Nagin, PLEASE!

First one to say they didn't see this coming gets a Dunce cap & some quality corner time:

Tempers flared as expected Wednesday with the unveiling of a bold plan to temporarily halt the issuance of building permits in flood-ravaged parts of New Orleans -- a four-month timeout proposed by Mayor Ray Nagin's rebuilding commission to allow for a planning process that would chart the future of those neighborhoods.

The message to Nagin's Bring New Orleans Back commission from many of the roughly 20 audience members who spoke out at the presentation of its land use plan was direct and simple: Don't tell me what I can do with my property. Fueling the anger was the plan's call for using eminent domain, as a "last resort," to buy out homeowners in areas that show few signs of rebirth. (emphasis mine)

So they get through all this, just for the city to try to kick them out. Nice one.

Considering all the talk about how people that were forced away are somehow "better off", how the lowest areas (coincidentally -- according to them -- also the blackest) should be "reclaimed" by the gulf, & how quickly politically connected developers showed up, it's obvious what's going to happen: New Orleans is gonna be remade as a cajun-themed DisneyLand, an expensive, soulless tourist trap and nothing more.

If we can't have the NO back, then may we have Little New Orleans' sprout up in cities across the country. The rest of us could use some flavor.