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This really does make you wonder what kind of world we are living in and, I am afraid I, as does The Martian Anthropologist, have a low opinion of the human race.
“Looters […] filled industrial-sized garbage cans with clothing and jewelry.“
Poverty is no excuse for stealing. These current circumstances make it understandable for those who are grabbing essentials like food and diapers.
The real problem here, IMHO, is that the troops who should be on hand to keep the peace and hand out those items to the affected are in the wrong place.
Funny (in the non-humorous sense) how the loss of people 2,819 people (source) in the 9/11 attacks was sufficient to justify a war, yet the loss of between 11,000 and 18,000 people from Huricane Mitch a mere three years earlier was not enough to put truly adequate measures into place to deal with such natural disasters.
UPDATE: Hummm, seems I am not to only one to notice that the help is in the wrong place, National Guard Spread Thin– Iraq and Hurricane Katrina. It is scandalous.
Sponzurz
