Jeff Goldblatt on FAUX .... I wouldn't characterize it as looting.

[doublethink]

It's more a thing of survival. I've seen people going in and taking food and handing it out .... and saying how else am I going to survive? Okay I give credit where credit is due....... thank you Jeff Goldblatt for that honest assessment. This will be the only post I will comment on the looting thing. Peace. :)

[FloridaPat]

1. Looks like the city is going under water. Nothing in the stores will

survive. Of course, who wants to evacuate with a big TV screen? At this point they might as well forget the looters. This will be like the movie Sierra Madre. The greedy will get drowned probably.

[KoKo]

2. What were these stores gonna do with the stuff anyway? It was a Write Off

as a loss on their business. Is it better for folks stressed to have some food some new sneakers and some watches and such that would have been lost in the flooding muck and mire? What are these people going to do with this stuff given the dires straights NO is in?

And for folks who are hungry or need baby formula, diapers, or maybe even sanitary products to see the stuff in the stores with the water rising they might figure...why not have folks who can use it take it before it's buried in the floods.

I don't in any way condone looting...but when everything is going to be lost anyway and the owner can take a tax write off why are the Media so Obssessed with this?

Folks stealing from each other outside New Orleans is another matter, though. Theives who raid home of folks who've evacuated to steal electronics and other things besides food would seem terrible to me. As bad a profiteers as the Corporate Whoere CEO's who steal from their employees for their Perks.

So ...I guess folks can throw brick bats at me for what I say, but if it's food and personal products then I can understand some of that. I just don't think the media needs to obsess over it. Let the police handle it in their way. :shrug: