it is still a scandal

I cannot believe that New Orleans continues to be such a horrifying scandal. Why is this disaster somehow morally a worse one than the tsunami of December 2004?

Perhaps because the sight of such poverty in the midst of one of the richest nations is horrifying. Because the rich are safe while the poor are dying. Because the American central government doesn't give a damn for it's own. Because the nation that parades it's democracy, equality and freedom conceals within it a terrible sore and wound of injustice and inequality. Because a nation that spends billions of dollars in days on its many missiles and bombs, and on its space programmes is one that harbours abject and miserable poverty that we see now on our tv screens.

The nation is reaping its indifference to environmental changes and global warming, and I wish to God it had been the policy makers and those in power had paid the price for their indifference. Instead it is the poorest of their people that pay now. As always.

Perhaps this is going to be the scourge of America's whitewashed piety and the touchstone by which its hypocrisy is made visible to the rest of the world.

Those who talk bullshit about the hand of God and His justice when they invade other nations, should stop and think about the God of justice they invoke and His view of their own nation and its racial inequalities. The God of justice and love, whom I know is not the same one paraded by these "born again" powerful, for whom " justice" comprises merely of their invasion of other nations in the disguise of the chosen of God.

There is clearly no justice within, but great yawing moral abysses that are successfully camouflaged. I read today, about the American citizens watching in horror at what lay within their own nation of freedom, and being appalled by the level of poverty and misery in New Orleans, and the kind of treatment meted out to the rich and the poor.

I should not I suppose be surprised by a nation that harbours the scar of Guantanamo bay, and the likes of Robertson who talk about "murder" as justice. I am angry, Yes I am. And I make no apologies for the use of "swear" words for sometimes it is only swear words that are appropriate.