drst:
Now it appears Michigan’s governor and other officials may be more guilty than previously thought.
Oh please, Snyder fucking knew the entire time that he was forcing these people to consume poison. The problem is there’s too much public awareness of what lead poisoning does to kids and now that a huge percentage of children in Flint are testing positive for lead exposure, the feds are going to show up and hopefully throw his ass in jail if we’re lucky.
This was intentional, because Snyder doesn’t give a shit about poor black people and thought he could get away with poisoning them.
What’s even more unsettling for me is that the change in water supply was put into effect under MI’s emergency manager’s authority. This was someone appointed by the governor’s office to run the Flint city government. Basically, the governor’s office determined that Flint “wasn’t being run properly” and so took over running the city government, superseded the authority of the city’s elected officials and thereby disenfranchised every voter in that city. Somehow, when the chips are down, the answer to the problems faced by impoverished communities in MI was to get rid of democracy. The emergency manager was never accountable to the citizens of Flint, only to the state government. And this is what makes this kind of disaster possible.
Hearseeno 