You had to know that I would go here.

So here’s what we know…

A couple weeks back, a hurricane hit the good ole U.S. of A.

And it caused some serious problems.

In fact a whack of people have died, sadly, most of them utterly disposable. When I say that, I mean that the vast majority of casualties have been either poor or black or elderly or all three. Those people are those that the U.S. have by and large allowed to suffer the difficulties of foreign policy for decades running. Granted, a good number of white people have also paid a terrible price, but the bottom line is that as always, it is the poor and the disenfranchised that have ultimately suffered.

And usually, in the states, those are the minorities.

In the Vietnam war, a staggering number of blacks died as opposed to whites. It’s not something that we like to talk about, but it’s a tragic truth. We’re talking almost a three to one ratio here.

We should all know at this point that this was by and large preventable. We should all know that while mother nature is completely in control of the grand scheme an enlightened few spoke most vocally more than a couple of years ago that Louisianna and in particular New Orleans and Biloxi were woefully unprepared for a hurricane e of this sort. It’s a matter of public record that those in the know clearly stated that due to cuts in budget for the upkeep and repair of the levees to fund the war in terrorism they would be unable to cope with a major storm.

But those cries, even stated as matter of security and safety went ignored.

Because oil called, and at the end of the day what matters more?

Evidently not thousands of lives. That was only a possibility.

Of course that was as much as a possibility as another terrorist attack.

So we start to see the cost.

There was not a quick enough response. In fact, by and large, there was no response.

And now, in the wake of thousands dead, politicians and celebrities are flocking to the affected areas. If I wasn’t a realists, I might think this had to do with aiding the victims of this, but unfortunately, ever since 9/11 my bullshit meter had been set on high, so I can’t quite buy it.

We’re all about face time now.

For all of those Americans that care so much, I simply ask, if the casualties, if the loss of human life is so unacceptable, why does it only count when those that die carry U.S. citizenship? More than 25,000 Iraqi civilians alone have been killed since the U.S. “intervention”, and that is by conservative count.

It is easy to accept your government’s policy when the dead are counted on foreign soil. It is easy to turn a blind eye when the reality of the policy of Empire is counted in the dead of another sovereign state.

Well now the cost has come home, and forgive me for saying it, but I am grateful.

For too long, American foreign policy has resulted in the death of countless innocents. It came home on September Eleventh in a tragically direct way, and it has come home again. If the government of the U.S. was more concerned with preserving the safety of it’s citizens, the death toll in Louisiana would not continue to climb as it has. But efforts were directed in a policy that was aimed only at redrawing a map that the U.S. had no business redrawing. Efforts were directed at an imaginary foe, and when real threat, real harm came to the people of the U.S. the government had already turned it’s back them years before by cutting the budgets necessary (basic upkeep of the construction of a cities infrastructure) and the government was incapable of responding.

I believe that the storm would have taken lives in it’s unslaught, but I don’t believe that the rapes and murders and looting could not have been prevented.

They could have.

And had not the people of the U.S. been so distracted by the lies of a corrupt administration, perhaps they would have been.

But the complacency of a people that thought themselves above the laws of man and nature have come home to roost.

I weep for the people that have paid this price. But it is one that has been well past due for some time now. The people of a country are responsible for the way that it’s government conducts itself. The U.S. government has only been concerned with the details of business and has ignored it’s own homeland.

You reap what you sow.

And it is an ugly reaping. It is a horrific one, but is one that I hope might just wake up the people of the U.S. into the nightmare that it has created.

There are many people talking about raising funds to help the victims of this recover.

I will not contribute one penny to this.

If I did, it would be covered in the blood of all the people who have died because of U.S. foreign policy. The bottom line is that the government allowed the people to be weakened in its sick search for control and domination of states that it had no business interfering in.

As I said, I weep for those that have paid the price of their governments decisions, but at the end of the day, the tragic fact is that they are paying a price for a government that they elected, or at least allowed to remain in control.

All bills come due, and now that this one has, I can only hope that the American people choose to see the damage that the cost of an empire has brought them.

But I will not pay this bill.

And despite the damages, I hope that you don’t either.

Because in the end, if the bill is not paid before interest comes due, we will all pay it, in ways that neither you nor I can begin to imagine.

And Speaking Of Blood…