http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?messageDate=2005-09-02
see also:
http://www.alternet.org/story/24923/
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/katrina.response/
http://slate.msn.com/id/2125581/?nav=tap3
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001051313
and I'm sorry but this looks like something that would have been dreamed up by Monty Python at their most bitter and cynical:
THE ETHICS OF RELIEF
The [Emory University] Ethics Center will host a panel discussion about the crisis in New Orleans on September 13, 2:00- 4:00pm in Cox Banquet Hall. Proposed topics include: - The Moral Question of Incompetence - Paralysis of Leadership in Time of Crisis - Long-term Public Health Issues: Disease, Sanitation, Malnutrition - Racial/Socioeconomic/Class Inequity - Environmental Repercussions: Wetlands Destruction, Development, etc. - Media Coverage and Perception
Let's discuss the morality of incompetence while looking at http://katrina05.blogspot.com/2005/09/katrina-missing-personsfound-persons.html