Confederate monuments: Take 'Em Down NOLA slams city for hiring firm group says spied on them

NOLA Times Picayune ^ | 16 June 2017 9:04 PM | Willborn P. Nobles, III

[blueplum]

The group Take 'Em Down NOLA claims New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu paid a private security firm $750,000 to spy on the organization.

Its members held a press conference in front of City Hall on Friday to address what the group calls the city's "unauthorized contract" with the Trident Response Group of Dallas...

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Suber said Take 'Em Down NOLA meetings are public, so the city "certainly could have sent spies" to these events as well to monitor their actions. He also questioned why the city would pay this group for surveillance work if the city claims to have resources available via Homeland Security.

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Tyronne Walker, Landrieu's communications director, stressed Friday that Take 'Em Down's claims are "outlandish and completely false."

[blueplum]

From the "Give them an inch and they'll sue you for miles" department.

Or, "Why mayors shouldn't cowtow to wackadoodles 101"

Because the Mayor hired security, the antagonistic group is now claiming they were spied on in some super-secret federal rights violation gimme money concoction.

[brucedickinson]

these people never stop nagging

[pepsionice]

Someone should create a New Orleans reality TV network channel, and just turn 100 cameramen loose on the city to record all the corruption and greed going on. Run it around the clock....24 hours a day.

[ronnie raygun]

Now this is funny, you have the rats taking down statues of rats, maybe they either dont know thier history or want to rewrite it without the blairing reminders in town squares across the nation. Wait until they find out MLK and Lincoln were republicans!

[Uncle Sam 911]

The fascists got their way with the monuments and now have to have some reason to likely keep their relevance so they concoct this nonsense. The Mayor was your friend and doing your heavy lifting but just as BLM stays stone silent on black on black murder, so this group is really a farce and front for power grabbing.

[Saltmeat]

The state of Louisiana is maintaining the presence of state police troopers in New Orleans to help maintain law and order. This has now been going on for years. Is the city of New Orleans reimbursing the state for this cost?

New Orleans has already committed over 8000 hours of police time and over 2-million dollars to this meaningless matter of monument removal. We now know that they can afford to reimburse the state if they aren’ already doing so. The city apparently has money to burn.

[AFreeBird]

Sounds like a good way to end up in the big muddy. Or a gator infested swamp.

Not disagreeing with you - just say’.

[Dutch Boy]

Sort of makes me wonder if this isn’t a ploy to remove all remembrances to the fact the Democrats where involved in the confederacy. Erasing history again to hide their past.

[Romulus]

They had to justify their massive fee somehow.

[sportutegrl]

Mayor Mitch is also a rat. But he probably agrees that one thing Southerners have had since Reconstruction is busybody out-of-state carpetbaggin’ Yankees coming in and telling us how to run our state. Forced busing (to inner city schools) for example.

[Lorianne]

Huh? If the meetings were public then there is no need for spies.

[Ray76]

Take Em Down NOLA is a revolutionary communist group.

“Take Em Down NOLA has always said our effort is a necessary part of the struggle for economic and social justice.” http://takeemdownnola.org/updates

On their front page “racist white capitalist establishment” http://takeemdownnola.org/

https://www.gofundme.com/take-em-down-nola created May 10, 2017 by Malcolm Suber.

"Hosted by Take Em Down NOLA":

"raise our voices against the racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, anti-worker, homophobic, environment destroyer, war-monger Trump regime"

Long time New Orleans revolutionary Malcolm Suber spoke to News and Views about the upcoming New Orleans People's Assembly.The People's Assembly will center the voices of New Orleans natives and workers in an effort to resist capitalistic values that dictate the quality of life of New Orleans' residents who are fighting against mass incarceration, for their homes, for a living wage, for their children's education and for their dignity. https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/08/18796282.php

New Orleans Workers Group supporting TakeemdownNOLA - https://www.facebook.com/NewOrleansWorkers/photos/pb.608364089336361.-2207520000.1495938308./729983930507709/?type=3&theater

Suber is “an avowed Marxist-Leninist” - https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/new-orleans-monuments.html?referer=https://news.google.com/

https://www.gofundme.com/peoples-assembly-nolaCreated March 21, 2017 Malcolm Suber

Suber is Director and Agent for "AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY ALLIANCE OF LOUISIANA". Other Directors are LEON WATERS and JOYCE DIARRA. https://coraweb.sos.la.gov/CommercialSearch/CommercialSearch.aspx

Suber's co-organizer Leon Waters also is a communist.

[Plummz]

They also spied on pro-monument protestors....