[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in Louisiana.] It may look from the outside as if they are stealing or breaking the law, ... when in fact some of them are trying to survive. |
[The disaster in New Orleans] is not an act of god, ... This is an act of man. The federal government refused to spend the money to improve the levees. |
That is the behavior people take under the pressure of survival, ... This is misconstrued as looting, as thievery. |
That is the behavior people take under the pressure of survival. This is misconstrued as looting, as thievery. |
This whole thing has gone beyond the likely scenario. |
We want to act as if we can live apart from each other. To me that's the tragedy |