Civil unrest in New Orleans… good work!

In case you haven’t heard, yesterday there was some good, old fashioned civil unrest in New Orleans. The City Council was slated to approve a measure that would authorize a HUD plan for the city. The plan would cause the demolition of many perfectly fine low income housing buildings and the replacement thereof by wood frame mid-income buildings. The low income housing buildings were not damaged beyond repair by Katrina, and it is speculated that the plan is really aimed at allowing as few low income past residents from returning to the city as possible.

I really want to commend the people of New Orleans, though. When the gates to City Hall were closed and locked and the protesters were not allowed into what was legally supposed to be a public meeting, a bit of a riot broke out.

The spin that was put on this incident by the news reporters was pathetic. Never did the reporters mention that the protesters are legally allowed to enter a City Council meeting. They just made them out to be wild hounds that broke through a gate they had no business being behind.

I have a strong feeling that our New Revolution will begin in New Orleans. With the way the residents have been shit on, slandered and abused in the time since Katrina, they have really been left with nothing to lose. And when people are left with nothing to lose, it makes it a shitload easier to rise up.

I have the utmost respect for the people of New Orleans who are still fighting for what they believe is right. Even though they have endured more abuse by the government than anyone in an allegedly free nation should endure, they continue to fight for their city. My hope is that the People of the United States will take a cue from the People of New Orleans, and rise up to save our country from certain doom.