How would you set out to prove (or disprove) this conspiracy theory, if you wanted to?

Question

It involves the Levees having been breached in New Orleans at the time of Katrina.

After the storm went by (where the category 5 didn't even hit New Orleans) the water began to stack up.
Had the levees not broken, some of the wealthiest areas of New Orleans including business districts and historical districts would certainly have suffered the damage.

Some people believe that the Levees were purposely destroyed to prevent further destruction to the more prosperous parts of the city.

If this is true, then the decision would have been responsible for hundreds of deaths in the 9th ward.

How would a person go about investigating such a claim?

Answer 1

Apparently it was known that the levees were in poor condition and would eventually break. Is it possible that some used this information to carry out malicious acts? Yes, I think so. To investigate this one should contact the levee inspectors to determine the liklihood that the volume of water would finnaly break the levees.
The 1927 scenario ( which i had never heard of) may just be proof that history repeats itself. I
f the levees did break on their own there is still the important fact that it was known that they needed repair and nothing was done before and little was done after.

Answer 2

You'd first try to find out if it's true that the levees breaking saved the more prosperous parts of the city from serious damage. I don't think it is - since the poorer areas were lower down than the wealthier areas, I think they would have been harder hit whatever happened.

It's a documented fact that something very like this did happen in the Great Flood of 1927, when levees above New Orleans were intentionally destroyed, protecting New Orleans, but destroying a huge area populated largely by poor blacks. I think your conspiracy theory has got the events of 1927 and 2005 mixed up.

Answer 3

I believe that there are no limits on what corruption is possible, but I have never heard that particular theory before. What I did hear was that it was known (by government officials, as well as the Army Corp of Engineers), for well over 10 years that the levees were faulty and badly in need of repair. But, they intentionally neglected doing the work, even when they had the money allotted to them for that purpose...and they just used that money for other things. But, when you really think about it, intentional neglect, and intentional sabotage, really amounts to the same thing. *sm*

Answer 4

I don't see how that makes sense, considering wealthy districts can rebuild easier. I think the only way you can catch a conspiracy is to witness it being done. From what I hear you can get in some trouble if you dig to deep into these things. Have you heard of the 9/11 conspiracy? That's the one that scares me.