[tacticalogic]

The landowners may also be victims of emminent domain. Anyone who thinks Nagin and his city government wouldn't sell out small time private property owners needs to buy this bridge in Brooklyn from me...

I think we may be seeing the beginning of exactly that. The article states that the disarming is being done in advance of a mass forced evacuation. I think once the evac is complete we may hear that the remaing structures had to be destroyed for structural damage or "contamination". NO could become one big Kelo case. Condemn it all, pay off the landowners with federal money and divide it up among the politically connected "developers" who'll reap the lion's share of the redevelopment money (and share with their politician friends that made it all happen).

[Smokin' Joe]

Sure seems like a fine opportuity for certain racist politicians to eliminate surviving antebellum architecture from the city. Not to mention loot houses full of antiques.... Reparations and all that....

Are those not some of the "upscale" houses on higher ground?