Re: Looters in New Orleans and MIssissippi
- From: D. Wells <dwells38@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:00:30 GMT
On 30 Aug 2005 15:40:08 -0700, "Rudy Canoza" <notgenx32@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>Where are the passionate defenders of criminality? Why aren't they
>talking about the looting being a "rebellion"?
Too late. Your sarcasm has already turned into reality.....
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46056
IN KATRINA'S WAKE
Looters turn New Orleans
into 'downtown Baghdad'
Defender: 'It's an opportunity to get back at society' for those
who've been oppressed
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Posted: August 30, 2005
3:35 p.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
With few supplies coming into the seriously flooded city of New
Orleans, which is now 80 percent under water after Hurricane Katrina
pummeled the Gulf Coast yesterday, looters are taking matters into
their own hands, hauling off food and other items from local stores.
Katrina pushing boat ashore on Aug, 29, 2005 (courtesy: Dan Sanders)
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, the Associated Press reported. Others were floating garbage
bags full of stolen merchandise in full view of National Guard
personnel.
"It's downtown Baghdad," said Denise Bollinger, a tourist from
Philadelphia who stood outside and snapped pictures. "It's insane.
I've wanted to come here for 10 years. I thought this was a
sophisticated city. I guess not."
According to the report, when police finally showed up, a young boy
stood in the door screaming, "86! 86!" – the radio code for police –
and the crowd scattered.
Fox News reported a local McDonald's restaurant also was looted with
residents stealing burger patties and buns.
Around the corner on Canal Street, the main thoroughfare in the
central business district, looters waded through hip-deep water as
they 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."
He wasn't the only one to justify the looting.
Mike Franklin stood on the trolley tracks and watched the daylight
crimes go down. "To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all
their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he told
AP.
Said one male looter who claimed to have eight grandchildren to feed:
"It's about survival right now."
New Orleans wasn't the only place looters were active.
An AP reporter along the beach in Biloxi, Miss., says it "looks like a
free-for-all," as looters come running out of souvenir shops, loaded
down with merchandise.
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