Justifying looting

Sharon Stiteler, aka @birdchick on Twitter, has posted this fascinating commentary that someone spray painted on a wall in Minneapolis…

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Is it? Are liquor and cigarettes the key to survival?

Looters have an uncanny ability to justify their crime, and to write graffiti about it. Here’s Oakland, 2009 (via Jared Shelburne on Flickr):

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