They say toxic site made them sick

[DoYouEverWonder]

April 30, 2006

BROOKSVILLE - Three tombstones lie under a tree. On two, just a name and a year. On the third, the pink-painted concrete shows nothing legible anymore.

Under each, a polystyrene casket, the sort funeral directors call a two-foot. Each contains an infant - two sisters and a brother - all born prematurely, 14 days the longest any of them lived.

The overgrown graves open the sort of story told in a courtroom, and it looks like that's where this one is headed.

"I have to know," said Ja'Wanna Waddy, mother of the three. Nearing 17 weeks with, among other things, the carcinogens arsenic and benzene. Waddy's family has lived less than 50 feet from the site for 22 years.

In her lap, Waddy had a contract from Darryl Rouson, a St. Petersburg lawyer and former president of the city's chapter of the NAACP. Like many of her neighbors, she's thinking about signing it.


http://www.sptimes.com/2006/04/30/Hernando/They_say_toxic_site_m.shtml


Of course since BushCo has gutted the EPA and bankrupted the Superfund Program, I doubt if these poor people will ever see anything cleaned up in their lifetimes, no less in time to do them any good.

[greekspeak]

1. Add three more murders to the ShrubCo hit list

I wonder how many people they have murdered...U.S. soldiers, Iraqis, those hit by hurricanes, those killed by their deliberate gutting of government protective policy...who knows how many others. Can I call it murder? If you cause the death of someone by your actions, even indirectly, isn't that at least involuntary manslaughter?