* A Third World Country

Looters steal anything they can, including booze. photos from flickr.

Of course we have pressing safety issues on Morse Avenue. On Howard too. Gangs, Guns & Drugs. We have to deal with the deadbeat social service agencies collecting hefty administration fees and not delivering the goods. We have to deal with a Alderman who is clueless, inattentive and just down right lazy. But something has come up that has grabbed my attention.

Hurricane Katrina.

Not just the category 4 hurricane itself, but the aftermath. Natural disasters happen. Surely, this was huge. The lose of life, home and business from New Orleans to Biloxi is down right dismal. There is nothing left. Everything needs to be rebuilt.

This happens, all over the world, all the time. But I was born in the south, Baton Rouge to be exact. I lived in Amite, Louisiana for a year. My grandmother and grandfather (bebe and papa) lived there. Amite is around 60 miles north of New Orleans.

What I'm watching on all the news programs saddens me. What the hurricane didn't destroy, the people are.

Scum-Bag Looters

The act of looting. The looters. The lowlife, scum-bag looters. While many great people are trying to rescue and save lives, a select few are ruining the fabric of life, causing disruption to the system. The looters. A friend said The French Quarter appeared to have been spared the worst flooding, but its stores were getting the worst of human nature. Governor Kathleen Blanco said she was "furious" at the looting. "What angers me the most is disasters tend to bring out the best in everybody, and that's what we expected to see," Blanco said at a news conference. "Instead, it brought out the worst."

Looters rank so low on my human compassion chart. Looters have no morals. Looters should be shot on site. Those who take advantage of any disaster by looting are not humans, but wild, rabid animals. Looters should be shot on site.

The next human made problem is the gangs. Word now comes factions are fighting for control of turf in the Super-dome Refugee Camp. So to those who say we are not a third world country in the United States, look at New Orleans and tell me different.