Violent protests over housing erupt in New Orleans
Protests against a City Council plan to tear down low-income New Orleans housing turned ugly Thursday, with police using pepper spray and stun guns to clear a crowd angry they weren't allowed into City Hall for the vote.
Protesters scuffle with police Thursday outside City Hall in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The City Council voted unanimously to greenlight the demolition of the city's four largest public housing developments, saying they are too damaged by Hurricane Katrina to allow residents back into them.
But many in New Orleans, including former residents of the developments, say they fear the local and federal governments will not guarantee similarly affordable housing be built in their place -- calling the demolition an effort to move poor people out of the city ...
With so many of this forum's radical right wingers demanding approval of Bush's invasion of Iraq in order to promote ''democracy'' and other Republican values, this should be another occasion for them to demand a Federal invasion of New Orleans in order to secure the people's right to vote in the City council proceedings.
On top of all that, since radical right wingers so readily approve of 2d Amendment rights, they should use this occasion to demand and defend the right of NO citizens to arm themselves and to use their weapons against those cops who restricted them from voting.
So let's hear from those righties --- let's see you defend the right of people to arm themselves, take machine guns, bazookas, tanks, Howitzers and any other weapon of choice to mow down those cops and the pols who suppressed the rights of the people there.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/20/neworleans.protests/
Protests against a City Council plan to tear down low-income New Orleans housing turned ugly Thursday, with police using pepper spray and stun guns to clear a crowd angry they weren't allowed into City Hall for the vote.
The City Council voted unanimously to greenlight the demolition of the city's four largest public housing developments, saying they are too damaged by Hurricane Katrina to allow residents back into them.
But many in New Orleans, including former residents of the developments, say they fear the local and federal governments will not guarantee similarly affordable housing be built in their place -- calling the demolition an effort to move poor people out of the city ...
With so many of this forum's radical right wingers demanding approval of Bush's invasion of Iraq in order to promote ''democracy'' and other Republican values, this should be another occasion for them to demand a Federal invasion of New Orleans in order to secure the people's right to vote in the City council proceedings.
On top of all that, since radical right wingers so readily approve of 2d Amendment rights, they should use this occasion to demand and defend the right of NO citizens to arm themselves and to use their weapons against those cops who restricted them from voting.
So let's hear from those righties --- let's see you defend the right of people to arm themselves, take machine guns, bazookas, tanks, Howitzers and any other weapon of choice to mow down those cops and the pols who suppressed the rights of the people there.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/20/neworleans.protests/