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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Sun Jan 24, 2016, 10:53 AM Jan 2016

Flint As A CRIME SCENE

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha - the doctor credited with discovering how bad the lead poisoning had actually gotten with the children of Flint, Michigan.

from CNN

At first, the state publicly denounced her work, saying she was causing near hysteria. They spent a week attacking her before reversing their narrative and admitting she was right. “Their information wasn’t flawed. They had the data, but they were being told by the DEQ [Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, the government agency that ultimately failed this city and its people from the beginning] that there wasn’t a problem, they just dismissed it,” said Hanna-Attisha and confirmed by the state-appointed task force. “There was almost like blinders on,” she added. CNN contacted DEQ’s former director, Dan Wyant, who made the decision and later resigned over the issue. He did not respond.


“If you were to put something in a population to keep them down for generation and generations to come, it would be lead. It’s a well-known, potent neurotoxin. There’s tons of evidence on what lead does to a child, and it is one of the most damning things that you can do to a population. It drops your IQ, it affects your behavior, it’s been linked to criminality, it has multigenerational impacts. There is no safe level of lead in a child.” - Hanna-Attisha

~ 40% of Flint’s residents are below the poverty rate.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/11/health/toxic-tap-water-flint-michigan/

another xlnt article here:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/us/when-the-water-turned-brown.html?_r=0
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Flint As A CRIME SCENE (Original Post) kpete Jan 2016 OP
K&R for visibility. nt tblue37 Jan 2016 #1
KnR nt Mnemosyne Jan 2016 #2
K&R 2naSalit Jan 2016 #3
Is murder in the pursuit of fraud against the law, too? Octafish Jan 2016 #4
K&R smirkymonkey Jan 2016 #5
Poison black kids and then used them as "proof" that blacks are mentally and morally inferior. Odin2005 Jan 2016 #6
KICK!!! N/t gollygee Jan 2016 #7
k and r...outstanding !!! Stuart G Jan 2016 #8

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
4. Is murder in the pursuit of fraud against the law, too?
Sun Jan 24, 2016, 01:35 PM
Jan 2016

Last edited Sun Jan 24, 2016, 04:27 PM - Edit history (1)

At least 10 deaths resulted in pursuit of a theft - the piratization of Detroit's public utilities and their sale to individuals and corporations tied directly to Snyder and his co-conspirators. Perhaps they also thought taking Flint off the Detroit water system rolls would lower its price for the connected crony purchaser. Little did they know their cheapness would lead to their undoing.

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