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I believe Nagin & co. are up to something nogood.

Forcefully evacuating people from their own homes 2 weeks after the storm is unnecessary. These people have successfully survived til now, and conditions will only improve with time.

Unless Nagin, Blanco, or Bush plan on going door-to-door, cleaning & fumigating every building, which I seriously doubt; these people are in no way hampering recovery efforts or security.

Just as people increasingly ignore curfews as time passes after a storm and the power begins to come back on; NOLA residents will start to filter back into the city until they become a flood. Ultimately, government(s) will be powerless to stop this, and they shouldn't try.

Without people, it is not a city!

My guess is that Nagin plans to condemn & bulldoze large, poor areas of NOLA, with no regard for private property rights, and no chance for the owners/occupants of these houses to claim salvageable property.

Using eminent domain, Nagin can cut deals with casinos & businesses to build on this freshly bulldozed land, with nobody even in town to protest the seizure of their property. In many cases, property owners wont even know until way too late.

This could be a good thing for NOLA in the long run - new commercial buildings & apartments could be built on tall pilings, new infrastructure, etc. But with the city empty of all but soldiers & politicians, and Nagin & Co. having the legal keys to every door in NOLA, many people are gonna get screwed!

And the beauty of it all is the Feds will pickup the ENTIRE tab!

Nagin's stomach must hurt from laughing so much!

Asking him to quit is like asking a gambler to return his winnings!

I've been wondering if Nagin and Blanco (and Bush) had a plan the extends beyond the next ten minutes. You've just convinced me that they have. To my dismay.

I've been an admirer of W, contributed to his first campaign, voted for the guy twice. But after watching him remain quiet over and over as our rights rapidly disappear, I've pretty well gotten over that. Over the admiration.