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Best And Worst.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)
Katrina: As has so often been said, disaster brings out the full range of human nature. We are inspired and at times sickened by what we have seen this week.
To start with the best, there are the countless Americans who have done what they could to help the hurricane victims.
The list of such people is long and mostly anonymous. It includes police officers, nurses, search-and-rescue teams, members of the National Guard and everyone else working in what are now called "first responder" jobs.
It also includes a large and growing number of people who have opened their wallets or typed in their credit card data to help feed, house and clothe the storm's refugees.
On Thursday morning, just a couple of days after the full enormity of the disaster became clear, the Red Cross said it had collected $21 million, about $15 million of which came from individuals through its Web site. The Salvation Army had set up five servers specifically for storm-related donations but still felt the need to tell would-be contributors to be patient, because "these servers could be busy at times." It's busy indeed on the giving front.
At the other end are the looters -- even worse, the people who have been shooting at police and at helicopters. It has been frustrating this week to watch the blatant stealing and seeing no one trying too hard to stop it.
That said, we don't have the moral authority at this point to second-guess the police, or anyone else in charge of keeping order or sending help. We're not in their shoes, and we don't have any magic formula for policing a flooded city. The authorities deserve ...
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