Rent-a-riot in New Orleans
I added a link yesterday with video of the New Orleans public housing battle to my post on the Hurrican Katrina rent subsidy story in Houston. As Bryan Preston noted, most of the protesters were from outside the city. Jeff Crouere at Bayou Buzz had been warning about the rent-a-rioters for more than a week. Here’s his Dec. 13 post:
Yesterday, in New Orleans, protesters stopped the planned demolition of dilapidated public housing units at the B. W. Cooper public housing complex. Today, fresh from this success, protesters are poised to march on City Hall to stop other planned demolitions. The Housing Authority of New Orleans has announced plans to demolish four public housing developments in New Orleans and replace them with mixed income neighborhoods. The demonstrators are opposed to these demolition plans and believe it is part of a conspiracy to prevent poor African Americans from returning to New Orleans.
In contrast, the re-development of these units will benefit the former occupants of these housing projects. Creating units that offer modern amenities, less dense living conditions and a mix of inhabitants is preferable to the situation that existed in B.W. Cooper and the other housing projects in New Orleans. Prior to Katrina, housing projects were characterized by a high crime rate, gang activity, a thriving illegal drug trade, prostitution and filth.
To see how a redevelopment can be done correctly people should investigate the former St. Thomas housing projects, which are now the River Gardens neighborhood and a new Walmart store. It is a vast improvement over the situation that existed previously and should serve as a model for the redevelopment in many of these other projects.
Unfortunately, instead of moving forward and providing hope to residents, professional protesters and experienced agitators succeeded in shutting down the B.W. Cooper demolition last night. Now, this same group wants to thwart the demolition plans at three other housing developments.
In reality, none of the previous residents of these public housing developments have a “right” to return. Residents lived in these facilities courtesy of the taxpayers of the United States. They did not own these units. Instead the units are owned by the federal government and the people of this country.
All of these facts are disregarded by the professional protesters who came in to New Orleans from other states, carrying signs and yelling at work crews hired to do a job that had been approved several years ago. Yesterday, at the B.W. Cooper protest, license plates were spotted from Ohio, Kentucky and Massachusetts. Who are these individuals? What stake do they have in New Orleans? They have the luxury to come into town and protest and then leave and not have to face the crime and trash that characterize the housing projects.
New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin was nowhere to be found. But you can bet leading race-hustlers will soon surface again to echo this clown:
A news release from the Coalition to Stop the Demolition, one of several groups organizing protesters, characterized the pending action as a “rubber stamp” at a “sham meeting.”
“It is beyond callous, and can only be seen as malicious discrimination. It is an unabashed attempt to eliminate the black population of New Orleans,” said Kali Akuno, an organizer with the group.
Who is he? An Oakland, Calif.-based rabble-rouser with the “Malcom X grassroots movement” who inserted himself into Louisiana as head of the “People’s Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition and director of the Stop the Demolition Coalition.”
“Grassroots?” More like astroturf.
See what others have said
Note from Michelle: This section is for comments from michellemalkin.com's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that I agree with or endorse any particular comment just because I let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with my terms of use may lose his or her posting privilege.
Trackbacks
- Bloodthirsty Liberal » Smoking Grassroots
- Right Voices » Blog Archive » Couldn’t NOLA Residents Have Protested Without The Rent-A-Riot Protesters?
- Michelle Malkin » The “Shut up, white boy!” woman is the “slum” dweller with a 60-inch TV
- NEW ORLEANS?, RENT-A-RIOT?, CAN YOU SAY RUCKUS SOCIETY? « D=S
Comments
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Categories: Race Hustlers
Confederate Yankee
» Palin Resigns
Sister Toldjah
» Sarah Palin’s resignation: The morning afterLegal Insurrection
» It Always Has Been About TrigWeekly Standard
» More on Palinprotein wisdom
» Speaking of Bosses… [JHoward]Pundit & Pundette
» Erik Sean Nelson's life is more worthy than those greeters at Walmart
Rent-a-mob-of-welfare-entitlement-swine.
Not surprising that the protests are rife with non-residents of New Orleans that have “no skin in the game” and will not be impacted one way or the other by the demolition and redevelopment of these housing projects.
This is nothing new and has become the norm for these protests no matter where they take place or what the situation being protested against.
These interlopers should be identified and charged with conspiracy to incite riots when things get out of control.
The question I have is why did it take Nagin and his cohorts this long to get started on these demolitions? Once again it appears the mayor sat on his hands just like he did with all of those buses that sat parked instead of getting people out of the path of the storm.
The City of New Orleans or the United States Congress … tough to choose which is the most feckless and useless to its consitituents.
Please don’t tear down the delapodated slums and build new ones! I say leave them up in the shape they’re in and let them move back in. Of course, then they’ll be protesting living in slums!
I just have to wonder: .oO is this is where all of the funds for rebuilding has gone - into the pockets of slime organizations who want nothing more than to stir up trouble in order to drain more funds to stir up more trouble to drain more funds to….
There are people living in tents under bridges in N.O.I have seen the plantations,er,projects many times while visiting there.In my opinion you would be better off under the bridge.
Why should the city do anything with these slums? Sell them and the land to the highest bidder. The new owner can tear them down, renovate them, or rent them as is. The city has no business supplying housing to the few paid for by the rest, and should get out of the business. Maby then they will have more time and money for city services, like POLICE.
Nothing like professional race hustlers making you feel like a victim telling you how the man is keeping you down by destroying an unliveable neighborhood and move you into new housing established to give people an opportunity to improve your station in life. I seriously doubt most of the folks that actually live there will do anything for themselves too many generations used to getting hand-outs instead of a hand-up. The new build neighborhoods will likely go right back to the status quo they once had before Katrina. My observation from watching housing projects is people that are handed free decent housing don’t appreciate it and in turn don’t take care of it.
Before rebuilding and repopulating a city like New Orleans they should think about building proper sea-defenses first (not levees - I’m talking stuff that actually keeps the water out). They should take a look at what Rotterdam did after the floods of the 1950s.
Faux News Alert
Islamic Rage Boy a No Show!
Islamic rage boy is demanding to high a fee with all his new found fame and was not at the event.
film at 11:00
I’m flummoxed. These Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton types are protesting so people who lived in the housing project can stay in the housing project and the people who are trying to demolish the projects are racist?
Just another fine example of the white man trying to keep a brotha down…
/sarc
I am the only one who sees the hypocrisy in this? These people don’t want help. Well, they do but they want it on their terms. I say leave them to sort it out…since they no better.
know better
Hypocrisy, yes. Absolutely. But the people protesting are not residents.
Yes, I am aware. I’m speculating of course… do we know what the residents want?
Instead of going through all the time and effort of tearing these structures down and building new ones, how about we take the money that was to be spent on this project and just hand it out to those residents? That way they can spend the money as they seem fit. Like on lap dancers, rolexes, rims, drugs, etc. just like they did right after Katrina.
30,
to get hurt by the pigs so they can file a claim for millions.
Hope that helps!
Thanks Soap. This is ridiculous.
Yes. It is the height of racism to attempt to give them better living conditions.
We’re sorry. Feel free to return to your squaller…
It appears, from yesterday’s news, that they want to stay in Houston…
Perhaps we can build their brand new slums out of chocolate. You know, to help inaugurate Nagins theme park.
ding ding ding ding
fight over
So, these race hustlers just want to create a controversy… well that’s never happened before. Feigned outrage at the hands of black people for black people but always against “the man.”
Who might he be?…
aj, you beat me to it!
These same people that are protesting would be the ones to sue the government one or two years down the road over health issues caused by mold and mildew if these buildings weren’t torn down and allowed to be reoccupied.
Sorry for the rambling sentence.
On December 21st, 2007 at 9:05 am, SteveinTX said:
do we know what the residents want?
It appears, from yesterday’s news, that they want to stay in Houston…
Thats correct,theres a much larger drug business here,new turf and all.
Follow the money…
People, People, People… dammed if you do and dammed if you don’t… no good deed goes unpunished.
Too bad these protesters don’t emulate Rachel Corrie’s tactics for stopping bulldozers.
Please don’t take our roach invested dilapitated hut the tax payers pay for us to live in. We might have to work and better ourselves.
Kick out the illegals and make these people work!
I have read 4 different articles on the protest. None of them answer this question. Protesting for the sake of protesting, if you ask me. Once again, shame on the media for not giving all of the facts. Yes, I know it is shocking….
Attention.
I believe they’re members of the Amalgamated Order Of Sharpton’s Charlatans Local 753.
So, these morons don’t want the old projects torn down; they want the poor to stay poor, and stay living in the projects. Away from the wealthy; like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, et.al.
This is what happens when you allow socialism a foot in the door. The “class struggle” isn’t so much a struggle as is it warfare between the classes. With the socialists laughing at both sides.
Want to help the world’s poor? Ban socialism and un-ban DDT.
Where will these people be staying until the renovations are being completed?
funny!! or the members of the Extortionist Brigade (sub of Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition) Local 666.
#33 they are gone, they are in Texas or some other state. they are no longer there…
Houston, Atlanta, Charlotte, etc…
Seriously, do you actually think that people are that cold hearted, as to not have a plan for the movement of people?
That was my point earlier about the media coverage. No where have they laid out the details for either side.
They simply want to hype up the hysteria.
Just a guess, but, “It must be Bush’s fault.”
#31 Too Funny!
MM wrote:
She got the meaning of astroturf wrong. In liberal blogosphere, an astroturf organization is something up be a few rich backers pretending to be grass roots. The Swiftboat Vets was (were) astroturf in this sense, while Minutemen is (are) real.
The riots in New Orleans, rightly or wrongly, are real lower class people on the streets — not astroturf.
No, LGM, they are NOT real lower class people, they are “rent-a-protesters.” The residents of these projects are NOT THERE. They are living elsewhere, waiting to move back, but I’m just guessing there. I don’t think they want to move back into the projects that are now unfit for habitibility after the flood. Oh, excuse me, I’m sure you would have said, “Bush’s flood.”
Also, so by your definition of astroturf, that would be MoveOn.org, funded by George Soros.
Just to keep things straight.
I used to tutor kids who lived in the C.J. Pete projects, one the other being torn down, and it’s the place was absolutely horrible. Drugs all over the place, frequent shootings and homicides, and in terms of aesthetics, one of the ugliest parts of the city. That place was dragging down anything nearby, when it should have benefited from close proximtiy to Tulane & Loyola, the Garden District, and was within a 5-10 minute walk from the CBD and the French Quarter.
These protestors know nothing and I guarntee you the’ve probablty never even visited the sites in question. They are nothing more than mindless causeheads who have been duped by the race-hustlers.
Did you not read the post lgm? These people are from Oakland and Ohio. Most of the “lower class people on the streets” are still in Houston.
And explain this contradiction to me, when the projects were built and people were living in them, the line was that the city was forcing black people into ghettos to try and marginalize them. Now when they want to demolish these places and rebuild to something more successful (like what waas done with the St. Thomas projects) they say the city is trying to get rid of black people. These arguments make no sense, and are used by race-baiters to increase their power base.
The Swiftboat Vets
was (were) astroturfARE REALin this sense, while Minutemen is (are) real.Just because these fine Americans torpedoed your joke for a war vet presidential candidate does not make them astroturf. Now the gray matter between your ears IS astroturf.
@ #28
You can’t “make” them do anything without it instantly being characterized as slavery. Hell, you could write them a check for $100,000, and they’d cry slavery or racism if you dared to make them be the ones to have to go to the bank to deposit it.
There are a large number of blacks in this country who have Entitlement Syndrome ,where they live their lives thinking that they are “owed” something for some perceived past wrong. They are taught, in our own schools no less, to have the mindset that the “white man is out to oppress them” and that happiness is a “right” that is violated every time they don’t get what they want.
This crap will never stop until the machine that keeps brainwashing these people is stopped
OK, since were talking astroturf…now it is called “field turf” the rubber bone breaker of sports. and I suppose it would work well in this reference due to the protesters ‘playing the field’ as any protest will do. now lgm, get back in you’re tree.
I think many of these protesters can be described as:
Anti-
Social
Sycophants
Happy
On
Louisiana
Entitlements
Because they are apparently not:
Against
Sub-
Standard
Housing
And
Tenements
This is what the Housing Authority in many cities do to help the poor gain a sense of belonging to the community. This is done to help them look and learn how other’s are succesful in life. I lived in a neighborhood that had low income housing authority duplex’s, their were 8 low income families living in these and I knew all of them they where tired of living in the project’s and wanted out to achieve better living condition’s, schools etc. for their kid’s. When I was the general manager for a sport’s memorabillia/ clothing store I hired 3 of these people and I can say that they where model employee’s, on time all the time very seldom did any of them call in sick and most the time I or their manager’s would have to send them home because they would come to work sick. Two of them, single mom’s, worked their way up to managing their own stores and one worked his way up to assistant manager. I gave them a chance to achieve their goals and told them what they had to do to advance, they did everything I told them to do and they achieved a level of success they never thought they could achieve. Although I don’t work for that company anymore I still talk to them on occasion. one of the single mom’s has my old job and was able to buy her own house, the other single mom is a district manager and has purchased her own house and the guy I hired no longer works for the company but took his experience and became a district manager for another company and purchased a one of the other duplex’s, lives in one side and rent’s the other out. I get a Christmas card every year from them they alway’s write a little note thanking me “if it wasn’t for you I don’t know where me and the kid’s would be” and every year I send them a note in their Christmas card “Dream Believe and you will Achieve, you believed in yourself, worked hard to get where you are I had nothing to do with it, it was all you. God has Blessed you and me for knowing you. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.” Most of these people just need the opportunity to achieve their goals, it sadden’s me that these idiot race and class baiter’s are destroying many of these people’s opportunity to succeed
I fear that what’s really happening is that the race-hustlers don’t want the poor, their pawns, elevated to a mixed-income neighborhood existence, because it may give their subjects a taste of hope and inspiration.
We have a very sad situation out here in Antioch, California, where a large contingent of families from Bay Area inner cities has moved to beautiful communities in Antioch and purchased their first homes under really generous HUD programs for low-income families. What has happened is that, while many were grateful and appreciated this leg-up opportunity, using it wisely, others brought the inner-city with them and created a hideous mess in what were previously very nice communities. Property values plummeted under the gov’t subsidies because the inner-city attitude and behavior was not left behind in the inner-city. Very, very sad, for everyone involved.
Soros did the same thing this summer when I went to the Gathering Of Eagle Rally against the Moonbats in DC. He paid to bus them in andthe funny thing they don’t really know why they’re there. It was like watching a bunch of mentally diabled Zombies!
Blind_Mule
That is a good example of how it is supposed to work … the welfare system was not supposed to become a way of life … it was supposed to be a helping hand when needed to help people get back on their feet …
Thanks for sharing your personal experience in this area …
I realize that not all fall into the dependency trap … but a large number do … it’s like the old adage … “you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink” … the same can be said for some on the welfare roles … until we put limitations on that system and force them to accept the fact that it is temporary assistance and not a way of life we are going to continue to fight these battles …
Congratulations, New Orleans. You’ve reaped what you’ve sown.
Another part of the problem is that when HUD rebuilds housing, there are new rules that forbid huge percentages of unemployed, no income tenants in the new developments. There are percentage requirements for different income levels. What that means is that not all the former tenants will be able to qualify to move back in, even if they showed up. We went through this here in San Francisco with several HOPE VI rebuilds. Also, former problem tenants are not allowed to return.
The problem, of course, is the entitlement mentality of the black underclass. We, the taxpayers, “owe” them housing, food, medical care, etc. I work for a county welfare department and I see it every day.
Finally, this “right of return” crap is just another example of the “Palestinianization” of everything.
I lived in a ‘mixed income’ community. Although this community was not designed to be a mixed income neighborhood, it became one by default when there were stately homes with 6 and 7 figure renovations alongside the non-redeveloped [is that even a word?] rental properties. I assisted my landlord in helping a new neighbor moved from a housing project to my apartment building and was shocked to learn of the living environment this single mother raised her daughter in the first eight years of her daughters life. Why anyone would prefer to live in such a state-sanctioned slum is beyond me.
What’s the bet none of these protesters would ever consider living in those dilapidated buildings when it was an active crime-ridden area, or since.
They want that kind of attention? Send them to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Nothing will satisfy these people, why do we keep trying?
All this is, rent-a-protestor issue aside, is an excellent example of the systemic failure of the “welfare” system. It is also an example of what happens when a people with a laissez-faire attitude I am not using laissez-faire in the traditional definition but rather literally as translated: “let do”.
New Orleans isn’t called The Big Easy for nothing.
Generations-generations of these people have been handed everything, food stamps, shelter, money and the government-the banana republic government encourages this generational welfare state because it guarantees votes at the ballot boxes.
Coming to a theater near you….”Revenge of the deadbeats”
The same things happened during the 60s with communists disrupting college campus life with paid hippies.
PAID HIPPIES!!!! Talk about your oxymorons!
Astroturf? Watch it, grrl. The course ‘nap’ of that material may get you cyber lynched.
This is but a small taste of the disturbed entitlement mob’s violence & aggression against the responsible adult bulwarks of society should another over-whelming calamity, like gynormous terrorist attack that disrupts energy or food, should happen.
Is your 2nd amendment at the ready?
Michelle and others;
I wish I knew what to say. I really do. I look at this, I follow the links, I see the overpacked room. There wasn’t any more room in there.
I saw the African-American woman say three times “Shut up, white boy.” “Shut up, white boy.” “Shut up, white boy.” And I thought something to myself that was wrong.
Somewhere in this once-great country, we went wrong. We’ve lost our way. Too many entitlements, too many free lunches. I’m not a Democrat, and I no longer consider myself a Republican. I’m all politician’s worst nightmare … I’m an informed voter.
Although I’m not liberal, I do remember his words “Ask not what your country can do for you … ask what you can do for your country.”
What can YOU do for your country? Think for yourself. READ and LEARN about what’s really going on. Michelle’s site (thank you, Michelle) really helps, but it alone won’t solve the problem.
The other part of the problem is where I’m going to get flamed. I know it. But it needs said, so here goes:
We, the American People must get involved. Too many politicians, on both sides of the aisle, have forgotten about us. They’re too interested in their poll numbers and in making their opponents look ‘bad.’ Sorry, they can all do that on their own.
This requires that we get involved, because as sure as I’m writing this, the politicians won’t. They’re too busy with “Congressional earmarks” (aka - Pork-barrell spending.)
We must get off our butts, put down the TV remote and get involved. Too many apathetic voters who never got to the polls and who didn’t vote have helped to create the mess we’re now in.
It’s time for us to get up, STAND up, and take back this Country.
I’m sorry, Michelle. I am.
Low-life punks, full of hate… poor ole New Orleans.
Assimilated into the US culture? Hardly. I’ve seen stuff like this break out in the streets of Nairobi Kenya over very minor things and people get beat to death. The Sharpton’s, Jacksons & the Great Society people have a lot of blood on their hands.
Leave it to ajmontana to try and silence your freedom of speech….he/she feels threatened by alternative points of view.
And how’s that MSNBC working out for you? Still on the air?