George Bush doesn’t care about black people. – Kanye West

So the Federal and State government knew that there was a class 5 hurricane coming, days before it arrived and decided in advanced not to do anything. Since the area of New Orleans that would be hit was mostly black, it would be a good way to control the population.

I don’t buy that at all. I think its completely ridiculous. The question of motives are rather irrelevant after the disaster has passed. Because regardless of “why” it went wrong… the fact of the matter is it went wrong… really wrong.

The complacency started in 1998 when the the levee wasn’t fixed after they detected a problem.

A 1998 ruling, by an administrative judge for the Corps’ Board of Contract Appeals, shows that the contractor, Pittman Construction, told the Corps that the soil and the foundation for the walls were “not of sufficient strength, rigidity and stability” to build on.

More http://www.hsaj.org/?fullarticle=1.2.7

Now after fools were made from blame deflecting leaders everyone wants to do something. The Army Corps of Engineers has spent about $4 billion so far of the $14 billion set aside by Congress to repair and upgrade the metropolitan area’s hundreds of miles of levees by 2011 (yahoo news).

There were also warnings to get people to leave the New Orleans area prior to Katrina hitting. In fact, a year earlier hurricane Ivan should have been a massive warning of things to come. It should have had citizens and their government preparing for another round of possible disaster. But it was ignored:

In the case of Ivan, serious problems were caused by a lack of planning for a cataclysmic storm, yet with Katrina on the horizon, the lessons of Ivan were all but forgotten.

A feckless state governor and New Orleans’ mayor repeated the same mistakes they made with Ivan, and hundreds of thousands of largely poor people were forced to endure conditions that one associates with the Third World – not the richest nation on the planet.

The disaster in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina will come as no surprise to those who recall a September 19, 2004 Associated Press report.

I think that single great point of failure in the Katrina ordeal was the people’s unyielding faith in the Federal, State and Local all of whom failed them and started blaming one another for the ensuing chaos.

Rule #1. Do NOT trust ANY government to protect you. The Katrina Conspiracy is written out, alive and well in your trust in a federal, state and local government whose existence is time and time again proven to be useless in helping its own citizens.