Protesting the demolition of 4500 housing units in NO (tasers & pepper spray used) -

[FenceWalker]

EVERYONE in New Orleans thinks this is the right decision.

Every single person, huh?

Basically, if you don't live in New Orleans than you have no opinion on this, got it?

No, sorry. Don't "got it".

So I guess after the hurricane, when my children, my wife and I donated clothes, toys and drinking water, etc...And I personally (along with other church members) drove it down there to help out, we should have just kept our opinion that folks could use the help to ourselves?

Gee, I thought Dr. Paul was all about it being up to the people to help each other out. I guess not, according to you. If we don't live there, we don't get an opinion.

Everybody gets an opinion. Whether you think they should or not. Got that?

I had heard about the professional activists seeding the crowd (some estimates were up to 70%). My local paper today quoted somebody as saying that tempers were flaring partly because some of the people outside the gates thought the city council had allowed a large number of pro demolition folks into the actual meeting while keeping out those that were opposed.

My opinion is that having heard from the HUD reps (and the local New Orleans housing department) that vouchers were going to be given to ensure that nobody would be homeless and the new buildings would be a mix of low income, middle income and high income housing, that the demolition (again, in my opinion) would end up being a good thing.

Get rid of the damaged buildings as well as the purely low income housing may put a dent in some of the problems that seem to plague these types of housing "projects".