They Want to Make New Orleans Into Disneyland- "Jazzworld"

[beetbox]

1. On the planned ethnic cleansing of blacks from the new New Orleans (to be reestablished as a resort and casino destination called "Jazzworld", with condos starting at $1 million):

? "Will the "New" New Orleans be Black?" by Glen Ford;

? Dennis Hastert is the first to raise the issue of gentrification: "It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed."

? For what its worth, Voice of the White House describes part of a conversation overheard at a tony Washington club:

"It is well known here that the Bush family and many of the top advisers at the White House are racists but instead of detesting Jews, in this case, they all detest blacks. Their rationale, aside from their view of racial superiority, is that blacks are all 'welfare queens, unwed mothers and drug dealers.' It was the very firmly stated view of the host that it was better for everyone that New Orleans was under water for the time being.

In that way, we were told (and I was not the only person in the dining room who heard all this), this served to 'chase out the niggers' and permit Bush-supporting businessmen from buying up the soon-to-be condemned sodden houses for five cents on the dollar from friendly insurance companies (which one of them was a CEO of) and put up an enlarged and very profitable combination of industrial park and office building section.

"The poorest 20% of the city was left behind to drown. This was the plan. Forget the sanctimonious bullshit about the bullheaded people who wouldn't leave. The evacuation plan was strictly laissez-faire. It depended on privately owned vehicles, and on having ready cash to fund an evacuation. The planners knew full well that the poor, who in new orleans are overwhelmingly black, wouldn't be able to get out.

They wanted to make New Orleans into Disneyland, but the black people ruined everything. Now all the stories in the mainstream media are about how all these 'animals' are murdering, raping and looting, and how the police now have orders to shoot to kill. You really have to wonder about whether FEMA, turned by the Bush Administration from rescue management experts into Big Brother, and now in charge of managing personal freedoms, allowed those levees to break on purpose.


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[Cassandra]

1. With animatronic black people?

Piped in musak, of course. The Bushbots will never know the difference.

[kenny blankenship]

4. PLaying only Dixieland thank you very much

[Boo Boo]

2. Thanks a lot...

:eyes:

[silverweb]

3. We need verification.

That dining room conversation report needs verification. I don't doubt the truth of it one bit, but many will unless this report becomes sworn legal testimony by more than one person who was present.

[beetbox]

6. Probably impossible to verify

Even if others would make steadfast claims to have heard the same thing.

Personally I don't doubt it for a second and am sure behind closed doors the language gets pretty ugly and the racism is quite open and blunt.

As for turning it into a theme park that is definitely in the works by developers- and of course not only in New Orleans.

Disneyfication of America. Get the black people out of the way and out of sight.

These are white supremacists just not wearing the hood (I think).

Skull & Bones

[RandiFan1290]

5. McNorleans

This is frightening! I am hoping that Nagin and * weren't drinking champagne during their talk.

I don't trust DINOs, cons, developers, or Fox news. I was moved by Geraldo and Shep's exclusive footage from the Convention Center but I just think something really stinks here!

The GOP will go after Nagin and Blanco with a vengeance. It is starting and Fox will lead the way.

[beetbox]

7. To be built by Bechtel- It will be tinny and soulless

They had about a week to shore up the levees, evacuate the poor, and prepare for disaster management. They knew all the details of the full scope of the disaster, and the official warnings were as bleak as any official warnings can be. They didn't try to do anything. Bush golfed and pretended to play guitar. Since the funding, manpower, and equipment that would normally be used for such purposes was in Iraq, trying to do something constructive would only have embarrassed them, so they just relaxed and let it happen. Needless to say, the next step will be the announcement of billions of dollars of reconstruction contracts for Halliburton and Bechtel, thus proving that Bush really does care. Disaster is another opportunity to make money, while trying to stop disaster is just a drain on public finances.

But the soulful will always find a way.
As life finds a way.

[Algorem]

8. WalOrleans

Everything imported from China including the musicians