Thursday, September 01, 2005
New Orleans.
A blogger there is posting here. It sounds uglier than I had realized from my quick glances at CNN.com:
Wow.
I had been planning to post about the widespread reports about looting, and about a possible parallel with the San Francisco earthquake and fires in 1906, but it increasingly appears that what I was going to say -- initial concerns about looting are likely overblow -- is flat-out wrong.
More soon.
It is a zoo out there though, make no mistake. It's the wild kingdom. It's Lord of the Flies. That doesn't mean there's murder on every street corner. But what it does mean is that the rule of law has collapsed, that there is no order, and that property rights cannot and are not being enforced. Anyone who is on the streets is in immediate danger of being robbed and killed. It's that bad.
Wow.
I had been planning to post about the widespread reports about looting, and about a possible parallel with the San Francisco earthquake and fires in 1906, but it increasingly appears that what I was going to say -- initial concerns about looting are likely overblow -- is flat-out wrong.
More soon.
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