linazelle
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:36 AM
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I'm sick of the news continually talking about rape and shooting |
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Edited on Fri Sep-02-05 03:42 AM by linazelle
like they are happening continuously.
It's just another way to keep the fear level up--and it hurts the victims who have already been shunned by some communities as they try to find refuge.
Hey newsreaders here's a clue: When you report that there are "reports of rape" give a fucking date and a number of victims mmmkay? This is finite and relatively small in relation to the human tragedy elsewhere.
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:39 AM
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1. smells like a psyop to reduce sympathy for victims to me n/t |
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:40 AM
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3. Sad but very likely true. My God our worst enemy is in the Whitehouse. nt |
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:45 AM
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5. rapists and looters and snipers are not victims.Stop defending anarchists |
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It really really sickens me to have to put up with the monster in the White House and then read about people defending monsters looting and raping.
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:46 AM
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6. What are you talking about? All of the victims are not rapists or looters |
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But you seem to be very convinced that they are which is exactly the point I am making. Simmer down.
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:55 AM
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16. I never said that. get a grip and stop defending criminals n/t |
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:47 AM
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8. more like questioning their existence and/or prevalence |
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The reports coming off the ground are conflicting, and a number of them say people are either quite orderly or otherwise unarmed, ill, and desperate.
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:40 AM
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2. Training you to accept the Army gunning down citizens... |
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:44 AM
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4. Bush has declared war against the people of the United States. |
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Posse Comitatus is nothing to him.
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:49 AM
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9. if the anarchists/criminals take over your street you'll be BEGGING 4 help |
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and suddenly those National Guardsmen who will be taking out criminal thugs won't look so scary to you. You'll be thanking them.
It really distresses me to hear so many people here at DU constantly defend these lowlife criminals in NO who are making a horrible situation even worse. What is in your background that you would defend such people? You are not doing the good decent poor people a favor by doing that.
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:52 AM
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10. Anarchists/criminals = Heroes scavenging for supplies |
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The Feds have failed to supply the survivors, even the police were "looting" to supply themselves.
Are YOU going to decide who's been "looting" or "requsitioning"?
Damn your cold heart.
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:54 AM
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14. Damn no one is against the people getting food |
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Even the police and other officials have said that, its the idiots carrying stupid shit like t.v.'s, stereos and such!
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:56 AM
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18. You'll kill someone for carrying a useless piece of equipment? |
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He'll trade it for food.
Honest.
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:53 AM
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11. Bush having the military issuing shoot to kill orders |
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Edited on Fri Sep-02-05 03:55 AM by linazelle
is inappropriate at this point. Did you see the tanks rolling in to town with soldiers glaring at the homeless, guns pointed at every angle? Most people in NO don't deserve that kind of treatment. To continually focus on the small population that do deserve that treatment and subject everyone to the same thing, is ridiculous. It has nothing to do with defending the criminals while it has everything to do with criminalizing the victims.
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:46 AM
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7. This stuff is going on. The mayor reported it. The military needs to |
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psychologically come on heavy to get control. They should have been there and heavy on Monday. If it works overnight to turn the odd criminal with a gun into a fleeing criminal with not gun..then it has done its job and rescue can continue in the morning. There are thousands of people who still need search and rescue. Thousands. The military needs to have psychological control of the city by dawn. Otherwise nobody will be helped - again.
Why it too 4 days.. when lawlessness is a known by-product of a situation where the law has lost control..I do not know. THat is some creepy, creepy voids in action on the president's part and it should be looked into.
But for tonight - the psychology is to hit the dangerous & violent criminals over the head so hard with threat and the future might - that they scurry away and drop their guns. Then tomorrow morning.. the National Guard, in numbers finally approaching adequate..can pick up the pieces and get control of the city & allow rescue work to continue.
I don't think police would have resigned their position if they weren't really scared. And many did. It was scary. Tomorrow it will not be. If the psychological hammer "we will shoot to kill" works like the tool that it is.
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:53 AM
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12. Psychological hammer? Why not some food and water drops? |
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:54 AM
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13. You said it so well. Better than my attempts to explain it. |
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I just hope it sinks in to those who have a weird predilection of defending the criminal element in NO. They don't seem to understand that this isn't a case of the military just driving down the street in normal "peacetime" and shooting people--this is war. We have a war in the streets of NO, and the criminal anarchists have control. It HAS to be contained.
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:55 AM
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15. The criminal anarchists have control? |
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You're so right. We should impeach Bush and ALL of his cronies.
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:57 AM
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20. don't you read? the criminals do have control of the streets. |
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When the police are so afraid they are resigning, that's bad. When rescue workers can't get through, that's bad. When reporters have to have armed guards, that's bad. Its not a laughing matter, dudie.
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:58 AM
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21. You believe the propaganda? |
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Al CIA-duh has you right where they want you.
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:58 AM
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Fri Sep-02-05 04:01 AM
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26. You believe all the looters are sweet little boys. what nonsense. |
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what makes you hate law-abiding citizens so much? Huh? Answer the question. Are you one of the loathesome anarchists here? People who hate all authority? You want the anarchy, don't you?
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:58 AM
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22. Police are resigning to take care of their families last I heard. nt |
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:56 AM
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19. So you've been there? n/t |
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:59 AM
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24. I can read. Can you? Or don't you bother. HOWEVER...... |
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keep defending the criminal element and you will help bury New Orleans. I wonder why some of you hate the law-abiding poor people so much and defend lawlessness. You must be the anarchist element of DU, a philosophy that I loathe quite frankly.
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:55 AM
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17. next on this list.... |
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Is cannabalism. Them's the facts... liv with 'em.
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