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Your original assertion was this:
The "problem" with the water didn't arise until AFTER Gov. Snyder disbanded the city government and appointed an emergency manager, and he and the key people below him and whose actions he was responsible to oversee, because that is the job of the boss, ****ed up the transition, hid problems, covered up problems, didn't fix problems they knew existed, which sickened and killed people etc...
So I have no idea what point you're making now. Other than "liberals suck" which I think is your only point.
Liberals do suck, but that is besides the point.
And it's the only remotely coherent point you're making on this thread, so I'll leave you to it I guess.
Other than your own willful & ignorant............................... blame the state entirely Message.
The Flint water crisis was a failure on the part of government at various levels. It may be unfair to single out government and civilian employees to blame for those systematic government failures.
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Translation - Let's give the killers a pass.
The public desires to see individual's blood, no matter how much the government is actually to be blamed for the fiasco. They might as well blame Obama for the massive wildfire damages caused by badly designed federal forest management regulations.
The public desires to see individual's blood, no matter how much the government is actually to be blamed for the fiasco. They might as well blame Obama for the massive wildfire damages caused by badly designed federal forest management regulations.
Government is made up of people, is people. Holding the named people who committed the acts unaccountable for their individual acts by condemning the faceless, nameless entity called "government" is no different than holding a mob hit man unaccountable and blaming "the mob" who paid him.
And your example is unpersuasive because Obama didn't engage in any overt act that led to or contributed to the wildfires. And even those who you say "badly designed" the forest management plan may have made a mistake, but we're not talking mere "mistakes" in this case. In this case, individuals were informed about horrific water supply safety problems and took deliberate and purposeful steps to hide that information, cover up the safety issues, lied to regulators and others, and with deliberate intent left the water supply filled with lead and other contaminants, that sickened and killed people.
It's the difference between you giving your child water from your tap, believing (incorrectly) that the water is safe, VERSUS being informed it has dangerous levels of lead, is possible contaminated with deadly legionnaire's disease, lying to your wife about the known water problems, and continuing to provide poisoned water to your wife and child, telling them it's fine, safe, healthy, knowing the terrible and possibly life long adverse side effects including death possible as a result of continuing to use tap water in your home. The latter is what the named individual did to the city of Flint and its residents.
Apples and oranges here. People that Snyder appointed to run Flint's government are charged with manslaughter. They knew in advance what Flint's water was like, and went ahead with this anyways, and did it for the almighty dollar. What they did was homicide. But yea, let's make this topic about Obama. What are you gonna bring up next? Benghazi or Hillary's emails?
Too many Americans suffer under the delusion that if the government is involved bad things should not happen unless bad actors pervert government regulations. That is not true. In the Flint water crisis several government agencies with unsound operating procedures failed to protect the people of Flint and the fault was as much in the shoddy enforcement procedures, the unclear division of responsibilities, the vague recommendations for handling issues which should have caused more alarm, and so forth. These professional public servants are being fed to the lions as though they deliberately broke laws. That did not happen. They did their jobs in a manner which was consistent with the way they were taught to do those jobs by officials who did the same things before them.
America has descended into a culture of hatred and blame and total misunderstanding of truth. I sympathize with these poor scapegoats.
First of all, your premise is absurd. No, they didn't do the job in a manner consistent with those who did the same things before them.
But even if we accept the premise, they engaged in crimes and now is as good a time as any to hold them accountable for those crimes, which sickened many and killed dozens. The only thing I can figure is the Governor is a Republican, and that's why you're blaming "government" instead of officials appointed by and often answering to him. Otherwise it makes no sense at any level.
In the modern culture of blame the one with the deepest pockets or the one who is in charge of a division of government trying to do his job according to the vague guidelines set by regulators will always get the blame, regardless of facts demonstrating mitigating factors. An employer may reprimand an employee for being unsafe but if that employee does not listen and obey and gets hurt then it is the employer's fault and the lawyers go after the employer, not the one with the problem.
That's a pretty incoherent argument. There is nothing "vague" about the obvious and deliberate failures by those indicted. If you want to argue a particular case, that's fine, but we're not getting anywhere with you making general statements to excuse the specific actions in this case.
These government employees were just doing their jobs like others before them had done. If they took shortcuts or if they failed to act expeditiously on a matter it was because other government agencies also failed to act expeditiously. If Comey can forgive Hillary for supposedly not intending to do any harm in breaking multiple federal laws she understood, then these people should be given the same consideration.
You accuse public servants of criminal wrongdoing for greed. I never saw any evidence of that in the accounts I have read. Government failed and those at the heads of departments are made the scapegoats.
Sheesh - I should have known a terrible argument would eventually involve BUTWHATABOUTHILLARY!!!!
Of course your argument to this point is some version of "but what about other unnamed people in unknown other examples of a water supply poisoning and killing residents because of unknown failures by these unknown and unnamed people, as a result of unknown rules they were following like other unknown and unnamed employees before them and at the direction of unknown and unnamed supervisors." So it's just the broadest possible version of BUTWHATABOUT_______! except you're not even bothering to name any identifiable person/group of people or event.
So they were indicted and arrested for nothing at all. LMAO. You crack me up.
Never mind. Modern justice is often neither fair or reasonable. Godliness is on the wane and godlessness is on the rise, even in law enforcement and in the criminal justice system. Marilyn Mosby charged 6 innocent cops in Baltimore in the death of Freddy Gray. That was a serious miscarriage of justice but far too many Americans just didn't seen to understand that.
They were arrested as scapegoats to appease ignorant public clamor for heads to roll. Just like the unjust charges against 6 innocent cops in the Freddy Gray suicide.
The city of Flint knew about the problem for years before we ever heard about it.
The lock step incompetent democrat city leadership waited for it to get out of hand so the state could take over and take the blame.
You accuse public servants of criminal wrongdoing for greed. I never saw any evidence of that in the accounts I have read. Government failed and those at the heads of departments are made the scapegoats.
People being charged doesn't mean it is the correct/right thing to do.
Lay the cases out.
And since this is a political forum, what are their political affiliations.
No. I have no need to watch propaganda form someone of such ilk.Watch the documentary "What lies Upstream." 90 minutes of your life. Tell me what you think. It's not propaganda. The filmmaker is a journalist who advocates for privacy, government transparency, and anti-lobbying efforts. I assume you don't have a problem with any of those stances. Give it a watch.
No. I have no need to watch propaganda form someone of such ilk.
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