Update: FEMA chief Michael Brown has been relieved of duty, according to government sources.

Many responses to Hurricane Katrina, its aftermath, and its survivors, have been inappropriate at best, and at worst inhuman. Here are a few such responses that have been observed over the past few days.

• Not only is New Orleans forcibly evacuating everyone, they are forcibly disarming everyone, leaving them defenseless against gangs, looters, FEMA, etc.
• James Scott, who evacuated before the hurricane hit, was arrested last week in Atlanta for panhandling.
• FEMA is preventing reporters from entering New Orleans and photographing the dead. Stephen VanDyke isn’t the first to call this a cover-up. Jeff Jarvis has called for openness as well.
• Authorities are using every bureaucratic trick in the book to prevent a low-power radio station from being set up in the Astrodome, even though it has FCC approval. It could be because they don’t want this new song from The Legendary K.O. being played.
• Bob Harris notes that George W. Bush’s August 26 declaration of emergency in Louisiana covers the wrong parishes.
• FEMA continues to “inexplicably” refuse aid and relief efforts. Military aircraft meant to evacuate people from New Orleans are returning empty.
• FEMA also held up the evacuation at New Orleans International Airport.
• If you wanted real help, you had to do it yourself, especially in areas that the authorities forgot about, like St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes.
• Time reports on the glaring discrepancies in FEMA chief Michael Brown’s resume.
• To find out what things were really like, read this account from several EMS workers who were themselves stranded in New Orleans.
• The whole region is now an ecological disaster, with oil slicks everywhere, islands disappearing, and the seafood industry possibly ruined.
• In possibly today’s only bit of good news, two people in Gulfport, Miss., told vice president Dick Cheney to “go fuck yourself” on live television. A video is available.
• Okay, there was some more good news. Military troops and supplies from Mexico have crossed the border into Texas for the first time since 1846. They aren’t making war this time, though.
• And finally, disaster victims and their families can set up their own blogs by visiting 911blogs.com.