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Well Fed Media Pigs Call It "Looting"
by Steven Black Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005 at 6:00 PM

Eat shit, Bill.

Well Fed Media Pigs Call It "Looting"

Steven Black

Scores of articles and news reports have described the survival efforts of those stranded in New Orleans as "looting".  Calls have gone out to have the National Guard drop its efforts to save lives and focus more energy on "stopping" those savage people carrying diapers, packages of dried noodles, and first aide kits from trying to survive.  Under martial law, such efforts would amount to "assassinate first, drag the body away later" tactics.  That our media considers the survival of the defenseless during an unprecedented disaster less important than propagandizing about the rights of private property owners who have fled for their own survival is stark evidence of the depravity of our times.  The cries and moans of Fox News personnel over those "stolen" diapers far exceeds their voiced concern over the lives of the brown and black people sloshing their way through a growing lake of rancid floating bodies.

Personally, I'd like to see Bill O'Reilly sloshing his way through the chemical stew, dragging himself passed the decaying bodies, telling his own children, "Sorry, even though my wallet if full of cash, I can't feed you today because the owners of the store have fled and no one is there to accept my payment for food.  You'll just have to die, my children."

Anyone who would not steal food to save their family or themselves when no other option is available is a criminal.  Anyone who would not smash the windows of a pharmacy when that was the only way to obtain life save medicine during a disaster is unworthy of life.  Any society that worships the property rights of a diaper owner over the well being of a diaperless child can eat shit.

 

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