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It’s in the DNA, and the DNA is good
Giving solace and a home to refugees who come here to escape conditions man-made or otherwise has been part of the DNA of New Bedford for much longer than the United States has told the world to give us your tired, your poor, and your huddled masses longing to breathe free.
It has historically been a refuge and sanctuary.
Quakers of Rhode Island, Nantucket, and New Bedford might have appeared an austere, unhappy people whose dress was rather drab and who, over time, became more angry because of the extent of exuberance that was not allowed in their lives, and many may have left the sect because it was just too severe, but among their major contributions to American society was their belief in the equality of all people.
One such example was that both males and females were taught to read and write in an age when that was primarily reserved just to males.
Because all people were equal, you were valued for what you could contribute to the community, and if you did.
The important crewmen on any whaling voyage were the boat steerers as they were the ones who threw the harpoons and whose skill, therefore, was highly valued.
In 1770 a black slave from Nantucket, Prince Boston earned a steersman’s lay of 28 pounds for a three-and-a-half-month voyage which was a good amount to have made. His “owner”, John Swain, claimed that since Prince Boston was his slave, he should get the wages. The Quaker ship owner held that since Boston had done the work, Boston was the one to get paid. Had Swain been on the voyage, he would certainly have been paid too. Swain sued for the money, but in 1773 the Nantucket Court of Common Pleas granted Boston not only his wages but his freedom.
Swain threatened to appeal, but William Rotch, who would eventually bring whaling to New Bedford, let it be known that he would enlist the services of John Adams to argue Boston’s case. Swain dropped the case, and slavery ended on Nantucket, ten years before it did in the rest of what would become the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Prince Boston’s nephew Absalom Boston became the first whale ship captain to employ an all black crew.
Paul Cuffe (1759-1817), a black sailor from Westport, Massachusetts, based his own highly successful business practices on those of Rotch, becoming one of the wealthiest black entrepreneurs in America.
By the 1840s, Quaker whaling merchants like William Rotch insisted on a higher moral ground for the whale fishery. But as the Quakers became less influential and seemed to have lost their way a little, and as the whaling industry became more secular, the moral high ground slipped somewhat and whale ship crew members began to meet with cruel conditions. But in keeping with the Quaker concept of equality, regardless of race, all crew members were equally mistreated.
But on land the color of your skin and the country of origin made no difference so long as you did your job.
Lewis Temple was born into slavery in 1800, but by the 1820s he had gained freedom and went north to New Bedford where he worked as a blacksmith. He invented the “Temple’s Toggle” or “Temple’s Iron” which was a harpoon whose tip, rather than being fixed, would form a T when it entered the whale and the harpoon had forces exerted on it, and this prevented the whale from pulling free.
His invention made whaling more profitable.
Beginning around 1837, when the still standing Unitarian church was built and Quakerism was being replaced by New England’s home grown Religion, Rev. Ephraim Peabody, who opposed slavery, became pastor. When his wife, Mary Jane Derby Peabody, was bringing wood into the parsonage one day a passing Black man offered to do it for her. Much to his surprise, when he was done, Mrs. Peabody handed him money, and as he attempted to hand it back, she explained that the two coins were his wages for the work he had just done. She thus became the person to pay Frederick Douglass his first wages as a free man.
The second pastor, Rev. John Weiss, was well-known as a staunch abolitionist
There were some prominent citizens in town who played a role in the Abolition movement, and welcomed escaping slaves into their homes giving them sanctuary.
Charles W. Morgan, best known today for the whaling ship that bears his name, was a prominent ship owner and merchant, and an anti-slavery activist. He came to New Bedford with Nathan Johnson who may have been a fugitive slave. Nathan Johnson and his wife Polly Johnson later became prominent African American citizens and conductors on the Underground Railroad. Frederick Douglass spent his first night of freedom in their house
Andrew Robeson, a ship owner and a merchant with business interests in New Bedford, Fall River, and Boston, was a strong abolitionist. He nominated a Mr. Borden, an African American man, for membership in the New Bedford Lyceum in 1845. When The Lyceum’s all white board refused to admit Mr. Borden into membership on a close vote, Ralph Waldo Emerson refused to speak at the Lyceum, and the New Bedford abolitionists left the Lyceum to form a competing lecture series.
In his Life and Times, Frederick Douglass mentions Robeson as one of those “friends, earnest, courageous, inflexible, ready to own me as a man and brother, against all the scorn, contempt, and derision of a slavery-polluted atmosphere…”
Loum Snow, an agent for whaling ships, a mill owner in Falmouth and Middleboro, director of the Mechanics’ National Bank, trustee of the New Bedford Institution for Savings, and director of the United Mutual Marine Insurance Company, was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
There are at least two documented instances of Snow helping African Americans escape from slavery. In 1850, Snow arranged for Isabella White to be shipped to New Bedford in a barrel labeled “sweet potatoes”, and in 1859, William Carney, an escaped slave from Virginia, went to Snow seeking help to purchase the freedom of his wife, Nancy Carney. Snow’s house is one of the few that is definitely recognized as a stop on the Underground Rail Road.
Joseph Ricketson , who refined oil and had other interests in the whaling industry, is the subject of this story from Douglass’s Narrative:
“Upon our arrival at Newport, we were so anxious to get to a place of safety, that, notwithstanding we lacked the necessary money to pay our fare, we decided to take seats in the stage, and promise to pay when we got to New Bedford. We were encouraged to do this by two excellent gentlemen, residents of New Bedford, whose names I afterward ascertained to be Joseph Ricketson and William C. Taber. They seemed at once to understand our circumstances, and gave us such assurance of their friendliness as put us fully at ease in their presence. It was good indeed to meet with such friends, at such a time.”
Ricketson had no compunction about serving as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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These people used their homes to give sanctuary.
New Bedford became a destination for runaway slaves because it was relatively more accepting than other places, and because the whaling industry afforded employment that could take a runaway far away from any pursuers.
When the Fugitive Slave Law was passed in 1850, many former slaves were in danger, as was any Black person for that matter.
It was the law of the land, and it was expected that cities would help in the apprehension of runaways.
There is a bank building in downtown New Bedford with a large bronze plaque attached to its side explaining that on that site had stood the first meeting house of the Congregational and Unitarian Societies (1795-1797) and then Liberty Hall where Abolitionists held meetings and at which Frederick Douglass gave his first New Bedford speech. After a list of other buildings that occupied the site before the present one, there is an odd piece of metal at the bottom that looks like a chunk of burnt coal. It is what is left of the bell that was rung to notify citizens that slave hunters had entered town so that Black people could make themselves scarce until they left. The odd chunk of metal is what was left of the bell when the building burned to the ground.
That would appear to have been a strong example of valuing the people who needed sanctuary as opposed a law that would send them back to the conditions from which they had escaped.
Jumping ahead a hundred or so years, when the Capelinhos volcano located on the western coast of the island of Faial in the Azores erupted from September 27, 1957 until October 24, 1958, it caused the evacuation of 2,000 people. Because of the close relationship between Portugal and the United States, on September 2, 1958 a bill, the Azorean Refugee Act which authorized the emigration of 1,500 people, was sponsored by Congressmen Joseph Perry Jr. and John Pastor of Rhode Island, and Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, and was signed by President Eisenhower, .
Many came to New Bedford.
New Bedford’s history is one of opposing slavery and offering sanctuary when it was needed. There are events going on in the world now that threaten people’s lives in war zones not of their choosing, and some people feel the need to better the lives of their families, and to them the City That Lit the World is still seen by many to be a place to come.
A motion was made by three members of the City Council, Debora Coelho, Dana Rebeiro and James Oliveira back in November,
“WRITTEN MOTION, Councillors Coelho, Oliveira and Rebeiro, requesting, that our State Legislative Delegation join us and other communities across the Country and not deport masses of illegals in order to insure harmony and safety in our community and to not discriminate against a group of people.”
It failed 2-9 and was referred to committee.
The ordinance pointedly avoided the use of the word “sanctuary cities,” in an attempt to avoid the targeting of such cities by the Trump administration.
Most members of the council zeroed in on the undocumented immigrants and not the legal ones who have made contributions over the years, but could still be subjected to profiling.
Councilor Brian Gomes insists that there are laws in this country and they need to be followed.
What does he think of that bell ringing thing?
In contrast to the city’s history, the Bristol County Sheriff has offered to send inmates from the county jails to the Texas border with Mexico to help build Trump’s wall. He claims it would be job training. But anyone with any sense knows he is willing to use inmates as slaves with the expenses for this paid by taxpayers for his personal publicity, and that job training could be done closer to home and cheaper than this public relations ploy.
A bill, HD 3417, that would prohibit Massachusetts inmates or prisoners from laboring out-of-state has been filed by Representative Antonio Cabral, from New Bedford.
Rep. Cabral said that the objective of work programs should be to rehabilitate inmates and prisoners so they can be productive citizens when they integrate back into the community and such a program should benefit the community where the inmates are housed as well as their home community.
Opponents argue that deputizing local officers will lead to racial profiling and erode community trust in law enforcement.
People are fleeing from murder in Central American countries attempting to escape from drug cartels, and wars in other places whose only purpose is to aggrandize their leaders who came into power by making false promises, inheriting their leadership positions, or by some method of self-appointment.
They are just like us because they simply want to live their lives and raise their families, but unlike us have lost everything in other people’s wars.
And the United States has a hand in instigating and supporting some of those wars and their aftermaths, like those in Central America that put the cartels in power positions, for which we have a responsibility to the people affected by our actions.
New Bedford has known that in the past and has done the right thing, and hopefully the city will not forget it is still The City That Lit the World, and doesn’t let that light burn out in the name of politics.
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Throughout his campaign for president, Donald Trump promised his supporters that, because it was such total disaster, he would repeal Obamacare on day one.
His supporters, apparently unaware that the Affordable Care Act, whose benefits they were glad to have, and Obamacare were the same thing, were glad he was getting rid of it, well, just because.
Many may also have been blinded to learning, or even accepting reality because they opposed anything President Obama accomplished, even those things that were good for them.
There was a reason the people who opposed Obama liked to snarl the name “Obamacare” while not mentioning the ACA.
His first promise to rid us of it on day one went through an evolution as he added there would be a replacement to implement, which went from being one that would be immediate to one that would replace it within hours, perhaps on the same day, maybe in a few days, or in time.
It was becoming changing the coin flip to “the best three out of five” and then “the best five out of seven” when making a decision.
The evolution continued when he explained that once it was repealed the GOP who, while having attempted to repeal it over the seven years of its existence and claiming there should be another, better plan somehow, neglected to have come up with said plan, would come up with one.
In the meantime they would keep Obamacare in place as is until the new plan, which you would think they had been working on, would be worked on, and finalized. They had seven years after all.
And now we have the latest.
They have realized that to repeal Obamacare without leaving millions of people without health insurance was not as easy as they led people to believe it would be.
Trump has now said,
“It’s in the process and maybe it will take till sometime into next year, but we are certainly going to be in the process. It’s very complicated”.
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Republicans in Congress now seem to be calling back their rhetoric surrounding the health care law.
Republican Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate health committee, has said he would like to see fixes made to the current individual market before repealing parts of the law.
“We can repair the individual market, which is a good place to start,” he said on February 1.
And, he also thinks parts of the health care sector, like Medicare, Medicaid and the employer market should be left alone.
Now that the unending yelling, lies, hyperbole, and meanness of the Trump campaign have settled down, and people are beginning to think, polls are showing that more people view Obamacare more favorably than they did before the election.
Now Republicans are beginning to talk about repairing the current system.
It was a given even as the law was passed that with time the Affordable Care Act would need some tweaking, but that reality was lost to politics and in the GOP’s expressed aim to have President Obama fail.
House Speaker Paul Ryan insists, however, that repairing the health care system means. “You must repeal and replace Obamacare.”
Of course he was one of those intent on repealing and replacing, but in the 7 years he went on and on about that, he forgot his mantra had two parts and never came up with even a blueprint on a napkin for the replacement.
Turns out it is one thing to criticize and make the promise that get votes; it’s another to deliver.
And it is hard to deliver when you do not know what you are doing.
The evidence is out there.
It’s not your right to work, it’s their right not to pay you.
This is “Right to Work”.
Nantucket Island lost its preeminence as a whaling center for two reasons.
First, because of the sand that built up in its harbor entrance and the difficulty of constantly dredging it or using mechanisms to get the ships over the sand bar it became obsolete as the demand for whale products required larger ships than the harbor entrance could handle.
The second reason was that once the whale products were processed they would then have to be loaded on ships to take them to the mainland.
New Bedford had a deep harbor, and was connected to railroad lines which meant that the Nantucket middle step became obsolete because of its extreme inconvenience.
The romance of the sea only existed for those who did not go to sea.
If a crew member was new to whaling, he had no idea that the agreed upon salary, an established fraction of the value of what the ship brought back, would go to certain expenses like purchasing clothing and the bedding for his assigned bunk that he would have to purchase from the ship’s store on credit and with accruing interest. Because he was only paid at the end of the voyage, after whatever money owed to the company was deducted from the earned pay very often crewmen were left with very little money and many times owed money to the company.
In effect, many whalers either worked for free, or had worked themselves into debt.
There was no one to speak for them.
Even though kerosene burned dirty and had an odor unlike whale oil and whale oil candles that were clean and odorless, petroleum was much easier to pump out of the ground as opposed having to sail longer and farther to get to the whales who, because of the numbers hunted and processed, weren’t as conveniently located as they had been in earlier days.
In the beginning of the whale industry they could be hunted off shore; by the end, ships had to go as far away as the arctic.
The method for refining whale oil may have helped the oil industry, Standard oil’s original refining expert was from Fairhaven and made such a fortune that he could build ostentatious structures all over town like the overly ornate high school and the unbelievably Gothic era style Unitarian Church. But, the oil wasn’t in New Bedford and it was more convenient to have the refineries closer to the oil fields.
If the city was to continue to be prosperous something had to be done, and Wamsutta and other cloth manufacturers set up shop.
From the “tycoons” standpoint, fortunes were saved. But, just as with the whaling industry, conditions favored the owners, but not the workers.
Factory owners could advertise their success by building ornate mansions, but their financial success did not filter down to those responsible for that success, the workers, just as it had not for the whaling crews.
As early as 1867 there were problems in the mills, especially when the owner of the Wamsutta mills cut workers’ pay to increase profits. The major impetus for the 1867 strike was to establish a 10 hour day at a time when the workers had 11 hour days and to increase wages.
Many worker were let go.
Rachelle Howland from one of the cities prominent families and a person who saw the wealthy as having an obligation to help those not dealt an equal hand, one of her charities The a Fund For Aged Women still exists in the city, stepped in.
Instead of sticking to her position as a One Percenter she negotiated a compromise that benefited the workers and did not hurt the owners, although her invitations to certain social events dramatically decreased.
Because of a proposed 10 percent wage cut for factory operatives, on April 16, 1928, approximately 30,000 machinery operatives in several of the large cotton mills in New Bedford walked off the job. The workers, comprised mainly of English, Irish, German, French-Canadian, Polish, Syrian, and Portuguese immigrants, demanded the abolition of the planned wage cut, a 40-hour work week, and a 20% wage increase.
The factory owners were an organized group, the New Bedford Cotton Manufacturers’ Association, but the workers were not. The Communist-led Textile Mill Committee stepped in to organize the workers until leadership passed to the American Fedration of Labor.
The strike ended in early October that year when negotiators accepted the offer of mill owners for a 5 percent wage cut and promises of 30 days’ notice before implementation of any further wage reductions.
On September 23, 2015, the workers of Bob’s Tire Company in New Bedford, voted 65-5 in favor of having UFCW Local 328 represent them during contract negotiations with the company. The workers belonged to the K’iche’ ethnic group, and were from the same city, San Andrés Sajcabajá in western Guatemala. They were the first group of workers from the local Mayan community to organize with a union.
The company shreds old tires that will be used as fuel. The work is dirty and demanding, and for this the workers earned $11 per hour, and when they had asked for a $1 raise in January 2015, they were told they would get it in April.
They didn’t.
Instead, three workers were fired for having asked. The bosses wanted to send a message to the other workers.
They also wanted sick time, paid vacation, holidays, and job security.
The two Republican members of the National Labor Relations Board, which has to rule on the legality of a vote to unionize, argued that the decision would subject the company to previously unlawful strikes, boycotts and pickets, as well as liability for unfair labor practices.
And that is why corporations and their political lackeys want to get rid of unions. They want to be able to pay as little to their workers as they can, work them to death, and be able to fire anyone who asks for more humane conditions.
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Although its name is chosen to imply something beneficial, “Right to work” is misleading.
Of course everyone has a right to work if they can find it.
What the name hides is that under it the reality is that your right to work is at the largess of corporate owners and anything that favors the worker is a threat to their profits and personal wealth if they have to share the company profits with those who make them, the worker. Without any say or recourse, workers are limited to low wages and an employee who might request a more decent wage or better working conditions can be conveniently fired.
As the local stories above illustrate, bad working conditions came first and then union organizing, not the other way around. If the owner of companies paid their workers what they have worked for, had them work more humane hours, afforded them benefits like vacation time, sick leave, and a degree of job security, union would no have been needed.
But workers found they had to work together to get what made them worth more than expendable machines.
As workers’ hours, wages, and conditions of employment are safeguarded by unions the best way to stop that is to promote the idea that unions threaten a person’s right to a job.
I have had people complain to me throughout my career that I got good benefits, and that was unfair. My response always was that I got those benefits because of my union, so, rather than complain to me that I had done something intelligent, they should do the same and organize. Don’t demand I lose my benefits because they haven’t done what was needed to get theirs.
When I worked in the Buckle of the Bible Belt, many people chose not to join the union, and unlike some places the union couldn’t even get a shop fee that would be used to help pay for negotiating a contract or representing a non-union member in a labor dispute, even though the union was required by law to do so.
For some reason they saw a union as un-American, somehow satanic, and definitely not something Jesus related.
But thy certainly had no problem accepting what the union negotiated.
My first full time job as a teacher was at a parochial college preparatory high school run by a Catholic order of priests and brothers. Teacher salaries and benefits were surprisingly good for such a school. I once asked the principal why that was.
The teachers’ union in the city was strong, and it constantly attempted to get the teachers at private school in the area to organize.
Because of the complications that this would create, the administrators at the school had decided to get as close to the union’s collective bargaining agreement as thy could, but obviously would not be able to match completely. This is how they kept the union out.
our pay raises and changes to benefits were continually influenced by the teachers’ union negotiations with the city’s school board.
At our school, and in many other non-union work sites, this was a common practice. The non-union employees would benefit in accordance with the unions’ agreements in order the keep the unions out.
So, in an odd way the unions were a benefit.
In many non-union setting, the employee are unaware that this happens. They feel that what salary and benefits they have are somehow from the largess of the employer and see no benefit to unions.
And now this week, Republicans in Congress plan to introduce legislation that would prohibit workers nationwide from being forced to support a union.
Representatives Joe Wilson of South Carolina and Steve King of Iowa are sponsoring the legislation to amend the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to prohibit what unions call “security clauses”, provisions that permit union-management contracts that require all employees to join a union or pay a regular fee as a condition of employment.
“At least 80 percent of Americans are opposed to forcing employees to pay dues as a condition of their employment, and our bill would protect workers by eliminating the forced-dues clauses in federal statute. We need to expand common-sense reforms, like those in the National Right to Work Act to protect American workers and create jobs,” Wilson said.
Jobs may be created, but a living wage can be avoided.
If you ask for one, you can be let go with no consequences.
One of the things lost to Right to Work is due process, the need to show that a dismissal is based on a real cause, and not a whim. This is important for any semblance of job security as an employer can change working conditions for their advantage and can simply remove anyone who might question the change and then hire someone at a lower wage.
Workers become victims, and the old factory conditions return.
Right to work does not mean you have a right to a job. It means the worker is at the mercy of the company whose main object is profit.
The actual right is that they have the right not to respect you by giving a decent wage and having acceptable working conditions.
They do this by promoting the false canard that unions are bad, and rather than you getting what the union worker has, the better thing is to cause resentment in order to reduce them to thr level they keep you.
Divide worker against worker, and their profits grow and they can buy that third summr home.
They’re already here.
Since 9/11, and even before, the majority of terrorist attacks in the United States have been perpetrated by homegrown terrorists.
The worst act of domestic terrorism was committed by Timothy McVeigh, a white, Christian American, which resulted in the deaths of 168 men, women, and children.
So, even as Donald Trump has insisted that his ban on Muslim refugees is to keep America safe, people are understandably concerned about what he intends to do about domestic terrorism.
When asked about this, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer responded that the Trump administration’s plan starts at America’s borders.
During a meeting with the press, when he was asked,
“what initiatives is the president taking to make sure that kind [referring to the recent attack in Quebec] of homegrown terrorism or violence doesn’t happen in our country?”
Spicer responded by bringing up Donald Trump’s hard-line stance on immigration.
“The first thing is to look at our borders. You have got to protect your own people first, then look at the cyber threats. There is a holistic approach between immigration and nexus between immigration and national security and personal security that he has to look at — but then, it’s a multi-tiered step. You look at the borders, who we are letting in.”
The question was not about people from outside the country coming in, but about those who are already here, and who were born here.
After this irrelevant answer, Spicer went on to explained that the next step would be to “look at what we are doing internally with our intelligence agencies, with the FBI, to make sure we are looking at whether it’s the cyber threats that we face or other terrorist activities, but making sure we are working with the NSA and the FBI to be ahead of the curve, if you will.”
Huh?
The reporter tried again citing the Oklahoma City bombing.
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“Sure, that’s what I’m saying. Part of it is looking at — using the assets that we have here, the NSA, the FBI, looking at and using the different agencies to see if we can get ahead of the curve and see things.”
Huh?
All that is known, and not from Spicer’s answers, is that Trump plans to overhaul a U.S. program that counters violent ideologies at the root of home-grown terrorist threats, and redirect it to focus solely on Islamic extremism.
Focus will be taken off people like Robert Dear who attacked a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood leaving three dead and nine injured, Dylann Roof who killed nine African Americans in Charleston’s Emanual African Methodist Episcopal Church, and organized group who have committed or have threatened to commit acts of terrorism.
A number of years ago, it was a different time and a different place, I lost some expensive items that had been taken from my apartment. Along with some lesser items, I lost the large flat screen television I had been saving up for, and finally bought.
I could have gone to the next neighborhood watch meeting and railed against their failure to protect a resident, and I could have gone after my landlord and demanded more security for the four-plex I lived in, perhaps additional locks on the front door, perhaps bars on the windows, anything to keep someone from coming in and burglarizing my neighbors, or me again.
But I didn’t because the burglar was my roommate who had found himself in a difficult financial spot, and figured pawning the television and fencing the smaller items could get him out of trouble.
No locks or bars on the window would have prevented this since the perpetrator was in the apartment, not outside attempting to get in.
What does Donald Trump intend to do about protecting us from domestic terrorists?
Nothing.
It does not fit his narrative.
The guardians of America.
I always feel safe that we have those tough talkin’ guys who claim they are the ones who will keep America safe, and that any one who even thinks of harming this country will have to get through them first.
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But then, they do not sign up and go to the battles zones to put power behind their words, but find it necessary to carry as many weapons as humanly possible when they go shopping at the mall.
Your choice. Hate or Spite?
When I was a kid, on special occasions my family would go to a restaurant to celebrate. Usually these were local and familiar places, but as time went on and people would make recommendations, the list of places grew.
One time our next door neighbor, Ruth, recommended we try a new place she had been to. This not only meant a new place, but it called for getting more dressed up than we usually did, and driving some distance to get to as well.
The Old Mill was exactly what its name implied. It sat on a mill pond formed by a dam, and the water passing through the sluice gate of the dam still kept the huge water wheel turning. The mill pond and the mill were on the Nashua River, and that meant we went to Fitchburg for the first time.
Fitchburg had a lot of paper mills on the Nashua River, and they routinely dumped their waste into it. Because of the chemicals used in the paper production process, the river was impressively colored with the vibrant colors you saw in boxes of crayons, and they swirled around each other like some modern painting staying separate, perhaps because of the chemicals that created them and their various viscosities.
In some places the river looked like a modern painting.
This was fascinating to a kid who had only seen lakes, rivers, and ponds that were the color of, well, water.
I was too young to know the danger of pollution, so I guess I was fooled into thinking colorful rivers were good things.
Eventually the river got cleaned up as anti-pollution laws were passed, but even though the surface looked all right, over the years chemicals had sunk to the bottom, and before the river could be considered reclaimed and clean, what had settled on the bottom had to be removed.
That was a long process.
In my home town everyone would go to Bolivar Pond to the town beach. This pond had also been created by a dam built downstream from some factories. It was a little on the brownish side. The older kids would swim out to the middle and were tall enough to stand on what used to be a raised road before the dam had been built.
We younger kids thought it was great when coming out of the water the peach fuzz on our bodies was noticeable because of the brown stuff that was occasionally in the water that clung to it, and as men had hairy bodies, we could pretend we were men.
When it was eventually determined that that brown stuff was pollution and the pond was just too full of bacteria, it was closed and a town pool was built nearby.
These two scenarios, determining the water people were using was extremely unhealthy and the subsequent clean up, were repeated all over the country where pollution laws stopped factories from dumping their waste into rivers and streams, and clean water was eventually restored in many places. Some places, like Bolivar Pond, are still closed to use, but they are a bit cleaner now.
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So in my humble opinion, clean water acts and the regulations that keep rivers clean are good things.
But…..
The Republicans just passed a measure to repeal the Stream Protection Rule.
In other words, corporations can begin to once again dump waste in our rivers and streams, without consequence. They can avoid the cost of disposing of their waste in proper and safe ways, and to hell with those downstream.
They can once again fill rivers, ponds, streams, and lakes with toxic sludge.
The motivation to allow this could be as simple as spite or hate, since the Stream Protection Rule was one of President Obama’s signature environmental accomplishments.
The other reason could simply be that the GOP favors its friends and donors over the people they are supposed to represent and protect.
West Virginia Republican Shelley Capito would have you believe that this move is because,
“The Stream Protection Rule is the latest in a series of overreaching and misguided Obama-era regulations that have targeted America’s coal industry. If this rule were allowed to stay in place, it would add to the economic devastation for people in coal communities.”
But is it a good trade off, even if this were true, that to help save a dying industry, instead of retraining coal miners for work in those industries that can supply power without coal, we will all be subjected to polluted water even though we live nowhere near those coal communities?
How will dumping factory waste into New Hampshire’s rivers help the coal miners in West Virginia?
The GOP seems intent on acting out their hatred of Obama, even if it kills us.
And then they take away healthcare to boot.
The innocent inquiry
While President Trump’s executive order suspends the issuing of U.S. visas or travel permits to people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, no Americans have been killed on U.S. soil by citizens from any of those countries, but nearly 3,000 Americans were killed by citizens from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt, three of the countries to which the ban does not apply.
What do these three exempt countries have in common that the others lack?
During his campaign, as he condemned the Clinton Foundation for taking money from certain foreign countries, Trump registered eight companies tied to hotel interests in Saudi Arabia under such names as THC Jeddah Hotel and DT Jeddah Technical Services.
He has two companies in EGYPT, Trump Marks Egypt and Trump Marks Egypt LLC.
Because of ISIS affiliated groups there, the State Department discourages Americans from traveling to Egypt because of the possibility of terrorist attacks that can occur anywhere. Between 1975 and 2015, Egyptian citizens killed a total of 162 Americans.
There are two golf courses and a neighborhood of luxury villas currently under construction in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates for which the Trump Organization has a licensing and management deal. There is a widespread presence of ISIS- and Al Qaeda- affiliated groups in the area that pose a threat to American citizens.
According to the CATO Institute, 314 Americans were killed by UAE citizens between 1975 and 2015,
Trump is calling for some undefined “extreme vetting” which implies that the very tight vetting system already in place and extremely strict, is weak.
He will not have to actually do anything more than claim he has improved things to claim after his bravado and false protectionism that he is a success.
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“We don’t want them here. We only want to admit those into our country who will support our country and love deeply our people.”
According to the September 13, 2016 report of the conservative Cato Institute,
“the chance of an American being murdered in a terrorist attack caused by a refugee is 1 in 3.64 billion per year”.
That report also pointed out that,
“Only 10 illegal immigrants became terrorists, a minuscule 0.000038 percent of the 26.5 million who entered from 1975 through 2015. In other words, 2.65 million illegal immigrants entered the United States for each one”.
However, people from the three most dangerous countries are still welcome to apply for U.S. visas and travel permits.
Want to get into the country more easily?
Get a Trump business, especially a golf course.