Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, an environmental lawyer who owns 3 large houses and regularly travels in private jets, said the following in a post at Arianna Huffington’s blog.
The least that’s wrong with Kennedy’s statement is his claim that Katrina spared New Orleans.In 1998, Republican icon Pat Robertson warned that hurricanes were likely to hit communities that offended God. Perhaps it was Barbour’s memo that caused Katrina, at the last moment, to spare New Orleans and save its worst flailings for the Mississippi coast.
The most foolish part is his anointing Pat Robertson as interpreter of God’s will.
The meanest, most self-righteous, and delusional part is Kennedy’s suggestion that Mississippi has been hit by Katrina because its former Governor Haley Barbour wrote a memo opposing the Kyoto treaty, a treaty 95 U.S. Senators voted to oppose.
Does Kennedy believe that God hit India with a tsunami that killed thousands, including babies, because it refused to sign the Kyoto treaty? Even Pat Robinson hasn't said that.
Kennedy frequently directs angry, reckless statements at those who disagree with him. For example, this past April at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he accused President Bush of a federal crime: “(accepting) money from power industries in exchange for relaxed environmental regulations." ["RFK Jr. bashes Bush," Durham Herald Sun, April 21].
But Kennedy's Katrina is God smiting Kyoto opponents statement is more disturbing than anything he’s said before.
I hope Kennedy has a friend who'll help him see what he’s become; and then help him change.
Right now, Kennedy sounds exactly like the extremists who were attacking his father, uncle, and Dr. King in the months before they were assassinated
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