Yes there is a moral difference between getting food and supplies needed when shit like this happens and looting things like jewelery, tvs ,expensive shoes ,designer clothes etc.
There are times when cops need to stop that and times when they can't and shouldn't try but never go waltzing thru Walmart with a shopping cart personally looting.
A person of some modest education might have remembered that the worship and adulation fostered after 9/11 was for the NYPD and the FDNY. No one was buying FEMA hats after 9/11, because FEMA is essentially a mop-up agency. It's the first responders, the local governments, that will determine if a city will live or die. The State -- that means, the "governor"-- has the sole authority to mobilize the National Guard, and the governor of the state of Louisana was not only slow to do that, she turned down NG assistance from several OTHER states as well. The President does not have the authority to drop precious egg salad sandwiches from Michael Moore's missing helicopters. We do this ON PURPOSE. We limit the power of the federal government, as those of us fortunate enough to have spent time in Civics, rather than Self Esteem classes, are aware. This is so that we do not develop a central power so strong that eventually we end up with idiot inbred royals, or Presidentes for life, on the face of OUR money.
since 911, fema has the top responsibility in planning and responding to national disasters...natural or otherwise. of course local and state officials fucked up but fema is the top dog...
a defining attribute of a government is that it has a monopoly on the legitimate exercise of violence...
The constitution is good, what's left of it, it's similar to the situation with the Bible, people misinterpret it and twist it to suit their own purposes. Also, like the Bible, people don't really follow it.
ajerara wrote:The constitution is good, what's left of it, it's similar to the situation with the Bible, people misinterpret it and twist it to suit their own purposes. Also, like the Bible, people don't really follow it.
If people followed scripture, this world would be a very sad place to live in.
Of course, what you mean is "like the Bible, people don't really follow it the way you think it should be followed"
ajerara wrote:The constitution is good, what's left of it, it's similar to the situation with the Bible, people misinterpret it and twist it to suit their own purposes. Also, like the Bible, people don't really follow it.
If people followed scripture, this world would be a very sad place to live in.
Indeed, but to be fair that can be said of many religious texts.
