"Larry Caldwell" wrote in message
k.net...
In article ,
(FDR) says...

Innocent people are the ones trapped in floodwaters, drowning or
otherwise
in peril in other parts of the city, while your cops are busy arresting
looters. You tell me the logic there.

There is no way to rescue innocent people in the absence of civil order.
Fire fighters were being shot at. One blog out of NOLA wondered, "Who
the hell shoots at firefighters?" Just this last week, a telephone
lineman was shot at. Who the hell shoots at telephone linemen?

If they are being shot at, then it's not about looting, it's about murder
and the police should take care of the matter.


The absence of civil order may have killed as many people as the
hurricane. There's your logic.

What you want to do is shoot a looter who's carrying off some non-essential
item because it's bad. That act does not endanger anyone. I ahve seen
pictures of people looting, and they are not carrying guns and don't appear
violent.


Eventually, the highest civil authority
in the land ordered troops to shoot looters on sight. They did it to
save the lives of innocent people. There's your justice.

Well isn't that special.

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