Humanity....

[GAsux]

As a Los Angeles native for most of my 30 years, I understand inner city problems, violence, etc. While I certainly wouldn't justify it, I understand the mentality that drove people to riot/loot in the aftermath of the Rodney King trial. The outburst of lawlessness was as much an expression of outrage as it was a random chance to come up on some malt liquor and free cheetos.

But in the wake of a devastating natural disaster it saddens me to see people in our "civilized" nation resorting to such nonsense. There is no "civil unrest" argument here. We're talking about mobs of people acting like animals and seizing the opportunity to act like morons. All over their city people are dead or dying, trying to cope with losing everything they've ever owned, etc, and the first thing that comes to mind is breaking into the local Piggly Wiggly to get some smokes and a bottle of Cognac.

Sad really.