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[xiphias]

Is it possible that FEMA was under orders to be part of the problem rather than part of the solution? Or, at least, set up deliberately so that it could ONLY be part of the problem? I mean, FEMA used to help people, under a Democratic administration.

More to the point, I'd personally like to see people starting talking about how the Department of Homeland Security turned back trucks, refused aid, and kept people from evacuating the city, rather than FEMA. 'Cause FEMA, right now, is part of DHS, so I like to think of this as the Department of Homeland Security, not FEMA. When FEMA was its own agency, it didn't act like this. Therefore, this is DHS.

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[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

I also have a semi-paranoid conspiracy-theory opinion. Most of the people who were trapped because of botched evacuation plans were poor, black, disenfranchised. Was this an opportunity taken by the Bush administration to wage a class war in an underhanded way? If we continue down this "primrose path", I fear a class war is on the horizon. It's time to take care of all our residents equally and fairly. It's time to share the abundant resources of this country (yes - we do still have abundant resources compared to many other countries in the world) among all our citizens. It's time that the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights apply to everyone. I don't care what our founding fathers meant in their documents. I want equality, rights, life and liberty for all - not the privileged few. And I want it now! (steps off her soap-box)

[lietya.livejournal.com]

It's hard to avoid having them, these days.... and I resent a government that's turned me into a conspiracy theorist (so far, I've been wrong only in *under*estimating the scope and enthusiasm of their evil).

Sign me up to live in your soapbox. I like the way you think.

[cheshyre]

As Teresa Nielsen Hayden said:

I deeply resent the way this administration makes me feel like a nutbar conspiracy theorist

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[cheshyre]

On the one hand, they've destroyed the minority neighborhoods of New Orleans (I understand some of the upper-class neighborhoods and the French Quarter are still relatively unscathed) and I've heard rumors (I've had about 5 mins to read news the last 2 days) that rebuilding plans already may gentrify out the poorer class.

On the other hand, the massive influx of minority voters has just royally fouled up the recent GOP gerrymandering redistricting of Texas...