FEMA rewrote the Constitution for Trailer Parks!!

FEMA also had a rule that prohibits journalists from having unsupervised interviews with Hurricane Katrina victims who have been relocated to FEMA trailer parks. “If a residentinvites the media to the trailer, they have to be escorted by aFEMA representative who sits in on the interview,” FEMAspokesperson Rachel Rodi said “That’s just a policy.”. The Advocate report, by reporter Sandy Davis, describes two separate attempts to talk to people displaced by Katrina that were haltedby the intervention of a FEMA security guard. In the first incident, in a Morgan City, Louisiana camp, an interview wasinterrupted by a guard who claimed that residents of the campare “not allowed” to talk to the media. “You are not allowed to be here,” the guard is quoted as telling the reporter. “Get outright now.” The guard reportedly called police to force thejournalist to leave the camp, and even prevented the reporterfrom giving the interview subject a business card. “You will not give her a business card,” the guard said. “She’s not allowed to have that.”. Later, at another FEMA camp in PlaqueminesParish, Louisiana, the reporter attempted to talk to camp resident Pansy Ardeneaux through a chain link fence when the sameguard halted the interview. “You are not allowed to talk to these people,” the guard told Ardeneaux. “Return to your trailer now.”The reporter said she and an accompanying photographer were“ordered...not to talk to anyone or take pictures.. Earlier, an interview with displaced Katrina victims by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! (4/24/06) was halted by FEMA securityguards. Tape-recording the accounts of residents of theFEMA-run Renaissance Village camp outside Baton Rouge,Louisiana, Goodman was approached by FEMA-hired securityguards from Corporate Security Solutions who told her to “turnit off.” When Goodman explained that the resident had asked tobe interviewed, she was told, “He can't. That’s not his privilege.”. Restrictions on the right of citizens to speak freely to the press without government supervision are a clear violation ofthe 1st Amendment. “They cannot deny media access,” GreggLeslie, the legal defense director of the Reporters Committee forFreedom of the Press, told the Advocate, saying that FEMA’srestrictions were “clearly unconstitutional … and definitely not legal.” Referring to the requirement that interview subjects havea FEMA escort, Leslie said, “That’s a standard for a prison, nota relief park and a temporary shelter.”. Timothy Matte, the mayorof Morgan City, expressed surprise that FEMA was enforcing limits on the free speech of disaster victims. “You would think the people would have the same freedom there as everyone elsehas,” he said. When Michael Cosbar, who oversees most of the agency's trailer communities in the state, learned that Christiangroups were regularly leading Bible study classes and holding Sunday school and other religious services he announced onFebruary 16 that FEMA would no longer allow them. MichaelCosbar, said the church issue is just the latest trailer-parkheadache that his agency did not anticipate. That was just onemore of our constitutional rights FEMA wanted us to give up.This rule was over turned later. Are you starting to see a pattern here?

Modern Day Concentration Camp!

When you first drive up on the FEMA site you see a chain-link fenced in property with stark crowded trailers and no trespassing signs posted along the perimeter. When you drive upto the entrance you will see security guards at the front gate. Itdoesn’t take much of a closer look to notice that the security guards are armed. FEMA requires all residents to carry Renaissance Village ID badges at all times.
You will have to show your ID’s, tell them who you are going to see and their trailer number and they will write down your licence platenumber on your vehicle when you come in. Mark Misczak, the agency’s human services director for Louisiana said it is“private, like a gated community”. It is unlike any gated community we have ever known of, except a prison. When the site opened FEMA had a ban on firearms. Col.Greg Phares, chief sheriff’s deputy in Baton Rouge, had asked for FEMA to say firearms would not be permitted on site, just as you can’t bring firearms into the federal building, into the Legislature in Baton Rouge, into an LSU football game.
Is that a reason to deny any ones constitutional rights. National RifleAssociation and Second Amendment Foundation sought to change this rule, saying the original policy violated Second Amendment protections for gun ownership. FEMA made the change after consulting with their lawyers. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre praised the change. “It is wrong to force citizens to give up their constitutional rights in order for them to get a needed federal benefit,” he said in a news release.

We are the people of Renaissance Village

Renaissance Village has many times been referred too as“FEMA's Dirty Little Secret”. It is more likely that RenaissanceVillage is FEMA’s and HUD’s “Inconvenient Truth”. The sky might have been blue over Renaissance Village, but it is always raining in our world.
Where hope is disappointment.
Where recovery is a mirage.
Where life is a nightmare.
Where housing assistance is a dream.
Where confusion is everywhere.
Where compassion is fleeting.
Where depression is reality.
Where FEMA travel trailer means Sickness and Death.
We ask you to Please take the time to listen and learn,because the truth can only speak if you take the time to listen.We also ask you to take action in anyway you can to help themistreated people. Disasters will happen again, and when thenext one comes, you might be the one wanting fair and impartialtreatment. Renaissance Village is row after row after row of 573stark white Travel Trailers crammed onto a vast dusty lot. They are placed in such close quarters and have so little insulation thatif you sneeze in side your trailer, your next door neighbor feelsobligated to say god bless you from inside their trailer, and if you belch you feel obligated to say excuse me to your neighbor. It was built as temporary housing for those left homeless byHurricanes Katrina or Rita. They are not homes they areweekend campers designed to be lived in 30 hours a month onweekend trips or vacations. With one or two people in a total living space for bedrooms, living room, kitchen, dinning room,and bathroom of 125 square feet to 225 square feet it is hard let alone families with 6 to 8 people, some of which will be children. If you do not think this is a hardship on a family Isuggest you try it for a week, no try it for over 100 weeks. Not tomention the effect that it has on the children spending 1/8 of their childhood in a place like this. The 62-acre park was built on pasture land owned by the nearby Jetson Center for Youth. It is like other trailer sites that the Federal Emergency ManagementAgency (FEMA) has erected around Louisiana since HurricanesKatrina and Rita. Although it is considerably bigger than most itcertainly isn’t pretty. The roads that separate the travel trailers are covered with dusty gravel that radiates clouds of gray dust every time a car passes by, every breeze creates a dust that fills your lungs. The dust hangs in the air and leaves an uncomfortable film over your entire body and everything else atthe FEMA site.
When it rains the site is turned into a river ofwater and a lakes of water and mud.