Lessons from Katrina

Dave Eggers fascinating documentary of what happened after the devastating hurricane Katrina is an unsparing of incompetent, arrogant and inhuman procedure of state bodies as part of their dubious and inefficient relief. Hard to imagine that another democratic government would have nothing better to do, declare martial law as practically and to build a Guantanamo-copy for actual, but also alleged looters, in the be them any appeal denied and ill-treatment are commonplace.

In this system gets Abdulrahman Zeitoun, an American of Syrian descent who has emerged as one of the very few inhabitants endured in the flooded city and made it his mission to help others, trapped by the water people. Its use comes to an abrupt end when he is picked up and fixed by the army. What happens in the next three weeks with him, goes decidedly beyond the imagination of a spoiled from a constitutionally dominated executive Central European and describes in more revealing, the USA, the paranoid relationship to their Muslim citizens.

God bless America. It badly needs it.