Class or Race Warfare?

Hurricanes are no respecters of persons.

We expect more from people.

Was the government guilty of racial or class warfare in New Orleans?

Or both?

Could it be because that city happened to vote Democratic, that the city was allowed to be 'cleansed'. Could it be that the most prevalent class and race of the Big Easy was just an unhappy coincidence? Was it an Inconvenient truth... or a convenient truth?

All good questions that I think I can help shed some light on.

Systemic prejudice has been evident from the foundations of this country.
We wiped out whole civilizations of "savage" indians. Who wouldnt be savage if they knew they were earmarked for death? Self defense can bring out the worst in people.

Terrorism is nothing new. The government can use terror to get what they want; or rather, what the agents who put them in office want.

Gov't can use the prejudices of the people to act (or not act) in prejudicial ways; Furthermore, to get approval (or allow disapproval of tax money for the neediest)

Great disasters can be a distraction to run intercept for outrageous actions that would otherwise be spotted as incontrovertibly evil in its scope. Failure to act in an emergency situation by agents whose sole responsibility is to bring aid to the victims of said emergency; is wholly unpardonable and that agency should be deemed an accomplice. The hurricane had two official conspirators. The Army Corps of Engineers FAILED to maintain the levee system to a level adequate to the safety of
two million people of New Orleans. The pumps that kept the city dry and drinking water fresh, also malfunctioned.
These duties should be color blind. Were they?

The other conspirator, FEMA wanted us to think they were incompetant. That they were having a bad hair day. But, why should they rush in to save people from a house they set on fire? Does not one hand know what the other hand does? It really doesnt matter, when the ends justify the means. A little negligence can be expected. "The city that care forgot" was not a victim of a few bumbling missteps; FEMA withheld and forbade help to these victims. A categorically evil plan was carried out. Fresh water was denied these people; thousands died in sweltering, New Orleans summer, swamp heat.

Can we trust the government to count the bodies?
Look how irresponsible they have been with Iraqi citizens murdered, "We dont do body counts." US Army General Tommy Franks.

The way they see it the bodies are just the stuff somebody else sweeps up after their house was exterminated.
Is there any need to count dead cockroaches?

Not at all. See:

"The 8 Stages of Genocide"
Stage 3:Dehumanization
Classification and symbolization are fundamental operations in all cultures. They become steps of genocide only when combined with dehumanization. Denial of the humanity of others is the step that permits killing with impunity. The universal human abhorrence of murder of members of one's own group is overcome by treating the victims as less than human. In incitements to genocide the target groups are called disgusting animal names - Nazi propaganda called Jews "rats" or "vermin"; Rwandan Hutu hate radio referred to Tutsis as "cockroaches." The targeted group is often likened to a “disease”, “microbes”, “infections” or a “cancer” in the body politic. Bodies of genocide victims are often mutilated to express this denial of humanity. Such atrocities then become the justification for revenge killings, because they
are evidence that the killers must be monsters, not human beings themselves.


(to be continued)