Looting: The police are looting. This has been confirmed by several independent sources. Some of the looting might be "legitimate" in as much as that word has any meaning in this context. They have broken into ATMs and safes: confirmed. We have eyewitnesses to this. They have taken dozens of SUVs from dealerships ostensibly for official use. They have also looted gun stores and pawn shops for all the small arms, supposedly to prevent "criminals" from doing so. But who knows their true intentions. We have an inside source in the NOPD who says that command and control is in chaos. He reports that command lapses more than 24 hours between check-ins, and that most of the force are "like deer in the headlights." NOPD already had a reputation for corruption, but I am telling you now that the people we've been talking to say they are not recognizing the NOPD as a legitimate authority anymore, since cops have been seen looting in Walmarts and forcing people out of stores so they could back up SUVs and loot them. Don't shoot the messenger....
reprobate said:
People are stealing or comandeering or requisitioning the things they need to survive. If thats all they're taking, God bless them, cops or not.
And frankly I'd much rather the cops stole the guns. They already have guns, there's no net loss.
that's pretty much my feeling on disaster looting...
Of course, I saw one news piece that showed an atm that had been broken into...
reprobate said:
People are stealing or comandeering or requisitioning the things they need to survive. If thats all they're taking, God bless them, cops or not.
And frankly I'd much rather the cops stole the guns. They already have guns, there's no net loss.
that's pretty much my feeling on disaster looting...
Of course, I saw one news piece that showed an atm that had been broken into...
Oh yeah, and the people looting jewelry and TVs and vacuum cleaners, especially when they could be looting things that they actually need instead, should probably just be shot.
reprobate said:
People are stealing or comandeering or requisitioning the things they need to survive. If thats all they're taking, God bless them, cops or not.
And frankly I'd much rather the cops stole the guns. They already have guns, there's no net loss.
that's pretty much my feeling on disaster looting...
Of course, I saw one news piece that showed an atm that had been broken into...
Oh yeah, and the people looting jewelry and TVs and vacuum cleaners, especially when they could be looting things that they actually need instead, should probably just be shot.
yeah...
good to see that you and (presumably) the wife and kid made it out and are safe btw...
DireChocobo
Fairburn, GA
July 2004
AUG 31, 2005 08:53 PM