Last week on TV, they interviewed a man who's Wife also died from formaldehyde poisoning. He said the same thing about FEMA not wanting to give victims the right to sue. You still think 9/11 was not planned? Really?
Posted by Judith at July 22, 2007 07:54 AMHey, its no big deal. The people living in the trailers are just poor and or minorities and, therefore, according to this administration not real people deserving of any consideration.
Wasn't that Reagan's attitude about AIDS? It didn't take too long for it to become equal opportunity.
Posted by Sharon at July 22, 2007 08:08 AM"Hey, its no big deal. The people living in the trailers are just poor and or minorities and, therefore, according to this administration not real people deserving of any consideration." -(soccerdad)
Another fine, informational posting, the thing this blog does best.
-But the problem here is not merely "this administration."
The Bush Administration, being the most obviously racist and militantly anti poor (with pride), is only a cumulative expression of the prerogatives of power in America from time immemorial.
The apparatus for this criminal neglect does not appear overnight, but is a built in structural feature of all American governance and a natural by-product of the demands of capitalism and liberal democracy.
Ask yourselves how much difficulty would the modern GOP have with the outright re-institutionalization of slavery?
Then tell me if that GOP should even be given the right to have a legitimate political agency, much less exist?
Dehumanization of the poor can only stop when there are no poor; under the American variant of capitalism that is an impossibility; under the American variant of ANYTHING that is an impossibility.
Posted by Jill Bains at July 22, 2007 09:54 AMThe great mass of Americans are not going to care about things like this unless and until the corporate press/media tells them they are supposed to care about it by running stories on it day after day.
I suppose if one of the dead or sick were a pretty, young, white girl, it might merit the attention of Americans. But so long as the victims of any act or policy of the government are poor or people of color, it will not be deemed important enough for a response beyond some hand-wringing and pious bullshit.
Posted by James E. Powell at July 22, 2007 10:08 AMLet me be clear: When I say the GOP should not have a legal political agency I mean that the system would not let them be VOTED back into office; that the system even allow their beliefs to hold legal currency?
The afflictions the Cheney regime has administered on the world, much less the United States, is something of a magnitude of a plague. It is much too late in the history of what is called 'civilization' to continue to allow even the slightest possibility that these disasters are allowed to happen again.
When you allow for even the possibility that they come back by popular will you simply risk too much; the stakes are too high.
You say that is the right of the popular will, that it is only a matter of 'educating' the popular will?
Sure.
After the fact.
That's too late.
Posted by Jill Bains at July 22, 2007 10:11 AM"I suppose if one of the dead or sick were a pretty, young, white girl, it might merit the attention of Americans." _(James E. Powell)
-This truism reminds me of the hunt for a missing, "pretty white girl" in the Sacramento California area several years back.
The white girl was, I believe, never found. But the search, having been so through, accidentally disinterred the remains of something like 10 or 12 young girls of color who had met foul play over the years.
This fact never even became well known enough, due to the deliberate neglect of the press, to become a scandal. Years later an article appeared somewhere. It held little public interest.
Could it ever have become a scandal?
Of course not.
This kind of corporate owned press should be disenfranchised. As it functions now, it is all but a criminal institution.
Posted by Jill Bains at July 22, 2007 10:27 AMThe manufacturers also need to be investigated. There's been decades of trailer building in this country; and this is the first I've ever heard about formaldehyde killing occupants. Corruption is at the bottom of this, no doubt.
What relationships are to be found between the builders and this administration?
Posted by Copeland at July 22, 2007 12:54 PMCopeland, good question. You can bet there is some cost saving reason.
Posted by Judith at July 22, 2007 02:12 PMHmmm, I've read that there are thousands of trailers over in Iraq, located on military bases and in the Green Zone, housing our troops and private contractors and their sub-contract workers.
I wonder if these trailers over in Iraq were supplied by the same Republican-owned Indiana trailer no-bid companies that supplied the FEMA trailers meant to supposedly help those Gulf Coast citizens devastated by Hurricane Katrina?
Have there been formaldehyde problems over in Iraq? Have U.S. soldiers and contract workers been sickened by formaldehyde fumes in their sleeping quarters?
Incredible. I'm thinking of starting up a blog called The Daily Republican Outrage, but it would probably gobble up too much bandwidth.
Posted by The Oracle at July 22, 2007 05:01 PMI believe that a recently published report noted that all those extra trailors sitting around in an AK field were to be given to American Indians to help house many who are in need of housing on Indian reservations.
I wonder if they will include small pox laced blankets in the deal....
Posted by brisa at July 22, 2007 05:55 PMAnd fuck 'em if they get treated by the wrong doctors.
Posted by Sharon at July 22, 2007 06:33 PMWell, in our "throw away society", evidently humans are included.
Posted by Judith at July 23, 2007 04:17 AM