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Koyaanisqatsi Donating Member (126 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 07:08 AM
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Gibson Whines: Looters Not Being Shot on Sight
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Gibson Whines: Looters Not Being Shot on Sight
August 31, 2005

The entire city of New Orleans may be abandoned for two or three months, thousands of people are feared dead, bodies are floating in streets, people remain trapped on rooftops without food or water in the stifling heat, and John Gibson is worried about people taking a few pairs of pants out of a ruined store.

What is wrong with him?

During "The Big Story" on Wednesday (August 31, 2005), John Gibson spent a lot of time on looting, people fighting over gasoline (without documenting a single incident), and interviews with cops, but he never managed to squeeze in a single interview with an actual suffering human being.

Orlando Salinas, reporting from Gulfport, Mississippi, started off the drumbeat on looting in his report on devastation there. While talking about refrigerated trucks serving as extra storage room for funeral homes, Salinas suddenly segued into looting, "They are telling us that in some cases, they have found people actually walking inside people's homes, stepping over people's bodies, and looting the homes. We spoke with one officer who said he'd just as soon shoot 'em on sight, tag a sticker on them that says 'looter' and leave it that way. John."

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Birthmark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 07:09 AM
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1. Yeah, fat, well-fed, clean, safe Gibson whines
There's the problem.
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 07:23 AM
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7. Now, if they'd just issue an order to...
... shoot overfed pundits on sight....
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Birthmark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 07:30 AM
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9. I'm tempted to agree.
The media has it's sense of priorities so incredibly fucked up that it defies belief.
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Submariner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 07:13 AM
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2. That's to be expected from a white bread racist coward
Go get hit by a truck johnnie boy.
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Daphne08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 07:13 AM
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3. Why are people on this board continuing to take up for
criminals? I'm not talking about people taking food and water for themselves and their families. I'm talking about criminals.

I don't understand your motives, I really don't!
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 07:16 AM
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4. People are drowning in their attics...children are being carried through
filthy water, in an attempt to find shelter...People are dying of dehydration...That's my motive. Save people. Save people. Save people.
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Birthmark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 07:18 AM
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5. My motive
My motive is to get the people the HELL out of New Orleans. If that is done, then it is impossible for anyone to loot anything. THAT is what the emphasis should have been on, not fretting over BULLSHIT MERCHANDISE that the rightful owners (the HOLY ONES) were never going to see again anyway, yet were going to collect insurance on the BULLSHIT MERCHANDISE. Now, by FUCKING AROUND fretting over BULLSHIT MERCHANDISE, we have probably killed hundreds, maybe thousands, maybe TENS of THOUSANDS!

I have to wonder about the priorities and the sanity of those worried about BULLSHIT MERCHANDISE!

eom
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Daphne08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 07:21 AM
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6. I'm not worried about merchandise, for Heaven's sake.
I'm worried about the innocents who could get caught in the middle of this chaos!
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Birthmark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 07:24 AM
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8. Then we need to get them out, no?
We are NOT helping anyone by chasing petty thieves. We can only help by getting people the HELL out of there NOW! If that means that these thieves "get away with it" then so be it. Have you considered that theives aren't going to benefit from their thefts, anyway? Do you think that they will be allowed to carry any televisions to the shelters?

Sheesh! I'm sorry to be aggressive, but people aren't using their heads here. People matter, theft doesn't. If we worry about the theft, people will die - most of whom have done nothing wrong!

Does that make things clearer for you?
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 07:31 AM
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10. SAVE THE PEOPLE FIRST, and just write off the stuff..its gone by damage
anyways.

seriously, I don't get YOUR motives. Is stuff more important than people?
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Bumblebee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 07:44 AM
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11. No excuse -- but so many reasons, and maybe, just maybe
Wal-Mart should not sell arms in such an accessible manner. Do you think our so called congress will do anything about that? Would NRA allow them? ooops, I forget, guns don't kill people...
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