[aomagrat]

"To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said.

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[JarheadFromFlorida]

[[To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said.]]

Get back at society for what? I was just watching it on Fox News. The homies are stealing everything that isn't nailed down.

[Dallas59]

When people are away the thieves come out and play...

[tarzantheapeman]

shoot them ...

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5844419.html?tag=nl.e589

Above URL has listing for several web pages with hurricane damage.

[AppyPappy]

Where are they going to take it?

[Rokurota]

"To be honest with you, people who are oppressed lazy all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society lie, cheat and steal as usual," he said.

[Rutles4Ever]

Pawn shops will be extremely busy when this dries out.

[philsfan24]

Denise Bollinger, a tourist from Philadelphia, stood outside and snapped pictures in amazement.

"It's downtown Baghdad," the housewife said. "It's insane. I've wanted to come here for 10 years. I thought this was a sophisticated city. I guess not."

compared to philadelphia, it is a sophisticated city. thats even with the looting!

[2banana]

"To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said.

Excuse me while I reload...

[Lost Highway]

As a friend of mine put it after a visit to New Orleans it's the only city that turned its ghetto into a tourist attraction.

[digger48]

Why is a 'TOURIST' at the center of this article? What the Hell is a tourist doing down there already?

[ZULU]

"I thought this was a sophisticated city"

She should see some of the Mardi Gras floats.

[reelfoot]

"'To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society,' he said."

The welfare, school lunch programs, AFDC, WIC, food stamps, SSI, Medicaid, midnight basketball, and government subsidized housing made me do it.

[English Nationalist]

Looters filled industrial-sized garbage cans with clothing and jewelry and floated them down the street on bits of plywood and insulation as National Guard lumbered by

Aren't looters supposed to be shot?

[Disambiguator]

"To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said

These are the same people that will riot and burn down their own neighborhoods, then shoot at the fire trucks when they arrive to put out the fires.

[Millee]

Earlier it was being reported that Marshall Law was enacted in NO, but I haven't seen anything lately. Has it? And if not, why not??

[ozzymandus]

Where are those heavily-armed Korean shopkeepers when you need them??

[dennisw]

CENTRAL CITY: People walk away with bags of clothing from Coleman's Retail Store and furniture from Universal Furniture on Earhart Boulevard during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

Kathy Anderson/Times-Picayune

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/photos/

Katrina looting (Times-Picayune)

[Delta 21]

I thought this was a sophisticated city.

One smell of Lake Ponchetrain should have nixed that notion!

[fish hawk]

I hope the police and National Guard are using hollow points.