I wouldn't say that everyone left in New Orleans are rioting, out of control looters. However, having worked in the wireless telecom industry for about 18 years during which I traveled to and worked in 49 states in such lovely places as New Orleans, South Chicago, Gary, IN, South Central LA, and 16 countries such as Nicaraugua and Peru. Never, in all my travels, have I ever heard as much automatic gunfire as I heard in the summer and fall of 1996 in New Orleans while working on a Bellsouth Mobility project.
Simply put: You loot, we shoot. End the mob mentality by dropping the thugs with weapons. Instantly the others will stop thinking like a mob and start thinking like individuals worring about their own health and safety.
If you don't stop it now, it will get worse, I assure you. These animals won't stop until New Orleans, or what is left of it, is burned to the ground.
Kudos...somebody needed to say it.
Oh, I agree with shooting the looters. But the poster was saying New Orleans should just be left to rot essentially, that it's not worth saving. It IS worth saving, but I confess to praying that these types will not be saved with it.