What's OK for Massachusetts is evidently not OK for Louisiana.
The Massachusetts state attorney general said Monday that he will sue the companies that worked on a Big Dig highway tunnel, claiming their negligence led to the ceiling collapse that killed a woman in July.
A single person died...not well in excess of 2000. No.
One.
He also stated the the companies involved should face manslaughter charges.
Hmmmm...but the USACE and their contractors are free from being sued...or are they?
It won't happen, but at this point (no, still absolutely nothing about the levees or New Orleans in the Dem's first 100 hour plan), I say we press for reparations from the US Government for their incompetence.
Here's how you can tell Speaker Pelosi that you would like to see a mention, a ray of hope in that first 100 hour plan for the Gulf Coast.
Great post. I'm here in Boston and tell people all the time that blaming the flooding in New Orleans on the hurricane is like blaming gravity for the Big Dig collapse. Both had more to do with negligent engineering than Mother Nature, but because the media frames the flooding differently from the Big Dig collapse, it's hard to get anybody to act.
Anyway, thanks for the link to Pelosi's site. I will send her a note.
Posted by: bigshot | 28 November 2006 at 03:10 PM
BigShot
Thank you for making our case in Boston.
Does it have something to do with the fact that a single death is easier to grasp than 2,000 deaths? Maybe, it make it easier to think, that coulda been me.
Posted by: Alan Gutierrez | 28 November 2006 at 04:19 PM
That's a big part of it, Alan. White America can sympathize with the Big Dig accident because we all drive through tunnels or over bridges (or go to work in highrise office towers), but most of America saw Katrina merely as something that affected poor, black people. Thus, though they feel sympathy, they don't feel urgency to make whole those who were wronged by the failure of their government.
Posted by: bigshot | 28 November 2006 at 04:35 PM
Thanks for the link, Ashley. Sent Mz Pelosi a little note.
Posted by: judyb | 29 November 2006 at 12:05 PM
Looks like Michael Stone is trying to destroy your call-to-arms: http://www.eitb24.com/portal/eitb24/noticia/en/international-news/evacuation-of-n-ireland-assembly-michael-stone-charged-with-adams?itemId=B24_22417&cl=%2Feitb24%2Finternacional&idioma=en
Posted by: Aaron | 01 December 2006 at 03:38 PM
To quote Father Jack: "FECK!"
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