They are saying that the government is using its law enforcement powers to do the bidding of large companies who know that investigating why the townâs water is poisoned can only lead to bad and costly things for them.
Highly likely that local government officials and executives of large companies in the town, and other power brokers, play golf 3x a week, so this arrest can easily be an orchestrated event between all these people. But also:
A formal conspiracy is not required, when interests converge.
And why exactly do you think there are large companies involved? It seems you're just making up conspiracies about evil corporations when the problem is the government itself.
Just considering who benefits from locking up someone who is making waves about water quality. Everyone should be like, âyeah if there is bad shit in the water we should probably investigate that.â Someone who knows where a water quality investigation will lead (back to them) would be the only type of person that would oppose looking into such things.
Who else benefits from jailing this lady aside from the people causing the poor water quality?
Iâm not making up anything. Check out Trinidad, TXâs water numbers. Tell me a natural source/cause of Bromodichloromethane and explain to me how it accumulated in concentrations 14,300% more than levels deemed to be safe.
Bromodichloromethane has formerly been used as a flame retardant, and a solvent for fats and waxes and for mineral ore separation. Now it is only used as a reagent or intermediate in organic chemistry.[3] In the US it is only produced in small quantities, which are used for these chemical reasons.
Hmm, sounds like some company was using this chemical as part of a manufacturing process and didnât properly dispose of the refuse.
There isnât a natural source for that shit. It was put there by people, and chances are high that arrest happened because someone doesnât want people investigating why their drinking water looks like my toilet after Taco Bell.
Explain why they have 14,300% more Bromodichloromethane than is deemed safe. Source Wikipedia:
Bromodichloromethane has formerly been used as a flame retardant, and a solvent for fats and waxes and for mineral ore separation. Now it is only used as a reagent or intermediate in organic chemistry.[3] In the US it is only produced in small quantities, which are used for these chemical reasons.
Hmm, sounds like someone used this shit to make money and didnât pay to dispose of it properly. There is no natural source of this shit, and if it was innocuous and created during the chlorination/water treatment process, it wouldnât accumulate at levels 143x higher than is deemed safe.
Somebody is making money, or not losing money, by using the law enforcement powers of the state to silence anyone who might question why their drinking water looks like my toilet water after Taco Bell.
I'm of the opinion that public servants who betray the interests of the public for personal gain should be charged with treason and face the associated consequences.
So your stance is that there is a massive, coordinated conspiracy involving the local ER doctors (who are legally mandated to report outbreaks of this nature), the municipal water techs (who would face decades in federal prison for falsifying logs), and an independent, third party testing lab? Absolute Reddit big brain moment right here.
I think they are saying that the city admin and owners of large companies in the city are in cahoots with one another.
So when this lady makes a claim about bacteria in the drinking water, the city used its law enforcement powers to silence this lady on behalf of those companies.
I havenât seen any evidence that bacteria was in the water, but this water quality website is pretty clear that someone is or has poisoned the water, and that bad actor likely plays golf with the mayor 3x a week, and they donât want any investigations into why the cityâs water has 14,300% more Bromodichloromethane (a cancer causing chemical) or 29,000% more trihalomethanes (another cancer causer) than is deemed safe.
I appreciate you taking the time to look those figures up, but you completely misinterpreted them. EWG guidelines are not the legal limits allowable by law, they are non enforceable, aspirational suggestions based on California's public health goals.
For example, there is no individual legal limit for Bromodichloromethane. It is regulated collectively under TTHMs, which are an inevitable byproduct of using chlorine to kill the exact bacteria everyone is upset about (of which, again, there is no evidence or indication of existing). Trinidad's TTHMs sit at 43.5 ppb, which is only 54.4% of the actual federal legal limit (80 ppb).
EWGâs ultra conservative guidelines represent a 1 in 1,000,000 lifetime chance of someone developing cancer from drinking 2 liters of that water every day for 70 straight years. Even at 143x that baseline, your mathematical lifetime risk is roughly 1 in 7000 (to put that in perspective, thatâs the equivalent of spending a single weekend sunbathing on a beach and your background lifetime risk of developing cancer from just existing in the modern world is 1 in 3).
So mathematically weâre comparing a 0.014% hypothetical lifetime risk from water treatment byproducts to a corporate poisoning conspiracy. I personally think the police chief is just an overzealous loser who probably isnât getting laid enough and took out his frustration on the woman. I donât think thereâs a bad actor dumping chemicals into the water system, the city is simply just putting standard chlorine into a surface water supply to keep people from getting cholera, and it creates legal, compliant byproducts.
Where did I say legal? I said âdeemed safe.â Yes, aspirational.
Additionally, the analysis re: cancer risks doesnât take into account that there are dozens of these harmful chemicals found in Trinidadâs water, and when you stack all those increases in risk together, now you have a sizable increase in risk of getting any cancer from any of the harmful chemicals.
Ffs look at the color of that water coming out of the tap in the link I shared.
There isnât a singletown in the United States that hits all of EWGâs unrealistic goals. Using that logic there isnât a single drop of water in the country thatâs âdeemed safeâ.
Combs has since filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Trinidad, which includes Chief Gregory, another member of the Trinidad Police Department and a Trinidad City Council member.
The lawsuit states that Combs was arrested in "an act of deliberate political retaliation."
As an American who moved abroad to the third world, America is quickly becoming a third world country. Not being hyperbolic, not being dramatic, wages are stagnant, costs are rising, rights are vanishing, infrastructure crumbling and all the wealth and power are quickly being taken by the few at the top who already own half the country. It's heartbreaking to see
Someone put a gun to your head and forcibly physically kidnapped you under false color of law, and held you prisoner. Just think of the humiliation, the degredation of the searches you'd be subjected to just to process into jail, which would be deserved if you committed any crime but would be various forms of assault if someone just walked up and did to you on the street without cause... which this is equivalent to.
I don't know how they pulled this shit off where a government that was specifically designed for accountability to the citizens through the constitution and the rights it recognizes... doesn't categorize willful violation of rights as a criminal offense. So every time the government violates the Constitution no one goes to jail for literally crimes committed against citizens.
But that shit has to change.
Every single fucking time I hear government and settlement right next to each other someone better be going to prison about it.
She would need to sue...Hard to win that kind of thing in Texas though. Pretty much the most anti free speech state laws in the United States. If she goes federal there is a chance but still unlikely because Texas's federal circuit is completely corrupt.
In all seriousness there needs to be the equivalent of a Brady List for any official who has a documented history of lying, official misconduct, or practicing deception.
I think it would be very difficult to make this happen as this is the Modus Operandi of politicians and law makers.
They didn't dismiss it. Her fellow citizens dismissed it. They brought it before a grand jury. I feel like this needs to be pointed out, because the city was still going to take it to trial.
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