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[lagilman]

If you can spare even $5 -- http://www.redcross.org/donate/donate.html The Red Cross needs cash more than they need supplies right now, sounds like. If nothing else, they're going to need to buy lots and lots of vaccinations for the refugees in NOLA and all along the affected areas...


And, a spot of IMGDO --

Shoot the looters. Shoot them now. Okay, shoot them with tranq darts. But make sure it hurts. And when they wake up, have "Looter" tattooed on their forehead so everyone else can read it.

All right, I know there are people out there who are trying to get basic supplies. But there are reports of people carrying off sneakers, cash and electronics, for christ's sake. Dude, where are you going to plug it IN?

Bastards.

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As far as shooting the looters goes...

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9131493/

It is worse than I thought. And I thought it was pretty bad!

[david-chunn.livejournal.com]

A lot of looting went on before the flooding started. So a bit of irony for them now that their brand new dvd players are underwater. Unless they can carry it off in a backpack, it's not likely to make it out of the city now. I heard an interview with a sherrif who said they ignore looters who steal food. Which is good since much of it will spoil before recovery efforts start. The stores will write it off insurance anyway, and the people really need it.

What concerns me more is that there have been several shootings. As if we need more people dead in the area.

Qui custodiet ipsos costodes?

[(Anonymous)]

And, a spot of IMGDO --

Shoot the looters. Shoot them now. Okay, shoot them with tranq darts. But make sure it hurts. And when they wake up, have "Looter" tattooed on their forehead so everyone else can read it.

It's worse. The Times-Picayune reported police and firefighters among the looters:

"As some police officers were carting off flat screen TVs, their co-workers stood by and watched the crowd plunder the store. Some fire department employees loaded a utility truck with fishing gear, and one harbor police officer pointed another toward the sporting goods department."

"The level of shamelessness and lawlessness was almost incomprehensible."

Don't shoot them. String them up and whip them. Publically. On a live TV broadcast. Then brand "looter" on thier foreheads, and make clear that no one will care what the vast majority of law-abiding citizens might choose to do with anyone they find with that brand.

"Human rights"? Sorry, but folks like that have voluntarily renounced the right to be considered human.

The Times-Picayune's plant is without power, so the presses are stopped, but they published a PDF edition, available here:

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/

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Dennis

[dcpoff.livejournal.com]

“To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it’s an opportunity to get back at society,” he said. This was a quote from the article.

Did anyone else see the picture of the guy floating a large continer filled with beer bottles?
I guess the opressed need more beer?

DC