Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine

Investigative Journalist, Naomi Klein, introduces her new book titled "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" and which she explains the purpose of it through the interview on Democracy One with Amy Goodman. Naomi Klein believes highly that disaster Capitalism will rise, and proves it from our history of leaders, events, and through examples of other countries. She states that the most infamous human rights violations of the past thirty years were all intended to terrorize the public to prepare for the introduction of radical free-market reforms, which also increases profits to corporations and allow governments to push through what she calls "disaster capitalism." basically stating that every tragic crisis that have caused for many people to vanish or move out of a certain area, due to things that have been delayed, are all ways for the government to enforce policies and makeover the country or area and the irony to it is... It seems that these things happen purposely and intentionally.
One of the examples that she gives is the hurricane Katrina accident in New Orleans. The shock was the drowning of the city in which many believe was a 'natural' disaster. If you think about it, because the infrastructure and bones of the state were not addressed years ago, this became a form of neglect. The whole idea behind this doctrine is to wipe out and start fresh. New Orleans was later neglected attention before it happened and even after the crisis. Eventually, in my opinion, there will be another New Orleans. There isn't any way the city wont come back to life. To tie this back to history, a group of economists found the economic program for Pinochet's (ruler of Chile, which went under catastrophic disasters as well.) government. It was 1973 at the time, and the plan included strategies about an ownership society, privatizing Social Security, charter schools, and flat tax... which turns out to be similar to Bushes economic program of 2000.
Leading back top her point, she insist that its almost impossible to to push through economic programs without tremendous economic hardship and the demolition of democracy. I believe that she makes a really good point in which people don't think about often. Something has to tie into the horrible events that take place. they want us to believe that they happened unexpectedly, but something had to cause it. Certain things pop us such as: preparedness, reaction timing, results of the events, which are things that can make you believe that something wasn't right. if these things were planned better or happened in a different way, this "disaster capitalism" wouldn't be proven as much as it is. So I totally agree. Also other events that she mentioned, are the War in Iraq, Collapse of the Soviet Union and the massacre of Tienanmen Square which all are examples of her idea of disaster capitalism.