Al Sharpton: Looters Were Angry Taxpayers

NewsMax ^ | 9/3/05 | NewsMax

[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.

[Dante3]

LOL

[wagglebee]

They pay only sales tax and taxes on their cigarettes and booze.

My guess is that most of the time they shoplift these.

[NY Attitude]

Note to Al Sharpton: Go back and kiss Tawany Brawley's a$$.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" The bigger his mouth, the smaller he gets. " and the more it get's P.H.D. Piled high and deeper.

[Dante3]

From the title, I presumed this was a humor article.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Proof? Paycheck stubs, please.

[NavySEAL F-16]

Sharpton is truly a disgusting human being.

What a poor excuse for a self-appointed leader.

[weegee]

Plenty of people see warning signs every day yet refuse to take a course of action that could save their lives.

Whether it is evacuating, seeing a doctor, or engaging in risky activities.

[rdb3]

I see it's going to take a long, long time before this stuff wears itself out.

I'm broadcast live in front of a pre-recorded studio audience.

[msnimje]

WELL, why didn't you say so.

I am an angry Taxpayer.
I am heading out the door right now to Circuit City to loot at new Laptop as an expression of my Civil Disobedience and right as an angry taxpayer.

[Kurt_D]

Can we really comment on Al Sharpton's blunt stupidity?

[lastchance]

Dear County Commission
I can not help but notice that the street light by my house has been out for sometime. At first I figured I could just call and have y'all come out and fix it.
Well I have a better idea thanks to Al notsoSharpton
Since darkness encourages burglery I will do the following
Steal a TV from Walmarts since I know have a greater chance of having my TV stolen. Sorry I should have said " Liberate a TV set from the corporate slave masters. I need an upgrade anywho. Sue the County for potential injury cause I just can not see where those lumps and bumps are in the dark
Destroy the lightpole by whatever means possible. I mean I sure as heck don't need an unsightly light pole if I don't hvae a light.
I will deduct from my tax bill the amount I figure I have paid for the light. I think it is a special assessment.
Since you are not maintaining County property I will consider all roadway, right of way and easements within 100 ft of the light to now be private property reverting to me.
I will maintain this and send you a whopping bill.
Thanks, Taxpayer.

[RightWhale]

Sharpton - P T Barnum - humbug

[maggief]

"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."

He must be talking about the looting LE. :)

[colonialhk]

Why has the long history of damaging corruption in the political machine that is New Orleans and the Levee Board not being discussed in favor of bashing the Federal Government?

[wagglebee]

Yeah, I'm just going to start carrying around copies of my tax returns for the past several years, and when I see something I want, I can just take it.

[kcar]

Now what was that waiver thing they were asked to sign, should they decide to ignore the mandatory evacuation? Could it possibly have said something about there not be any city services for awhile, on acccount of the very real possibility the whole city could be under water?

So many of these people in NO had the opportunity to leave, heard the warnings and ignored them, and put themselves and their children at risk, and some did in fact perish.

My sympathy goes out to the people in other parts of LA, and in Mississippi and Alabama. But the attitude of so many in NO irks me to no end.

[Wormwood]

Plenty of people see warning signs every day yet refuse to take a course of action that could save their lives.

...and yet they somehow expect pity when they reap the consequences of their own inaction.

"Life is pain, princess. Anyone who tells you different is selling something."
- William Goldman

"Life is hard. Wear a helmet."
- Dennis Leary

[Arrowhead1952]

As I posted HERE before,

"If this disaster was a poker game, President Bush would win every hand. He is playing with a full deck and the CBC, Revs Jack@$$ and $harpton are playing with one card - the RACE CARD."

[wagglebee]

I am heading out the door right now to Circuit City to loot at new Laptop as an expression of my Civil Disobedience and right as an angry taxpayer.

Be sure to take a copy of your most recent tax return, otherwise it's grand larceny!