Abominable Monsters

The people that many Americans have turned their government over to.  Case in point today:  Detroit.  Here's a story that came out of this sad city in the last couple of days:

"Major Detroit Power Outage Stretches Into Second Day...- The power is still off in Detroit.  Parts of the city’s downtown and midtown districts were knocked offline Wednesday when the public lighting system experienced an overload due to excessive heat. 

“Some institutional public lighting customers are experiencing service interruption caused by extreme heat, cable failure, and routine maintenance — all combining causing system overload,” said Robert Warfield, a spokesman for the Detroit Mayor’s Office.  The outage is affecting Wayne State University’s main campus, the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, the City-County building, the Detroit Historical Museum, and the People Mover — all of which are closed until further notice. 

Gary Brown, the city’s chief compliance officer, said officials are not sure when the power will be restored.  “DTE has been feverishly working with this problem all throughout the night. I’ve been talking to the supervisor that is literally in the hole, so we’re certainly hopeful that we’re going to get the situation involved by mid-afternoon,” Brown told WWJ Thursday morning."

Well, I'm certainly glad that the city's management, which was forced on the people of Detroit in a coup engineered by the State's Republican government, is on top of the problem.

Oh wait, we didn't quite get the whole story, did we:

"Detroit’s dictatorial administration intentionally cut power during heat wave...Last week on Wednesday, September 12th, during a 90+ degree heat wave and the day after an escaped prisoner terrorized the city, Detroit Chief Compliance Officer Gary Brown intentionally and without notice cut power to major buildings in downtown Detroit...According to Brown, seen in the video below gleefully and derisively recounting his decision, he had asked the buildings to reduce their energy consumption but, when they didn’t do so quickly enough, he cut power to “send a strong message”.

So the current Republican administration of Detroit, which seized power in an outrage as great as any that has ever happened in this country, now has licensed itself to cut power to large parts of the city during a heat wave, because its people were not doing what it wanted.  Brown was lying when he said “DTE has been feverishly working with this problem all throughout the night. I’ve been talking to the supervisor that is literally in the hole, so we’re certainly hopeful that we’re going to get the situation involved by mid-afternoon,”  They weren't working to resolve the problem at all.  Why, it wasn't even a problem, but a solution, imposed by themselves to punish the citizens of Detroit, who were not interested in complying with the orders of a dictatorial administration forced on them,  What's next if they refuse to comply with Republican demands?  Cutting off their water?  Shutting down hospitals?  Mass arrests?  Shooting people on sight?

What were the people doing in Detroit that was such a threat?  Were they rebelling, rioting in the streets, shooting government personnel, inviting terrorists to fight alongside of them?  No, they were not following orders to turn their air conditioners off.  Listen, we are so outraged by the use of poison gas on civilians in Syria, by a non-elected government, and yet this is only one step away from that.  Here is the reality of Koch brothers financed Republican rule, and is nothing but a brutal dictatorship.

And yet this horror and the its implications will go unnoticed by the American people and their mainstream press, while they pay microscopic attention to the latest phony Obama scandal cooked up by the right.

This behavior is a recipe for the descent of a once great country into disaster.  Everyone involved with this sordid incident should be removed from positions of responsibility, and this includes the State government officials who made it possible by seizing power from the democratically elected government.  But nothing will happen, and soon we will hear of worse outrages that will be ignored too, until finally the press gets the hint, and this sort of thing is allowed to continue unreported.  Because anyone who reports things like this will be, like Edward Snowdon and Julian Assange, a traitor.

Then, our government in places like Michigan, Wisconsin and Florida, can really get to work.