About that explosion in West, Texas

What is the sound of onetown dying?

Imagine what the coverage would have been like if Islamic terrorists had bombed the little town of West, Texas. Amy Goodman captured the scene of that tragedy powerfully:

“A mushroom cloud climbed high into the sky. The explosion registered 2.1 on the Richter scale, the same as a small earthquake.”

But terrorists didn’t blow that town up. The negligent and greedy pursuit of profits did.  Read the next sentence in Goodman’s description and picture the nation’s reaction if terrorists had been behind it.

“911 calls flooded in, with people reporting a bomb, many injured and others engulfed in a toxic cloud. Sixty to 80 houses were leveled.”

Imagine the coverage.  That’s the coverage we didn’t get from a business-created, rather than terrorist-created, horror show.

The above was part of an article written by Richard Eskow. The people behind the lack of regulation of this plant, and the corporations behind the lack of safety in this plant, should have been arrested by now for murder. They should be facing a trial and a jail cell. It appears that nothing will be done in West, Texas or any other part of the USA.
Richard Eskow also made this comment:  “When one life is cheapened, every life is cheapened.”

And this is true.