What are those looters going to do with the junk they stole? Seriously, they're in the middle of a massive natural disaster with untold consequences to life and livelihoods and all they can think to do is to steal trifles. An ipod, a flat screen TV, a camera, a carton of A1 Steak Sauce are all trifles compared to the drama raging around them. What is going on in the souls of these people that they can focus on stealing crap while people surround them wailing and gnashing their teeth. How does one put the lust for a material possession before the safety of their own life? Where are they going to watch that TV when they have no home? How are they going to charge that ipod when there's no electricity? How will they eat that steak sauce when there's no food? It's absurd. It's deeply disturbing. It's human nature.
Then you have the blame game. Everyone's going to come out dirty in this game. The blame starts local and moves up. Ain't no one going to escape the mud. Government corruption of the kind that ran rampant in Lousiana and New Orleans for decades leaves the state weak when it most needs to be strong--natural (and unnatural) disasters. Too bad it's the people who pay.
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