So, if in addition to ignoring expert warnings that he was about to poison Flint and giving the city contaminated water anyway, and after that doing his best to cover up the mistake for as long as he could, Rick Snyder also sent his people in the city bottled water for a year so that they would not be affected, then there is no possible defense, not even incompetence and stupidity.
The Tea Party, damn them, has indeed given us one of the very worst governors in American history, a man whose corruption has a cost in ruined lives and shattered familities and human blood.
He blithely ruined the health of a population, knew he was doing it, lied about it, and throughout, cared only about putting off justice for himself and for his cronies, for a little bit longer, damning the human cost.
We are talking about crimes that if committed by people with tans and beards would have been considered a major attack on the American mainland, an act of war.
This is malfeasance on a grand scale, an act of multiple murder by callous disregard of human life, an assault that has hobbled the lives of children before they were old enough to know that some of the people who should have been protecting their welfare found it the least of all possible considerations.
If there is any justice, Snyder will not just go to prison but face so many consecutive sentences — one for every child poisoned, one for every lie he told while people continued to drink what he gave them — that there can be no chance of him ever again seeing sunlight as a free man.
My question, and I’m afraid I already know the answer: will the people who insisted on fifty hearings over Benghazi care enough to spare thirty seconds of concern for this outrage so much more pressing? Because even if you buy the oft-debunked accusations directed at Hillary Clinton over that tragedy, the worst you could say about her in connection to that is that, maybe, she made the wrong call during a crisis that lasted hours. By contrast, Snyder calmly and with complete disregard of the consequences placed American children in mortal danger for an extended period, all while lying about it; and by supplying his people with bottled water, he proved that everybody working for him who benefited from that precaution had some idea that it was going on as well.
It was a conspiracy of massive dimensions, and can the assholes who cry “Benghazi” nonstop be bothered to care about it, at all?
What do you think?
Comment By: Laurie Mann
January 29th, 2016 at 11:17 am
No because the Republicans are responsible for that mess.
Comment By: Paul Anderson
January 29th, 2016 at 11:17 am
After all, it affected Those People, not Real Americans.
Comment By: Paul Crawford
January 29th, 2016 at 2:19 pm
I wish they would. Some days at work, it sounds like a fucking pterosaur rookery.
Comment By: David Vineyard
January 29th, 2016 at 4:18 pm
The martyrs in Flint don’t let them filet Hillary. Of course they aren’t angry a Republican is killing American children. Not sexy enough for them.
Comment By: David Alexander McDonald
January 30th, 2016 at 3:20 pm
IOKIYAR, sadly.
Comment By: buzz
January 30th, 2016 at 10:33 pm
Like you, I fear you have answered your own question. This is an atrocity, as vile and as racist and as blatant assault on innocent people as can be imagined, but it’s happening to poor and / or minority people so of course no GOP partisans give a rat’s patoot.
It’s for the rest of us to remember on election day.