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From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 3:23 PM
Subject: Hurricane Katrina / some thoughts
> I - as I suspect like many or most - want to register my deepest feelings
of
> sorrow for those suffering and those lost in the wake of Hurricane
so-called
> Katrina.
> In terms of the United States (a unitary concept which feels more and more
> like an oxymoron) this unfolding event - its terror, its hunger, its
> potential for famine and desperate acts of violence - is beyond anything
> most of us could ever imagine. It's like a whole portion of the country is
> experiencing another version of the Donner Party - only this time on a
scale
> so magnified that the consequence will undoubtedly affect every element of
> this country's infrastructure, including its emotional well being.
> Ironically, since there is no one 'foreign' that can be pointed to in the
> manner of Al Queda - but only Nature - the country's collective body is
> going to have to go way deep inside itself to muster the resolve to emerge
> in some kind of forward moving shape. Sadly, given the blind belligerence
of
> its leadership - including its faith based commitment to Intelligent
Design
> to the denial of Global Warming - it will be astonishing, but may be
> possible under the circumstances to imagine a transformation based on
> pragmatic principles, rather than ones of faith. We can pray for that!
Yes,
> to imagine this President wading into the flooded waters of New Orleans,
and
> lifting black, white and impoverished children into the air and saying
some
> equivalent to one of his previous mantras, "No child left behind" would be
a
> human start on the process. I won't bet on it. But hope.
>
> Otherwise this event - which will also be sustained - will be as grim as
the
> unrelieved military devastation of parts of Iraq. All ideology (puff
speech
> and puff cures) and minimal healing. It will be the ultimate irony of
this
> Administration - through a selfish lack of imagination and inaction - to
> offer us both homeless Iraqi war veterans on the same streets in which we
> will find homeless hurricane refugees.
>
> I would like to hear what anybody else is feeling or thinking.
>
> Big tests to everyone here are obviously coming up.
>
> Stephen V
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