Looting

Posted By: OP on 2005-09-02
In Reply to: Part of the original post by Anon. - May have been removed

You watch O'Reilly so much you are spin-infected. I did not advocate looting. If you were there and your elders or kids were starving and dehydrating, would you not take some food for mere survival? Looting is taking expensive things that cannot benefit anyone there now, like TVs, jewelry, and guns.

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WHAT A LEADER!!!! - Anon
- You got your wish. An MP was shot in the leg by looters. Women are being raped. - Happy Now
  - I don't know why the Administrator allows an INFLAMMATORY and IRRESPONSIBLE posts like this! - American Woman
    - Continued (hit enter too soon) - American Woman
      - Part of the original post by Anon. - May have been removed
        Not true....nope. - Democrat
        That's nonsense. - Zauber
        post about looting..where? - gt
        Looting - OP
        I don't watch O'Reilly. ????? - Ummmmm.....
  - You are totally twisting what the OP said. - Democrat

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post about looting..where?
I read these posts like a fine tooth comb, when Im taking a break from work, and I have read no where where anyone was condoning looting..no where..taking food, water, supplies to live are different and also the mayor and governor of New Orleans agreed they would not shoot people that were taking supplies to live, just people who were taking electronics, etc., not essentials to live and those who were raping and hurting others..

Granny Accused of Looting Freed...see short article.sm
KENNER, La. � A 73-year-old diabetic grandmother and church elder who fled Katrina's floodwaters for the safety of a hotel ended up in prison instead for more than two weeks � all over a bite of food.

Police in this New Orleans suburb arrested Merlene Maten (search) the day after the hurricane on charges she took $63.50 in goods from a looted deli. Though never before in trouble with the law, her bail was set at a stiff $50,000 and she was shipped away to a state penitentiary.

Family and eyewitnesses insist Maten's prison odyssey was unwarranted, claiming she only had gone to her car to get some sausage to eat when officers cuffed her in frustration, unable to catch younger looters at a nearby store.

Despite intervention from the nation's largest senior lobby, volunteer lawyers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (search) and even a private attorney, the family fought a futile battle for 16 days to get her freed.

Then, hours after her plight was featured in an Associated Press story, a local judge on Thursday ordered Maten freed on her own recognizance, setting up a sweet reunion with her daughter, grandchildren and 80-year-old husband.