Priorities?

Now everyone knows that i'm all for businesses and i'm all for self-sufficiency but I just heard something that turned me stomach.

They have actually pulled New Orleans police officers off of the rescue efforts to put them on to stop the looting.

What the hell?

I'm sorry, these stores are destroyed the merchandise is totaled and these people have nothing. They are wandering the streets in sewage soaked shoes, with no clothes, no money, no personal effects. Many of them have lost family. There are babies, pregnant women, children, the ill and the elderly wandering the street without basic necessities of life. Food. Water. There are thousands of people trapped on their rooftops waiting for a rescue and thousands more waiting to be transported out of the city. They've lost everything and they've got no hope of recovering any of it. If they steal a pair of shoes or a sleeping bag or a loaf of bread i'm not worried. The insurance companies for these businesses will cover the losses of merchandise and property and the citizens need these things. It's not as though they're stealing diamond necklaces and designer handbags; they're taking the things that they need to live. I mean, the audacity of a person to want a shirt that isn't covered in water toxic enough to cause the return of the bubonic plauge.

Afterall, i'm sure if they ATM's were working, they'd be more than happy to PAY for the shoes that they needed.