Dissent Is Patriotic
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Fri Sep-02-05 08:31 AM
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Could it be they exaggerated the looting problem to |
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give * a solid reason not to have to go to NO.
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whatever4
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Fri Sep-02-05 08:33 AM
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1. And to keep help OUT of New Orleans too nm |
tx_dem41
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Fri Sep-02-05 08:34 AM
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I'm in contact with people in NOLA on a daily basis.
If the NG and the USMC can't handle it, that's their (and the Administration's) fault.
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Rebel_with_a_cause
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Fri Sep-02-05 08:36 AM
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3. I don't get why looting was a "problem." |
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If the US military isn't capable of getting to the stranded folks w/food, water, medicine and shelter within a week's time, what are these people supposed to do? Take the moral high road and die?
This wasn't a scene from "Castaway." The people had some options. They rightly utilized them.
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mondo joe
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Fri Sep-02-05 08:38 AM
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5. I don't think anyone but * is blaming people for taking food and water. |
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But there are, by many accounts, armed looters and gangs who are impeding rescue efforts and preying on survivors.
It's clearly a minority of people but it's a problem.
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Rebel_with_a_cause
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Fri Sep-02-05 09:28 AM
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7. preying on survivors is what the NG should have been called in for |
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ASAP
That isn't looting. It's safety, which Bush's administration has failed, on every level, to supply
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mondo joe
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Fri Sep-02-05 09:37 AM
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8. People are calling everything "looting" but there are clearly different |
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categories within that heading.
The MD who wrote about NO spokee of looting a pharmacy with a police guard who kept looters oout at gun point. Even in his letter both acts are "looting".
Too bad one word has to carry so many definitions. :-(
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mondo joe
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Fri Sep-02-05 08:36 AM
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4. I've heard from too many survivors, physicians and rescue workers talking |
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about how bad it is, ESPECIALLY at night, and how it is contributing to the fear, and impairing their efforts to help.
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Old and In the Way
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Fri Sep-02-05 08:57 AM
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6. When your survival is at stake, isn't scavenging a more appropriate |
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word to describe what's happening? Looting is what this administration has done to our Treasury....turning a $500BB surplus into a $500BB deficit.
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