http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/08/31/D8CB0FN8G.html
I love the last paragraph in this story.......
"At a drug store in the French Quarter, people were running out with grocery baskets and coolers full of soft drinks, chips and diapers. Other looters were seen leaving a store with armfuls of tennis shoes and football jerseys."
Despite hardships, the ghetto defendants on the rampage in the city (and that's what they are) keep the kids fed and taken care of.........and they all remain in high fashion despite the hardships they face............amazing.
Food, diapers, and practical clothing aren't luxuries right now, they're necessities. Many people are drenched in foul floodwater and all their clothes at home are drenched and/or inaccessible. The government officials and emergency workers are saying publicly that they have no way to get necessities to people who need them, and some have explicitly sanctioned taking them from stores. I have no trouble giving the benefit of the doubt to people who are non-violently taking this sort of stuff. Armed looting of hospitals is a completely different matter.