Posted on 08/30/2005 12:59:42 PM PDT by LM_Guy
NEW ORLEANS — With much of the city flooded by Hurricane Katrina, looters floated garbage cans filled with clothing and jewelry down the street in a dash to grab what they could.
In some cases, looting today took place in full view of police and National Guard troops.
At a Walgreen's drug store in the French Quarter, people were running out with grocery baskets and coolers full of soft drinks, chips and diapers.
When police finally showed up, a young boy stood in the door screaming, "86! 86!" — the radio code for police — and the crowd scattered.
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."
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.
One man, who had about 10 pairs of jeans draped over his left arm, was asked if he was salvaging things from his store.
"No," the man shouted, "that's EVERYBODY'S store."
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.
Mike Franklin stood on the trolley tracks and watched the spectacle unfold.
"To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said.
A man walked down Canal Street with a pallet of food on his head. His wife, who refused to give her name, insisted they weren't stealing from the nearby Winn-Dixie supermarket. "It's about survival....
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The looters you see are Gov Blanko and Mary Landruei's voter base - I kid you not.
and they will be re-elected by promising more loot.
Good point. It reminded me of what happened with the "free" food giveaway during the Hearst kidnapping. I hope they can maintain order when the food shipments are delivered.
Hizzoner, the late-great Mayor Richard J. Daley, Chicago, 1968.
LOL.
" 3. More Beer"
Sorry, forgot that one ;)
But, if incidents of looting rise, or, in some cases, looters are shooting back at police as just reported on WWL TV, then that policy might have to change.
It's not a race thing, it's a class (or lack thereof) thing.
The "law of the jungle" must not be allowed to prevail, I don't care if it's diapers or beer. Nothing taken without some sort of accountability. I've been involved in post-hurricane cleanups in small towns in law enforcement and the leading authority (Sheriffs) gave the order that looters will be shot on sight--that was no joke. As a result, looting was almost non-existant. BTW, we were paired up w/NG soldiers locked and loaded, no pretend stuff.
Accountability or we are all reduced to animals. No thanks.
She is really a shinning star in the Media Whore wing of the Democratic Party. Did you see her chomping at the bit for microphone time at the presser today?
Is the NG armed?
I'm on CNN, did anyone hear Cafferty?
This looting is the reason some people refuse to leave when they are told to evacuate. The looters will do the same thing they are doing to homes that are left vacant.
"Shanequi, I said Menthol"!
And here we have, ladies and gents, the ideology of entitlement. "Stick it to da' man"...
Do they still have electricity?
Wonder who they would sue if they got electrocuted? that pretty dangerous .
Even DU should be a little more selective about their posters. Underground panther wannabe indeed.
I agree with that.
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