In the chaos and trauma that accompanied the levee collapses in New
Orleans in 2005, a few basic facts were obscured:
1. Katrina was not a natural disaster. It was an engineering
disaster caused by the federally funded U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers.
2. Far from performing incompetently, the Bush administration and
reactionary forces in local government were extremely effective in
attaining their aims.
Specifically:
1. The Bush administration did an extremely effective job of
withholding vital "life and death" information that levees had not
only topped, they had also catastrophically collapsed.
(Reference: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/79.html)
2. FEMA did an extremely effective job of discouraging qualified
relief workers from coming to the area, going so far as to turn many
back at gunpoint.
They also turned away much needed supplies like water and fuel and
sabotaged local communications lines.
3. Thousands of flood victims were very effectively herded and held
in concentration-like conditions within the city for many days after
the flooding.
4. Though it claimed to be unable to bring food, water, medicine or
transportation into the flood zone, Homeland Security did an
extremely effective job of quickly hiring and deploying highly paid
gun thugs to the region who were employed by companies that had made
massive contributions to the Bush campaign.
5. The Bush administration and their friends in the news media did
an extremely effective job of painting the victims of the flooding
as dangerous and not worthy of being helped.
6. The Bush administration did an extremely effective job of erasing
a carefully researched and thought out evacuation plan developed
over many years by LSU and replacing it with NOTHING.
(Reference: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/79.html)
7. Post-flood law enforcement did an extremely effective job of
illegally seizing fire arms from hundreds of law abiding citizens
while allowing criminals to run amok.
Incompetence? Poor planning?
You've got to be kidding....
The Bush administration wanted to destroy the black Democratic
voting block in New Orleans - and it did. New Orleans and southern
Louisiana, one of the last Democratic hold outs in the South, is
Republican now.
It wanted a justification for seizing guns and declaring martial law
and succeeded in creating conditions where people would beg for
military intervention.
It wanted practice holding large numbers of civilians in
concentration camp-like conditions - and it got the opportunity.
It wanted to obscure the fact that instead of using the tax dollars
it's collected over the decades to repair and maintain levees, it's
used the money to engage in illegal foreign wars.
Mission accomplished on every score.
But they made one miscalculation.
So conditioned were administration planners by their own habitual
depravity, it never occurred to them that the rest of the country
would object to seeing their fellow citizens suffer so outrageously
at the hands of the government.
The good news is the moral instincts of Americans still function
well. The bad news is their ability to see what is being done to
them in broad daylight is highly impaired.
One more piece of the puzzle and another well executed part of the
plan: