There is a certain mentality of an action that I cannot understand.
Now, let me preface this by saying that I just can't get my head around the amount and severity of the devastation from Katrina.
I can't imagine being without a home that was perfectly fine, intact, and holding all of your possessions from your entire life just hours before and now having NOTHING.
Add to that hardly anywhere to turn to for shelter. There is no electricity to power anything - air conditioning, radio & TV transmitters (not that you have anything left to receive the information), refrigeration for food - which also doesn't exist, water treatment plants for drinking water - which also doesn't exist.
I can't imagine.
Having said that, I can't imagine looting homes and stores. I see people stealing food - when they can find it, and drinks of any type. I see people stealing diapers and formula.
But what about the friggin' IDIOTS stealing ANYTHING they can get their hands on - TV''s, jewelry, piles of Nike shoes... WTF????
A Crime of Opportunity. Anarchy. Get the National Guard in there and get these people the hell away from the buildings that they're raiding. What the hell are they thinking? What gives them the right to do that?
I almost feel that anyone stealing food or drink (I'll extend that to diapers as well) should just be left alone - they are trying to survive through a horrendous event. You steal something else - like a friggin TV for a house that you don't have anymore, should just be friggin' shot on sight. Period. Then you hear (whether true or not) about "roving armed gangs" just going house to house and taking whatever is there of value. Hell, I think I heard a report of a rape.
A rape? In the middle of all this?
Shoot them all.
A bit severe? Yes. Where's my compassion? Where is theirs?
And like I said, I can't get my head around what must be going on down there - but survival vs pillaging is just ridiculous. Great citizens of the United States. Yeah, I'm real proud to call them citizens of my country...
... when they shouldn't even be considered part of the species called human.
Is this what mankind has bcome?
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