Katrina just may be this generations Triangle Factory Fire....

[WCGreen]

Just as the disaster that swept through the New York garment industry in 1911 and exposed just how the poor really lived, worked and died in conditions not expected or thought possible, the Waves, Wind and Water of Katrina seem to have awakened the long dormant progressive spirit of America once agian....

Now, will it be enough to bring back the country we love from the brink of a feudalistic society.....

Or will we, with a culpable media, continue our lemming like march toward a monarchy all but in name......

And why is our leading crusading social commentator relegated to a back water cable channel such as Comedy Central.....

[Robeson]

1. Interesting analogy....

...I'm going to think about that one, but you may be right.

[AVulgarianHue]

2. I'm cynical and old enough...

to have seen imposed oppressive order out of their created chaos, from the Repugs and the Democrats.

Rumsfeld, Bush, et al are doing their spin. The hypnotized true believers of der party grab hold of any explanation to exonerate criminal behaviour.

[WCGreen]

3. AVH, my cynicism is dead and old......

But I still feel a ray of hope is out there if enough of the people can just shake off their golden slumber....

[AVulgarianHue]

6. My one constant prayer is for people to wake up

Thousands awakening would be awesome.

With that said, it's time for me to say good night.
:boring: <----sleepy time

[Ptah]

4. I fear if this doesn't turn the tide,

then we are done for.

:where's the sax playing-blues guy smilie:

[WCGreen]

5. It is, as they say, a tipping point....

[Solon]

7. I hope so...

as the ashes of that catastrophe, though not nearly as large, just shocking, woke the nation in a time that soon turned to turmoil, may the waters of New Orleans wash away the mask on the face of this nation, so now people will see what is the rotting core that has been festering in its heart for far too long.

[In_The_Wind]

8. America needs to wake up!

We were once a nation that was proud of its leaders.

[BlueIris]

9. Respectfully...this doesn't have a precedent.

Though, if I had to choose one, I'd go with Kent State. No the number of deaths is, of course, not analogous, but the disillusionment and horror I've been feeling sounds to me like what my parents and others described after witnessing the Kent State killings. Part of my commitment to the future is to never allow Hurricane Katrina's pain to be obliterated from the history books in some of the ways that the Kent State disaster has been.

[WCGreen]

10. I lived through Kent State and what that even did was

actually more polorizing.....

THe people who were against the war, or leaning against it, were now firmly....

But this was the age of Nixon and the silent majority.... People who were for Nixon, for Law and Order, a lot of Blue color folks, although not cheering the death of four suburban college kids, too it as just another example of the outrageous liberalism run amok on our nations college campuses......

Even small town Ohio was wasn't imune....