Zu all den Katastrophenmeldungen möchte ich (english, sorry) diesen Text weiterreichen, daß bei allem Versagen der Institutionen dort Menschen lebten, die eben nicht versagten. Mehr bei "Whiskey Bar": Die "Reichen" sind abgehauen, die arbeitende Bevölkerung versuchte sich gerade so zu helfen:

What you will not see, but what we witnessed,were the real heroes and sheroes of the hurricane relief effort: the working class of New Orleans. The maintenance workers who used a fork lift to carry the sick and disabled. The engineers, who rigged, nurtured and kept the generators running. The electricians who improvised thick extension cords stretching over blocks to share the little electricity we had in order to free cars stuck on rooftop parking lots. Nurses who took over for mechanical ventilators and spent many hours on end manually forcing air into the lungs of unconscious patients to keep them alive. Doormen who rescued folks stuck in elevators. Refinery workers who broke into boat yards, "stealing" boats to rescue their neighbors clinging to their roofs in flood waters. Mechanics who helped hot-wire any car that could be found to ferry people out of the City. And the food service workers who scoured the commercial kitchens improvising communal meals for hundreds of those stranded.

mehr eben bei http://billmon.org/archives/002143.html

und weiter wird dann neben vielem anderen Skandalösem (!) im Gegensatz dazu sichtbar, wie selbstverständlich die "weißen Reichen" die systematische Vertreibung der Schwarzen aus New Orleans für den Wiederaufbau planen!

Illusionen anybody über die "Amerikanische Freiheit"?