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- Der Begriff Katrinagate wurde in Anlehnung an Watergate geprägt, um die der Regierung des US-Präsidenten George W. Bush im Zusammenhang mit dem Katastrophenmanagement nach dem Hurrikan Katrina im August 2005 vorgeworfenen Versäumnisse in einem griffigen Wort zu konzentrieren. Das semantische Bindeglied zwischen beiden Begriffen ist die Rolle der Presse als Mittel der Aufdeckung von Skandalen, die ansonsten Gefahr liefen, vertuscht zu werden. Der Hurrikan Katrina hatte verheerende Auswirkungen, die zum Teil seiner Stärke, zum Teil den besonderen geografischen Gegebenheiten der Region und zum Teil einer zögerlichen Reaktion von Verantwortlichen angelastet wurden. Präsident Bush unterbrach seinen Urlaub erst am dritten Tag, was viele Beobachter als deplatziert kritisierten. Noch Tage nach dem Sturm mussten Zehntausende in der Stadt auf Hilfe warten; der Bürgermeister von New Orleans, Ray Nagin, warf die US-Regierung in drastischen Worten vor, versagt zu haben. Acht Tage nach Abflauen des Hurrikans waren über 50.000 Soldaten der Nationalgarde im Einsatz, um den Menschen im Katastrophengebiet zu helfen und Plünderungen zu unterbinden. Nachteilig war jedoch, dass sich zu diesem Zeitpunkt 36 % der Nationalgardisten von Louisiana und Mississippi im Irak befanden. Zusätzliche Soldaten in die Krisenregion abzukommandieren, schien zwar kein Problem, aber ausgerechnet die gut ausgerüsteten Kampftruppen – die durch Bewaffnung, Fahrzeuge, Kommunikationsgeräte und eigene Feldküchen autonom operieren können – fehlten. Kritisiert wurde auch, die Nationalgarde werde im Irak für Kampfeinsätze eingesetzt. Die Hauptaufgabe der Nationalgarde sei es aber, Hilfe bei Naturkatastrophen zu leisten. Von afroamerikanischer Seite wurde der Regierung Rassismus vorgeworfen, weil der größte Teil der noch nach Tagen auf Hilfe wartenden Bevölkerung schwarz war. Der Historiker und Soziologe Mike Davis prangerte in einem Interview den Abtransport von Teilen der Stadtbevölkerung von New Orleans als Deportation an. Im Nachrichtenmagazin Der Spiegel wurde am 8. September 2005 berichtet, dass der Bruch der Schutzdeiche in New Orleans Bestandteil einer Katastrophenschutzübung im Vorjahr gewesen sei. Dies lege den Schluss nahe, dass die Federal Emergency Management Agency bei der nun eingetretenen Katastrophe inkompetent gewesen sei. (de)
- Criticism of the government response to Hurricane Katrina was a major political dispute in the United States in 2005 that consisted primarily of condemnations of mismanagement and lack of preparation in the relief effort in response to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Specifically, there was a delayed response to the flooding of New Orleans, Louisiana. (See Hurricane preparedness for New Orleans for criticism of the failure of Federal flood protection.) Within days of Katrina's August 29, 2005 landfall, public debate arose about the local, state, and federal governments' role in the preparations for and response to the storm. Criticism was prompted largely by televised images of visibly shaken and frustrated political leaders, and of residents who remained in New Orleans without water, food or shelter and the deaths of several citizens by thirst, exhaustion, and violence, days after the storm itself had passed. The treatment of people who had evacuated to registered facilities such as the Superdome was also criticized. Criticism from politicians, activists, pundits, and journalists of all stripes has been directed at the local, state, and federal governments. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was also criticized for failing to implement his flood plan and for ordering residents to a shelter of last resort without any provisions for food, water, security, or sanitary conditions. Perhaps the most important criticism of Nagin is that he delayed his emergency evacuation order until less than a day before landfall, which led to hundreds of deaths of people who (by that time) could not find any way out of the city. Adding to the criticism was the broadcast of school bus parking lots full of baby blue school buses, which Mayor Nagin refused to be used in evacuation. When asked why the buses were not used to assist evacuations instead of holing up in the Superdome, Nagin cited the lack of insurance liability and shortage of bus drivers. New Orleans has been classified as a non-regime city. Regimes involve governmental and non-governmental cooperation, a specific agenda, a recognized problem, and resources to deal with the problem. New Orleans only had a temporary coalition to deal with Hurricane Katrina, which led to the ineffective, temporary, and inefficient evacuation and provision of resources. Organizations such as the Red Cross attempted to form coalitions, but the various actors could not agree on a specific solution, and this failure to cooperate led to instability and misunderstanding between governmental and non-governmental actors. (en)
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- I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family, it says, 'They're looting.' You see a white family, it says, 'They're looking for food.' And, you know, it's been five days [waiting for federal help] because most of the people are black. And even for me to complain about it, I would be a hypocrite because I've tried to turn away from the TV because it's too hard to watch. I've even been shopping before even giving a donation, so now I'm calling my business manager right now to see what is the biggest amount I can give, and just to imagine if I was down there, and those are my people down there. So anybody out there that wants to do anything that we can help—with the way America is set up to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off, as slow as possible. I mean, the Red Cross is doing everything they can. We already realize a lot of people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way—and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us! George Bush doesn't care about black people. (en)
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