Howlin, you're capable of a more complete worldview than that. The looters and riotous mobs are inexusable. But don't turn "these people" into the entire city of N.O.
Another sad thing is that us, the FReeper demographic, is probably the most generous demographic in America, the ones most likely to open our wallets and dig deep to help relief efforts . . . and right now, the way the criminal element in New Orleans has displayed itself, I don't think it's gonna happen . . . something is horribly wrong down there . . . and the good citizens, sadly, will bear the brundt of our wallets being closed . . .
Okay.....here I go, in with both feet:
What we are seeing these last few days is a direct result of that "the man puts me down," "the white man has opressed us" BS they get from their leaders. And they are almost encouraged to spit in the face of civil society -- don't think so? Look on TV.
They were having a GOOD TIME today; they are punks and hoods who have been coddled and protected for too long in that community:
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From another thread.
John Carolan was sitting on his porch in the thick, humid darkness just before midnight Tuesday when three or four young men, one with a knife and another with a machete, stopped in front of his fence and pointed to the generator humming in the front yard, he said.
One said, "We want that generator," he recalled.
"I fired a couple of rounds over their heads with a .357 Magnum," Mr. Carolan recounted Wednesday. "They scattered."
He smiled and added, "You've heard of law west of the Pecos. This is law west of Canal Street."
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As somebody said up the thread, there are people in New Orleans who are doing to DIE because the police are having to stop and take out the trash that is terrorizing New Orleans.