Zeitoun: The Final Pages

Fortunately after a month of Zeitoun's wrongful incarceration he was set free due to efforts by a lawyer and his wife and friends. This book sheds light on how ineffective our Government can be during a time of crisis. While an entire city was underwater with people suffering, the law enforcement agents were more concerned with a Muslim man in a canoe. The legal system was also messed around with to keep Zeitoun from his even basic rights like a phone call to his family. Reading this story was a huge blow to my faith in our Government, the reaction time to Katrina was so slow and unprepared, but we easily conjour up the money to fight a futile war across seas. We live in a country based off of basic rights and freedoms, but the people of New Orleans were not even treated like citizens of America, but refugees in a foreign country. Zeitoun's story is one of many unfortunate ones, but it sheds light on the ignorance of American society and how botched and terrible it was during and after hurricane Katrina.