Posted on 01/15/2010 9:15:03 PM PST by Steelfish
PHOTOS: Earthquake hits Haiti
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Steelfish posted without comment.
The identification of the shirt-wearer as a looter was made by the LA Times.
Blame the LA Times before you shoot your mouth off.
Haiti earthquake
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times / January 15, 2010)
A man taking part in the looting of a downtown Port-au-Prince store wears an Obama T-shirt.
It’s not a good situation. The people need help, not looters and not whiners who are afraid to criticize looting.
Check the caption at the bottom of the pic that refers to him as a looter. An apology? Nah.
Actually, they don’t appear to be looting, they appear to standing there looking at something.
Understand. Check post 22 for more.
Waiting for apology from Dangus. Counting 1, 2, 3,.......
Looks to me like an on scene reporter made the statement.
I think you might want to reconsider your comments.
Those shirts probably ended up at the Goodwill, because nobody wanted to buy them.
Should have given them to house and senate members because looting the American Taxpayer is exactly what they are doing!
Perhaps the script of the LA Times caption should have been been done in flashing neon lights.
He’s just misunderstood...
Please read more posts and reconsider your response.
You are correct. Looting is when, as in LA, you violently burn down buildings, kill people and break into businesses cause you can. This area is devastated and I, for one, would be breaking into anything I could to get food and water. Any man here who has actually been in that circumstance would do the same or he’s not a real man.
*Chuckle*
That’s appropriate. A looter wearing a T-shirt with the Looter In Chief on it.
I wouldn’t call it looting as I don’t see people carting off TVs and Computers.
Those people are trying to stay alive in a desperate situation.
That’s a great apology. Real stand up guy. /s
Perhaps then it would help if someone would define what a LOOTER is, and whether the severity of the situation justifies 'grabbing what you can'.
After all, what are their choices? Can they even take their 'loot' and go home? What homes?
Does anyone here in the US understand what a 7.0 followed by 30 or more aftershocks is even like?
Where are the grocery stores that they can go buy some food at?
We know that 'help' is on the way, do they?
How long will it be before everyone gets supplies of food and water from 'rescuers'?
If you were in their shoes, would you just wait (and die)?
Would some reporter sitting at a desk in LA use a little hype to help sell more newspapers?
I am not whining about security forces arresting those who are looting (for no cause other than profit).
However, as bad as it seems to be, any 'store' that has food or water should be letting people take all they can. Or is the profit of the merchants more important than the lives of the injured and starving?
All the damage caused by the earthquake wouldn’t have happen if they built their buildings using California building codes. Absolutely nothing at all would have fallen except the economy, that is.
You agreed with the poster that impugned the original poster of this thread as having disgraced FR by having used the term "looter" to describe the person in the pic.
The LA Times characterized that individual as a "looter".
If you have an issue with the use of term, address it to the appropriate party.
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