To Trust, or NOT to Trust…the EPA.
Nobody Cares…
I was at the Police Department today, and it’s amazing— the police are very well protected. If you want to go into my local police station, it’s not like ANYTHING you see on T.V. Nope. You walk into a very small 12′ by 4′ hall, which has two chairs. There’s a small window (no doubt bullet proof) where on the other side there resided a secretary, and an officer, watching Monitors. I’m sure the officers had really nice offices inside, but there was no way any citizen would get in there.
“An officer will be right with you. Have a seat.” Right. No thanks. The chairs looked like you might catch Ebola if you even came near them.
As I waited (standing up) I noticed a poster on the wall, with the pictures of every officer in our little city..which came out to about 15, all white but one. The poster said. “We do not racially profile.”
They have to put it on the wall now? Jeeez.
About ten minutes later, in walked big…I’ll call him John. He looked formidable, but nice. Very nice.
While I was talking to him about my “case” of identify fraud, (I am one of the many it seems) I decided to ask him, about whether I should be concerned about the nearby landfill that, according to the news, was ready to explode, and basically radiate the whole city of St. Louis, St. Louis Country, St. Charles, and probably, with the right wind, most of Ohio.
Now, every ISIS member in the U.S. is making plans, I’m sure to head to St. Louis.
He looked at me as he put his hands on his gun. “In my opinion, we have all been walking around in a maze of pollution for over twenty years.” he said. “But that’s just my opinion. McDonald Douglass and Boeing have been dumping chemicals and bullets, and nuclear waste everywhere for decades. Besides…if there REALLY was a danger, the government would be taking care of it.”
“Do you trust them, really?”
“It’s just political stuff.” he said. “Hey, where you going to move? There’s stuff to worry about everywhere.” he said.
I must admit, he had a point. I felt a bit better…maybe what they said on the radio last night was just more fear mongering. Last night nuclear energy expert Scott Portzline was a guest on Coast to Coast
Scott Portzline talked about the dangers associated with a long burning underground fire in a St. Louis landfill that is nearing a nuclear waste site. Started by a methane build-up, the fire has been burning for about five years and is now only three football field lengths away from buried nuclear materials, he reported. The big concern at the site is thorium-230 which is 60,000 times more radioactive than uranium and classified to be as hazardous as plutonium.
“IF you just breathe it in, you won’t make it. ” he said. He said the reason they hadn’t fixed the problem was because it was so close to the Mississippi river, and it happened to be the biggest pile of thorium-230 in the world. It was the waste, from the Manhattan project.
NOW they tell us.
As I listened to the policeman, I kept thinking about what I heard last night.
I was glad to get out of that little space, and then went up to my local government license bureau. As I was waiting to get my new drivers license papers, I asked the girl behind the counter if she had heard about the danger under the waste site.
“Yeah. My old boyfriend got really mad at me, because he used to work at the waste site letting off the gas. After he broke up with me he called me on the phone and yelled at me…”You mean you KNEW that I was walking on top of the Manhattan project and never told me!!”
He worked there for five years, and they never mentioned it to him. She didn’t either.
It’s no wonder they aren’t together.
By this reasoning, you have to wonder, how much are they telling the local police?
On the way home, I heard the news on the radio:
“The EPA has assured everyone in the St. Louis area, that they are safe.”
I thought, “Right, the same EPA that just polluted a whole river, in the middle of the country.”
So, who do I believe? The cop, who no doubt has been told to not cause a panic, so that the majority of the people who still live here (many are already moving due to Ferguson) do not leave and he loses his job?
Or the nuclear expert on the radio?
The real facts are not encouraging. The reason so many people died in Katrina is because the city politicians decided not to fix those walls. So many dams broke in the recent floods in the East, that eleven people died, all because the government does not spend money on infrastructure. Every President SWEARS they are going to fix America’s infrastructure.
It’s never done.
And worse of all, one EMP attack above the country, or one cyber attack by China, and the country will be brought to its knees.
Do they fix it? We could fix the grid from EMP attack if Obama would not play golf for just ONE MONTH.
One month, and America could be protected.
Is that too much to ask?

