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Re: Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

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Post by queenkjuul »

mvdtnz wrote: post #47

How does a town in the richest nation in the history of the planet not have the resources to get clear drinking water flowing through their taps?

Cuz all that wealth belongs to about 14 people and everyone else gets police harassment and poison water

Re: Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

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Post by autoexec »

mvdtnz wrote: post #47

How does a town in the richest nation in the history of the planet not have the resources to get clear drinking water flowing through their taps?

We have more than enough resources, but a lot of people don't want to pay taxes to clean it or restrain corporations from polluting our water supply inn the first place. I'm guessing that plenty of people in this woman's own town were cheering Trump's slashing of the EPA's budget and deregulating clean air and water. Just this week the administration announced plans to kill off or delay limits in the amount of PFAS in the drinking water. They argue it's too expensive to limit or filter the poison but then give no-bid contracts out to their unqualified friends for tens of millions of dollars and spend a trillion bombing other countries for no reason so it's pretty clear where the priorities are and it isn't with us.

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Post by balderdash »

mvdtnz wrote: post #47

How does a town in the richest nation in the history of the planet not have the resources to get clear drinking water flowing through their taps?

complete and utter incompetence by local elected officials. If one of the richest towns in America (average home price of >$2m) can do it - just imagine how bad it can be in "average" towns...

https://observer.com/2010/07/the-collapse-of-east-hampton-ho...

Re: Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

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Post by vsgherzi »

This is dumb af. There should be an extremely small subset of things you can say online that get you arrested. This is definitely not one of them. I hope she she’s and it’s sets a precedent for cases after. I’d hate to see a ruling like the UK. While is vervently disagree with some of the awful things they post they shouldn’t be arrested for it.

Re: Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

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Post by skrebbel »

kibwen wrote: post #50
nkrisc wrote: post #36

Yikes, they’ll have to arrest most of the current federal administration if they ever set foot in Texas if that post meets the criteria for that particular law. That’s going to cause problems.

Never heard of Ken Paxton, I suppose?

who?

Re: Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

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Post by SJMG »

azinman2 wrote: post #58
umvi wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Water is handled at the city level, not the federal level. If you have incompetent local leadership, this can happen. Incompetent local leaders can (and have!) bankrupted their cities.

Texas also is all about no/low taxes.

You must not own property in Texas

Re: Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

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Post by Bender »

queenkjuul wrote: post #49
Bender wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I will not put the blame on the bobbies, that's too convenient. Someone had to order them to do this. That's who needs to be permanently ousted from all levels of government and their voting rights rescinded.

Lmao no this is just American police chiefs doing what they love to do, guarantee this whole thing starts and ends in that PD

From the PDF looks like Trinidad City Councilwoman Marie Bannister and Trinidad Police Chief Charles W. Gregory, may have started this. The Texas governor [1] needs to start pruning both up and down from there. Actually the governor should take full control of that county, oust everyone and fix the water problems.

[1] - https://gov.texas.gov/

Re: Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

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Post by nilslindemann »

GaryBluto wrote: post #44
nilslindemann wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lying is not free speech.

It very much is.

It may be a necessary mechanism to prevent harm, but it is not free speech. Whenever you are lying you are not a free being, because you need to invest a part of your energy to uphold the lie.
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