U.N. to intervene in Detroit water shutoffs: Talks on 'human-rights violations' planned w/Obama

WorldNetDaily ^ | June 30, 2014 | Jerome R. Corsi

[2ndDivisionVet]

Watch out, Detroit. Here comes the United Nations.

WND has learned that after issuing a statement last week condemning Detroit’s decision to send water shut-off notices to tens of thousands of customers behind in their payments, the U.N now plans to conduct confidential policy discussions with the Obama administration to be followed by a formal public report to the U.N. Human Rights Council.

On Monday, the U.N. Human Rights Council’s office in Geneva confirmed to WND that the U.N. plans to intervene directly in the Detroit water crisis, determined to apply international law to judge the U.S. in violation of human rights to safe water.

Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, DWSD, announced in March it would send shut-off notices to customers with balances more than $150 overdue or who are more than two months behind in their payments. The department, which said nearly half of the 324,000 water and sewerage accounts are overdue, has put out 46,000 notices since March. About 4,500 accounts have had their water shut off....

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Who needs water when Colt 45 comes in tall boy cans ?

[Organic Panic]

UN to give free stuff to deadbeats.

I may be wrong but I think water and sewer are the only utility not given away as part of welfare.

[Texas resident]

True. Beer is mostly water.
But you only rent it.

[sphinx]

The best semi-humorous suggestion I've heard is to give Detroit to Canada. Let them take the profits from the port and bridges and use it to run the city.

Insufficient. Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[molson209]

How many are abandoned houses ?

[wonkowasright]

The irony is that they are simultaneously prohibited from drilling their own wells and then mandated to pay, as are most of us in much of suburban areas.

Used to be a man had land he had rights to his own water.

Without agreeing with UN involvement at all I do think its a violation of landowners rights to prevent them from using water.

[goat granny]

I live approx. 40 miles north of detroit and have city water. Detroit pulls in a load of money from suburgs and semi rural areas for their water. It ain’t cheap either.