Name: John Hockenberry: We are...
Uploaded: 2025-11-09T12:05:47.709Z
Description: People were carrying off vehicles, carrying off pieces of buildings. Soldiers were in the streets shooting at looters and herding some in mass arrests. In the middle of this chaos, I'm rolling around in a wheelchair, and I was completely invisible. Completely. I was in a wheelchair; I didn't look like a looter.

Ayn Rand

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

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The word 'looter' is pejorative, implying a wrong or immoral action during chaotic events.

Negative Connotation

'Looter' is used specifically when the stealing is in the context of larger-scale unrest or emergency situations.

Specific Contexts

'Looter' often implies someone opportunistically stealing during confusion, rather than premeditated theft.

Implies Opportunism

 People were carrying off vehicles, carrying off pieces of buildings. Soldiers were in the streets shooting at looters and herding some in mass arrests. In the middle of this chaos, I'm rolling around in a wheelchair, and I was completely invisible. Completely. I was in a wheelchair; I didn't look like a looter.

John Hockenberry: We are...

 And they were led by other looters. Looters led the way, huh? Yeah, it's actually pretty incredible because they were-- they got into a shotgun fight. The looters were after the gold that's in the burials. And one looter came out with, you know, more than 80 pieces of gold from one burial. Wow.

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