Looting of museums, banks, shops, factories--South Central LA writ large

R. A. Hettinga rah at shipwright.com
Sat Apr 12 11:57:28 PDT 2003


At 2:52 AM -0700 4/12/03, James A. Donald wrote:
>The looting will solve itself soon.  All regime targets have 
>been looted, which means that everyone now has guns.  Naturally 
>the looters start hitting non regime targets.  Those targeted 
>proceed to execute looters.  Looting rapidly declines.

That's exactly what's happening in Sadd-, er, Liberty City.

Mob rule works, when the mob is armed...

The imams have asked for all their stuff to come back to the mosques, and, oddly enough, the stuff's coming back.

Expect the same thing for the hospitals, at least in the Shiite areas...

Cheers,
RAH

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