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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2049304" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/flints_crisis_is_about_more_than_water_20160207" target="_blank">http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/flints_crisis_is_about_more_than_water_20160207</a></p><p></p><p>"The crisis in Flint is far more ominous than lead-contaminated water. It is symptomatic of the collapse of our democracy. Corporate power is not held accountable for its crimes. Everything is up for sale, including children. Our regulatory agencies—including the federal Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality—have been defunded, emasculated and handed over to corporate-friendly stooges. Our corrupt courts are part of a mirage of justice. The role of these government agencies and courts, and of the legislatures, is to sanction abuse rather than halt it.</p><p></p><p>The primacy of profit throughout the society takes precedence over life itself, including the life of the most vulnerable. This corporate system of power knows no limits. It has no internal restraints. <strong>It will sacrifice all of us, including our children, on the altar of corporate greed. </strong>In a functioning judicial system, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and Flint’s former emergency manager, Darnell Earley, along with all the regulatory officials who lied as a city was being sickened, <a href="http://michaelmoore.com/ArrestGovSnyder/" target="_blank">would be in jail facing trial</a>.</p><p></p><p>...Michigan state officials, for example, provided bottled water to their employees in Flint for nearly a year while city residents drank the contaminated water, and authorities spent $440,000 to pipe clean water to the local GM plant after <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/30/michael-moore-flint/" target="_blank">factory officials complained</a> that the Flint water was corroding their car parts."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2049304, member: 56035"] [URL]http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/flints_crisis_is_about_more_than_water_20160207[/URL] "The crisis in Flint is far more ominous than lead-contaminated water. It is symptomatic of the collapse of our democracy. Corporate power is not held accountable for its crimes. Everything is up for sale, including children. Our regulatory agencies—including the federal Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality—have been defunded, emasculated and handed over to corporate-friendly stooges. Our corrupt courts are part of a mirage of justice. The role of these government agencies and courts, and of the legislatures, is to sanction abuse rather than halt it. The primacy of profit throughout the society takes precedence over life itself, including the life of the most vulnerable. This corporate system of power knows no limits. It has no internal restraints. [B]It will sacrifice all of us, including our children, on the altar of corporate greed. [/B]In a functioning judicial system, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and Flint’s former emergency manager, Darnell Earley, along with all the regulatory officials who lied as a city was being sickened, [URL='http://michaelmoore.com/ArrestGovSnyder/']would be in jail facing trial[/URL]. ...Michigan state officials, for example, provided bottled water to their employees in Flint for nearly a year while city residents drank the contaminated water, and authorities spent $440,000 to pipe clean water to the local GM plant after [URL='http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/30/michael-moore-flint/']factory officials complained[/URL] that the Flint water was corroding their car parts." [/QUOTE]
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