Lord of the Flies
I’ve spent many days in NOCs trying to keep an ISP up and running through various local disasters, but the guys at directNIC.com in New Orleans are amazing. The amount of work and dedication these people have put in to keep their few remaining customers up and running is inspiring.
One of OPs is blogging his experience. His tale is pretty chilling: people looting, cops looting, general chaos in New Orleans. Very sad stuff. My thoughts are with all the people suffering in this tragedy:
It is a zoo out there though, make no mistake. It’s the wild kingdom. It’s Lord of the Flies. That doesn’t mean there’s murder on every street corner. But what it does mean is that the rule of law has collapsed, that there is no order, and that property rights cannot and are not being enforced. Anyone who is on the streets is in immediate danger of being robbed and killed. It’s that bad.
katrina, mediaThis entry was posted by steve on Thursday, September 1st, 2005 at 12:05 pm and is filed under Misc. Ramblings, Internet. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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