Condescension is not appreciated.
I never said there was no crime, no looting, no rape. I'm sure there was some. New Orleans has a lot of criminals. But some of the media has been fueling hysteria based on rumors, making it sound like a Mad Max wasteland with rampant rapes and murders. That is the problem. There was a hysterical report on one of the news channels last night or the night before (I'm losing track) about firefighters holed up in the Bell South building, a deputy killed, taking fire from all sides, etc. Then a report today saying that was untrue.
My point is not that crimes haven't happened. It's that they're being magnified beyond reality by rumor and hysteria.
"I never said there was no crime, no looting, no rape. I'm sure there was some.
My point is not that crimes haven't happened. It's that they're being magnified beyond reality by rumor and hysteria."
Just out of curiousity, how many rapes, robberies, beatings, and murders have to occur in a given congregation of humanity in a given timeframe for you to consider it worthy of great distress?