People are hungry.
As they didn’t state how much was taken, I would like to assume that someone was just feeding his kids.
It’s not looting, it’s survival. People can’t be expected to sit around and starve to death.
In any disaster, you’re going to have bands of knuckleheads doing stuff like this. That said, I really don’t see Haiti ever turning a corner and really improving, no matter what resources we give them.
I thought Obama took the lead and had a plan to get stuff in there immediately? By this time, Bush already had relief supplies going to Katrina victims.
Why is 15,000 tons of food sitting in a U.N. warehouse in the wake of this disaster? They should have been doling it out on day one.
Why isn’t the UN distributing the food. I didn’t read anywhere in the article about any distribution, only how difficult it is to get it to outlying areas. Why not feed the people in the immediate vicinity and as aid comes in, reach the other people, rather than withold it. Maybe I’m missing something here.
So why sit on it?
First, the UN Mission was destroyed and many of the UN workers were killed or are still missing, so they couldn't release it.
Second, Bureaucratic red-tape would have taken days if not weeks to cut through, so it likely would have never been released.
I don't think it is “looting” if people break into a building to take what was given to them to live but government policy said they couldn't have yet.
However, hang each and every person selling food out of a UN marked bag.
Better to have the food in the hands of the truly hungry and starving than being used by UN crooks to barter for sex and to sell on the black market.
I’m no fan of looting, but if our gov’t was as MIA as the Haitian gov’t is, and my kids were starving, I’D LOOT TOO.
This might be the most shameful display of gov’t incompetence I’ve ever seen. Not a police officer to be seen .... anywhere. No EMS, no fire department...nothing. Not even a token appearance of first responders. Unreal.
Think about it: these people have been traumatized, seeing loved ones crushed to death. They are engaging in search and rescue themselves, as civilians, backbreaking work. Now add to this: no clean water, no food, no shelter, no medical care, no communications, and NO HELP FROM GOV’T on any level. And this has been going on in 90 degree heat and humidity for three days!
How useless is the Haitian gov’t? They have basically turned over all gov’t functions to the U.S. Military, including control of the airport.
Good grief...what a mess. No wonder the people are frustrated.
What happened to the 9,000 UN, mostly Brazilian, troops? I would think even a private would realize this would be a prime target fot looting.
It’s not looting. The UN should be giving that food out. An emergency is an emergency. But where ARE the ‘saviors of the world’? Probably not there — there is no oil in Haiti, so the UN pervs are resting comfortably in Manhattan.
All you head in the sand people who think poor starving Hatians snatched that food are really in lala land. That food was heisted by or with the complicit actions of US personnell. It will be sold to the highest bidder. Corrupt animals and Democraps.
SURE , with u.n. in charge ,,,,,,,,
....or if it was even in fact there!
Why are people looting the UN food warehouse? Because people are hungry and that’s where the food is.
The Lord helps those who help themselves.
"Never let a serious crisis go to waste."
This is an opportunity for the UN to blame looters for all the supplies and food previously bartered away or sold on the black market by UN personel.
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Looting is taking things just to take them and taking advantage of a situation. Breaking into a warehouse where food is stored and no one available to distribute it because you are starving is survival.
My only worry is that the gangs will hoard the food.