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Hoaxsters dupe crowd with bogus HUD announcement (New Orleans)
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| August 28, 2006
Posted on 08/28/2006 12:32:55 PM PDT by Ellesu
Edited on 08/28/2006 4:09:52 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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Two members of the Yes Men, a group of environmental and corporate ethics activists, duped business executives and some news organizations earlier today when they posed as top HUD officials and announced the agency planned to renovate several housing developments now slated for demolition. One of the men said they set up the hoax after receiving an e-mail solicitation from Equity International -- the group staging the conference -- in search of conference speakers.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: hoaxsters; hud; press
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posted on
08/28/2006 12:32:56 PM PDT
by
Ellesu
To: Ellesu
Posing as a Federal officials?
Isn't that a crime?
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posted on
08/28/2006 12:36:23 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: Ellesu
Had they made a similar announcement stating that the agency was providing jobs renovating these same buildings to the folks who would live there and others on public assistance, you would have likely been able to hear a pin drop from the crowd.
If you're forced to work for what you get, it changes your perspective.
Let's see a crowd of people demonstrate for the right to go in and overhaul these properties. HA HA not going to happen.
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posted on
08/28/2006 12:37:51 PM PDT
by
AbeKrieger
(Liberals are the Mongol herds destroying America from within.)
To: Ellesu
If they were real activists, they would have been down there doing this stuff the day after the hurricane hit. That would have impressed me!
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posted on
08/28/2006 12:43:20 PM PDT
by
Niteranger68
(I gigged your peace frog.)
To: BenLurkin
It would be a crime if we did it. Maybe "environmental and corporate ethics activists" are in a class with illegal immigrants. Laws don't apply to them.
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posted on
08/28/2006 12:44:48 PM PDT
by
FreePaul
To: Ellesu
Dang, that's asking for an a$$ kicking....
To: Ellesu
" a group of environmental and corporate ethics activists"And just how ethical is it to pull a hoax like this on folks...
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posted on
08/28/2006 12:45:50 PM PDT
by
Brian Mosely
(A government is a body of people -- usually notably ungoverned)
To: Ellesu
What would be the point of this? To stir up more local discontent towards the Feds? Who finances this 'ethics group'?
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posted on
08/28/2006 12:47:21 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: kinoxi
What would be the point of this? To stir up more local discontent towards the Feds? Who finances this 'ethics group'?
Kinda like shooting rats in a barrel.
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posted on
08/28/2006 12:53:04 PM PDT
by
Mark was here
(How can they be called "Homeless" if their home is a field?.)
Comment #10 Removed by Moderator
To: kinoxi
The Yes Men seem to be Kerry supporters. I assume they're also on the 'chocolate coalition's' side as well.
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posted on
08/28/2006 1:07:36 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: Ellesu
From top to bottom everyone of these basta*ds should be arrested and really make an example of them!
To: Ellesu
Sure, that's funny, but so is this:
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posted on
08/28/2006 1:17:19 PM PDT
by
D-Chivas
To: Ellesu
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08/28/2006 1:17:30 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
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posted on
08/28/2006 1:21:06 PM PDT
by
Gordongekko909
(I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
To: Gordongekko909
Will they even go to jail over it?
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posted on
08/28/2006 1:31:56 PM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: BenLurkin
"Everybody does it"
"No one is ever prosecuted for..."
"The ends justify the means"
The common excuses of the left.
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posted on
08/28/2006 1:57:32 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: Gordongekko909
Hmmm, "Truth" and/or "Honesty" aren't on the flag. I'm sure it was just "overlooked" as an "honest" mistake.
To: Ellesu
What is the point of such pranks?
To: Ellesu
So, are
"Louisiana Recovery Authority, Louisiana Department of Education, and the non-profit organization New Schools for New Orleans" bogus, too?
yitbos
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posted on
08/28/2006 2:36:23 PM PDT
by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds. " - Ayn Rand)
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