Looting(Welcome fellow
La Shawn Barber readers!
I'm going to track the stories of looting here today. If you want me to link something you've posted, either link to me and trackback, or leave a note in the comments.
First, lest you believe this is a new phenomenon, check out these panels from two different Batman stories circa 1956:
Rick Moran has a great post on the
breakdown of social order that looting implies.
How to stop it? Well, if we saw more pictures like this:
And heard
fewer stories like this:
With much of the city flooded by Hurricane Katrina, looters floated garbage cans filled with clothing and jewelry down the street in a dash to grab what they could. In some cases, looting on Tuesday took place in full view of police and National Guard troops.We'd see fewer scenes like these:
The word should go out; looters will be shot on sight. It's one thing for people to take food and bottled water in an emergency like this; it's quite another to take a case of Heineken or a TV set.
Michelle Malkin has a
solid post with lots of links on this topic.
La Shawn Barber
also has more.
And if anybody thinks, hey, everybody else is doing it, why shouldn't I, remember: You'd be going into a confined area where criminals are operating. There have
already been stories of looters shooting other looters.
One looter shot and wounded a fellow looter, who was taken to a hospital and survived.Here's an
attempt to justify the looting (at least in the headline):
Need and greed trigger lootingAnd get this detail in that story:
At a flooded Walgreens store, police officers took control and dispensed medicine, diapers and other essentials to a small crowd of would-be looters.I suppose that's one way to handle it.
Chris has a Photoshop pic that will
probably draw some comment. I told Chris in an email that I don't see the looting as a black/white thing myself. That said, I do suspect that if Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have anything to say it will be to condemn those taking the pictures and writing the captions. There was one
interesting caption on a photo of a woman (either white or Hispanic) that commented on her "finding" food and soda, contrasted with pictures of black people where their activities were called looting. They're not blacks or whites; they're looters.
Excellent post
here as well.
