Text 15074, 78 rader
Skriven 2005-09-07 07:18:42 av Stephen Hayes (5:7106/20.0)
  Kommentar till text 14970 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Compassionare Conservatism
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John Hull wrote in a message to Stephen Hayes:

 JH> Stephen Hayes -> All wrote:
 SH> * Forwarded (from: ENGLISH-USAGE) by Stephen Hayes using timEd/2
 SH> 1.10.y2k.
 SH> * Originally from Steve Hayes (8:8/2003) to All.
 SH> * Original dated: Sat Sep 03, 14:23

 SH> From: Steve Hayes <hayesmstw@hotmail.com>

 SH> One of the frases that came out of America a few years ago was
 SH> "compassionate
 SH> conservatism.

 SH> Is this an example of it in action:

 SH> http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/02/1418255

 SH> The White House announced it would have zero tolerance for looters -
 SH> even for
 SH> those taking essential items needed to stay alive. Louisiana Governor's
 SH> Kathleen Blanco warned that troops had orders to shoot to kill. She said
 SH> "These troops are fresh back from Iraq, well trained,
 SH> experienced, battle
 SH> tested and under my orders to restore order in the streets. She went on
 SH> to say
 SH> "They have M-16s and they are locked and loaded. "These troops
 SH> know how to
 SH> shoot and kill and they are more than willing to do so if
 SH> necessary and I
 SH> expect they will."

 SH> In other words, we're too incompetent to bring you water, so we'll
 SH> compassionately shoot you if you try to nick bottled water from a store,
 SH> which
 SH> is quicker than dying of thirst.

 SH> If that's the way they treat their own people, no wonder Americans are
 SH> seen as
 SH> the bullies of the world. It's not the critics of the USA that are
 SH> anti-Americasn, Americans are anti-American, when they are prepared to
 SH> shoot
 SH> their fellow citizens when they take a bottle of water when dying of
 SH> thirst.

 JH> Don't show your damn ignorance.  There's a huge difference between
 JH> somebody taking food or water, and somebody carting off furniture
 JH> and TV's and computers.

Exactly. That's what I said.

Those who advocate "zero tolerance" for those taking "essential items needed to
stay alive" appear to be ignorant of the difference, and it is *their* "damn
ignorance" I was questioning. 

 JH>  Looters are the worst kind of thief,
 JH> because they callously take advantage of people who are already
 JH> devastated by loss. They DESERVE to be shot!  I don't give a damn
 JH> if they're man, woman, or child, white, black, or candy-striped. 

 JH> Decent, moral, law-abiding people DON'T loot.  Criminals, punks,
 JH> gang-bangers, scumbags DO loot, and deserve whatever they get.

Including a mother who takes a bottle of water for her dehydrated baby?

Because that is what "zero tolerance" for those taking "essential items needed
to stay alive means".

And your response demonstrates the point that self-proclaimed "conservatives"
have zero compassion.

-- 
Steve Hayes
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