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Cutting off water to Detroit's poor 'an affront to human rights,' says UN
RT ^ | June 27, 2014 22:55

Posted on 06/29/2014 8:22:34 PM PDT by RC one

Residents of Detroit, Michigan who are $150 or two months past-due on their water bills are having their water shut off by the bankrupt city. Now, even the United Nations has stepped in, saying Detroit is in violation of the human right to water.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: detroit; duplicate; water
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We forgot to pay our Toledo water bill last year and they shut us off. Where was the UN on that one?
1 posted on 06/29/2014 8:22:34 PM PDT by RC one
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To: RC one

When you run out of tax payers ,you run out of MONEY


2 posted on 06/29/2014 8:27:52 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: RC one
Perhaps we should cut off the water to the UN.
3 posted on 06/29/2014 8:32:02 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: RC one

Does the UN tolerate Islam?

Then, they obviously don’t give a smelly Obama about human rights.

And, therefore, can shove their silly little opinions up their Obamaholes.


4 posted on 06/29/2014 8:32:25 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: RC one
the Detroit River is FULL of water... and it's FREE!!!
5 posted on 06/29/2014 8:32:51 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: RC one

Somebody help me out here. The UN has gotten involved in this?

So instead of trying to help third world countries that really need help obtaining water they are focusing on Detroit???

(rhetorical post only. No reply required. I just needed to vent.)


6 posted on 06/29/2014 8:33:11 PM PDT by berdie
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To: RC one

What about the human right to be paid for one’s labor? I’m all for the UN stepping in and paying these bills if they wish though.


7 posted on 06/29/2014 8:33:22 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: RC one
The UN has no business in what Detroit or any other municipality does. They should be told in no uncertain terms to shut up.

This smacks of one world government, and is unacceptable.

8 posted on 06/29/2014 8:34:58 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: RC one

Guess that includes a human right to cable, internet, gas, electricity, food, shelter...


9 posted on 06/29/2014 8:38:09 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: RC one

So the working people of Detroit have to pay for those who don’t or won’t ...? If they want water isn’t there a large lake nearby?


10 posted on 06/29/2014 8:40:01 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
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To: MichaelCorleone

“The UN has no business in what Detroit or any other municipality does.”

That is correct. But the good thing is, them blue helmets make a pretty good sight picture.


11 posted on 06/29/2014 8:41:42 PM PDT by Tupelo
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To: RC one

lol. ‘human rights’ don’t exist. Only God-given rights.


12 posted on 06/29/2014 8:44:36 PM PDT by Viennacon (Rebuke the Repuke!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear; RC one

“Perhaps we should cut off the water to the UN.”

It is time to cut the UN and set them comopletely adrift. Cut off water. Cut off their right to be in NYC. Send the stinking A$$holes who are the UN back to their third world habitations. Where they get no ‘free’ pure water. Where they have to live back with the poverty they created. Get them out of anything to do with US. And for the Islamofaciest, half breed commie Kenyan, send him back to Kenya, where he can help that third world hell hole a better place.


13 posted on 06/29/2014 8:46:05 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: berdie

(You’re getting a reply anyway, venting or not)

Detroit meets every delevant definition of a 3rd world country.


14 posted on 06/29/2014 8:48:05 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarc tag?)
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This is from another article, look at the size of the freakin' television behind her as she holds up her unpaid water bill.

FUUN

15 posted on 06/29/2014 8:55:42 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: berdie
Somebody help me out here. The UN has gotten involved in this?

Plenty of Islamists on UN "human rights" panels. Detroit is near the country of Dearbornistan.

16 posted on 06/29/2014 8:56:51 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: a fool in paradise

Hey Lady, You can afford a big flat screen TV and XBox but can’t pay the water bill?


17 posted on 06/29/2014 9:01:11 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: a fool in paradise

I bet they have the top-tier cable package too


18 posted on 06/29/2014 9:01:32 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: a fool in paradise; henkster

Both very valid points.

I wonder if one is related to another in some way. ;)


19 posted on 06/29/2014 9:02:13 PM PDT by berdie
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The UN has gotten involved in this?

Some detroit group asked them to step in.

20 posted on 06/29/2014 9:17:23 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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