Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Who do you call when the first responders are owned by the biggest threat to public safety?


Who do you
call when the first responders are owned
by the biggest threat to public safety?

-- BH, hypothetical question

  


I was checking online for the article which Vera recently posted about Cabot's lawsuit against Ray, and I found this:
Susquehanna County Sheriff's Deputies are getting new bullet-proof vests, thanks to a $10,000 donation from Kinder Morgan to support the department's public safety efforts.
In a check presentation held Thursday, July 27, Allen Fore Vice President of Public Affairs for Kinder Morgan presented Sheriff Lance Benedict with the check.
Here's a comment I left on the article:


BH
| August 8, 2017 at 6:08 pm | Reply
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Headline should read, "Roosters crowing over Fox's gift of Shark Repellant to protect the Henhouse!"

Reminds me of this story from a couple of years ago:
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/21/kinder-morgan-paid-pennsylvania-police-department-deter-protests

Which I reported on here:
http://williamahuston.blogspot.com/2014/02/remember-itrr-pa-dept-of-homeland.html

And my own experience with the Vestal PD:
http://williamahuston.blogspot.com/2017/05/call-from-vestal-pd-re-bomb-trucks.html

Or the latest #BombTrucks rollover in Forest Lake, where the County Emerg. Mangement officials were turned away by the Forest Lake FD, whom we understand work for XNG:

http://www.rocket-courier.com/news/2017-07-13/Front_Page/Gas_Truck_Accident_Has_Susquehanna_Co_Fired_Up.html


… I think it is TRAGIC, IMMORAL, and possibly ILLEGAL how our Police and Fire personnel with a DUTY to a Public Safety purpose, are co-opted to do the biding of the industries which are pose the greatest threat to public safety.





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