Mandatory evacuations, such as that ordered in New Orleans on Sunday, are a wonderful invitation to looters, and they came in droves. Where was the law?
“Looting on Tuesday took place in full view of police and National Guard troops.... Looters filled industrial-sized garbage cans with clothing and jewelry and floated them down the street on bits of plywood and insulation as National Guard lumbered by.”
Far from protecting property owners, they protected looters.
“At a drug store on Canal Street just outside the French Quarter, two police officers with pump shotguns stood guard as workers from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel across the street loaded large laundry bins full of medications, snack foods and bottled water... ‘
‘We can commandeer whatever we see fit, whatever is necessary to maintain law.’”
