U.N. Panel Considers Whether U.S. Gov't Katrina Response Was 'Racist' [UPDATE]
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[UPDATE: Stop the presses! The U.N. has taken an anti-U.S. position! Details here.]
I don't know whether the Oracles From On High have passed judgment on this issue, but the story has qualities that suggest it is right out of Alice in Wonderland.
Housing critics never visited N.O.
A United Nations panel will decide Friday whether the U.S. government's response to Hurricane Katrina violated a treaty on racism, and its ruling could be influenced by a controversial statement from two U.N. advisers who last week labeled the planned demolition of four New Orleans public housing complexes as "discriminatory" even though neither visited the city to research the issue.
Last week's statement drew international media coverage and was hailed by opponents of a plan to replace the four housing complexes with mixed-income neighborhoods, although the plan also calls for the Department of Housing and Urban Development to retain several other public housing complexes in New Orleans. HUD also has provided vouchers through which former public housing residents can rent private apartments across the city.
The U.N. specialists now acknowledge that they haven't been to New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina and were basing their opinion largely on the views of activists who have waged an unsuccessful campaign to halt the demolitions. [emphasis added]
But, wait! There's more!
Housing development tenants don't want old units, HUD survey shows
While more than 70 percent of New Orleans' displaced public housing residents want to return to the city, most of those surveyed recently by the University of Texas at Arlington said they have no desire to return to New Orleans' public housing complexes.And there's another striking finding, especially when cast against the backdrop of a raging debate over plans to demolish the city's "Big Four" complexes: More than 80 percent of those families who lived in C.J. Peete, B.W. Cooper, St. Bernard and Lafitte, the developments slated for the wrecking ball, said they now would prefer to live elsewhere.
Among pre-Katrina HANO tenants who say they favor living back in their old apartments, 20 percent of the total - virtually all of them - are already doing so, survey results show.
So "Home, Sweet, Home" doesn't seem so sweet to 80% of those who have actually lived in its crime-, drug-, and rat-infested reality.
Demolishing the projects is one good thing that has come from Katrina. If that opinion makes me a racist, well, so be it.
Read the original statement by UN human rights officials
Uh, no, thanks. I'll pass.
The UN has less credibility then a gang of Brighten Beach mobsters.
... but only if the United Nations agrees to move into it themselves.
What a better way to show the world what awaits them when the U.N. experts have their way.
record time.
see link in my next comment
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
The Kanye West/lying MSM version of NO ticks me off massively.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/2315076.html?page=2
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
This is remarkable. The international community is jealous of our position as the world lone superpower. It's a fact.
On a sidenote, it's one more reason I hate Kyoto. It always starts with something that is non-binding and that appeals to some broad based sentimental goal. In the end, these international agreements, accords and bodies always water down our sovreignty, hurt our economy and diminsh our power. Keep their stinking paws of our business. I will go nuts if McCain falls for the Kyoto crap, which is thinly veiled attempt at global socialism.
the UN can rejuvenate the truthers and get a UN statement on that as well.
I fail to understand how it is that, especially this late in the game, the UN has any authority to comment on Hurricane Katrina, its impact on New Orleans, of the manner in which the situation was handled. What purpose would it serve except to sink another claw into the USA on behalf of people who are trying to further undermine the current administration?
Frankly, whether one believes it or not, that was (and is) our job. We are our own best, most effective policemen.
And I was under the impression (especially because I saw people traveling from as far away as NJ in a few instances) that our people (and corporate entities), true to American form, gave time, money, services, and muscle power to the restoration of that part of the country, to the point where they themselves now suffer because of it.
As did my brother, who resided -and still resides- in Gulfport, MS, where Katrina actually hit. Admittedly he was unhappy withe federal response, but that was because he felt New Orleans received a disproportionate amount of attention from the Fed.
The UN consideration of NOLA reminds me of the downright antipathy exhibited by the world when the US rushed to the aid of Banda Aceh and other places when the Tsunami of 2004 hit, to the extent that it could without coming under enemy fire. Or was denied to do when the earthquake in Bam, Iran struck, Killing 50,000 people, without so much as a peep from the Iranian goverment. .
So there's nothing new here. It's people who don't understand, showing that they don't understand.
... the City, the County, and the State, having been at such close proximity to the issue both physically and governmentally, and having by far the most to gain and lose in the matter, would have done something BEFORE the hurricane THEY KNEW was coming, hit?
I watched a show on cable days before the event that flat out stated it was "only a matter of time before it happens, and everyone knows that".
Sad but true.
"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich." ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
Should have sunk the whole thing in the Atlantic.
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something I could get behind '_) When will we stop giving money to this organization that hates America? when?
Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion
in forcing unhappy people to remain permanenly in miserable holding pens. It's their M.O.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill