Monopoly on life -Katrina about Govt Control, not about helping people

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Excerpts from a Monopoly on Life:

Control is what the state has always been about. If you doubt this, consider the words of Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, who declared that National Guard “troops are fresh back from Iraq, well trained, experienced, battle tested and under my orders to restore order in the streets.” She added: “They have M-16s and they are locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill and they are more than willing to do so if necessary and I expect they will.”

Or consider the words of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff expressing what, by now, has become the underlying motto of his police-state agency: “We are in control of what’s going on in the city.” Add to this the words of one National Guard general who decreed: “We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control.”

From whom will the city be “taken back,” and to what ends? Those who have learned their political catechisms from the television priesthood will speak of “looters,” without distinguishing those stealing food and water from stores in order to survive, and without asking whether this will include a crackdown on the police officers and firemen who reportedly joined in the stealing of television sets, computers, and other valuables. Perhaps getting “this city under control” includes continuing to interfere with such voluntary efforts as Red Cross deliveries of food, Wal-Mart’s shipment of water, and physicians offering to come to New Orleans to help the sick and injured. This purpose may also explain why FEMA cut emergency communications lines from New Orleans, an action reversed by the local sheriff who then placed guards around the facility.

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