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Shoot The Looters

"Pond Scum" Is Too Good For Them

Tonight, a news schmebette on Indianapolis Channel 8 pronounced, "Desperation is pushing the people of New Orleans to despair, which is resulting in looting...."

No. Wrong.

This thinking is part of the shallow justification that is beginning to percolate from certain small-minded people in the media class for the selfishness, violence, and utter immorality we are seeing from thugs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Please explain, news schmebette, how desperation drives someone to steal a wide-screen tv?

What levels of hunger and thirst compel otherwise moral people to fill their pockets with iPods and car stereos?

Are these people eating diamond rings?

Are they drinking the bullets and guns they have stolen?

No. They are using these guns to shoot at police. To shoot at rescue helicopters.

To keep people away from their crimes.

Those who engage in mindless sophistry in defense of common criminals should keep in mind how our collective humanity is debased by people who prey on victims and the helpless.

Those pukes in New Orleans - in the all communities devistated by the hurricane - are not just walking off with other people's property. They are walking off with our national honor.

That self-same honor that rose from the ashes after 9/11.

They are stealing that from each and every one of us. And it's time we put down the fluffy pronouncements and said, "Enough".

Martial law needs to be declared.

Looters need to be shot.

On sight.

We can't allow the American Spirit to sink into the swamp. We need to do what one commentator suggested:

"Shoot first, ask questions later. And don't be too concerned with the answers."


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posted by Tomás @ 9/01/2005 07:56:00 PM