SubscribeBattle Of New Orleans Over Free Housing
From an outrage CNN and Associated Press:
NOLA protesters vow to keep fighting
By CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press Writer Fri Dec 21
NEW ORLEANS - 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…
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.
Thursday’s confrontation was the most violent and tense of a string of protests that have brought attention to the plight of a growing number of homeless and the lack of inexpensive housing for people displaced by Hurricane Katrina…
Police said 15 people were arrested on charges ranging from battery to disorderly conduct. Four people were taken to hospitals — two of them women who had been stunned with Tasers — and five others were injured and treated on the scene, police said. All four in the hospital were stable, police said.
Protesters said they pushed against the iron gates that kept them out of the building because the Housing Authority of New Orleans had disproportionately allowed supporters of the demolition to pack the council’s chambers. Dozens tried to force their way in.
At the peak of the confusion, some 70 protesters were facing about a dozen mounted police and 40 more law enforcement officers on foot.
One woman was sprayed by police and dragged from the gates; emergency workers took her away on a stretcher. Another woman said she was stunned by officers, and still had what appeared to be a Taser wire hanging from her shirt.
“I was just standing, trying to get into my City Council meeting,” said the dazed woman, Kim Ellis, who was taken away in an ambulance.
“Is this what democracy looks like?” Bill Quigley, a Loyola University law professor who opposes demolition, said as he held a strand of Taser wire he said had been shot into another of the protesters.
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.
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…
Some of the “playas,” courtesy of ABC News:
The populace has been taught can get what they want for free. And they will not be untaught that.
All they have to do is yell and stomp their feet.
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December 21st, 2007 at 1:43 pm
I could never have any sympathy. Not cause I’m cold but because they are unworthy of any. They demand that others give to them and they contribute nothing. They won’t discipline themselves or their families but blame me for their failures. I don’t look at the people of New Orleans (or my own Baltimore) as poor victims but as spoiled, selfish, and lazy. They are complaining about their old ‘free or subsidized’ housing being torn down so new ‘free or subsidized’ housing can be put up for them. Here’s an idea, YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN. Stop demanding hand outs from others and spit on them for it.
Here’s where I’m coming from. I was born poor and with a single neglectful parent. At eleven years old I was sleeping under a bridge when I was taken in by the foster care system. I wanted better and WORKED for it ever since. Today I am just fine. BUT I CAN’T AFFORD TO OWN A HOME OF MY OWN! Is it right for pandering politicians to rob from me to give to those who don’t even try? And for those liberals that live in nice little pockets of civility in manicured palaces that only see through the media. If you are under the impression that they are just good people with bad luck, GO LIVE WITH THEM OR SHUT UP! Because some of us do have to suffer the consequences of bleeding heart policies while you don’t.
New Orleans has always had corrupt governments that could care less for the suckers that vote them in. I have no problem admitting that I too could care less.
I know this is all opinion and I apologize. But it’s completely honest at least.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:45 pm
“Is this what democracy looks like?” Bill Quigley, a Loyola University law professor”
Yes, this is exactly what a liberals version of democracy looks like. In the conservatives version of democracy, the bulldozers would have been rolling about a week after the hurricane.
Hell hath no fury like deadbeats about to lose their government cheese. Sky’s the limit if they expended half as much energy doing for themselves as they do trying to force others to do for them.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:54 pm
If that hippy chick were tazed, she’d have 2 holes in her, not one. To achieve “Paralysis” as she calls it, the holes would have been in her torso, not her thigh. It is extremely likely that she would’ve had some neon confetti stuck to her clothing; which is emitted by the taser probe-housing specifically to stick to the tazee and prevent bogus accusations. This post is about to get long, so I’ll paraphrase…
She passed out from getting tazed, but she’s screaming?She just so happen to have 4 friends*I MEAN* bystanders immediately…and quite professionally…carry her away. And during the interview, she blurted out her alibi(dropping friend off at the airport) without actually having been challenged by the reporter about her credibility.
But of course, this post is long and shouldn’t of happened in the first place, because to question our all-knowing media will destroy the first amendment.
December 21st, 2007 at 2:43 pm
GuppyNBlue - don’t apologise for your opinion - as I felt the same thing from the moment Shep Smith crying on the bridge that these people don’t do a darn thing for themselves (or their families) so why should I care? I’m trying to keep a roof over our head and food on our table. At least we are doing it by working, rather than standing around with our hands out.
Do these people really think that someone/anyone was just going to go in and ‘repair’ the projects and carry their a**** on home?!? Probably what they wanted so that they could sue when it crumbled around them or caused them illness.
They had no vested interest in NO other than what they could scam through the services available - yet they expected to have it all brought back into being for them - on someone else’s dime??
BTW, saw a story this AM, that Houston is getting tired of the Katrina freeloaders too.
December 21st, 2007 at 3:17 pm
“All four in the hospital were stable” Obviously, no mental evaluations were done….
December 21st, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Guppy. Nothing to apologize for. I feel exactly the same way. Truth be told, I bet thousands if not millions feel that way, we just can’t say so except on a blog. What a shame.
December 21st, 2007 at 3:58 pm
I’m surprised the “Don’t taze me, bro!” guy wasn’t there.
December 21st, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Getting rid of old buildings damaged beyond economical repair and putting up new better equipped places for them to live and they are complaining! Most of the old buildings adsorbed a mix of chemicals in the floods that would likely prove to be long term health hazards.
Yet their reps are in Washington last week asking for 250 billion more to poor into that useless cause. There is still tons of already set aside money to rebuild with that has not been used.
This should have started at least a year ago, the rest of the gulf coast is well on the way to recovery but New Orleans can be depended on the totally screw it up if their is any way possible.
Private charities are still pitching in and adding more money to the mix beyond the millions that were given to start with.
Some people sure have a strange way of saying thank you.
If they keep it up, sooner or later people are going to say no more, pick yourself up.
December 21st, 2007 at 4:53 pm
One picture shows seven television cameras in this city council meeting. Either my city council is drastically under covered by the media or this was set up to get (more) publicity. What is truly tragic is that racial hatred and bigotry can slow and all together stop the good work of charities trying to work down there.
December 21st, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Call me racist if you like, but I stopped caring once I found out that all of the well intended charity was being thrown away on a “chocolate city”. Actually, I quit caring even before that but that just proved that my opinion was correct.
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:16 am
I really don’t care about these people anymore. They sit there and cry/demand/whine about how everyone else somehow “owes” them to rebuild. I don’t see the people in other areas that get wiped out or damaged by floods protesting and demanding that the goverment build them new houses and have it done yesterday. It makes absolutely no sense to pump all this money into a piece of land that is a cesspool of crime and poverty that is below sea level and the next storm is just going to wipe the place out again. If you want to live near some place that could be flooded, make sure you have a good amount of flood insurance to cover rebuilding, not complain that the feds aren’t making you new mansions as soon as the waters recede. I also don’t get how they think its better to have the goverment sink all sorts of money into fixing housing projects that are probably well behind on code and are falling apart, let alone water damage and the probable toxic mold thats going to linger. Of course then there would be a reason for them to sue for even more money so they don’t have to work and leach off of society. I don’t mind giving to charity but I wish you could specify more how the money is spent, though thats why I don’t give to the Red Cross anymore, I mostly donate to the local Salvation army.
I also have to say that all the “protestors” shown in the photos look like the standard democrats who don’t actually work but get goverment aid so they can go around a protest the “inequality” of things, or like thugs, whether they are rent a thugs or what I don’t know. I love the first picture, I can just imagine what is being said, “How dare you! You can’t tell me I can’t rebuild my home!” though its probably should be, “How dare you bring up a good point, I deserve to have the goverment pay to rebuild my slum of a neighborhood.” I wish we could just force them to all get a job and work not the claim your disabled or what not and sit a home stuffing food in your face and watching TV, or selling drugs.
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:28 am
BTW, note that the woman in the first photograph is wearing a t-shirt with this on the front:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com.....9bf4_o.jpg
December 22nd, 2007 at 8:58 am
These people are the dregs of society,living in NO a liberal paradise. I can not imagine anyone in their right mind visiting NO.
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:27 am
Lots more on the protesters at michellemalkin.com including a story about the large screen TV one of the protesters has. The same protester is complaining about the large electric bill, she has to pay. I wonder if she has seen stories that say, large TVs use more energy and run up power bills. Want smaller power bills, get a smaller TV.
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:51 am
SG
I recognized the Tshirt from the git go.
Sort of reminds me of one I saw during the Tsunami relief efforts where they had a guy in one pic wearing an OBL shirt.
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:54 am
If the Annie Quimby from N.O. interviewed by CNN is the same Annie Quimby from N.O. listed at MySpace, it would seem that she may have a history of protesting and not just an innocent by-stander tazered by the police.
December 22nd, 2007 at 2:03 pm
The woman wearing the BDS t-shirt and yelling shut up white boy is Sharon Jasper.
As pagar has pointed out, Michelle Malkin has more on the government fed cow.
Jasper is the epitome of the entitlement class demanding more while contributing nothing to the society that she feeds from like a fat bloated leach.
She is also a racist.
December 22nd, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Would someone PLEASE Photoshop Muslim Rage Boy into the photos? That’s the only thing that seems missing. Oh, that plus Jackson & Sharpton.
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Rage boy is already there DGC.
Third pic down, He has a new tan is all.
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:43 pm
I believe your right, DEZ. Either that or he attended Rage Boy’s the “effective rage faces to use during protests” seminar. LOL
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:50 pm
The last few threads I was involved in were brutal Tex.
It was time for a little levity.
December 22nd, 2007 at 10:45 pm
“many suffered heavy damage in Katrina”
Nobody was doin’ nuttin’ after Katrina, now nobodies want nuttin’ done?
December 22nd, 2007 at 10:49 pm
“Most of the old buildings adsorbed a mix of chemicals in the floods that would likely prove to be long term health hazard
Hey, don’t deprive them of a reason to sue.
December 23rd, 2007 at 12:27 am
“Most of the old buildings adsorbed a mix of chemicals”
And that was just from the crack heads cooking meth before the floods came.
December 24th, 2007 at 8:54 am
Wow - I shouldn’t allow myself to read this right before Christmas - totally putting a damper on my holiday spirit. I can’t even begin to tell you how much I wish I had back the money I donated when Katrina first hit. This has become absolutely ridiculous!!!
But shame on us for allowing the welfare state of this country to exist!!! The populace keeps electing, nationwide, people who will continue to increase government handouts and will never actually help people to become self-sufficient. As much as I can’t stand these people, I honestly wonder if I would do anything different if for my whole life I had been able to live off of handouts instead of working and achieving what I have on my own. State, local and federal government just gives till it hurts all the rest of us. Meanwhile, we have a significant portion of people in this country who have no marketable skills, no education and no desire to be able to stand on their own two feet, because they have never had to! And the liberals just tells us to give more. Is this really helping?
My church has sent groups down to NO ever since Katrina hit to help with clean up and rebuilding. It’s a laudable effort and I thought about going with one of them. Until I heard from someone who did go that the residents refuse to pitch in themselves. We send people from Minnesota down to a state where they don’t even know anyone to help them out and they sit and watch. Now, some of them are unable to help - like the little old lady who just wanted to finish out her final years in the house she grew up in. She deserves the help. But others, fully health and capable of doing some manual labor, just sit on their porches and watch, them complain when the work isn’t done the way they want. I probably would have hopped a bus back home before the week was out! I wish the national news media would run an ongoing series about areas that got hit by Katrina that have cleaned up and rebuilt and are on their way back. Maybe then people would wake up and see what is really wrong with NO (hint - it has nothing to do with George Bush!!!).
So much for the work ethic in this country. We are going down, people. Way down. And it depresses the hell out of me.
srl