Katrina

If you ask me, the American Civil war never ended, it only manifested. Realising that the war would not be one with shotguns with poor range, the south sat back and decided they would win the war decades later with politics. Politics have a much larger range than a 12-pound mountain howitzer and is sharper than your average bowie knife, and in the recent days of Hurricane Katrina we're starting to get a clear understanding of this.

All of the southern states banded together a few years ago, and in an act of self-interest equivalent to - if not directly stemming from - the racial and social intersts from the colonial days, these states successfully reelected possibly the the most legitimately notorious American president of all time. Blacks are dying in the south, at the expense of some whites (sounds a lot like the civil war, a bunch of white folk sacrificing their lives so their children could have the right to own a black slave of their own) and the Bush administration is allowing it to happen.

Martial law is being imposed upon looters who are looting stores and stealing food, or at least stealing the means of purchasing food. I suppose someone ought to post a reminder, that the people of New Oreleans aren't in a position to enjoy the luxary of earning a honest wage and idling through supermarkets to decide on snacks to purchase. It should be noted that the national guard didn't show up at the Bush residence when Noelle Bush, George's neice, was caught shoplifting back in '95. I shouldn't use that incident to allude to Bush's hypocracy, after all he wasn't even in power yet. Who knows what he might have done in that case? Maybe he would have indeed had her shot.

Who knows what he might do next? That has been the theme of Bush's reign of terror, and the powers that be in the south are loving every minute of it. New Oreleans is sinking, but the south shall rise again!