Thank you, sIx. I don't claim to have all the answers though.

Regarding "shooting looters." Here's a new item that will lend itself to misinterpretation. Three hundred members of an Arkansas Guard military police unit are on the way to N.O. to help deal with the gangs abd snipers. CNN says they have orders "to shoot to kill if necessary." That is, to save or protect life, not property. So far as has been reported, they do not have orders to shoot looters.

The Arkansas National Guard, it should be said for the benefit of non-U.S. Mudcatters, has been racially integrated for decades, along with the Guard units of every other state.