Stop the Forced Evacuations from New Orleans

To:  U.S. Government, State of Louisiana, City of New Orleans

Stop the forced evacuations from New Orleans!

We, the undersigned, would like to register our objections to the forced evacuations of hurricane and flood survivors from New Orleans.

Most of the survivors who want to stay are in non-flooded areas, so the potentially-serious-but-currently-vague concerns about the danger of the badly polluted flood waters do not seem to apply.

Most of the survivors who want to stay are stalwart law-abiding citizens, whose presence will actually aid in maintaining security in a 98% vacant city, so the security issue does not seem to apply.

All survivors of a catastrophic disaster are at high risk for post-traumatic stress. One of the highest needs of survivors is to regain control of their lives. For some, this may mean holding their ground in a badly damaged city. To force such people into evacuation simply for bureaucratic imperatives is to add real additional human injury to the inherent stress already heaped on by the original disaster.

Given that two of top three people at FEMA are Republican PR people (and the third a failed horse administrator) ( http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/08/142204 ), that the administration is at least somewhat culpable for various relevant bad actions before, during, and after the primary disaster, and that ten days into the disaster FEMA is still not providing any release of the gradually accumulating casualty information, despite many thousands feared dead, it is hard not to be suspicious of the motives for a major and hurtful yet unexplained police action.

Where is mainstream media questioning of why some ten thousand Americans are to be forced from their homes?

Unless honestly explained and necessary, the forced evacuations for New Orleans should be stopped!

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

The Stop the Forced Evacuations from New Orleans Petition to U.S. Government, State of Louisiana, City of New Orleans was created by and written by Kevin Matthews (matthews@artifice.com).  This petition is hosted here at www.PetitionOnline.com as a public service. There is no endorsement of this petition, express or implied, by Artifice, Inc. or our sponsors. For technical support please use our simple Petition Help form.

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