Do We Protect Our Rights In Crisis?

Consider the source. However, I see this dynamic at work in Africa. What do ordinary people do when the law is overwhelmed (it only take 20,000 people) banks close, and food stocks stop circulating. 

We have little comprehension how fragile our security, and food security is, until food transportation, and money is cut off. Within days chaos arrives as survival kicks in,  and our little world changes.

How did this play out in The tsunamis of Asia? Did a state of lawlessness occurs, or did people ban together?

<blockquote>"In a massive social collapse, law and order break down and man’s true nature will be revealed. During this time of chaos, an individual will have rights only as long as he can defend them.... During the years of our lives we have lived in an orderly society, where most people obey the laws and those who do not are dealt with by the police and the justice system. Most criminals are held in check by the threat of force by the police who enforce the law which results in a mostly orderly society. When there is violence to be done, the police handle it......" Following a major social collapse however, the criminal element will be unleashed while the police become overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the collapse coupled with the fact that many of them will be busy defending their own home, property, and family......." (Survivalist Daily)<blockquote>

If you think it sounds alarmist consider what is happening right now in South Sudan.

"As many as 22,000 people from around the world — from France and New Zealand, Ethiopia and South Africa — have found themselves at a camp set up inside a United Nations peacekeeping base just outside the northern city of Malakal. They are bound together by hunger and thirst, fear of the soldiers and rebels fighting outside, and a desire to go somewhere safe.

“We need the humanitarians to take us somewhere to save our lives,” said Hoth Gatkuoth, 27, who had taken shelter in a broken-down white sport utility vehicle before moving into the camp. He said that people had begun to quarrel and that he feared it would get worse if conditions did not improve. “After two days, the people will fight inside the camp,” he said."  Link