A Paradox Called Katrina

Greyhound buses quit running on Friday in New Orleans, the last plane left Sunday. The state officials did not commandeer or place under martial law any and all forms of transportation for the folks left behind. Of course not, the majority of them were black. Meanwhile the first reports in the aftermath of Katrina were about looting. Looting my ass, people left behind were gathering bottled water, dry clothes, food that was already going bad. People helped people, even CNN reported that so called looting was for essentials. Survivors don't loot they survive. As the Band said "take what you need and leave the rest." (The Night they Drove old Dixie down) CNN and other News stations were in the heart of the storm and its aftermath and there was no pending rescue from the military. Reporters viewed the disaster with the shared frustration of the survivors, where was the rescue operations? There was no plan to rescue those left behind, only a plan to evacuate those who could afford to leave. The national guard was not sent in to rescue those so callously left behind, they were sent in to defend the remnants of private property. Cuba got hit with just as bad a storm this summer, and had less deaths because they evacuated everyone. In amerika it's dog eat dog survival of the fittest down and dirty capitalism. Katrina revealed the unspoken class war in America. Katrina was a predictable storm, one of many that hit this summer. They are getting bigger and nastier. We are watching climate change happen before our eyes courtesy of cable television news. Apologists for capitalism like Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish author of the Skeptical Environmentalist who says there is no proof that human beings are to blame for global warming. He is right, it's not human beings its the economic/political/technological system we created called capitalism. And as capitalism demands we ignore global climate change and its impact, in order to continue with business as usual, Mother Nature has a way of reminding us she does not give a hoot about capitalism or us if we ignore her. Read the whole article at: http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2005/09/paradox-called-katrina.html

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