Rock You Like A Hurricane

- Scorpion

I know I’ve been really remiss in writing for the past little while but it seems that time is steam-rolling past me like a supersonic train, leaving me on a dusty platform trying to catch my breath in its wake...What can I say, I don’t have a minute to think, let alone write! But I felt like I had to give my two cents’ worth about this whole Katrina business....

Although I can’t imagine the devastation that people feel after having lost everything, their family members, houses, belongings, jobs, pictures, cars, communities, whatever...I’m finding it very difficult to sympathize with people that are resorting to violence and terrorizing their own (raping and stealing) as well as attacking those who are trying to help them (firefighters, medics)? What is wrong with these people!
For a country that considers themselves to be the most civilized country in the world (compared to third world countries like Haiti, Dom. Rep., Sri-Lanka etc...), they are acting like complete heathens - uncivilized savages! Those other countries have also dealt with natural disasters of enormous magnitude, they are also poverty-stricken communities, and some of them are also historically violent communities (like in Haiti), yet when disaster struck them, they acted in a much more humane way. You cannot convince me that the misery of Americans supersedes that of other nations. Those other countries didn’t even HAVE a Walmart to pillage even if they wanted to. There are not Kmart’t in Sri-Lanka where people can steal diapers and food, yet they managed and helped eachother to rise again and restart some semblance of a life. In the richest country in the world, where even poor people have more in their possession that those in third world countries, this is when you see evil. And while I cannot fault those who looted essentials to survive, people looting guns to terrorize others in the same miserable situation as them cannot be described in any other words other than evil.

Instead of coming together as a community that has witnessed such a disaster, and trying to organize a system of help and support, it has become a lawless, free for all, Lord Of T he Flies-like rampage, taking advantage of people that are just as poor, as well as the sick, the elderly, the young, the defenseless and the bereft.

Only in a society that is so individualist, uncaring and consumer-based.... God bless America indeed! I won’t even begin to talk about the government! Those same southern-basin, Old-South voters that placed him there are having to deal with his inadequacy as a leader. I can sympathize with these poor unemployed victims that are astounded that the government is paying 25$/hour to other people from other states rather than them to come and clean up the debris in their own communities. The worst part is that I’m sure if Texas had been hit with Katrina rather the Mississipi or Louisiana, this whole thing would have been dealt with immediately and not because it’s his home state, but because it’s the big money oil and cattle state. I can’t write more on Bush because there is just too much to say.

The utterly threadbare fabric of American society has been exposed for all to see. A beautiful shell that glitters when one looks from afar, but as soon as the shell is crushed, the empty, hollow nothingness that is inside stares us in the face. In a country that likes to pretend that segregation and racism are a thing of the past and that they are multi-cultural, these thousands of people suffering in these enormous football arenas are a glaring reminder to us all that it is still prevalent.

To put the icing on this stinking cake, you have these moronic media-journalists that are dubbing this as OUR 9/11, OUR HIROSHIMA and OUR HOLOCAUST. What a complete and utter insult to all of the victims of those tragedies. Even saying OUR TSUNAMI is insulting to those victims. Although Katrina has caused much misery, trauma, death, disease,it is not the worst, first nor the last disaster this planet has endured. In all of history, many societies have suffered from equally devastating events, but because these victims lived in a big American city, captured by big American TV- network cameras with catchy subtitles, they want us to think that they have suffered more than anyone else in this world....Well, I don’t buy it....When the tsunami hit, there was no Astrodome to ship people off to, they lived IN the excrement, with the dead floating around them, and yet they didn’t shoot at, steal from, or rape eachother....The whole thing is sickening....Unpalatable.