Our shifting take on looting: Baghdad vs. New Orleans- Page 3
Our shifting take on looting: Baghdad vs. New Orleans
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#50re: Our shifting take on looting: Baghdad vs. New Orleans
Posted: 9/1/05 at 10:44am
"Hotels are kicking out hurricane refugees for fans of the Miami-Florida State football game."
PLEASE tell me that's not true.
#51re: our shifting take on looting: baghdad vs. new orleans
Posted: 9/1/05 at 10:58amnow, now, they heard them talking about hurricanes, assumed they were miami fans and booted them, it's just a case of mistaken identity.
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#52re: our shifting take on looting: baghdad vs. new orleans
Posted: 9/1/05 at 11:03amIs there some source for this? If true, we need to send letters of protest to these hotels and organize an effort to boycott them.
#53re: our shifting take on looting: baghdad vs. new orleans
Posted: 9/1/05 at 11:03am
Sorry Namo, it's true. It was reported from Cox News Service.
#54re: our shifting take on looting: baghdad vs. new orleans
Posted: 9/1/05 at 11:12amwhat concerns me most about the coverage of the looters is that this will be a pr problem for the red cross and NGO's attempting to raise funds on behalf of those who need it most.
#55re: our shifting take on looting: baghdad vs. new orleans
Posted: 9/1/05 at 6:48pm
Isn't it possible that what goes through the mind of at elast some of these looters taking electronics is "I've lost everything. Now if I can find a place to store this plasma tv, maybe when this is over I can sell it and get what I need."
Doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but then little in this disaster does. I would bet a large amount that most people here, fearing for their lives, under enormous stress, given the opportunity, would do the same thing. It's easy when you are safe, have food, water and a place to live, to specualte and make judgements. The truth of the matter is, I don't think any single person here can say they ever experienced what is happening in New Orleans and therefore, have no idea what illogical thoughts go through a persons head when they are desperate to survive.
iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#56re: our shifting take on looting: baghdad vs. new orleans
Posted: 9/1/05 at 7:23pmWhen there is massive destruction, yachts are piled up on highways, dead bodies are floating by and everything in sight has been destroyed, I can only assume that any sense of person property or ownership breaks down pretty quickly.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#57re: our shifting take on looting: baghdad vs. new orleans
Posted: 9/1/05 at 8:47pm
And as I watched Fox News at the gym (it's on, you can't help but glance up), I noticed the entire focus of their reporting is the criminal angle. With lots of shots of helicoptors, too, to make sure we Support Our Troops, even when they're late.
Not a single close up of the dehydrated mob in New Orleans. The anchors, including the board's beloved Bill Hemmer, now ensconced there, keeps steering the chat toward the lawlessness, but the field reporters can't help but talk about the pain and anger.
And if one more person thinks it's the high road to say "let's not point fingers..." Pu-leeze. Let's point fingers immediately. There are AT LEAST SIX WEEKS LEFT IN HURRICANE SEASON! Let's remember that there is damned good reason to own the mistakes and correct them!
beacon1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/04
#58re: our shifting take on looting: baghdad vs. new orleans
Posted: 9/1/05 at 10:17pm
May I ask why the HECK journalists made it lickety-split to the site and have generators so they can broadcast BUT OUR EMERGENCY SERVICES people are "still coming"...
Let's give the networks and news agencies the stuff. Apparently THEY can find they needy better than our government agencies.
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amasis
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/7/04
#59re: our shifting take on looting: baghdad vs. new orleans
Posted: 9/3/05 at 11:18pm
Emphasis is mine.
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HOUSTON -- NEWSCHANNEL 5 crews were in Houston as some desperate refugees arrived in a stolen bus.
HOUSTON -- Thousands of refugees of Hurricane Katrina were transported to the Astrodome in Houston this week. In an extreme act of looting, one group actually stole a bus to escape ravaged areas in Louisiana.
About 100 people packed into the stolen bus. They were the first to enter the Houston Astrodome, but they weren't exactly welcomed.
The big yellow school bus wasn't expected or approved to pass through the stadium's gates. Randy Nathan, who was on the bus, said they were desperate to get out of town.
"If it werent for him right there," he said, "we'd still be in New Orleans underwater. He got the bus for us."
Eighteen-year-old Jabbor Gibson jumped aboard the bus as it sat abandoned on a street in New Orleans and took control.
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The teen packed it full of complete strangers and drove to Houston. He beat thousands of evacuees slated to arrive there.
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Authorities eventually allowed the renegade passengers inside the dome. But the 18-year-old who ensured their safety could find himself in a world of trouble for stealing the school bus.
"I dont care if I get blamed for it ," Gibson said, "as long as I saved my people."
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Full article here:
http://www.newschannel5.tv/2005/9/1/4255/Taking-refuge-in-the-Astrodome
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