I was watchingthe show weather that changed history and the goverment did actually blow up levees to make the poor neighboorhoods flood instead of the rich neighborhoods and downtown districts where the bussinesses were. I can't remember what year it was. The goverment were suppose to pay the poor people to let this happen. After their homes were destroyed however most people got nothing and the ones that did get something only got about 300.00. So, I think it is not beyond our goverment to do something like this.