A tale of two investigations

Cynical part? History reveals that the cynical angle is most likely the reality. (0.00 / 0)

We (Carnacki, you and I) who are actually old enough to have had history classes realize that in Middle Age marauders poisoned wells as they swept across eastern Europe as a strategy to either kill off local leaders or force them to submit.

Coal operators have been doing essentially the same for at least a century even as they've bought off off those who otherwise would have regulated them.

Lest you think I'm overstating here, ask yourself, please. Just why would the WV Department of Environmental Protection ever in a zillion years leave it entirely up to the coal operators to monitor the sludge that the WV DEP authorized to be injected into abandoned coal mines?

Carnacki, I respect that you're likely more politically astute than I regarding WV, so I sincerely hope that you won't think I'm talking down to you when pointing out what is historically obvious to me even as I'm just now become politically aware locally.

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by: One Citizen @ Fri May 28, 2010 at 18:19:04 PM UTC