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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 11:50 PM
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Who's Mourning the Exploded BP Workers and Murdered Chippewa Indians?
Edited on Thu Mar-24-05 11:55 PM by Stephanie



America's outrage is quite selective.

What are the names of the murdered Native American students?

Who were those oil workers killed in TX?

I bet you can't name one name.

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lostnfound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 11:54 PM
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1. Contract workers. ALL of them were contract workers.
Does that tell you anything?

http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2005/03/at-least-14-dead-hundreds-injured-in.html

2200 out of 3300 at the plant yesterday were contract workers. All of those killed worked for J.E. Merritt.
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LincolnMcGrath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 12:33 AM
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6. The Merritt rats have alot of work here in town @ ADM.
Hardly anyone actually works for ADM itself.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 11:56 PM
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2. The Red Lake thing hits close to home
Names:

Darryl Lussier, 58: Weise's grandfather
Michelle Sigana ,32: Weise's grandfather's girlfriend
Derrick Brun, 28: School security guard
Neva Rogers, 62: English teacher
Dwayne Lewis, 15
Chase Lussier, 15
Chanelle Rosebear, 15
Alicia Spike
Thurlene Stillday
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 11:59 PM
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3. Well thank you for that and bless them all
Edited on Fri Mar-25-05 12:00 AM by Stephanie

I guarantee you most Americans could tell you exhaustive details about the woman who used to be Terry Schiavo and yet not be able to name one of those killed in TX or MN. That's our MSM. Some lives seem to be worth more than others.

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catgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 12:26 AM
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4. Actually the school massacre is getting loads of attention here
in Minnesota. Quite a different story don't you think?
Gun control and poverished area of the nation vs.
industrial accident.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 12:29 AM
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5. We have gotten a lot of coverage here of the Red Lake thing
More Red Lake than TS even. Very little BP coverage...need to go to CNN MSRNC for the BP and TS coverage!
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 01:11 AM
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10. Actually, I've seen lots of coverage on the Red Lake shooting.
But your point is taken.
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Occulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 12:59 AM
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7. I.... kind of mourn all deaths.
Each unnatural death could be called tragic. I then refer to Piers Anthony's decription of the trinary entity Fate.

The idea that all birth and death is necessary in some way is soothing to my soul. The 'tapestry of existence' is, and will remain, alive and well.

One hopes.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 01:01 AM
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8. Oh - yeah. Everything to feed the 'moral majority' and everybody
else can just go away. Did you notice the public schools?
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jdj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 01:02 AM
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9. put the blame where it lays, it's the freaking whore media.
you can't learn about something from tickers and 3 second clips. It's all Schlindlerama all the time.
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anarchy1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 01:13 AM
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11. I asked the same of my husband this evening. Good question!
Edited on Fri Mar-25-05 01:14 AM by anarchy1999
Why is it the Schiavo case, all the time 24/7 for what, almost two weeks now?

There is more happening in this world than a small desperate town in Florida.
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jbarab Donating Member (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 12:40 PM
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12. BP Amoco Oil Refinery Workers
Edited on Fri Mar-25-05 12:42 PM by jbarab
I'm not sure if the names of all of those killed in Texas City have been released yet, but I do know that no one knows the names of the more of more than a handful of the more than 5,000 workers killed every day on the job. I try to collect as many as I can on my bi-weekly Weekly Toll, but I can only find a small percentage. They're basically lost soul, unnoticed and forgotten by everyone except immediate family and friends. They should be remembered and their tragedies used in the fight for safer workplaces in this country.

Jordan Barab
Confined Space: News and Commentary on Workplace Safety and Health
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Blue Diadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 12:56 PM
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14. Excellent idea
to keep track of those killed while working. It's sad that so many places of employment put the safety of their workers last on the list.
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 12:49 PM
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13. I want to know what malignancy in our culture leads to such horrors.
These kids killing kids makes me terribly sad and forces me to explore the possibilities within our own society which lead to such violence. Our society just keeps getting increasingly violent and that tells me something is bad wrong with our country. I suppose I could just assert that it's the cognitive dissonance, the constant inconsistencies between what people experience in real life and what they are told life is all about.

:cry:

With respect to the explosion in TX, there is a pattern of problems that I must squarely blame on corporate negligence. :grr:
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