New Orleans City Government Overthrown

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the Chairwoman

CITY HALL –Chief Administrative Officer Dr. Brenda Hatfield staged a coup d’état that wrested control of the municipal government during the early morning hours of June 11th 2009. New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin was quarantined in Shanghai since Sunday over swine flu concerns.

He was released today, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

Nagin, his wife and a guard had been quarantined after a passenger on their flight from the United States had flu-like symptoms.

The Coup, lead by Hatfield and the Royal Thai Army against the elected government of Mayor Nagin was New Orleans’s first non-constitutional change of government in nearly three years, followed a year-long political crisis the imposition of martial law after the 2005 hurricane season.

The overthrow as undertaken by Nagin’s former allies and obvious political opponents occurred less than a month into this year’s hurricane season which began on June 1st.

It has been widely reported in Thailand and elsewhere that General Prem Tinsulanonda, Chairman of the Privy Council was the mastermind of the Coup. He has had the ear of CAO Hatfield since a meeting 2006 which neither one of them can recall. The military canceled the upcoming elections, abrogated the Constitution, dissolved City Council, banned protests and all political activities, suppressed and censored the media, declared martial law, and arrested Council Members Head, Feilkow and Clarkson among others.

Prior to joining the City of New Orleans, Dr. Hatfield served as Director of Governmental Affairs and Local Programming for Cox Communications and managed the award-winning Cox 10 productions and programming department.

At a news conference this morning on the steps of City Hall, Chairwoman Hatfield promised that Democracy would be restored to the Crescent City within the year. Chairwoman Hatfield will enforce her new government’s regulation with all of the awesome power of the Royal Thai Army, which arrived during the coup and be assisted by the Royal Thai Navy, said to be heading up river at this very moment.

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Nagin, who could not be reached for comment, is speculated to have left the Chinese quarantine for Australia for a planned series of speeches, the AP said.

Citizens of New Orleans are awaiting Nagin’s next move, who has had to surrender control of the city and parish for the second time in his mayoral stewardship since 2005.