Check out the blog “The Interdictor” by my friend Michael Barnett–a libertarian/Internet entrepreneur and ex-special forces dude (the blog’s motto: “You are alive because I tolerate you.”) Michael (son of Walter Block’s Loyola colleague, Austrian economist William Barnett) works for the large domain name registrar Directnic.com, based in New Orleans. They are holed up in their offices on the 10th-11th floors of their office building in downtown New Orleans, still working and trying to defend themselves from the mob. Since they have the only Internet access in N.O. still working, they are broadcasting a live feed mms://204.251.3.10:1847 and also updating a blog about the New Orleans disaster (which has been apparently been covered on CNN and other media). Barnett and his guys are patrolling their local area and witnessing “Lord of the Flies” type scenes of destruction, looting, etc.

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