"Peter Duniho" wrote:

If anything, there were even worse violations of basic human rights
during the tsunami crisis, most likely just because of the more
wide-spread disruption.

It's interesting how shocked America is at the looting in N. O., as if
no one could have expected such a thing, or that modern morality has
sunk to a new low.

In the aftermath of the 1900 Galveston storm, looting was widespread.
Many corpses had fingers cut off by robbers to steal their rings.
Commercial boat owners formed a trust and charged extortionate prices to
ferry desperate refugees to the mainland.

It would have been truly surprising if any kind of civil order had
survived this current disaster in N. O.

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Dan
C172RG at BFM