"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
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'They' as in residents of NO.

Really? Let's do a quick thought experiment. Imagine if the (tens of
thousands of) people who couldn't get medical care were all white, and the
(handful of) attempted ambulence hijackers were all black. Would you still
have said of the residents of N.O. in general, "They would have had access
to emergency medical treatment except they attempted to hijack ambulances
and loot hospitals."? That is, would you still have phrased it in a way that
falsely suggests that the victims somehow had themselves to blame for the
hijacking attempts?

Why is it 'they' didn't go out and help their fellow citizens
instead of looting and committing other crimes?

What on earth leads you to assume that the vast majority did not in fact
help one another rather than committing crimes?

--Gary