tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464319063590321799.post6717952680675831287..comments2023-10-06T07:52:02.147-05:00Comments on Justice Roars: Shame on You Anderson CooperTracie L. Washingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09969453234056149081noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464319063590321799.post-80070821327070590302010-01-23T00:31:12.361-06:002010-01-23T00:31:12.361-06:00No one should judge without walking a mile in the ...No one should judge without walking a mile in the other person's shoes. There is a place for anonymity...it's not here. There is no room in Haiti for divisiveness. We have Pat Robertson and the Heritage Society for that. Keep your petty gripes to yourself and spend your energy and time to effect a change in Haiti, now.Debbie Williamsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464319063590321799.post-64708974746126884602010-01-20T03:28:59.118-06:002010-01-20T03:28:59.118-06:00Excellent and Incisive. those who do not understa...Excellent and Incisive. those who do not understand will throw a rock and hide their hands by posting responses as anonymous because they are cowards; not corageous enough to post what we are all feeling. Bravo, and I have subscribed to your excellent blog. stop by mine for similar sentiments.Mrs Sweetwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13974109495626177225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464319063590321799.post-84386555680774615952010-01-19T18:33:37.791-06:002010-01-19T18:33:37.791-06:00I agree with the last two posts. I have been glued...I agree with the last two posts. I have been glued to the internet and the tv screen, and both cnn and msnbc have been extrememly careful with the word looter. They have only recently begun to use it, and they used it in a context where it was apropriate and to describe isolated incidents. they have been saying all week how dicle, easy going, and friendly the haitian people are. they have been reporting that if aid doesnt get distributed properly and ASAP, that people will continue to get more and more desperate. And anderson has been very conscious to put it in that context all week. and now aid is being so mismanaged and slow, that people have become desperate, and yes some groups have been looting stores and reselling it to people on the street. if they really were taking for survival, they would organize each other to hand it out, and not resell it for money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464319063590321799.post-71951036851311485292010-01-19T18:27:19.924-06:002010-01-19T18:27:19.924-06:00I'm also from New Orleans, but I'm tired o...I'm also from New Orleans, but I'm tired of seeing fellow New Orleanians relate Haiti to their own experience. In your post one can detect the exhilarating joy of mustering indignation and berating those one considers morally inferior; you obviously swell with self-satisfaction doing so. But you've absolutely no idea what Tony's store sold, what was being taken from him, what he did elsewhere to help. The reports strongly suggest that materialist looting was indeed taking place: not a fight for survival but an exploitation of a breakdown in civil society.<br /><br />That happened in our hometown as well. People searching for water and food are foragers; people searching for televisions and bikes are looters, as deserving of scorn as 'disaster-capitalism' speculators who rush into such areas to get rich on contracts and real estate.<br /><br />And bloggers intoxicated by their own judgmental rhetoric aren't much better. Shame on you for your blithe, specious, speculative vitriol and your surely-habitual relating of all things to yourself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464319063590321799.post-38442447799781689572010-01-18T20:57:40.498-06:002010-01-18T20:57:40.498-06:00The guys were taking the candles and selling them ...The guys were taking the candles and selling them on the street in view of the store owner. The store owner brought in some guys with guns to try to get rid of them. The guns were shot in the air and the guys started raining hunks of concrete and debris down on the crowd in response. Probably the guys were planning to use at least some of the money from the sales to buy food, but that still sounds more like looting and stealing rather than foraging and surviving.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-464319063590321799.post-56576875920263412072010-01-18T20:43:24.169-06:002010-01-18T20:43:24.169-06:00The people leading the raid on the store were arme...The people leading the raid on the store were armed guys and they were after boxes of candles. They were physically violent with innocent people.<br /><br />I have been watching the coverge on CNN and Anderson Cooper has not been describing people who are only trying to get water or food as looters. He has been sympathetic and careful with his word choice.<br /><br />Even when describing the riot today he went out of his way to say this was an isolated incident and to put it in context.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com