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Detroit officials bristle at UN visit, scolding over water shut-offs
Fox News ^ | 10.21.2014 | FoxNews.com

Posted on 10/21/2014 2:06:32 PM PDT by dware

Detroit officials are fuming after two visiting United Nations lawyers scolded the city for cutting off water to delinquent customers and described the shut-offs as a “human rights” violation.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: amcommieliarsunion; detroit; michigan; uselessnations
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To: Responsibility2nd
" . . . the UN DOES have knowledge about third world hellhole conditions."

The method of the UNO, however, regardless of their "knowledge," is to bring about wars and police actions, in much the same way Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton foment violence in inner cities.

We don't need the UNO as long as we have our own community organizers.

61 posted on 10/21/2014 4:16:06 PM PDT by John Leland 1789
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To: dware

Water may be free but delivery and facility management/repairs and infrastructure and wages are not.


62 posted on 10/21/2014 4:18:46 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: dware

Leftists eating their own. Priceless.


63 posted on 10/21/2014 4:32:07 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: John Leland 1789

Hmmm. A choice between outside agitators from the United Nations. Or Al and Jesse.

I honestly don’t know which groups of losers are worse.


64 posted on 10/21/2014 4:34:23 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: PGalt
Quick! Shut her up!

Tie her hand behind her back.

65 posted on 10/21/2014 4:51:17 PM PDT by rmh47 (Go Kats! - Got eight? NRA Life Member])
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To: dware

An organization such as the UN that grants membership on its ‘Human Rights Council’ to governments that are among the world’s most flagrant and egregious human rights violators has no moral standing from which to lecture others on the subject.


66 posted on 10/21/2014 4:51:20 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: unixfox

Hey UN morons....They’re not paying for the water. They’re paying for the pipes and the pumps and the fuel to power the pumps and the wages of all the people needed to keep all that stuff in working order.


67 posted on 10/21/2014 6:15:14 PM PDT by nhbob1
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To: dware
You UN lawyers got the hard part done. Now, how do you propose to compel the City of Detroit to provide water to those who were shutoff for nonpayment of their water bills. Sending in UN “peace keepers” would be a very BAD idea.
68 posted on 10/22/2014 2:00:19 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: Hot Tabasco
So just WHO was responsible for granting these UN appointed gadflies an audience?

The American Communist Liars Union, aka ACLU

From the article

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De Albuquerque and the other representative, Leilani Farha, visited Detroit after activists appealed to the U.N. for assistance. Among them was the American Civil Liberties Union, whose Michigan director Kary Moss said: "It's unfortunate that, in the Great Lakes State, we need a visit from an international body to remind us of our most fundamental obligation to our citizens. Water is life."

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69 posted on 10/22/2014 8:46:57 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reeleKrugmct him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
The American Communist Liars Union, aka ACLU

Nice one, Kaslin.

The ACLU and the UNaccoutable socialists should bring "crimes against humanity" charges down on the city of Detroit. Why do they let their collectivist buddies cut off water to the grazing herds? Why aren't the greedy Detroiters running a water line to their less fortunate neighbors in the hood? Governor $nyder could redistribute some of his a$$ets to show compassion. Mayor Mike could executive order the spigots turned on. Lots of solutions for the facetimers to ponder.

70 posted on 10/23/2014 9:55:28 AM PDT by PGalt
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