Mainstream media outlets are calling Haitian survivors "looters". My cynicism of humanity was waning with all the crazy talk of helping people and sending aid.
It took a week, but major news outlets are finally reporting the actions of starving, thirsty, homeless survivors of last week's earthquake as "looting". It was only a matter of time before our capitalist, greedy tendencies would replace the urge to help with the urge to force people in a horrible situation to adhere to arbitrary laws of property and enterprise.
Now...how do we help Haitian business owners (who may or may not have survived the quake themselves) guard their stores and inventory from the hungry orphaned children before they're in the red?
UPDATE: A Mother Jones source keeps it real about what's happening in Port-Au-Prince...stories of "looters" and "gun fights" are overblown and disappointing!
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