the kicking of New Orleans people continues

[donsu]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/jesse/cst-edt-jesse071.html


Secret rolls undermine N. Orleans vote


Katrina's survivors are about to be brutalized once more. They withstood the havoc wreaked by the hurricane. They overcame the failure of national, state and local officials to provide basic relief in the wake of the storm. They are struggling to overcome FEMA's failure to provide for sensible relocation, rebuilding and return.

Now their rights are about to be trampled once more in an injustice that may finally do more to destroy New Orleans than the storm did by forcibly disenfranchising the city's black majority. People of conscience must stand up to stop this injustice.

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New Orleans has gone from two-thirds African American to majority white. In these conditions, the city faces the scheduled election of the mayor and city officials on April 22. Now those who fought through the storm and survived FEMA's catastrophic incompetence at relief and utter mismanagement of the recovery are about to have their rights trampled once more.

Louisiana and the Bush administration have refused to provide satellite voting places for those dispersed. They have refused to provide an absentee ballot to every displaced registered voter. Louisiana has been given the addresses of registered voters who have been displaced but, incredibly, has refused to make it available to the local candidates or election officials. They are planning to hold an election with a secret voting roll in New Orleans. The U.S. District Court of Louisiana has refused to postpone the election to reverse this injustice.

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if this goes through it will be " the first time in history that a public election will be held with secret voting rolls. Candidates running for office will not be able to contact voters; elected officials will not be able to communicate with their constituents. Poor and vulnerable citizens, displaced from their homes, will have to figure out where to ask for an absentee ballot about an election that many may not even know is taking place."


how you like them cookies?

kicking them all out in the open

[Kerrytravelers]

1. Bet Halliburton will be building some nice country clubs that the

dislocated people of New orleans would never be allowed to step foot in... unless they were the hired help.

Well, America and democracy was a nice idea. No one promised it would last forever. We are witnessing the final days of democracy.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

2. People Wonder Why I Want To Leave This Country

It's one thing to stay and fight, but it's another to stay and play, when the game is so incredible rigged against you.

I'm beginning to think of it as a crooked card game. You can either stay here and continue playing and losing, or go somewhere else. You can try to expose and fight the rigged card game, but the investigators are also the same guys rigging the game. Ironic, eh?

[sam sarrha]

3. that was the plan all along.. golden opportunity to steal the next election

they are just screwed, there is nothing anyone can do for them,..except take control of the Congress AND Senate in the next 2 elections or WE ARE ALL SCREWED.. we will all become SLAVES, our great nation has seen its finest days..

whether we take control or not, we have been bankrupted and sold up the river along with nearly every factory in the nation, China now owns us.

[murray hill farm]

4. Well, there is this..also...

It is almost hurricane season again this year..and it has been already predicted that this year will be worse than the last two...and may begin earlier than june due to the already high temps of the caribbean and southern atlantic...so, ah..........Hello!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have the making..and probability of another hit on NO this year..maybe more than one. Right now..and i mean right now..we need to concentrate on those leveys.

[NYC]

5. During Iraq elections, there were polling places in the U.S.A.

Does anyone remember that? I don't remember who set them up, but it's living proof that distance is no obstacle.

...Louisiana and the Bush administration have refused to provide satellite voting places for those dispersed...

This may be one of the reasons they were in no hurry to get these people back to Louisiana.