The Governor of Louisiana has moved 300 National Guardsmen and 60 State Troopers into New Orleans and the news media is having a field day.
My explanation, as a fair journalist, is this:
85 per cent of New Orleans policemen lost everything they owned in Hurricane Katrina. For seven months they slept on a cruise ship until FEMA put them out. They are worn to a frazzle. "Some" of the criminal elements of the City have decided to take advantage of everything and are looting what is left of the abandoned neighborhoods right down to copper pipes and gutters.
So, the Guard will patrol the almost-empty neighborhoods in the most devastated areas of the City and the Troopers will patrol the French Quarter and the downtown business area so the New Orleans policemen can concentrate on the criminals and perhaps get a little relief.
Thank you, Governor Blanco.
It is 100 degrees in the shade.