[lbo-talk] In Praise of Looting

[B.]

No, apparently you are supposed to ignore the
perfectly fine stuff near you, and wait on folks like
me, 9 hours way from you, to scrounge through my
pantry and find some cans of baked beans to cupply you
through the "proper channels." Fuck that! Loot the
goddamn store, dude! Get the beer and DVD players out
of it, too, for all I care!

What's depressing is local aid agencies are basically
touting this "wait for official aid" line, hesitant as
they are to deviate from govt-approved rhetoric.

-B.

Joanna wrote:

So you're starving, you're freezing, and you've got no
water. There's a store near you with food, clothes,
and water. But you're not supposed to go into the
store to get anything cause that's looting? Or, what,
you're supposed to leave money? Where?

The journalists may be too stupid to see it, but do
Americans really accept this?

Joanna