Comments on: Guilty!

By: Pam

Pam — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:49:01 +0000

And now FEMA has said this is not ‘enough of a disaster’ to help the citizens of West rebuild their homes and schools. ‘Enough of a disaster’? Disasters have degrees? Mild to moderately annoying to rather problematic and onto the truly..uh..disastrous…I had no idea. What was that President Obama said about the country standing with you? I digress. So, oh Mr. West Fertilizer Company, please get out your checkbook and rebuild your town. Those are nice people.

Meanwhile in local news, a scout troop raised $7,000 to help the scouts in West go to camp this summer. Not needing all that, the West scouts turned the excess over to their community.

By: Srenna

Srenna — Wed, 01 May 2013 05:56:29 +0000

Amen.

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:25:42 +0000

CliffordGeertz – Beautifully articulated. Please come more often!

By: CliffordGeertz

CliffordGeertz — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:35:00 +0000

I don’t come here all that often, but its so nice to read a little straightforward common sense sometimes.
And to that David Duff, since you’re throwing around legal terms, I strongly suspect you know their meanings. I think Sister Wolf’s orginal post was essentially laying down a case for malice aforethought on the part of West Fertilizer Co. She points out that they were on notice about their lack of appropriate plans in place for evacuation in exactly the sort of scenerio that took place. So with at least two years of notice, they chose to do nothing. That sense of absolute disregard for the lives of others creates the depravity necessary for malice aforethought. And as for the “positive act,” I’m sure you also know that a failure to act when you have a duty to act is essentially no different than a positive action.
Sister Wolf has made an excellent case for the heads of West Fertilizer to be tried for first degree murder and while I’m sure it won’t happen, it most definitely should.

By: regularstarfish

regularstarfish — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:40:17 +0000

Preach on, Sister! I agree with you 100%. I haven’t read all of the comments yet so forgive me if someone else already said this, but at least terror organizations take credit for what they do and don’t try to disguise it under a veil of “health and human safety”.

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:31:30 +0000

Marky – Excellent link, thank you!

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:30:37 +0000

David Duff – Ha! You want to blame this on the EPA, when if you had your way as a conservative, the EPA would have even less power and regulations would be cut back to “allow the free market to blah blah blah.” You can’t have it both ways.

You’re right, dead people don’t care why they died, but society can distinguish between an “accident waiting to happen” and the criminal deceptions of a company that failed to report the tons of hazardous material that was improperly labeled and never registered with the Dept. of Homeland Security as required by law.

Companies like this are the root of evil, soulless entities whose owners are not willing to sacrifice themselves but more than willing to sacrifice the rest of us.

By: Bevitron

Bevitron — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:17:16 +0000

Absolutely. That was the first thing I thought about. Thanks for this excellent post, SW.

By: Ali

Ali — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:10:04 +0000

I have more faith in OSHA than I do in the FBi, the media or anything else. The anvil wil fall hard. And it won’t be a circus affair.

By: Madam Restora

Madam Restora — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:43:07 +0000

Yes, correct, extremely wreckless. Obviously hoping nothing like this would ever happen.
Suspended, I’m not sure how ‘moral’ the Japanese are. They are still killing whales for ‘scientific purposes’, despite international disgust, then selling this aforementioned whale meat in their supermarket, presumably for ‘commercial purposes’.