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Posted on 08/30/2005 10:14:57 AM PDT by aomagrat
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With much of the city emptied by Hurricane Katrina, some opportunists took advantage of the situation by looting stores.
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Denise Bollinger, a tourist from Philadelphia, stood outside and snapped pictures in amazement.
"It's downtown Baghdad," the housewife said. "It's insane. I've wanted to come here for 10 years. I thought this was a sophisticated city. I guess not."
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Around the corner on Canal Street, the main thoroughfare in the central business district, people sloshed headlong through hip-deep water as looters ripped open the steel gates on the front of several clothing and jewelry stores.
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Looters filled industrial-sized garbage cans with clothing and jewelry and floated them down the street on bits of plywood and insulation as National Guard lumbered by.
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"To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said.
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[[To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said.]]
Get back at society for what? I was just watching it on Fox News. The homies are stealing everything that isn't nailed down.
shoot them ...
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5844419.html?tag=nl.e589
Above URL has listing for several web pages with hurricane damage.
Where are they going to take it?
Looters get shot....ACLU comes in and starts defending the looters....
Pawn shops will be extremely busy when this dries out.
Denise Bollinger, a tourist from Philadelphia, stood outside and snapped pictures in amazement.
"It's downtown Baghdad," the housewife said. "It's insane. I've wanted to come here for 10 years. I thought this was a sophisticated city. I guess not."
compared to philadelphia, it is a sophisticated city. thats even with the looting!
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As a friend of mine put it after a visit to New Orleans it's the only city that turned its ghetto into a tourist attraction.
shhot them too ...
The thieves stayed for a reason. They risked their lives to be able to be in a position to loot before citizens returned.
"I thought this was a sophisticated city"
She should see some of the Mardi Gras floats.
"'To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society,' he said."
The welfare, school lunch programs, AFDC, WIC, food stamps, SSI, Medicaid, midnight basketball, and government subsidized housing made me do it.
I did not see one white person looting the stores they showed on TV. All that I saw were black. We will all pay for this. Sad thing is the owners of the stores were very likely black.
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