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Americans rape and kill!

Ryokan

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050906/ts_alt_afp/usweathercrime_050906175855

NEW ORLEANS, United States (AFP) - More than 125 people have been detained in New Orleans for crimes ranging from looting to rape and shooting at police since a temporary jail was set up in the city's Greyhound bus station, a top official said.
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"People can't continue in this destruction being sociopaths, thinking that lawlessness is ok."

However even the military presence and the new powers have not stopped the troubles that became chronic before thousands of troops were sent in. There are still "pockets" of troubles, the official said.

The contractors shot on Sunday were the latest example of the security problems which saw gun stores and other businesses looted and many rapes and killings.
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I have an idea! Let's give these people a state!

WTF, they've already got one? :eek:
 
I'd like to object strongly to the title of this thread. It implies this sort of behaviour is the norm for all Americans - it most definitely is not. Not even in the crucible of New Orleans post Katrina has it been the norm. Tens of thousands of other people in the same desperate circumstances managed nobly to refrain from abuse and murder of their fellow sufferers. It's just a handful of morons who have the red spotlight on them here.

In all populations, and in most times of great stress, there always seem to be a few sociopaths whose lack of morals and self-esteem create problems out of proportion to their number, and which attract the sensation-driven media attention.
 
No more than many others would in similar circomstances !

Silly America bashing. I've been thinking about what would happen should such a catastrophe happen in some European countries, and I'm pretty sure the picture would be every bit as bleak.

For example, cities like Nice or Marseille are at risk for a tsunami (Nice had a few already in the past). Given the present social mix and criminality problems, it is widely expected that looting and other unrest would become a huge problem.

You can see disgusting behaviour in much smaller communities, like when the little town of Feternes (Haute-Savoie) sufferred mudslides and some ç/%ç()/&!!! drove all the way to the city hall to steal the cheques sent to help the local population ...
 
Zep said:
Tens of thousands of other people in the same desperate circumstances managed nobly to refrain from abuse and murder of their fellow sufferers. It's just a handful of morons who have the red spotlight on them here.
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You can focus on that if you want, but there's no denying that Americans are raping and killing.

(For those that don't get it, this thread is a parody and satire of this thread)
 
Zep said:
I'd like to object strongly to the title of this thread. It implies this sort of behaviour is the norm for all Americans - it most definitely is not. Not even in the crucible of New Orleans post Katrina has it been the norm. Tens of thousands of other people in the same desperate circumstances managed nobly to refrain from abuse and murder of their fellow sufferers. It's just a handful of morons who have the red spotlight on them here.

In all populations, and in most times of great stress, there always seem to be a few sociopaths whose lack of morals and self-esteem create problems out of proportion to their number, and which attract the sensation-driven media attention.
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I would say that "Tens of thousands of other people in the same desperate circumstances" did not only manage to refrain themeselves from abuse and murder, they didn't feel the urge to do so in the first place.
(I guess that's what you meant anyway). The title of this thread is indeed way off the mark.

Zee
 
OMG! Are people believing I mean this? It's a Mycroft parody, for Zeus' sake!

Bah!
 
I never bother to read any Mayday, so apologies if I got sucked in...

:bricks: :rs: :confused:
 
Zep said:
I never bother to read any Mayday, so apologies if I got sucked in...

:bricks: :rs: :confused:
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Wow! Talk about a low blow! Confusing Mycroft with Mayday? That's just nasty, Zep.

:D
 
Zep said:
I <strike>never bother to</strike> don't often read any <strike>Mayday</strike> Mycroft, so apologies if I got sucked in...

:bricks: :rs: :confused:
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(Runs desperately to avoid the fallout of a Freudian slip...) :(
 
Zep said:
I'd like to object strongly to the title of this thread. It implies this sort of behaviour is the norm for all Americans - it most definitely is not.
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What you're basically saying here is that all Americans are inferior savages and that we can't expect any better of them that to rape and kill. This is racism against Americans.

[With thanks to Skeptic and Ziggurat for help with the illogic.]
 
Dr Adequate said:
What you're basically saying here is that all Americans are inferior savages and that we can't expect any better of them that to rape and kill. This is racism against Americans.

[With thanks to Skeptic and Ziggurat for help with the illogic.]
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Yes.

I mean, no.

Umm...


LOOK! An airship!
 
Dr Adequate said:
What you're basically saying here is that all Americans are inferior savages and that we can't expect any better of them that to rape and kill. This is racism against Americans.

[With thanks to Skeptic and Ziggurat for help with the illogic.]
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Barbara Bush seems to think some of them are.

Hurricane Katrina victims in Houston, Texas, were "underprivileged anyway" and life in the Astrodome sports arena is "working very well for them," former first lady Barbara Bush said.

The comments by the mother of President George W Bush have fueled the ire of some Americans, who see the Bush family as out-of-touch patricians.

"Almost everyone I've talked to says 'we're going to move to Houston,"' Bush said in a radio interview after visiting evacuees at the Astrodome with her husband, former president George Bush.

"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality," she said.

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this - this is working very well for them."
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a_unique_person said:
Barbara Bush seems to think some of them are.
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You, of course, have a link for this. It seems to be 1) taken wildly out of context, 2) heavily edited to make her sound bad, or 3) simply made up, like the 380-pound guy who was supposedly euthanized because they couldn't get him out of the N.O. hospital.
 
I'm being quite serious but couldn’t her statement be accurate regarding their material status? E.g. the refugee centre conditions are better then their home condition – prior to the disaster. (I don’t know what the refugee centre is like and I don’t know what their original living conditions were.)
 
a_unique_person said:
""What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. "
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An influx of hundreds of thousands (as I believe it is) of new residents in a very short period would overwhelm the infrastructure and resources of any town or city and I'd have thought anyone would find that a "scary" thought.
 
Darat said:
An influx of hundreds of thousands (as I believe it is) of new residents in a very short period would overwhelm the infrastructure and resources of any town or city and I'd have thought anyone would find that a "scary" thought.
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And don't forget that AUP doesn't recognize (or intenitonally ignores) that "scary" has become a loosely-used adjective as part of American lingo.

"I just bought this shirt, and now it's ripped already."
"Wow, that's pretty scary."

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This is just a general observation and maybe I am wrong and jsut missed the stories, but I didn't hear a SINGLE story about looting, rape or arson from any of the affected countries after the tsunami. Not a SINGLE incident of mugging or attack on the rich white tourists who could have been abused in all kinds of ways.

As far as I know even the Tamil tigers stopped fighting.
Wonder what can/should (if anyting) be made of this?
 
Snide said:
And don't forget that AUP doesn't recognize (or intenitonally ignores) that "scary" has become a loosely-used adjective as part of American lingo.

"I just bought this shirt, and now it's ripped already."
"Wow, that's pretty scary."

edited for clarity of point
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I think Barbara is way past the 'lingo' stage of life.
 
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