Understanding Katrina

If you understand that most of those killed in the atrocities of the 20th Century were not shot or gassed to death but rather died as the result of starvation, exposure or overexertion, then you understand how governments can craft policies that are designed to kill even if on paper they appear benign.

It doesn't matter how you kill the person. It doesn't matter that you never knew the person. What matters is that you instituted a policy that you knew would deprive a person of his or her life.

If you understand that the war on drugs is just such a policy, and you can bring yourself to face the enormous cost in human life of this policy, then you can look at the policy put in place for Katrina's aftermath. And understand.

"Nixon emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to." — H. R. Haldemann