Bullshit. Anyone in jail for a small amount of weed either did something in addition to possessing a small amount of weed, or has a history of doing other things besides possessing a small amount of weed. No one goes to jail for a dime bag.
If you have evidence that shows someone deliberately put lead into the water to poison children, by all means, present it. Otherwise, keep the melodramatic bullshit to yourself.
The lead came from the pipes the city uses. The pipes are safe as long as the water is properly treated but when the water was switched from the nearby lake to the local river, it was not treated, leading to pipe corrosion. When residents started to complain, the state said "Relax, the water's fine.". When water experts and doctors started saying "Lead in the water!", the state dismissed them and told everyone to ignore the quacks. The state knew they had a problem, but they chose to bury their heads in the sand. http:// www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/us/flint-michigan-lead-water-crisis.html?_r=1
So children dying from lead poisoning isn't dramatic enough? The governor knew he was poisoning children, he choose to keep poisoning them, and if no body said anything they'd still be drinking that water today. If that's not horrific enough for you than your an asshole.
My guess would be that not enough white kids were hurt for there to be any retribution for those responsible for this inadvertent act of domestic terrorism.
Oh shut up. If a single black person is responded to by police, whether or not it's fair, the media BLOWS UP. When a white man is killed, NOBODY CARES. Not being racist, but this is the case.
Being from Michigan, and with my best friend living in Flint, I can tell you that Snyder is just all around a bad governor. Guys, he wanted to spend millions in tax payer money to build a bridge to Canada...we already have a bridge to Canada, and it's doing just swell.
There are so many children who are now affected for life by this lead-filled water. There are lawyers and politicians working to pay back the people for their water bills because it was unfit for human consumption. Although families have been getting shut off notices since they refuse to pay for tainted water. Local government are distributing special filters and bottled water. Apparently the state has a decent budget surplus from 2015, and there are people working on getting Snyder to use that money to help out Flint. But also Michael Moore is filing a lawsuit against Snyder, there have been protests at Snyder's home, people are calling for his resignation.
They didn't care about preteating the water, they didn't care when people complained, they dismissed experts who raised red flags. They just didn't care about Flint, only saving money for the state and then saving face.
Update: spoke with my friend last night, he said things are bad there but more so in the sense that the government is just taking control of everything. A lot of people already owned filters and what not. Flint just needs help, they've gone ignored for too long.
If you have evidence that shows someone deliberately put lead into the water to poison children, by all means, present it. Otherwise, keep the melodramatic bullshit to yourself.
There are so many children who are now affected for life by this lead-filled water. There are lawyers and politicians working to pay back the people for their water bills because it was unfit for human consumption. Although families have been getting shut off notices since they refuse to pay for tainted water. Local government are distributing special filters and bottled water. Apparently the state has a decent budget surplus from 2015, and there are people working on getting Snyder to use that money to help out Flint. But also Michael Moore is filing a lawsuit against Snyder, there have been protests at Snyder's home, people are calling for his resignation.