this is a repost from Facebook...

 Words have power, especially when media (WHYY, FOX, CNN, the public etc.) uses them so often they become common language. Its questionable that the same people who are fast to call Haitian Survivors Looters, when the same people are ready to lose their mind when their parking spaces are taken, you are skipped in line (...supermarket or waiting for the Metro) or when

Imagine not eating for days or the stinch of death. What would you do? I would survive, how about you?

This is not a war...they are not burgulars, and they are not responsible for the Earthquake....its human survival...hmmmmmff. Lose your priviledge and be human for once. Lets approach this with sensitivity.

Looting (Verb)...
Looter (Noun)

1.spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
2.anything taken by dishonesty, force, stealth, etc.: a burglar's loot.

Osam Cherisma carries the body of his killed daughter Fabienne in Port-au-Prince on January 19. Relatives told AFP that Haitian police killed the 15-year-old girl while firing warning shots over looters in the capital.
(AFP/Olivier Laban Mattei)