New Orleans belongs to the people of New Orleans

[DoYouEverWonder]

It is not up to the rest of us to tell them what to do with it.

Yesterday the Mayor asked the last of the survivors to leave. We should respect his decision. Does he really any other choice at this point? BushCo did a very effective job of making the city uninhabitable. If anyone else dies at this point, BushCo will be able to blame Nagin for letting the people stay.

However, the draining of the water is going a lot faster then FEMA said it would.

Diseases can be kept under control now that most of the people are out. There are only about 10,000 people left in the city at his point anyway.

What we need to do now is clean up enough of the city as fast as possible so people can go back to their homes.

Some neighborhoods are going to be in better shape then others and can reopen first.

It is not up to BushCo or FEMA or us to decide how and when New Orleans should do this. It is up to New Orleans to make these decisions and for us to do everything we can to help them out and to make it happen as quickly as possible.

[leveymg]

1. No one is yet asking THE THREE QUESTIONS

What about those hundreds of thousands of people who won't have homes to return to? Do they rebuild in the same place? Who pays?

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Not every home is totally destroyed

that's another FEMA myth.

A fair number of those house that survived have been flooded before.

That is why when you go into the old neighborhoods most of the house are up off the ground and have attics.

The water was at different levels all over the city. Some places had 20 feet some places only got 1 or 2.

[leveymg]

8. Agreed. The French Quarter is dry.

What about the other areas, like Jefferson Parish, that are wrecked?

[mattclearing]

2. I think that's why Blanco was reluctant to sign over authority.

She didn't want to relinquish control of the situation to the Feds, who could then totally restructure the city at their whim, and give control back at their leisure, if at all.

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. That was the key move in this whole thing

If she had weakened and signed that document, New Orleans would be an armed camp and most of the people would be inside of it in a living hell at this point.

That was what BushCo wanted to turn NO into for a few weeks. A living hell. He had no intent of ever letting those people out. When Blanco stood her ground, that was when what was left of NO was saved.

[mattclearing]

5. I totally agree. n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. And they will be working damn hard to keep the evacuees from coming back.

Bulldozing peoples homes/histories. Making New Orleans a mecca for the wealthy. It seems to me that with cold calculation that the residents of NOLA were sent on buses and planes to the four corners of the wind, stranding them in unknown parts, not intending them ever to return to their homes.

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. That's what BushCo was planning

and that is why we can't let them get awya with it.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

12. It is all too evident that is what they were planning and the Truth has

to get out there. Enough is enough!

[CottonBear]

6. I totally agree with you. This should be our new meme.

New Orleans belongs to the people of New Orleans. My message to developers and outside Republicans: hands off motherfuckers!

[BrklynLiberal]

7. The Peoples Hurricane Fund - The people of NO are trying to hold onto it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4670087&mesg_id=4670087

Here are the plans that Bushco has for NO and the surrounding area:
Disneyification and Gentfication
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4669920&mesg_id=4669920

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. Kick

We can't let BushCo get away with this robber baron land grab that they are trying to pull off.