Devestation upon Devestation

A multitude of articles can be found identifying the incredible devestation in the gulf following hurricane Katrina, most outlining the plight of honest people left in complete termoil without shelter or food. Some awaiting rescue from boiling rooftops. Once such article caught my attention today which leaves me both outraged and confused.

Even in the utter destruction there, there are those who feel that stealing and destroying what hasn't already been leveled is OK. Comments like the following make me very lery of what has become of human nature.

Fox News: 8/31/05:
Mike Franklin stood on the trolley tracks and watched the spectacle unfold.
"To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said.

Why is it that our society feels that because some are successful and others are not that this constitutes an oppression? Most work very hard for their success (not to say there aren't some who are handed things), are they not entitled to enjoy it? Those who work a part-time job and spend the remainder of their time complaining that they don't have what the Jones's have make me sick and to use this type of reasoning to excuse blatant laceny is unbelievable.

- I feel very much like I want to contribute both in spirit and in finance to the relief efforts there but in the same breath - the ungratefulness of what I hope is only a handful of people cautions me to feel otherwise.

The same society who "oppresses" people will do what we always do... provide a helping hand for reconstruction. But I guess there will always be a segment of our society that still will be ungrateful.