Doing Wrong Should Not Be Acceptable Under Any Circumstances
Crimes should never be acceptable in any situation. But in some situations it should be necessary to decide which should be considered a crime and which shouldn't be. I am shocked to see a few people who are sticking up for the criminals who took advantage of the Katrina tragedy. I'm not talking about people who took necessities or anything like that. If you stole food, fine. Anyone would expect that. You need food, clothes and hygienic products to survive. I don't fault anyone for taking anything they needed. What I cannot, in my heart condone is someone stealing and hurting people just because they found the opportunity.
I came across a blog, can't find it anymore where the person took up for the looting. They said it was understandable and people should consider themselves in others' shoes. But they weren't talking about people who took food for their families or clothes, this person had the audacity to take up for people who took television sets, guns, jewelry and everything else. Now here is my say on the matter…
You want to take up for people who took things they didn't need? You think that's fine? You think us who believe it's wrong should put ourselves in their shoes? Okay, put yourself in the shoes of these people I am about to introduce:
Put yourself in the shoes of…
A struggling family in New Orleans with young kids who only had their home and animals yet you broke into THEIR home to take the little things that weren't damaged by the storm.
Put yourself in the shoes of…
The man or woman who was innocently trying to gather the things they could to evacuate, yet you came up behind them, held a gun, beat them and took what little items they had to survive with.
Put yourself in the shoes of…
The people, who lost their homes but had to sleep on the streets when you forced them to building corners, robbed them, raped them and killed them.
Put yourself in the shoes of…
The people who's homes you broke into and stole their family heirlooms, pieces of their history and destroyed their property all because you're a hateful human being.
Put yourself in the shoes of…
The store/shop owner who's worked their entire lives to own their own business only to have you and your friends come along and vandalize, steal and take their last bit of livelihood just because you could take advantage of the situation. Now they can't feed their families and have lost their jobs and their homes.
Put yourself in the shoes of…
The people whose homes you just had no right to go into. Just doing things to show how tough you think you are.
Put yourself in the shoes of the people…
Who stayed stranded on rooftops, streets, buildings and cars because you held guns on the people dropping supplies, so the stranded had to sit around for days starving because you were too hateful to care that you were taking the last chance any of these people had.
Put yourself in the shoes of…
The women and children you raped and killed at the Superdome, just because you didn't have anything better to do.
Put yourself in the shoes of…
The people who you frightened so much at the Superdome that they were too afraid to even raise their hands because you looked them in the eye with a knife, threatened them in hopes to get first dibs at anything that came someone's way. You were too selfish to recognize someone else's needs in order to feed your greed and madness.
Put yourself in the shoes of…
The people who couldn't get out of hospitals or couldn't get medical treatment because you turned over rescue boats and robbed the few people that came to save them. You shot at cops and stole medicine that others needed just so you could get high.
And last but not least.
Put yourself in the shoes of…
Everyone you ever wronged and truly see that you didn't have a reason or a right to do it. You just did it because you did. And I'm sure you could care less.
Whoever can take up for criminals, thugs, rapists, thieves and murderers have no business speaking on anything other than their own obvious hatred for man's right to be able to live through a time of tragedy without their own people doing them in.
If someone can take up for these so-called people, well I feel sorry for you. To me, it is no excuse. Why don't you talk to some of the victims these people have hurt before you go protesting on a criminal's behalf? It's a damn shame if you don't know why all of this is wrong. And for the record, no one said taking necessities was looting. Looting was labeled for fools who took advantage by stealing things they couldn't use and didn't need.
And for the record, millions of people are homeless and needy all over this country but something in their heart stops them from ever doing crime. Next time you take up for the bad why don’t you stop a few seconds to think about the good? And also, while you are asking us to put ourselves in the criminal's shoes, why don't you take a few moments to put yourself in the victim's?
3 Comments:
I hope things get back to normal ASAP. I feel so sorry for the GOOD people that are suffering not from the storm, but from the evil that men do.
Man, you sure get me all serious and deep here on your Blog Stac!
Amen, girl. That was a great post.
I hear you Stacy. It's one thing to take for survival. Matter of fact, I didn't understand why stores in that area wouldn't allow people to take food/clothing for survival, when it is likely that anything there would eventually go bad (bread, perishables) anyway. Especially when they weren't getting relief elsewhere and they had nothing. Now, jewelry, guns, TVs, breaking into people's homes for valuables, that's undefendable to me. But I didn't like how they made it seem like a majority of the people were doing this, when, in fact, it was a small minority.
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