NEW ORLEANS: A GREEN GENOCIDE-- Environmental Activists Sacrificed New Orleans Poor For Wetlands!

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[clintonbaiter]

As radical environmentalists continue to blame the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina's devastation on President Bush's ecological policies, a mainstream Louisiana media outlet inadvertently disclosed a shocking fact: Environmentalist activists were responsible for spiking a plan that may have saved New Orleans. Decades ago, the Green Left - pursuing its agenda of valuing wetlands and topographical "diversity" over human life - sued to prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from building floodgates that would have prevented significant flooding that resulted from Hurricane Katrina......

[clintonbaiter]

How come the New York Times isn't talking about this leftist-inspired ecological calamity that sacrificed the New Orleans poor, so that rich leftists could enjoy hiking through the outlying wetlands? What hypocrites they all are!

[Carry_Okie]

Figures.

[joesnuffy]

Slimey Greens...

[SlowBoat407]

I'll bet they would have allowed it if the residents were snail darters rather than poor people that the enviros didn't know.

[marty60]

I heard that these levees are run by little fifdoms in N.O. Each levee has some sort of graft ridden committee that decides what is to be done. No one has mentioned that some of these "officials " were just idicted for accounting irregularities found by the Feds in these little fifdoms. And then they want to blame Bush for nothing being done. A-HOLES

[JLS]

Yep, I have mentioned this on a couple of threads. The US Army Corp of Engineers wanted to put flood gates where the Lake goes into the Gulf. That would have kept the storm surge out of the Lake and the 17th street canal levee would not have been breached.

[D Rider]

I insinuated that that was probably the case day's ago. My comments were based on experience in OC CA and the Prado Dam project delay of 35 years.

Does that make me a prophet?

[traviskicks]

Wow! This is a big story. More people need to be pinged with this!

[dfwgator]

This will be suppressed, just like the stories proving millions of deaths in Africa due to malaria were caused by banning DDT.

[GOP_1900AD]

Even those wacky, Leftist Dutch have flood gates. They have the world's largest flood gates.

[Steven Scharf]

First no levees failed. They all worked as designed. No water went over the top (as far as we know). It was the canal flood walls that failed from below. Those flood walls are not levees.

It would be nice if the MSM could understand these dynamics. I amnot a professional engineer, yet I figured it out the first day.

Steven Scharf
SCSMedia@aol.com

[defenderSD]

Truth is stranger than fiction.

[mdmathis6]

I posted a copy to Drudge's tip line...I hope he picks it up!