https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/flints-water-crisis-reveals-government-failures-at-every-level/2016/01/23/03705f0c-c11e-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html
"'It started innocently when someone forgot to follow the law.'"
This is a quote from the Washington post article by Marc Edwards, an environmental protection professor at Virginia Tech.
If this was a private individual who basically POISONED 100,000 PEOPLE, then his head would be on a stick. I know, we bring this case up a lot, but remember Kelly Thomas, who was BEAT TO DEATH because he didn't comply with police, even though he wasn't charged with a crime, he was confused by the police's directions, he hadn't attacked the police in the first place, and he was had a mental disorder! So we have a huge case of a serf who got effectively punished with the death penalty for NOT EVEN COMMITTING A CRIME, and this jackass has the balls to not be indignant about a HUGE government scandal!
I don't know if this fiasco will be BBE or IE or just a story we cover, but we'll definitely be covering it!
Quote from: MrBogosity on January 25, 2016, 12:50:22 PM
I don't know if this fiasco will be BBE or IE or just a story we cover, but we'll definitely be covering it!
reminds me of stories mom told me of her days growing up: She's from Ohio, and apparently the people up there are so sloppy they actually set a river on fire...
Quote from: Ibrahim90 on January 25, 2016, 11:23:56 PM
reminds me of stories mom told me of her days growing up: She's from Ohio, and apparently the people up there are so sloppy they actually set a river on fire...
Been there, done that, it's all in the origin of the EPA and well known among Libertarians.
This story reminds me of the Walkerton, Ontario water disaster.
There was a coincidence of incompetence and happenstance that killed several people and sickened and injured hundreds more.
It happened that a farmer spread fresh cattle manure on a field that happened to have a disused and forgotten open well in a fence line, right before heavy rains, just when the incompetent, corrupt, and unqualified manager of the municipal water system (who had been appointed by his brother the mayor) let the chlorination compound run out in the chlorination system. Had all the elements not been simultaneously in play, it would have been fine. Had the water manager not been actively tampering with the water testing, it would have been fine because it would have been reported and a not particularly alarming boil water order would have been made. As it was, his attempts to cover up his own incompetence helped kill a number of people and left some others with permanent kidney damage.
There was an attempt to pretend that this resulted from the Conservative government in Ontario at the time having cut the number of water inspectors in half, but that failed when the investigation revealed that everything, including tampering with water testing, had been going on for years before the inspectors were reduced.
Quote from: MrBogosity on January 25, 2016, 12:50:22 PM
I don't know if this fiasco will be BBE or IE or just a story we cover, but we'll definitely be covering it!
If u make it a BBE or IE, please use the Washington post article as part of your sources because of that one quote from Marc Edwards