Hurricane Katrina and the Conspiracy Community

Mike Whitney's piece Katrina: Relocation or Ethnic Cleansing on Dissident Voice is a perfect example of people searching for a malicious cause for bad events rather than accepting that people are incompetent, plans are flawed, or bad actions result from good intentions.

FEMA's reaction to Hurricane Katrina is much more likely the result of its post-9/11 re-orientation away from addressing natural disasters than the result of a plan to "cleanse" or purposely re-locate the victims of the hurricane. It likely also was caused by making FEMA an agency subordinate to a Cabinet Head instead of retaining its own Cabinet status.