It's a real-estate grab

[Seeker]

I have a horrible suspicion that the delayed response to Katrina was premeditated.

Who stands to gain by guaranteeing that most of the poor are driven out and their ghetto houses bulldozed?

Why would the levee hold through the 145 mph winds and the waves they kicked up, only to have very localized sections of it crumble in a straight line down to the ground after the storm had passed?

What better way than a media spectacle, rife with finger pointing over "poor maintenance" and budget cuts, to cover it up?

What of the heartfelt promise President Bush made to rebuild New Orleans "bigger and better than it was before."?

What of the determination of the Mayor and Governor to do likewise?

If it is bigger, better, and therefore more expensive and generating more tax revenues, how will the refugees (the people, they would claim, that demanded it be rebuilt) move back in?



Speaking of conspiracy theories, anyone familiar with Alex Jones (http://www.infowars.com/)? He's about as pro-capitalist as you can get, but his anti-government bias has inspired him to do some interesting journalisim.

[Xvall]

Sounds like a plausible theory.

[Seeker]

As the Mayor of Atlanta, GA told the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/03/national/nationalspecial/03voices.html):


All the grain that's grown in Iowa and Illinois, and the huge industrial output of the Midwest has to come down the Mississippi River, and there has to be a port to handle it, to keep a functioning economy in the United States of America."




Whitewashing the workforce at such a port, and displacing the locals through economic force, might seem like a worthy goal to directors, CEO's, and board members of quite a few industries.

[novemba]

Halliburton is def. gonna gain from this.

Sick. Just sick.

[Seeker]

Also heard that part of the reason our house flooded is they dynamited part of the levee after the first section broke - they did this to prevent Uptown (the rich part of town) from being flooded. Apparently they used too much dynamite, thus flooding part of the Bywater. So now I know who is responsible for flooding my house - not Katrina, but our government .

link (http://www.infowars.com/articles/new_orleans/no_residents_gov_is_killing.htm)

That would explain the unusual pattern of breakage in the levee.

[Commandante_Ant]

I'm pretty sure i read on this forum that Halliburton has being guaranteed a contract for the restoration of New Orleans. It should really come as no surprise. We all know, that in Bush's government, he looks after his friends.

It certainly sounds like a plausible theory Seeker....a sickening theory but certainly possible.

[RedAnarchist]

The levees were apparently only able to withstand a Category 2 or 3 storm, so Bush should have order evacuations far earlier than he did, if he actually cared about the people of New Orleans.