New Orleans’ Public Housing Fight Rages
December 21st, 2007 . by TexasFredNEW ORLEANS (AP) – After violent clashes with police at City Hall, protesters vowed that the fight over a plan to demolish 218 public housing buildings for the poor was far from over, both in the courts and on the streets.
On Thursday, police used chemical spray and stun guns on protesters who tried to force their way into a City Council meeting where the members voted unanimously to allow the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to demolish 4,500 public housing units.
The vote allows demolition crews to begin tearing down the buildings within weeks unless they are blocked in the courts. Lawyers fighting the demolition say they have not exhausted their legal options.
Endesha Juakali, a protest leader arrested on a charge of disturbing the peace, said the confrontation with the council was not the last breath from protesters.
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New Orleans’ Public Housing Fight Rages
What a deal, they can’t get a job, they live on welfare, they depend on the taxpayers of Louisiana and the rest of the USA to support them but they can get to a protest, raise all manners of hell, get arrested and likely as not, make bail, and then go back to a ’shotgun shack’ in their Cadillac, yep, Chocolate City is on the rebound…
These people disrupted a council meeting, they pulled a violent protest that was greeted by police using tasers and tear gas, they should have used .40cals and 12ga shot guns loaded with 00Buck, that kind of makes the other protesters rethink their actions…
For weeks, protesters have been gearing up to battle with bulldozers and have discussed a variety of tactics, including lying in front of the machinery.
Can you say Rachel Corrie?? I think you can… 
Most of the units HUD plans to demolish are vacant, and many suffered heavy damage in Katrina, but those who oppose their demolition say they should be improved instead.
That gives you an idea of the mindset that most of these people possess, the buildings are a disaster, likely filled with mold, they were flooded, they were battered by Katrina and it’s a wonder they’re still standing at all, they are uninhabitable, but these idiots are going to lay down their lives to stop them from being knocked down and rebuilt?? On OUR dime??
Critics of the plan say it will drive poor people from neighborhoods where they have lived for generations, but HUD denies that and says the plan will create an equal amount of affordable housing as existed before Katrina hit.
The council promised to monitor the redevelopment and make sure the poor have places to come back to, but those assurances did little to assuage opponents.
I don’t know about you but I have personally seen these neighborhoods, pre-Katrina, they were nothing more than gang controlled ghettos that were so violent, the NOPD wouldn’t even venture into them after dark, and even during the day they went in groups, safety in numbers so to speak…
This isn’t about restoring the CBD or the French Quarter, it’s about rebuilding the ghetto and allowing the trash and thugs to waltz right back in and take over, nothing says recovery more than gang controlled neighborhoods, drug dealers on every corner and a police department that either can’t or won’t clean the thugs out…
New Orleans is sinking into the swamp, natures reclamation process, let it happen…
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If the city allowed the people to inhabit these mold infested buildings, they would be blaming the government when they came down with all sorts of diseases. They don’t have the common sense that God gave a brass door knob to realize that once the dumps are torn down, the government will build them brand new ones that they could turn into dumps within a year.
You don’t see these protesters coming up with the money to rebuild these buildings. They want you and me though our tax dollars to foot the bill.
I’ve been to NOLA and it is a dirty filthy, stinky crime ridden dump. I wouldn’t spend a dime rebuilding NO. I have been all over the world and NO is and will always be the worst of all places. Why? Look at the population
Why can’t we just let ‘mother nature’ take care of the place? It’s sinking…let it!
I repeat: ONE well-placed BLU-82.
BZ
Why in the world would you want to rebuild a city that is below sea level only a few miles from the Gulf and right next to Lake Ponchartrain and is slowly sinking anyway. It’s a total waste of taxpayers money. If the people there want to live there they should be the ones rebuilding. Otherwise maybe we could give them a quarter acre out in the desert somewhere and tell them “look, now there is no danger of drowning, aren’t we good to you? Now leave us the hell alone”. But that is not the way they think. To them we’re just a sow hog to be suckled on and never a thought given to the fact that at some point the teat will dry up. Scruuuuuueeemmm.
New Orleans Rebuilding – Hoax of the Century…
Post-Katrina New OrleansFlickr Photo by: carpe icthus.Texas Fred has the right idea, “New Orleans is sinking into the swamp, nature’s reclamation process, let it happen…”. Those of us who have been to New Orleans usually have these words to say: …
Fred, Michelle Malkin has an interesting post concerning a specific individual at the N.O. meetings who hurled racial epithets but was shown in her “slum” with a big screen TV.