it took them 5 years to figure out what everyone else already knew?

People lost their lives and homes this is ridiculous!

EXACTLY GINA!! I’m like “ok, and where’s the ‘A-HA’?!?! We knew the levies were faulty,due as a direct result of shotty work by the ACOE…

Now, PAY UP Uncle Sam!!! Maybe now some of those folks that you and FEMA beat out of their $$ can recoup some real value and rebuild their lives…

and they release this info while Obama’s in office SMDH

I just don’t see it.Not seeing how ACE can be blamed for being unable to foresee the STORM OF THE CENTURY.Oh well…prayers have been answered.There’s finally a “villain” to sue.
Lame decision by the judge.

i said that after the levees broke it aint the gvt per say but army corps of engineers….they f!cked up big time

And EVERONE did not know this 5 years ago… Please

Duh!

The government caused KATRINA if you don’t believe me check out OPERATION POPEYE you can see what evil our government in capable of. Please read up on it and don’t be blinded by government lies.

They’ve been talking about the faulty levies since the sh*t happened. Just that ACOE was QUICK to throw off that blame (of course) so there had to be an investigation. It was stated repeatedly that had the levies been better built, they would have withstood Katrina….

New Orleans knew for almost 20 years before Katrina those levees were not in the proper condition. New Orleans did not upgrade them.

Score another one for the New Orleanians looking for a handout. One thing I can say about Mississippians and Alabamans, they picked themselves up and moved on with dignity, even though the rest of the world forgot about them. Katrina made landfall twice, and neither time was NEW ORLEANS!

@This Some Shhhh – I didn’t see that… yeah, aint nobody getting paid off of that, but 1 or 2 people…

A city should have never been built there.

Is it paranoia, if you are right?

Those people have already scattered across the states and lost everything they have…

Too little, too late…

Please! Lost everything they had? Many of those areas were poor and full of people on full government assistance. Everything they had was paid for by others.

What about the hard working middle class in the two other states who actually worked for everything they owned and lost in Katrina? The government, and society as a whole, ignored them and didn’t help them. Insurance companies denied claims. The broke people are getting rich from this and the honest, hard-working are getting shafted.

Good looking out Judge, but you and I know the govt gonna find a way to over rule your precedent, by going to a higher court. Our govt wont admit to anything no matter how many lives are lost

Alrighty Then…

@This Some Shhhh – I didn’t see that… yeah, aint *****ody getting paid off of that, but 1 or 2 people…

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It was at the very end of the article. I bet this was not a group of Black people filing this claim.

Str8 Truth

One thing I can say about Mississippians and Alabamans, they picked themselves up and moved on with dignity, even though the rest of the world forgot about them.

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You spitting nothing but the truth on that. They don’t even speak on it, like it never hit that part of the states.

@Str8 Truth…you seems to sound a little bitter with the decision, are maybe it’s you who can’t capitalize on the beneifits of what the folk of that city endured. Though some of the communities were in poverty areas, doesn’t by any means indicate the lifestyle some of those folk lived or what they had inside their homes, and lets not forget the mental pain and anguish they suffered, to say the least being called refugee’s, which were defermation of their character. There were many working folk who lived there, and provided an honest living for their families. Maybe your mind just blew up like they blew the levees, when you heard the judge render his verdict. Give the folk whats due to them, and next time get a better insurance company, perhaps you won’t get denied if this occur again.

@STEFANY:

Thanks for putting the rest out there! Sad too now that you see them listed.

**I just got done reading a book by Assata Shakur who was affiliated with the BPP. She even speaks about how the government was plotting to destroy them and how they pitted one party against each other so that they would fall.

Of course it’s the government’s fault. Everyone knows and already knew that!!!. This was instantly realized when we look at the demographics of the areas that suffered and it ‘just so happen’ to be in Black communities. The government conducted a modern day Holocaust to rid New Orleans of it’s primarily urban population and make it more attractive to tourist who visit for Made Graus and other festive activities

OK…everyone knew that. Unfortunately the realization is those POOR people of all races in that community will never see any but a couple thousand (if that) from the gov’t. The gov’t is not about to give hundreds of thousands to poor Americans with no education. Look what happen to Mike Tyson or Mike Vick. Now if this was a middle class community with high levels of education, they would get paid.

Pretty much.

I hate our government.

The article isn’t opening for me but I thought that the judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers was negligent and caused the damage in specific areas (9th ward and St. Bernard). That’s a different thing from saying that the governement was responsible for Katrina.

Kami All Day (Haters give me Promo…..)

@STEFANY:

Thanks for putting the rest out there! Sad too now that you see them listed.

**I just got done reading a book by *****ata Shakur who was affiliated with the BPP. She even speaks about how the government was plotting to destroy them and how they pitted one party against each other so that they would fall.
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@Kami – Read “Seize The Time” by Bobby Seale, cofounder of the BPP. It’s about the early days of the BPP but gives a keen insight of how quickly an organized movement for “the people” and against the system can scare the heck out of the Gov’t. These cats were unabashedly unafraid and ran it down like no others since. I bet you’d enjoy it.

@nevrquit

First, I am a proud, self-sufficient, independent woman. Were you affected by Katrina? If not you bring conjecture, nothing more. Every affected person I know from Mississippi or Alabama has rebuilt without the government or handouts. The day after, my community was out cleaning up, not screaming on TV.

Proud to say I survived, got up, rebuilt, and made my own way, like my fellow statemates. *pops collar*

Know what you are supporting before you support it. Know the backstory before you jump on the bandwagon. Do your research.

Oh and it is D-E-F-A-M-A-T-I-O-N.

The governtment was’nt concerned because they knew the people that would be mostly affected would be blacks not whites.

@ Str8 Truth:

Im so with you on that one. I am from New Orleans (my family eventually left and moved to Mobile, AL) and I was hurt to see the city I was grew up in suffer like that. But on another note, NO assistance was given to Mississippi (who btw, had WAAAAY more damage than N.O.) I mean Biloxi is a gold mine for casinos (Hard Rock, etc) and for that to happen was quite a loss. Alabama (Mobile took a minor hit, depending on the area you lived in) but I honestly think Mississippi had the worse effects.

My family (those who still live in N.O.) dont complain. they picked up the pieces and didnt wait for some damn handout. Many of them didnt want pity. They wanted an answer. Its sad it took all this time to do so.

DUH? YA THINK?

So it took 4 years to see that Georgia Bush was the cause?????

I am a louisiana resident and here is what the rest of the country is not privy to….that court judgment only applies to a predominantly white area. The court ruled that the army corp of engineer is not responsible for the flooding that occured in the predominantly black areas.

lets get things cleared up! first of all, my mother worked for the army corps of engineers over 25 years ago, and will tell you that they have been aware of the faulty levees that broke in the aftermath of Katrina since then. Now pay attention,I said aftermath, after the storm had passed there was no flooding, but when the levees gave way, all hell broke lose. So let me simplify this for you. who maintains the levees? Army Corps of Engineers, who is a government agency. that is how the government is going to be held responsible. no disrespect to the ppl in mississippi and alabama,but there was a greater tragedy in New Orleans, NEGLECT!

@fashionelites

You really need to check your information. Mississippi took a direct hit and was completely obliterated. The storm surge evidence could be seen for up to ten miles inland. New Orleans fell victim to subpar levees, which they had been informed about for two decades.

You call me bitter for pointing out how New Orleans is squeezing a government for money when the same government informed that city the levees were not up to standard.

The tragedy was coast wide, not just New Orleans, which did not even take a direct hit. The other two states have every right to point out the levees breaking, not direct hurricane winds and storm surge took them out.

The greater tragedy is that there were millions of people outside those areas who suffered far worse and New Orleans is maintaining a good PR campaign to keep the woe is me money coming in.

I remember going to visit people after the storms and while displaces people from MS and AL came in looking to get on their feet, the locals in those area commented quite a bit on the rise in crime due to the New Orleanians and how they wanted freebies. Nothing has changed in four years, has it?

And to the same psychic who knows what I did not go through, YOU DON’T know. There was death and devastation here. Again, you prove New Orleans thinks it was the only area that suffered.

Imply all you want that I want money. My hand isn’t out. I earn my keep. And you wonder why NOLA is working the system to keep that element from coming back and the places they went don’t want them there?

I BEEN SAID THIS…THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ARE THE BIGGEST GANGSTAS IN THIS WORLD–STR8 DIRTY AND SCANLIZZ!!!

Str8 Truth – Real talk….

SO!!!! WHAT ELSE IS NEW!!!!

@ str8 truth my hand isn’t out and my heart goes out to the Sipp and Bama cause noone should have to go through that…the true fact of the matter is that the flooding in the city could have been avoided had the levees been properly maintained. No one can say they went thru nemore than neone else, b/c we were all affected in our own way. I am still recovering and have yet nor do I want any assistance. Please just lets not result to making genralized statements about our people and the people who went through this…whether on government assistance or not.

DUH

YES ITS THERE FAULT I AM A HURRICANE KATRINA VICTIM.. AND ALL OF US KNEW THEY BLEW THAT LEVIES DOWN…WE LOST FAMLY IN ALL THAT

Only poor, uneducated people (mostly blacks) lived on the lower ground near the levee because the white people were smart enough to see the bigger picture. Give the same people money and they will foolishly waste it by returning to potential disaster once over. White people would take the money but move to even higher ground. Open your eyes and learn black people in the gulf area. Don’t build your home on shaky ground. Find a solid foundation out of harms way. There is a reason land and homes were so cheap in that lower section near the levee: it was called danger zone!

the fat lady has finally sung – all affected people of New Orleans – get a GOOD lawyer and not one from Louisiana – and sue, sue SUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!