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I agree. It is obscene. During the Rodney King riots in LA there was looting all around me -- an entire mini-mall on my block was ransacked, windows shattered, electronic goods pilfered. Police were nowhere. I remember one guy trying to balance a wide-screen TV in a shopping cart rolling down the street. I pointed to him, shouting, "social protest"? It reminds one of the thin line -- thinner in some quarters than others -- between civility and savagery.