[jimmyz]

still doesn't answer it and if you can't read my question don't answer it. The questions was why it was all about race? could easily just left it at people looting and people shooting each other. I know damn well it wasn't just blacks looting and just whites shooting blacks. I am white if it matters and the 2 of you answering are not even the OP

[vision-master]

Don't know, never been down there and ain't planning on going soon. The further away from the South - the better.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'D')on't know, never been down there and ain't planning on going soon. The further away from the South - the better.

[timmac]

My take on why so many loot here in America during times of crises is because of the attitude that has been created by the [socialist] welfare system, so many people that are 2 and 3 generations on welfare and the attitude of I will just take it when SHTF instead of helping each other.

You don't seem to here about the looting problems from earthquake in San Francisco in 1906 or when you look at the pictures of the depression during the 30's people are standing in lines properly waiting for there hand outs, when the dust bowl hit did folks just stay in place and wait for the government, No they packed up and moved to California to start over, however today the attitude with many is the government should save us and give us a home.

This also brings me to the FEMA Trailers, that was a great gift giving by tax payers and what did those folks do, COMPLAIN, next time we should only give them tents..

[ and by the way I own a Motorhome and those RV's are great temporary houses, I would have never complained ]

[vision-master]

How about these ppl NOT having any upbringing, no close family ties, no sense of community or faith.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('timmac', 'M')y take on why so many loot here in America during times of crises is because of the attitude that has been created by the [socialist] welfare system, so many people that are 2 and 3 generations on welfare and the attitude of I will just take it when SHTF instead of helping each other.

You don't seem to here about the looting problems from earthquake in San Francisco in 1906 or when you look at the pictures of the depression during the 30's people are standing in lines properly waiting for there hand outs, when the dust bowl hit did folks just stay in place and wait for the government, No they packed up and moved to California to start over, however today the attitude with many is the government should save us and give us a home.

This also brings me to the FEMA Trailers, that was a great gift giving by tax payers and what did those folks do, COMPLAIN, next time we should only give them tents..

[ and by the way I own a Motorhome and those RV's are great temporary houses, I would have never complained ]

[Loki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', ' ')You won't see that here in America where there is no culture. It is all about the individual accumulating personal wealth and only bad things happen when you get caught.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('timmac', 'M')y take on why so many loot here in America during times of crises is because of the attitude that has been created by the [socialist] welfare system, so many people that are 2 and 3 generations on welfare and the attitude of I will just take it when SHTF instead of helping each other.

You don't seem to here about the looting problems from earthquake in San Francisco in 1906 or when you look at the pictures of the depression during the 30's people are standing in lines properly waiting for there hand outs, when the dust bowl hit did folks just stay in place and wait for the government, No they packed up and moved to California to start over, however today the attitude with many is the government should save us and give us a home.

This also brings me to the FEMA Trailers, that was a great gift giving by tax payers and what did those folks do, COMPLAIN, next time we should only give them tents..

[ and by the way I own a Motorhome and those RV's are great temporary houses, I would have never complained ]

[rangerone314]

Without resentful racial minorities, Japan has skipped the race to the bottom in terms of rudeness and civil behavior that "diversity" brings.

[Novus]

Stop race baiting Loki. America has no culture, this is FACT. In fact it is an anti culture that looks to destroy and pave over anything that is not hugely profitable.

Watch this even if you can. This act of vandalism was not done by a sub-culture of minority boogie men but by corporatist anti-culturalist goons. This is just one example among tens of thousands of the anti-culturalist plague that has been going on in America for a long time. We don't need earth quakes, and Tsunamis, or nuclear disasters to leave the country in ruins. We are our own worst enemy here. We live in a disposable society and karma is going to catch up to us pretty soon.

[Oakley]

I don't know if this is an explanation or an observation; when you have a society where those in power consistently rig the economy to loot (plunder and control) the majority, this sets the moral tone. Those in power loot us via the laws, so when the laws breakdown, the majority follow the established cultural value and resort to looting too.

[timmac]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'H')ow about these ppl NOT having any upbringing, no close family ties, no sense of community or faith.

[Vogelzang]

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jimmyz', 's')till doesn't answer it and if you can't read my question don't answer it. The questions was why it was all about race? could easily just left it at people looting and people shooting each other. I know damn well it wasn't just blacks looting and just whites shooting blacks. I am white if it matters and the 2 of you answering are not even the OP

[timmac]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '
')Is taht what they teach in church these day's?

[Vogelzang]

[PrestonSturges]

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[Oneaboveall]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'S')top race baiting Loki. America has no culture, this is FACT. In fact it is an anti culture that looks to destroy and pave over anything that is not hugely profitable.

Watch this even if you can. This act of vandalism was not done by a sub-culture of minority boogie men but by corporatist anti-culturalist goons. This is just one example among tens of thousands of the anti-culturalist plague that has been going on in America for a long time. We don't need earth quakes, and Tsunamis, or nuclear disasters to leave the country in ruins. We are our own worst enemy here. We live in a disposable society and karma is going to catch up to us pretty soon.

[Plantagenet]

There is no looting in Japan because the people there are Japanese.

It is shameful to loot, and they won't bring shame on themselves and their families.

[Mudpuppy]

I have lived in Japan for the last seven years. I used to ask why there was so little theft crimes in Japan and the answer I got was "it is hard enough to convince pople here to accept free second hand goods let alone have them break the law to get them".

There is a lot of truth in that. Second hand stores are all over the country here, but most people seem to be sellers and only a small portion of the population are buyers from such places (with the exception of second hand book shops which are very popular). I lived in the country side for a few years here and the people selling to the second hand stores there were Japanese and the people buying from the stores were foreign (Chinese, Korean, Brazilian, etc).

The group concept of doiing best for the group as opposed to the individual concept of personal achievement is pushed at every level in school and society and after a while it becomes second nature. I think my own thinking has also changed as a result over the last seven years without realising it until now. Don`t get me wrong, there are many times when this type of cultural attitude drives me nuts (like trying to get straight answers out of a person, or getting people to make decisions. And lack of independent thinking is a problem that the education system is having to deal with and has no answers to as of yet). But in times of crisis it is a god send.

In general if a nation prides itself on any type of personaility trait then after a while that becomes self fullfilling.