Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Where are they from and where do they get off sticking their nose into an American city's attempt to climb out of bankruptcy?

The water-is-a-human-right crowd in Detroit got a little help from the stink in' UN:

Detroit officials are fuming after two visiting United Nations lawyers scolded the city for cutting off water to delinquent customers and described the shut-offs as a “human rights” violation. 
The response follows a three-day visit to Detroit -- which desperately is trying to bail itself out of bankruptcy -- from two representatives with the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
“It is contrary to human rights to disconnect water from people who simply do not have the means to pay their bills,” Catarina de Albuquerque, one of the two representatives, said Monday at the conclusion of their visit. 
“I heard testimonies from poor, African American residents of Detroit who were forced to make impossible choices -- to pay the water bill or to pay their rent.”
But the mayor's office blasted the U.N. review as one-sided. Alexis Wiley, Mayor Mike Duggan’s top aide, said the city is "very disappointed" with them. 
"They weren't interested in the facts," she said. "They took a position and never once [before Monday] reached out to the city for data."
The policy change shuts off water to businesses and residents who either are 60 days past due or owe more than $150.
Detroit -- the country's largest municipality to file for bankruptcy -- reports making 27,000 shut-offs from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30.

Nowhere in the linked article does it say where Ms. de Albquerque or her fellow "rapporteur" are from.  If it's not America, they need to take their globalist asses back to whatever utopia they call home.

Our tax money goes for this garbage.


2 comments:

  1. Aside from there seeming to be too damn many countries in the UN these days, how dare any of these ignorent upstarts begin to think they have some say in the ways of the big shots on the block, this is only an opening volly of the coming wars for wa wa. Only big tough countries can have a say in other countries' affairs.

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  2. There is no right to water. Like any other commodity in this world, it is available from suppliers to paying customers.

    What constitutes a "big, tough country"?

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