Who care's if it's racism or classism - it's still murder or manslaughter

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What's the difference?

The human body cannot go many days without water.

Katrina was finished by Monday night. It's now Thursday night and the Feds are refusing to airdrop bottled water and sandwiches.

Why? Who knows. Who cares. It's still either murder or (at the very least) manslaughter.

Is it due to racism? Classism? Who knows, and, really, who cares?

The problem with "hate crimes" legislation is that it complicates prosecuting clear-cut murder and manslaughter cases. You have to get inside the perpetrator's head to figure out what their "motivation" was.

But aside from the question of Bush's and Chertoff's motivations, we have clear evidence of their actions - which are leading to the unnecessary deaths of thousands of people. This is happening in front of everyone's eyes, on national TV. We are literally sitting in our living rooms watching 80,000 people in NOLA be starved to death by our government. Everyone watching is on the verge of tears.

The ONLY solution right now is for some rich person to charter helicopters and airdrop water and sandwiches to the rooftops and highway overpasses where survivors are congregating. Bush and Chertoff won't do it. A few hundred thousand dollars in bottled water, sandwiches and chartered helicopters is all it would take to save lives - and Bush and Chertoff refuse to do it.

The only question now is whether this is murder (deliberate, premeditated) or manslaughter (incompetence, because Bush is a mental cripple and Chertoff is a former estate lawyer who's not qualified to be an elementary-school crossing guard, let alone head of a disaster-management agency).

Take your pick - murder or manslaughter, and leave the legally irrelevant issue of racism or classism to the clairvoyants.

Katrina didn't killing the people stranded on rooftops and highway overpasses - but Bush and Chertoff are killing them right now - live on national TV.