[microsound] WTF Re: [microsound] New Orleans?

[kubick <sesenta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

this is obviously ot but
actually i think that the most recent 2 elections have proven once  
and for all
that at least in the case of america, democracy does not work, for the
majority of the population.
i would also remind you that new orleans and in fact louisiana  
traditionally
vote democratic, not republican.  some have even ventured that political
friction, in addition to ineptitude and corruption (eg the head of  
the disaster agency
which was caught wth its pants around its ankles was a crony of bushs  
with
no experience who has completely gutted that agency) were the basis  
for the delay
in getting emergency troops into the area.

at any rate, the suggestion that hundreds of thousands of  
disenfranchised people
deserve to suffer because of "bad karma" over the world political  
machinations
of a group of very corrupt and very powerful people  seems in a very  
obvious way to be
lacking in compassion.

if anything i would see the destruction of poverty stricken  
neighborhoods as
evidence of either a cruel god who does not mete out punishment
fairly or perhaps evidence that there is no grand plan at all.

i certainly hope that you would not carry your logic further and  
suggest that the asian tsunami
victims, victims of the many earthquakes each year, or perhaps even  
the victims of the iraq
war (genocide off the american indians..??..holocaust..???) are  
evidence of bad karma......

i come from those who believe firmly that the aids epidemic is NOT  
evidence of the sinfulness
of being gay, or using intravenous drugs, but rather an unfortunate  
and devastating health
epidemic that should be resolved as quickly as possible and i ask you  
to reconsider your position.
best,
chris kubick


>
> if democracy works than the americans deserve *exactly* what they  
> get in
> terms of military and federal help. they voted for him. now they  
> can reap
> the rewards of a 'leader' bent on destroying liberty, reason,  
> humanity, the
> planet, and its increasingly fragile ecology, via his own incredibly
> efficient ignorance, stupidity, piety, and avarice.

> like i said, bad karma, with no one to blame except the imaginary  
> god which
> supposedly lights his way and the very global warming and climatic
> devastation prompted by the fuel wars. time to trade kevlar in for  
> water
> wings.