|
Home > Archive > Hepatitis disease > January 2006 > OT- Good News For Gators
You are viewing an archived Text-only version of the thread.
To view this thread in it's original format and/or if you want to reply to
this thread please [click here]
| Author |
OT- Good News For Gators
|
|
|
| Judge Stops New Orleans Bulldozing
Federal Judge Threatens To Throw New Orleans City Attorney In Jail "If One More
Home is Bulldozed Down" In The 9th Ward
By Greg Szymanski
1-7-6
A federal judge Friday threatened to throw the New Orleans City Attorney in jail
if "one home was bulldozed down" in violation of temporary restraining order
obtained by activists and lower income homeowners, trying to save their property
from what is playing out to be an illegal government land grab.
While the legal wrangling continues, sinister government programs to racially
cleanse and steal property from lower income homeowners in New Orleans is
playing out on the streets of the poorer neighborhoods with bulldozers and
wrecking balls inching closer and closer to 14,000 homes in the 9th
ward.
And the only thing stopping the illegal government land grab, orchestrated by
the feds, the state of Louisiana and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's office, is a
group of feisty activists from Common Ground Relief, headed by Brandon Darby of
Austin, Texas, who are literally putting their bodies between the wrecking ball
and homes to stop the destruction.
Besides the strong activist stand taken this week, Darby said the group has
filed a lawsuit on behalf of a number of lower income residents and Wednesday
received a temporary 24 hour restraining order to stop the bulldozing after the
case was removed from state to federal court.
And a federal court judge at the last minute stopped the bulldozing at least
temporarily until the next hearing on January 16, threatening to throw the New
Orleans City Attorney in jail if the restraining order was again violated.
"It was nice to hear that," said Darby in a conversation Friday night from his
car parked in the 9th Ward, as he was keeping a watchful for any government
shenanigans. "At least for the time being we have stopped this illegal land
grab, but we will have to wait and see, as anytime there is a lot of money at
stake, I do not trust these guys.
"Also, today I was contacted by federal agents, leaving a message and saying
they wanted to talk with me and I have noticed being followed by Homeland
security ever since we had the stand-off in the 9 th Ward.
The stand-off Darby is talking about occurred Thursday morning when he and other
activists from Common Ground Relief, a private organization formed by Darby, put
their bodies in between the wrecking ball and a man's home scheduled for
demolition.
"We rushed to help one 9th Ward resident who called and said the wrecking ball
was at his house Thursday morning in clear violation of the restraining order,"
said Darby about this highly important story that should be on the six o'clock
news but has been suspiciously kept from the American public by a complicit
mainstream press.
"So we rushed to help the man in the 9th Ward's home, calmly convincing the
operator of the wrecking ball to stop the demolition job. We were successful but
the government's argument for defying the court order was crazy, as officials
said the order only prohibited use of a bulldozer not a wrecking ball."
Darby also wanted to emphasize that a majority of the homes scheduled for
demolition are structurally sound, saying many of the owners have been purposely
kept out of state by FEMA and hoodwinked into believing their property is
worthless setting the stage for the one of the biggest government land grabs in
the history of the United States.
"What has our country come to when eminent domain laws and fascist government
intimidation is used to steal property away from thousands of Americans," said
Darby.
"In the background and behind the political scenes, everybody has to know that
from Mayor Nagin right on up to the White House, they are all supporting the
rich developers.
"They are also planning a multi-billion dollar redevelopment plan to build
expensive hotels, casinos and high rise housing and the bulldozers now being
seen in the 9 th ward are the first step to achieving their rotten goals."
Besides the 14,000 homes in the 9th Ward scheduled for demolition, 88,000 are
expected be next in line for bulldozing in the city's poorer east side, hard hit
when the levies exploded, possibly on purpose.
Although no one in the mainstream media or in city hall has the guts to even
propose such a possibility as the levies being blown up by government
operatives, the same thing happened after 9/11 when everyone was frightened to
openly say anything that the terrorist attack may have been a government inside
job.
However, four years later many people in high places and even former Reagan and
Bush Cabinet members are pointing a finger at government involvement in 9/11,
saying it was the lynchpin needed to further the neo con war machine now killing
hundreds of thousands of innocents in the Middle East.
Even though proof of the levies being blown on purpose has not yet surfaced,
proof positive of FEMA's plans to keep New Orleans evacuees out of state is
well-documented.
To prove this point, former New Orleans residents, Clothilde Mack, 85, who
recently returned to her Orleans Parrish home on her own accord, said FEMA
basically tried to bribe her to stay out-of-state by telling her case would be
dropped unless she signed a paper stating she'd remain away from the Crescent
City for one year.
Other residents are also reporting similar horror stories, saying they have been
offered small amounts of money for their New Orleans property without having any
opportunity to inspect the extent of damage.
"One man called me from out-of-state saying he was offered $5,000 for his home,"
said Darby. "He was told it was demolished when in fact it was still
structurally sound and worth much more. And that is the problem. Government
programs should be encouraging people to come back and take care of their land
instead of being paid to stay away."
For more informative articles, please go to www.arcticbeacon.com.
Alan
http://unitedeuropeanworkersunion.b...s-new-orleans-b
ulldozing.html
http://unitedeuropeanworkersunion.b...-panther-solida
rity-after.html
http://unitedeuropeanworkersunion.b...-workers-clash-
in-9th-ward.html
http://unitedeuropeanworkersunion.b...und-collective-
initiative-on.html
| |
|
| |
|
|