In New Orleans, outbreaks of violence and looting is being handled by 'The Police' and 'National Guard'. To arrest anyone of stealing clothing and food after surviving against the odds and losing their homes and possessions is absurd. Because anyone concerned about their possessions in a waterlogged and useless home or business has their priorities out of sync with what really matters: Life. Most appalling though is the incompetence and negligence found in rescuing people from a natural disaster of cataclysmic proportions.
The albatross of this whole problem is our own U.S. government. Failure by numerous agencies, FEMA most of all, to quickly assess the assured damage, to mobilize all assets to remove remaining people from dangerous and inhumane conditions and to provide assurance that all possible resources are being utilized constitutes an utter failure to comprehend that people are in dire need. And that patience and decorum run on short supply when faced with life-threatening starvation and dehydration.
In the wake of 9/11, you would think our country would be prepared to handle a situation of this type. Chaotic. Disastrous. Life-extinguishing. Preparations were obviously misguided in New Orleans to handle flooding of the city. Decades of putting off stout seawall construction to properly handle a natural disaster was the past mistake.
But to let thousands of people spin out of control, wander aimlessly around, while news reporters 'capture' the drama tells of a sickness that runs far and deep in the mindset of these United States. The Founders would shriek at this current administration to get things together before you destroy everything they fought and died for 230 years ago.
