“I dare Jacques to show us one single document from the federal government, since the letter from FEMA of December 30, 2009 that tells of sand-boils being the cause of our levee certification.”
– Gregory Aymond, blogger at CentralLaPolitics
“The levee does not meet the geotechnical design criteria because of sand boils and sink holes at or near the toe of the levee.”
– The United States Army Corps of Engineers
“Despite Alexandria Mayor Jacques Roy’s Levee Alliance telling the Louisiana Recovery Authority (LRA) that the damages to our levees were caused by sand-boils on our levees, which could be said to have been caused by the hurricanes supposedly, Jacques fails to mention that the federal government has written and said that our levee problems are caused by cuts in the Bayou Rapides levee by private businesses for their own private parking lots, electrical utilities place upon the levee by the City of Alexandria, and the water and sewer lines ran in the Red River levee by the City of Pineville.”
“The levee does not meet the geotechnical design criteria because of sand boils and sink holes at or near the toe of the levee.”
– The United States Army Corps of Engineers
“What then could possibly be the reason that Mr. Budd would lie to us about the sand boils?”
“The levee does not meet the geotechnical design criteria because of sand boils and sink holes at or near the toe of the levee.”
– The United States Army Corps of Engineers
The truth is, of course, that sand boils have been discussed and mentioned at great length for the last six months, while Mr. Aymond has continually and myopically insisted that everyone is lying to the public, implying some sort of grand Machiavellian conspiracy dating back nearly two decades, and that the real issues are with non-federal levee deficiencies inside the City of Alexandria. No one has denied that there are some disputes about deficiencies on non-federal levees in Alexandria, but it should be obvious to a fourth grader: If you don’t address the big, overarching problems on the Red River, everything else is moot. DUH.
I don’t believe Mr. Aymond is or has ever been a fearless crusader for the truth, and I have very little respect for anyone who engages in such blatant and rampant hate-mongering, name-calling, and ad hominem attacks. It takes a special kind of perverted hatred for someone to make this claim in response to one of my posts on the levees:
Fred (that’s me) is perhaps suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome or some other genetic mental defect.
For those of you who don’t know, I have a disability, cerebral palsy. Somehow, Greg Aymond, a man who is licensed to practice law in the State of Louisiana, believed it was appropriate and professional for him to post an incendiary, ignorant, and flat-out hateful lie about me, my disability, and, implicitly, my mother– all within the context of a response on levee certification.
Folks, to me, this sums up the quality and caliber of Greg Aymond’s character and the depth of his intellectual honesty.
Some may continue to be entertained by his half-witted attempts at humor, his love affair with the Confederacy, and his condemnation of gays, lesbians, and African-Americans (anyone remember his recent line about African-Americans lacking “ethics”?); I think it’s just sad.
CenLamar 
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