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I am grieving. Partly for the destruction wrought by the storm, but mostly for the destruction wrought by our own people.

There is a lesson here, and we need to learn it.

The gangs did not evacuate. When so many of the others left, they had nothing to hold them in check. Left to run wild, everyone but the liberals can see how ugly they really are. No one but the most blind and PC liberal blames President Bush for the mob ruining what is left of New Orleans.

I think this will change the country. It is obvious: Gangs are an animal underclass. That animal underclass is running wild in New Orleans.

The REAL result is going to be a last minute wake up call. The lesson is obvious. It we learn that lesson, the next time we have a catastrophe this kind of lawlessness will not be tolerated.

The next catastrophe could be an earthquake, or another hurricane. Or, much worse, it could be an attack by Islamic nut cases with weapons of mass destruction, carried out against many cities at once. If that happens, and it certainly could, it will be horrible.

But no matter what the next catastrophe is, we will be much better prepared. No way will most cities let what is happening in New Orleans happen to them.

We don't know the future, and we certainly do not know God's plan. But it looks to me like this is a wake up call. We lost a city, but there is a lesson here we HAD to learn.

Life goes on. We need to do better next time, and we will.

I felt that way right on 9-11.

And for weeks after that.

I was so confident we'd seen the light as a people and things would change.

And here we are, what, four years minus one week, out from 9-11. And they never did close the borders, or get islamo terrorists or gangs on our soil under complete control. SO ....I am a bit skeptical things will change after NO.

But no matter what the next catastrophe is, we will be much better prepared. No way will most cities let what is happening in New Orleans happen to them.

What is happening in NOLA is BECAUSE IT WAS ALLOWED to happen during the Watts riots--Riots following MLK assasination and the Rodney KIng fiasco

They set the precedent for what is going on

I remember the riots in the major cities after MLK was assasinated.
Philadelphia had NO RIOTS because Frank Rizzo was given a free hand by the Mayor and he told them POINT BLANK NO ONE IS BURNING OR LOOTING THIS CITY PERIOD

Course the liberals HATED Rizzo

I think this will change the country. It is obvious: Gangs are an animal underclass. That animal underclass is running wild in New Orleans.

I hope you're right. Already we're hearing leftie apologists whining about these folks and how being held down has led to these actions. And whining for more money. I agree with you and I think a lot of Americans do, even on the left, but the whining and excusing and begging for dollars will detract from the real issue of these gangs and their lawlessness.