THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT - KATRINA AND OCCUPATION

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Some thoughts from Mr. Goff.

Cuba evacuated 660,000 people in advance of Hurricane Dennis, a Cat 4 that hit them in July, and suffered ten fatalities. That’s because Cuba not only invests in disaster preparation and strong civil defense, but because there is a social committment to medical infrastructure, high literacy levels, and government support of community organizers, to mention a few of the reasons.

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The reaction of the US government to Katrina is as ugly a picture as you might want of capitalism, and make no doubt that this response is a capitalist response. You’re on your own… if you’re poor, too fucking bad.

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Or such a response. On the news, white families foraging through flooded convenience stores for food and water are said to be “recovering” food. Black families doing exactly the same thing are called “looters.” The organs of commodified information are clamoring for control of this deracinated mass of black bodies – get law and order back, even though the city is gone, is a more urgent cry than finding those who are still trapped in their sweltering attics, slowly dying of dehydration and vascular collapse… children the most vulnerable.

Bush spoke today (September 2) in response to the mounting wrath at how the Federal government has responded, and all he could think of to say was, “We are going to restore order in the city of New Orleans.” He knows his White nationalist base well, and that’s all he has to go to now. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, at his wits end with diplomatic restraint had to be bleeped on the radio when he said, “They don’t have any fucking idea what’s going!”

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