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kskiska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-28-07 11:05 PM Original message |
Police crack down on funeral processions in New Orleans |
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Luminous Animal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 12:35 AM Response to Original message |
1. Wow. |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 01:28 PM Response to Reply #1 |
18. this is one of the greatest things about NO, this practice. How in the name |
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AnneD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 05:01 PM Response to Reply #18 |
26. My God..... |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 01:08 AM Response to Reply #1 |
53. Yes, we are deep in middle phase of transition to tyranny |
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crickets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 12:55 AM Response to Original message |
2. 20 police cars |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 06:14 PM Response to Reply #2 |
29. "maybe they've moved to the wrong place" |
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dickbearton (577 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 06:48 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. Awoke, are you that stupid? Texas eateries replaced by... |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 07:30 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. Actually, this stupid Texan has never voted for any Bush |
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crickets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 10:56 PM Response to Reply #29 |
47. Yeah, sometimes people pick a spot they think would be a wonderful place to live, |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 10:21 PM Response to Reply #2 |
45. my first thoght is: do i really believe someone complained about the "noise" n/t |
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crickets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 10:52 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Sadly, I kinda wondered about that too -nt |
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nosmokes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 01:02 AM Response to Original message |
3. What a load. The cops don't come out en mass for a permit violation. This |
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dickbearton (577 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 06:50 PM Response to Reply #3 |
34. Exactly. |
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Elidor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 06:57 PM Response to Reply #3 |
36. Yes, that stuck out to me, too |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 01:24 AM Response to Original message |
4. chaos= opportunity for profit |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 01:48 PM Response to Reply #4 |
19. Thanks for your post grasswire and thanks to kskiska for the thread. |
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kskiska (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 12:08 AM Response to Reply #19 |
52. I knew this would strike a nerve. I lived in NOLA |
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Froward69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 03:18 AM Response to Original message |
5. I visited once before Katrina |
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Greyskye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 10:38 AM Response to Reply #5 |
14. not only that |
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kimmylavin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 04:39 AM Response to Original message |
6. Christ. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 07:10 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Nope, it couldn't be more obvious... |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 04:28 PM Response to Reply #11 |
22. You got it. |
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Flora (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 09:36 PM Response to Reply #11 |
44. Have you ever heard of Lakeview? |
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NOLALady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 11:07 PM Response to Reply #44 |
49. Aren't there blacks in Lakeview? |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 11:24 AM Response to Reply #44 |
56. gentrification is not specifically about race... |
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Flora (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 09:29 PM Response to Reply #6 |
43. Whitewash? |
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NOLALady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 11:12 PM Response to Reply #43 |
50. No. That is not what they are saying. |
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Flora (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 07:06 AM Response to Reply #50 |
55. Well, of course Stevie can see it. |
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kimmylavin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 04:15 PM Response to Reply #55 |
61. Thanks for answering your own criticism. |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 11:27 AM Response to Reply #43 |
57. I think Disneyfy is a better word... even though it's not an official word |
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Joanne98 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 03:35 PM Response to Reply #57 |
59. That's a great word. It perfectly describes it! |
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cutlassmama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 04:41 AM Response to Original message |
7. It is a time-honored tradition in New Orleans to go that way. |
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krkaufman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 03:44 PM Response to Reply #7 |
21. Soon, the start to "Live and Let Die" will be merely historic. |
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liberation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 06:51 PM Response to Reply #7 |
35. I may change my funeral wishes just to piss off those faux New Orleanites... |
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dickbearton (577 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 06:58 PM Response to Reply #7 |
37. Exactly, Police State. |
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Usrename (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 05:10 AM Response to Original message |
8. WTF? |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 05:57 AM Response to Original message |
9. fascism knows no limits . . . it's all about exercising control, whenever and wherever . . . n/t |
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0007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 06:32 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Hucksters & Capitalism and CHARLATANS rule the times After all New Orleans is up for sale |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 08:06 AM Response to Original message |
12. A SINGLE PHONE CALL brought out the SWAT Team? |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
13. Police crack down on ... WHUH ?? |
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Exultant Democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
15. That will teach black people not to congregate in public. Don't they know they only get 3/5th |
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
16. Sad news on the further "homogenization" of NO. |
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ClayZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
17. . |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
20. Oh. My. God. Let's just trample a downtrodden people even further. |
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Twist_U_Up (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
23. Coming to a city near you. |
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MasonJar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 04:54 PM Response to Original message |
24. This practice is more than 150 years old. Why? |
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FloridaJudy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 04:54 PM Response to Original message |
25. Oh Jeez. |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
27. OMG. Never thought I would live to see the day |
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Montauk6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 05:53 PM Response to Original message |
28. So, if it were the Fred Phelps Gang, it would be a free-speech issue, huh? |
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pattmarty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
30. Get rid of the "white" funerals. |
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rabies1 (434 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 06:25 PM Response to Original message |
31. What the hell is going on down there?! |
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Joanne98 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 03:36 PM Response to Reply #31 |
60. The Shock Doctrine! |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
32. I really wish that I had not read this. |
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Coexist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 07:25 PM Response to Reply #32 |
38. that was my thought - they're steralizing the city |
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iamahaingttta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
40. Bush is Stalin... |
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ooglymoogly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 08:09 PM Response to Original message |
41. Anybody who has spent any time in NO knows the police are |
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NOLALady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 10:59 PM Response to Reply #41 |
48. In New Orleans they are called Creoles. |
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bluedigger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 09:18 PM Response to Original message |
42. What's all this baseless blather about? |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 01:49 AM Response to Reply #42 |
54. that's a white couple's wedding! |
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bluedigger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 05:36 PM Response to Reply #54 |
62. I believe the term is |
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nealmhughes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-31-07 12:28 PM Response to Reply #42 |
64. Good Lord! Did they have the groomsmen dressed up as Wild Magnolias, perhaps? |
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bluedigger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-31-07 06:18 PM Response to Reply #64 |
65. They were just walking down St. Charles |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 01:29 AM Response to Reply #42 |
66. I think you should send this to Keith Olbermann... |
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NoGodsNoMasters (257 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-29-07 11:47 PM Response to Original message |
51. I think we can safely say.... |
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Joanne98 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
58. The corporatists who have captured NO are never going to get any money! |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-31-07 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
63. strange |
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Chovexani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-01-07 08:38 PM Response to Original message |
67. I don't even have words |
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