Katrina, a Conspiracy Theory?
Did George W. Bush have a profound effect on the catastrophic economical disaster that was Hurricane Katrina?
The answer is behind a clad-iron door locked with a ghastly Skeleton Key.
You heard right. George Bush, Dick Cheney, Halliburton, the oil, and now Kate Hudson, all of them thanking the heavens under their breath for the natural disaster felt around the world. In their own respectable ways of course.
With an estimated death count of 10,000, insured property damages of over $30 billion, and the complete relocation of a half-a-million people, Katrina proved deadly and dreary for most of the country. But not for the brass, the elite, and the producers of the back woods thriller.
“When they asked for volunteers I said heck, I’ll go clean up some debris and shit,” said Private First Class Jim Garfield. “At least I’ll be cleaning up after my own.” But Bush had other plans. A call of 30,000 additional National Guardsmen to the disaster area sparked some controversy about our available service men. But not to worry, the Michigan Militia was on deck waiting for a chance to use their assault rifles. So instead of sending more men to Iraq, it was a justified substitution for our men in arms.
“We basically traded our tanks for fork lifts,” joked Sgt. Victor Epstein IV. “We still get our AK’s (47’s).”
Unfortunately our South is more resemblent of Iraq or Sudan for that matter. And the most disturbing fact that arose from the surface of the muddy water was not the devastation, it was the African Americans.
In an undeniable whirlwind of pictures and video the nation was shown for what it truly is, separate and unequal. When it rains it pours and it poured all over the poor people of the South. It’s not so much racism as it is just inequality. Face it the rich get richer and the poor get flooded.
Take for example our Vice President’s (Dick Cheney for all you sports fans) multinational company that just moved to Houston, Halliburton. Already reaping the benefits of an $11 billion agreement to ‘rebuild’ Iraq, Kellogg Brown & Root (a subsidiary of Halliburton) just secured another uncontested contract to “reestablish economic growth” for our Gulf Coast. The new contract, valued at over $500 million, will first and foremost secure the prize possession of the disaster, the oilrigs.
KBR is no newcomer to disaster relief. In 1992, Halliburton and Co. also contracted the clean up of the $28 billion disaster named Andrew. Similar to Katrina, victims in Florida in the wake of Andrew were also forced to wait five days as George Sr. thumbed out aid. Just as a side note, Dick Cheney was also the Defense Secretary for Bush version one. Just old friends doing business.
So how does Kate Hudson get a piece of conspiracy pie? “We basically have hours of footage of an area that is practically non-existent,” Hudson said in a recent interview. “It really captures the true beauty of what was once Louisiana.” Soon we’ll see Skeleton Key on the History Channel and our kids will be watching it in class as a documentary. Box office for the movie has been meek but saw a significant increase after Katrina.
Score one for the Witch Doctor.
With all this talk of black gold, distraught black people, and black magic, I can’t help but think of a voodoo doll solving all of our problems. Just mold it after G.W. Make it all nice and super clean, complete with brash smirk, blue suit and red tie. Frost the gray hair and tan the skin a bit. Just make sure this time the most significant piece gets dropped in: the brain.
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