The Business End of an M16

Nice to see just now on CNN: military man in charge Russ Honoré (don't know his rank UPDATE: Lt. General) barking orders at people in trucks to "put those weapons down! That's an order! Put those weapons down!" The CNN anchorman was discussing with a retired army man (who was conversant with Honoré's command) that while there might be some looters, they were an infintesimal amount of the people involved, who were mostly victims, and didn't need to see "the business end of an M16". Someone needs to alert the "shoot to kill" warbloggers. Also, were these the type of people who should have been shot, young men in the chaos outside the convention center who tried to help feed their fellow refugees?:

The lawlessness was sometimes welcome. On Friday morning, some young men broke into the kitchen of the Marriott Hotel, across the street from the center, fixed a gigantic batch of scrambled eggs, grits and bacon and served it to storm victims.

Henrietta Glover, 61, a former preschool teacher, said, "We have some Robin Hood figures who have gone out and found milk and food for us and fixed food for us."

Should these have been some of the looters shot on sight?

Or maybe this guy, a looter strangely popoular at the Corner? Why isn't Jonah still asking the tough questions? "When I hear that that Rhodes woman from Air America is encouraging looting, all I can think is that she's letting some radical chic nonsense take precedence over the need to save peoples' lives."

Thanks, Doughboy! (God, I feel like I'm maligning Bob Wills and Pappy O'Daniel.)
 

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[Matt Weiner]

Well, O'Daniel said that Brown v. Board of Education was part of a Communist conspiracy, so go ahead.