Haiti earthquake: police open fire on looters

[link to www.margueritelaurent.com]

Disaster can bring out the worst in people. Didn't we see the same thing happen in New Orleans?

Not exactly, no.

It's so easy for us to sit back and pass judgment in our comfortable seats in front of our computers. No doubt there is a lot of things wrong with what is going on. But so far as "police opening fire on looters", what do you expect?? I do believe this is a war zone at this time, and the military plans to "clean it up". Right or wrong, morally or whatever.

The main thing is there ARE so many able to help with aid, aid that needs to reach all that are alive, if even possible. We should question the delays, packages not being delivered. But also remember, these soldiers need to protect THEMSELVES from those that fear and hate their presence.

We DID see thugs firing on the rescuers. They thought the city was now theirs! Police were not firing on looters tho. It did put a damper on the rescues for awhile there.

Thanks for this link.

Note for the record that this was a Haitian policeman shooting a Haitian because when the dust finally settles, it will be the U.S. soldiers blamed for every death as usual.

I can't get rid of the feeling that if this was all staged just to find out how they can manage crowd control if needs arise. Its a spooky feeling

To steal or to starve, that is the question.

I know that if a crisis happens here in Canada, we would be doing exactly the same thing.

If everything crashes around you, you try to survive, although I will never condone it by hurting/killing/maiming others, people will attempt to get supplies.

It would be hard to say what would happen anywhere. If you are exposed outdoors, unarmed, it is not likely many people could fight off a crowd to protect whatever it is they have on them at the moment. In a situation where you may be able to hunker down in a standing building, and are not afraid to do so because of aftershocks, then you may fair much better. But if you open the door to let someone in, or hand out food or water, it would probably be pretty much over.

Obviously your mileage may vary. Out it the areas where people may have access to an edible crop of some sort, or a fresh water source, then things would not be bad at all I don't think.

In a city, yeah, pretty much anywhere it would be horrible.

Per Saint Thomas Aquinas, if one is starving and cold, it is necessary to break into a home for food and shelter maybe permissible.

Amen

the looters are killing innocent people also. Police were just doing their job and will keep doing their job as long as the thugs think they can take anything they want.

Yep, either our soldiers did it, or it happened on their watch.
Yet, if we did nothing, we'd be even worse.