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Sociologists question how much looting and mayhem really took place in New Orleans.
The Boston Globe ^ | September 11, 2005 | Christopher Shea

Posted on 09/19/2005 1:55:48 PM PDT by Shade2

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1 posted on 09/19/2005 1:55:51 PM PDT by Shade2
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To: Shade2

Another example of how the mainstream media works.


2 posted on 09/19/2005 1:57:38 PM PDT by Shade2
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To: Shade2

Well, the StormFront crowd got their painties in a wad over nothing.


3 posted on 09/19/2005 1:58:43 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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In fact, if criminal violence were indeed rampant in New Orleans after Katrina hit . . .

Hell, criminal violence WAS rampant in N.O. BEFORE Katrina.

4 posted on 09/19/2005 1:59:07 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (All democrats are ENEMIES of the Republic!)
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After Hurricane Hugo swept through St. Croix in 1989, leveling the place, residents cleaned out local stores and malls, even going so far as to remove the lighting fixtures. What made St. Croix different from Kobe, Japan following the 1995 earthquake or San Francisco after the quake of 1989?

What indeed?

5 posted on 09/19/2005 1:59:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Shade2

If it turns out there was less looting than reported, Nagin will look even worse.


6 posted on 09/19/2005 1:59:19 PM PDT by Perdogg
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http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050824033709990005

"The Wal-Mart store in uptown New Orleans, built within the last year, survived the storm but was destroyed by looters.

"They took everything -- all the electronics, the food, the bikes," said John Stonaker, a Wal-Mart security officer. "The only thing left are the country-and-western CDs."

7 posted on 09/19/2005 2:00:04 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (We need a strict constructionist - not someone who plays shadow puppet theater with the Constitution)
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To: Shade2
Looting Deniers. How quaint.
8 posted on 09/19/2005 2:00:36 PM PDT by evolved_rage (Democrats want Hell on Earth too....)
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"We don't have any substantiated rapes," the New Orleans Police superintendent Edwin Compass"

I other words no one has filled out a police report.

BTW-I've heard it's more like 50% of the cops who walked off the job.


9 posted on 09/19/2005 2:00:37 PM PDT by Roux
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LOL!


10 posted on 09/19/2005 2:01:00 PM PDT by dennisw (If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything. - Gurdjieff)
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Who should I believe? This sociologist or my lying eyes?


11 posted on 09/19/2005 2:01:00 PM PDT by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: KarlInOhio
No, that isn't true this sociologist tells us. It is merely a figment of our overheated imaginations.
12 posted on 09/19/2005 2:01:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Shade2
created in large part by rumor and amplified by sometimes credulous reporters.

Gee, Wally - you mean the MSM doesn't just report the facts?

13 posted on 09/19/2005 2:02:01 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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Sociologists Liberals question how much looting and mayhem really took place in New Orleans.

Yeah, don't believe your eyes. Believe liberals, the new holocaust deniers.

14 posted on 09/19/2005 2:02:07 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Shade2

There's them damn lyin' eyes, again.


15 posted on 09/19/2005 2:03:03 PM PDT by Old Professer (Fix the problem, not the blame!)
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"Who should I believe? This sociologist or my lying eyes?"

What about my company's empty store? Everything that wasn't nailed down is gone. EVERYTHING, even my backup tapes.


16 posted on 09/19/2005 2:03:42 PM PDT by L98Fiero
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the StormFront crowd got their painties in a wad over nothing.

Go ahead, put a smiley after that statement...

You know you want to.

17 posted on 09/19/2005 2:04:17 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: AppyPappy

I'm still waiting for the families of the multiple victims of child rape/murder in the Superdome to notice that their kids are missing.


18 posted on 09/19/2005 2:04:33 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Shade2

What a load of crap. Trying to justify and downplay the crimes committed by so many people. Of course probably to some people it was their "right" to loot because they had been "oppressed" for so long.


19 posted on 09/19/2005 2:04:42 PM PDT by vpintheak (Liberal = The antithesis of Freedom and Patriotism)
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To: KarlInOhio

Well, at least there's some taste in music there...


20 posted on 09/19/2005 2:08:40 PM PDT by misterrob
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