Why are They Making New Orleans a Ghost Town?
The longer the poor and working class stay away, the more likely it is they'll never return.
On Halloween night, New Orleans will be very, very dark. Well over half the homes on the east bank of New Orleans sit vacant because they still do not have electricity. More do not have natural gas or running water. Most stoplights still do not work. Most street lights remain out.
Fully armed National Guard troops refuse to allow over ten thousand people even to visit their property in the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood. Despite the fact that people cannot come back, tens of thousands of people face eviction from their homes. A local judge told me that her court expects to process a thousand evictions a day for weeks.
Renters still in shelters or temporary homes across
the country will never see the court notice taped to
the door of their home. Because they will not show up
for the eviction hearing that they do not know about,
their possessions will be tossed out in the street.
In the street their possessions will sit alongside an
estimated 3 million truck loads of downed trees, piles
of mud, fiberglass insulation, crushed sheetrock,
abandoned cars, spoiled mattresses, wet rugs, and
horrifyingly smelly refrigerators full of food from
August.
There are also New Orleans renters facing evictions
from landlords who want to renovate and charge higher
rents to the out of town workers who populate the
city. Some renters have offered to pay their rent and
are still being evicted. Others question why they
should have to pay rent for September when they were
not allowed to return to New Orleans.
New Orleans, known for its culture and food and
music, is now pushing away the very people who created
the culture and food and music. Mardi Gras Indians
live and paraded in neighborhoods that sit without
electricity or water. The back room cooks for many of
the most famous restaurants cannot yet return to New
Orleans. Musicians remain in exile. Housing is
scarce and rents are soaring. Over 245,000 people
lost jobs in September. Public education in New
Orleans has not restarted. The levees are not even up
to their flawed level in August.
Dr. Arjun Sengupta, the United Nations Human Rights
Commission Special Reporter on Extreme Poverty,
visited New Orleans and Baton Rouge last week. He
toured the devastated areas and listened to the
evacuees still in shelters and those living out of
town with family.
Dr. Sengupta described current conditions as
“shocking” and “gross violations of human rights.”
The devastation itself is shocking, he explained, but
even more shocking is that two months have passed and
there is little to nothing being done to reconstruct
vast areas of New Orleans. “The US is the richest
nation in the history of the world. Why cannot it
restore electricity and water and help people rebuild
their homes and neighborhoods? If the US can rebuild
Afghanistan and Iraq, why not New Orleans?”
The longer the poor and working class of New
Orleans stay away, the more likely it is that
they'll never return. That, some say, is exactly what
those in power in New Orleans and Louisiana and the US
must want. Otherwise, why are they making New Orleans
a ghost town?
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The reason they're leaving New Orleans as ghost town is to make way for future Arab investment. Before the Arabs would come, however, they decided they needed to rid the town of all who might offend Arab sensibilities - poor whites and blacks. So sabotaging the levees flooding only the poorest sections of the city and displacing the residents was their way of eliminating those in poverty - which happens to include many of the city's traditional practitioners in voodoo and the occult. Simply put, Voodoo and Islam do not mix well. Expect to see a sharp rise in Arab investment in the near future. I'm sure this doesn't bother Bush, however, who saw the flood as nothing more than the flushing of a toilet. Think something like that couldn't happen in Amerika? Think again.
Welcome to the urban renewal program of the New World Order. New Orleans is, or was, intended to be the major hub of oil imported, or stolen from Iraq once Bush and Cheney completed their invasion or "pacification" of the country and coerced its puppet government to allow oil and oil profits to be removed from the country. New Orleans, with its World Trade Center, is envisioned as being the headquarters of the NWO. The displaced peoples will never be allowed back in and the National Guard and FEMA, each operating on different sets of orders, are there to make sure they don't. The idiot guardsmen don't even know why they're enforcing the quarantine. They're just following orders like good little soldiers.
I hope that crime ridden dope dealing city does become a ghost town. There are decent people there but few and far between. I have been to N.O.twice got robbed both times.
Maybe the 'poor' and stuff did some
reading, and realize that the poor
geographical location of New Orleans,
or Nawlins, is, well, disadvantageous
for future real estate development
due to the propensity of the Gulf Of
Mexico to want to relocate itself under
storm conditions as well as antiquated
and uninspected flood walls and the
utter incapacity of state and county
government to act effectively under
conditions of duress. That, and it
probably still smells pretty rank.
