Katrina devastated the south, gas 6 $ a gallon

[TaiChiBob]

Greetings..

Who said it was a democratic conspiracy? What is being pointed out is they wasted no time in politicizing the issue (joined eagerly by the mainstream media). What this means is that the mainstream media has demonstrated its profound lack of knowledge of the federal government system, as have all the others that have latched on to the blame Bush bandwagon on this issue.

If it suits you to defend the incompetence of the system and its leadership by believing it's being "politicized", you are missing the point.. it doesn't matter which party or whom is in office.. what matters is that the system and the leadership wallowed in indecision for 5 days while its citizens perished due to that indecision.. to defend such incompetence is to invite more of the same.. if you watched your family pleading on national TV for their lives and nothing was being done you may have a different opinion.. what we must know is that we ARE one big family, when one hurts we all hurt..

Pro-active leadership should have urgently mobilized all available resources regardless of red-tape issues.. the US military could have made emergency aid drops of crucial supplies (water and food) within hours of a directive to do so.. where was the directive? Is it reasonable to watch Americans dying on national TV while politicians negotiate who does what? Less than 60 hours after Katrina hit N.O. the Salvation Army had a significent presence in the area and was delivering aid.. where was the US army?

This is the tip of the iceberg. Hopefully, the harsh light of media scrutiny will illuminate the rampant corruption inherent at all levels of Gov't.. We are a 2 faced nation, self-righteous in our ideals, self-degrading in our deeds.. we talk the moral high-road and ride the highway to hell.. most people complain of the system and how it doesn't work, the same people will, generally, take every opportunity to abuse the system in their favor, from questionable tax loop-holes to slipping a building inspector a hundred dollar bill to look the other way while they violate code and save thousands.. We are our own worst enemy.. i'm no saint, i'm like most people, but i see the problem.. we hire lawers to find ways to beat the system, well.. guess what, the system is beaten and broken.. and, it's very likely that a similar disater in any other area would show the same flaws, it's not just a "deep south" thing..

Our founding documents are profound in their simplicity and vision for a free and independent society.. they ask little and provide much, a common cause and defense, a unity of spirit and deed, the "right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness", and a belief that "one for all and all for one" will raise this nation's standards as evidence of the potential for all mankind.. But, the system became the tool for greedy and self-concerned people to use against the less fortunate and less wealthy.. the simple laws were "interpreted" to favor the the same people that "interpreted" them.. resulting in today's millions of pages of laws rules and regulations that we have to hire attorneys to understand, understanding that it was attorneys that crafted these overly complex and self-serving laws in the first place.. Now, we see the inevitably of the complexities the system has created, a system that fails on its own merits.. we pay taxes with the promise of services and protection.. N.O. and the Gulf Coast now see how well those taxes were managed..

The only thing "political" about these issues, is it's the result of politics.. political parties concerned about the party at the expense of the peoples it represents.. Too often we hear about which party did what, we hold political parties accountable for individual indiscretions or we praise them for individual acts of social competence.. The parties absorb and absolve incompetence.. they accept, assimilate, and embellish individual jobs well done.. they self-replicate rather than create..

Here is a nation that has been led to war on deception and manipulation.. depleting its resources to, ostensibly, save a people that will revert to their historic ways as soon as they are left to their own devices.. a war against a nation and its soverign leader based on what it "might do".. Led by a group of people that feel empowered to export their idea of nationalism by force.. we are no longer have a government "of the people, for the people, and by the people", it has become a turf war between two well-dressed gangs posing as politicians.. manipulating the constituents for agendas neither clearly exposed nor in the best interest of the nation's founding principles..

Katrina ripped off a piece of the camouflage and bared the ugly soul of politics.. so, yes, it is time to scrutinize every level of government regardless of party affiliation.. it's time to watch the watchers..

Be well..