As if just living in the nightmare that was Pruitt-Igoe wasn't enough... This is the sort of thing your government does when you, and your government, are scared.
Think about this when applied to the way Homeland Security was created and how it operates. Regardless of who sits behind the Resolute Desk, or holds the Speaker and Majority Leader positions. Our capacity for soberly considering what would otherwise WTF Were You Thinking!?! ideas expands logarithmically.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Doris Spates was a baby when her father died inexplicably in 1955. She has watched four siblings die of cancer, and she survived cervical cancer.
After learning that the Army conducted secret chemical testing in her impoverished St. Louis neighborhood at the height of the Cold War, she wonders if her own government is to blame.
In the mid-1950s, and again a decade later, the Army used motorized blowers atop a low-income housing high-rise, at schools and from the backs of station wagons to send a potentially dangerous compound into the already-hazy air in predominantly black areas of St. Louis.
Local officials were told at the time that the government was testing a smoke screen that could shield St. Louis from aerial observation in case the Russians attacked.
Read the whole thing here.
It can happen here. And again. And it will seem to make sense. Until your grandchildren look at you and say... "WTF were you people *thinking*!?!"
Read the complete post at http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2012/10/wtf_were_you_th.html
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Oct 04 2012, 07:00 AM
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