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Jail is Gone

I have little tolerance for looting. That being said, and given the circumstances, I could sort of understand why people who are trapped by water and can't get out of their neighborhood were looting stores for food and water.

But this morning on TV, they filmed a guy looting a flat screen TV. Are you kidding? Other people are taking stereos and other non-essential items. You probably don't have a house, where you going to put a TV? Totally unacceptable.

And why are these people still floating (no pun intended) around anyway? I mean everyone was supposed to evacuate. Obviously there are the elderly, handicapped, or others who were legitimately unable to evacuate, but what about all the others? What's wrong with those people? They're DUMB. That's what's wrong with those people. There's a bunch of dumb people stealing things down there in New Orleans. Because they can. Looting for looting's sake. These people are on TV telling reporters that they're just stealing because they can.

That's perfect. And the New Orleans Police Commissioner was on CNN this morning and seems like he doesn't know which way is up. The dumb, looting people are telling his officers, "Go ahead and arrest me for stealing. Where are you going to take me? The jail is GONE."

I know that looting seems like the least of the concerns in New Orleans right now. But looting is a symptom of something larger: overall civil disobedience. There will be more looting. And with that, comes violence. It's such a shame that in the wake of a natural disaster, people are complicating things by becoming monsters.

Stupid looters.

posted by DJ Heavy D @ 6:25 AM