Anarchy, anger, death and America

(The title of this post comes from various titles found on Toronto newspapers today.)

At the Convention Centre in New Orleans there have been reports of rapes and beatings inside. People are everywhere carrying what few meager belongings they were able to save. Corpses litter the streets just outside the building. Eighty-eight police officers went inside to quell the violence and settle people down and were beat back! Some were taking shots at rescue helicopters, (which was apparently shown on TV) and according to Reuters even hospital workers were shot at.

One of our site electricians John Mackenzie was quoted as saying: "People here tend to get angry at how hard it is to get aid to some distant countries or at how people may act in these countries at times. Yet here we are looking at a popular tourist area of the United States and it is in the same shape within days. People are so quick to judge when it is so far away."

I hope that aid comes to these people immediately. I also hope that order is restored too and those who shoot at rescue personnel find a reason to fucking stop. Or that a reason finds them.

It does make me think of those end-of-world movies or zombie flicks. How quickly does society crumble no matter where you are.
And this is no movie...