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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 4:56 am
by Fonz
bennettoid wrote:Why is your baby on the roof during a mandatory evacuation?

Shoot the looters. If the store wants to give out food, good on them, otherwise, thou shalt not steal, or you'll get a bullet in your head.
lol - you Americans crack me up.

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 5:09 am
by Aggroton
yeah...i think sublime said it best.

April 26th, 1992
There was a riot on the streets
Tell me where were you?
You were sittin' home watchin' your TV
While I was participating in some anarchy
First spot we hit it was the liquor store
I finally got all that alcohol I can't afford
With red lights flashin', time to retire
And then we turned that liquor store into a structure fire
Next stop we hit, it was the music shop,
It only took one brick to make the window drop
Finally we got our own P.A.
Where do you think I got this guitar that you're hearing today?
(Cuz' as long as I'm alive, I'ma live ill B)
When we returned to the pad to unload everything
It dawned on me that I need new home furnishings
So once again we filled the van until it was full
Since that day my livin' room's been much more comfortable
Cause everybody in the hood has had it up to here
It's getting harder, and harder, and harder each and every year
Some kids went in a store with their mother
I saw her when she came out she was gettin' some Pampers
They said it was for the black man
They said it was for the mexican
But not for the white man
But if you look at the streets, it wasn't about Rodney King
It's this "messed"-up situation and these "messed"-up police
It's about comin' up and stayin' on top
And became 187 on a mother "bloody"' cop
It's ain't in the paper, it's on the wall
National guard
Smoke from all around


(Any unit, any unit...)
(Homicide, never doing no time)


Give me my share, my share.
Gimme my share, I want it.
Gimme my share, I need it now, I need it now.
My share.
A wicked one who doesn't wanna see me go.
Just gimme my share, I want it. Gimme my share.
But you don't want to give it to me,
you don't wanna see me go.
Gimme my share, I want it, Gimme my share.
But there is a wicked one.


(Units be advised of an attempt 211 to arrest now at 938 Temple, 9-3-8
Temple, many subjects with bats trying to get inside the CB's
house...they're trying to kill him)


Let it burn
Wanna let it burn, wanna let it burn
Wanna wanna let it burn
(I feel insane)
Riots on the streets if Miami
Whoa, riots on the streets of Chicago
On the streets of Long Beach
In San Francisco
Riots on the streets of Kansas City
Tuskaloosa, Alabama
Cleveland, Ohio
Fountainberry, Paramount, Vista Buelle
Eugene, Oregon
Eureka, California
Hesperia
Santa Barbara
mother "bloody"' Nevada
San Diego
Lakewood, Florida
"bloody"' 29 Palms


steal from the rich.

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 5:38 am
by Kal
I've been so poor that I've starved, these days I keep a couple of weeks worth of emergency food at the back of the cupboard, its a habit I cant seem to break even though I am unlikely to be in that position again.

That said, if I were cold wet and hungry I would take food, clothing and whatever else I could to make it through without a second thought.

Its a slippery slope though once you start doing that though I can see the temptation to take luxuries that you would never be able to afford, its wrong but I can see how people get sucked into it.

No one should die over a television or the contents of a wallet but we are a long way yet from a world where people arent killed over material things. Envy, greed, jealousy and anger make up part of what we are - I dont see us as a speices getting to grips with that any time soon. In the meantime I guess that the best we can do is make sure that the hungry are fed, clothed, sheltered and prosecute those who would break the laws that we live by.

Theres still a lot of our planet that is uninhabited, maybe we could try penal colonies again and give people a fresh start?

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:36 am
by cb360
It is a slippery slope kal and I agree with much of what you say. And as I said in an earlier post I think people who loot TVs and jewelry at a time like this are beyond despicable. People work hard at their businesses - to lose it in a natural disaster is horrible - that people would compound this by stealing their stock for their own gain is disgusting. Taking soon to be ruined food and water is a completely different activity and these folks shouldn't be categorized as looters alongside with the idiots carrying stereos down the street. Virtually every one of these people just lost their home and everything in it - I think they can be granted a few meals at least until some semblance of society is restored. Whoever shot the cop for trying to stop looting and whoever shot up the police station should be put away forever and ever - I hope they can identify them.

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 9:02 am
by 9000white
how incredibly stupid can them looters be to steal tv's and all that other electronic junk when there is no electricity.i say let them loot all they want,and steal everything they can and i hope if someone objects to their looting that they set them on fire,rape their kids,slit their wives throats and kill every member of their families they can find.then when these bleeding heart "thet are so poor"twerps get enough of this anarchy somebody will start shooting the gutter trash.

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 9:08 am
by cb360
set them on fire,rape their kids,slit their wives throats and kill every member of their families they can find.
I completely agree. I think raping someone's child is the perfect solution to looting.

/sarcasm off

What happened to you people to make you hate so much?

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 9:28 am
by NorthernPete
gots the rights too bear arms...i intends to use it..uh yeah... *chuckles* getta offa my propurtee!

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 10:07 am
by oldnslo
For those among us who are relentlessly looking for any possible exception, I suppose it is neccessary to provide a laundry list of commodities for which looting should be tolerated. I personally don't consider stealing food or other neccessities of life to be looting, rather "foraging" under the most difficult circumstances. Everybody who disagrees with that distinction, raise your hands.
Let common sense prevail. Looters of "luxury merchandise", such as electronics, jewelry, or any other marketable contraband, should be definitely shot on sight.
On the other hand, since the affected areas are so poor, maybe we should just consider this event an opportunity to level the playing field and fight poverty by signing off on people helping themselves to their neighbors' possessions, clean out all the stores they can get to, and steal a really big truck to haul it in. Where to haul it I don't know, but at least they will have the same stuff as their wealthier neighbors used to have.
The government, sadly, will be slow to respond and short in doing it effectively. Living 6 feet below sea level is a risky way to live.

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 10:22 am
by cb360
The electronics looting is mind-boggling. Seems like it would be weeks or months before a lot of hese people will have electricity - where will they keep the stuff in the meantime? The superdome? If I were there I'm pretty sure a new stereo or a necklace would be the last things on my mind.

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 1:19 pm
by 9000white
What happened to you people to make you hate so much?[/quote]

the disappearance of law and order is what happened to the ones old enough to even remember what that means.