There's two kinds of looting going on in New Orleans. Anyone stealing food and water and supples to stay alive is totally understandable. But there's just a lot of stealing property that is just pure theivery.
I don't know if it was just not in the news but I don't remember hearing reports of this kind of looting after the tsunami last year in other countries. It seems that a lot of people in New Orleans are just criminals taking advantage of an opportunity to steal.
Letter to the Editor
Normally we would have a national guard to come in and deal with natural disasters like the hurricane in New Orleans. Thousands of people are likely to die for lack of resources to evacuate people and bring in emergency aid. But we don't have a national guard in our own country anymore because they are all over in Iraq. Poor judgment has put America at risk.
Letter to the Editor
A few months ago I was driving behind a very large SUV that had a bumper sticker that said, "I'm changing your environment." From what I see with all the hurricanes I know exactly what that person is talking about.