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While the world responds to calls for help in the wake of Asia's tsunami disaster, authorities say looting of victims is now taking place, with some accusations involving a rescue team.

According to the Nation newspaper in Thailand, rescue workers, or people disguised as rescue workers, have been stealing from those who drowned, as well as area shops.

Police in Phuket "have received complaints that a supposed rescue worker stole [$77,000 worth of jewelry] from a safe, while a man spotted another man trying to haul away his four-wheel-drive sports utility vehicle," the paper stated.

The owner of Mother Gems on Patong Beach, said the safe was crushed under wreckage from her department store.

A security officer, Thaweewong Wongthong, told authorities he saw a man "wearing shorts and white T-shirt with the word 'police' on its back opening the safe box."
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WND
 
Not so unbelieveable to me. The same thing happened on 9/11 at Ground Zero. Well sums up why I'm basically a misanthrope.
 
It isn't unbelievable to me either, but I can't stop but feel amazed at the capability of some individuals to act in such amoral way.
 
Indeed looting would be a dangerous activity.

But somehow the U.S. must be held responsible for this!
They promoted\caused it in Iraq
and I just know somehow they caused this too.
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U.S. violating law by allowing looting: UN
Last Updated Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:17:15

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BAGHDAD - The United Nations says U.S.-led forces in Iraq
have broken the Geneva Conventions by failing to
stop looters from taking equipment from hospitals.

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Human Rights Watch: Coalition forces must stop the looting
Press Release, Human Rights Watch, 12 April 2003
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U.S. and British forces in Iraq must act more decisively to enforce
public order in areas under their authority,
Human Rights Watch urged today.

International law requires that occupying powers
must ensure the safety of the civilian population in areas under their control.
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Louisiana Looting Law
LA R.S. 14:62.5

A. Looting is the intentional entry by a person without authorization into any dwelling or other structure belonging to another and used in whole or in part as a home or place of abode by a person, or any structure belonging to another and used in whole or in part as a place of business, or any vehicle, watercraft, building, plant, establishment, or other structure, movable or immovable, in which normal security of property is not present by virtue of a hurricane, flood, fire, act of God, or force majeure of any kind, or by virtue of a riot, mob, or other human agency, and the obtaining or exerting control over or damaging or removing property of the owner.

B. Whoever commits the crime of looting shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned at hard labor for not more than fifteen years, or both.
 
:crap: Oh, and you're so morally up-yourself you know for sure that you wouldn't do the same if you were in a similar situation?

How can you judge sitting well-fed, unaffected in your comfortable chair with a roof over your head when you have no idea what these people are going through?

it is chaos, people are desperate, and many probably not even in their right mind, anyhow. Who would be?

somehow I think where there are corpses and stench everywhere and destruction, disease rampant, no food, no money, practically no shelter, no infrastructure and aid dripping through to those strong enough to fight for it =

I think western "morals" pretty much go out the window
 
well gee TG i think i might try and get food, but i know i wouldnt steal others jewlry and such. but is nice to see you would condone it under the circumstances. I hope to have you on my jury some day. Id get off scott free.
 
samcurry said:
well gee TG i think i might try and get food, but i know i wouldnt steal others jewlry and such. but is nice to see you would condone it under the circumstances. I hope to have you on my jury some day. Id get off scott free.
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Funny how alot of you like to make assumptions about me and read into what I say, then appropriate them into your own moot point. I never said I condoned it - just pointed out that it is entirely believable and I don't think we have any right to judge from our perspective of western "morals"...:rolleyes:
 
I wasnt aware that stealing had different morals in different countries. When did that happen?

"I don't think we have any right to judge from our perspective of western "morals"...:rolleyes:
 
My superior western morals tell me that if it was wrong in lower Manhattan, it's wrong in south Asia. If you can steal a wallet from a dead man, you are subhuman, IMO, regardless of where the fuck you're from.
 
abooja said:
My superior western morals tell me that if it was wrong in lower Manhattan, it's wrong in south Asia. If you can steal a wallet from a dead man, you are subhuman, IMO, regardless of where the fuck you're from.
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:grinyes:

Psst... Gonz... What about heterosapiens. :lol:
 
Western morals may go the way of the wave. My persoanl morals would remain intact, I am not an oppertunist.

Humanity has value beyond riches.
 
tank girl said:
:crap: Oh, and you're so morally up-yourself you know for sure that you wouldn't do the same if you were in a similar situation?
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Yes, I know for sure I wouldn't do the same in that sutiation, and no, I'm not "morally up-myself." I simply have a sense of right and wrong and I know that taking something that doesn't belong to me is wrong. It's a simple concept, really.
 
tank girl said:
:crap: Oh, and you're so morally up-yourself you know for sure that you wouldn't do the same if you were in a similar situation?
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You know, if I had enough energy to go around disguised, stealing (and perhaps running from the police) then I really have no reason to steal at all, don't you think?
 
tank grrl said:
How can you judge
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Says the woman sitting in our judgement.

Who are we? We are a group of people that, for the most part, believe in freedom & justice, honor & tradition. Our judgement only harms the guilty. Yours harms everybody but....
 
tank girl said:
:crap: Oh, and you're so morally up-yourself you know for sure that you wouldn't do the same if you were in a similar situation?

How can you judge sitting well-fed, unaffected in your comfortable chair with a roof over your head when you have no idea what these people are going through?

it is chaos, people are desperate, and many probably not even in their right mind, anyhow. Who would be?

somehow I think where there are corpses and stench everywhere and destruction, disease rampant, no food, no money, practically no shelter, no infrastructure and aid dripping through to those strong enough to fight for it =

I think western "morals" pretty much go out the window
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Funny how alot of you like to make assumptions about me and read into what I say, then appropriate them into your own moot point. I never said I condoned it - just pointed out that it is entirely believable and I don't think we have any right to judge from our perspective of western "morals"...:rolleyes:
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Ok. So that doesn't say you condone it, just that you don't blame them for doing it. Right. So these people NEED 70,000 dollars. They NEED jewelry. Yeppers, that jewelry is sure going to feed the kids.

I think western "morals" pretty much go out the window
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So, it's "western" morals that say you don't steal from the dead? Glad to know that, I'll keep it in mind if I ever travel to NZ.
 
Yes it is totally unjust to judge these people
by civilized western standards doncha think?
 
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