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Monday, September 05, 2005
Looting after disasters
Here is how the city of San Francisco handled looters/law and order after the earthquake of 1906. Compare that to New Orleans of present day, almost a century later. There was no mass media to warn people of an impending disaster, not that you can do that with earthquakes, anyway. There was no huge federal safety net to pick up the slack. There was no massive relief effort or promises to rebuild with your tax money on the scale of today. I am not opposed to relief efforts, feeding, sheltering, and clothing disaster victims. Actually, it is quite the opposite. I am opposed to catering to criminals, however.
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And that was a century ago. Tiday is 2005.
The fact that the declaration I posted is from a century ago makes a difference HOW? So what if that was a century ago? Human carnal nature has changed HOW? The need for law and order has changed HOW? The offending behavior being addressed is no different, so why should the resolution?
It means that a century later we have LESS excuse for such behavior than we did a hundred years ago. If we are supposedly more civilized than we were a century ago, then the behavior of the citizenry would reflect such civility. The area east of New Orleans, like in Mississippi, was more devastated than New Orleans. However, we don't find such uncivilized behavior there. There is a huge reason for that that I will not take the time to write about here.
Many of today's civic leaders are unfortunately unwillingly to stand up with a spine and deal with issues.
By the way, why not please have the courtesy and courage to leave your name and contact information rather than hide behind anonymity? I am willing to put my name behind any comments I have made and stand behind them.
Anonymous comments without such courtesy will henceforth be dismissed from this blog, as will spammer comments. I get spam comments a lot, unfortunately.
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