The scenes in and around Houston of angry, sweaty citizens threatening and attacking the very utilities workers sent to restore their electrical power have looked like something out of a Monty Python skit. In Sugar Land, twenty miles southwest of the Bayou City’s business district, a group of men reportedly wielding assault rifles menaced linemen as they worked to restore power. On Southwest Freeway, a man casually walked up to a utility truck and beat it with what appears to be a stick. Elsewhere in the Houston area, a hundred linemen were evacuated after a 38-year-old man allegedly waved a gun at workers. Ed Allen, a leader of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, remarked that “In 42 years in this industry, working here in…
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