shot at. Rescue crews have been shot at. A policeman was shot in the head, and people are being robbed blind, murdered, assaulted, and raped. And so far as I know, no one has fired back. No official declaration of Martial Law.

[flashbunny]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474029/posts?page=3#3

A better cause? These people just lost EVERYTHIING! EVERYTHING. I'd be pretty mad at God right now too. You have no idea what you would do in those circumstances. I'm not saying what they did was right, but to punish because some people will just naturally do the wrong thing is absurd and it makes me think you're just looking for a way out of giving money. Shame on you.

3 posted on 08/31/2005 9:15:33 AM CDT by Hildy


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Hildy has been a prime example. She labeled me a nazi for supporting the idea that looters should be shot and a hard line stance be taken.

Instead, the government did what she idealized - let the looters rampage - and death and destruction followed. However, no remorse or admitting she was wrong has taken place.

[vrwc0915]

To many this will sound harsh.
A 5.56 to the abdomens of the obvious leaders of the pack could have saved many lives if done early. If joe-gang-banger hears and sees his hommie wailing and screaming in a pool of blood it kind of takes the fun out of gang rape and looting. In every single riot the longer you let it go the more people join in