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Detroit Power outages were deliberate

Detroit 'Emergency Manager' claims he needed to send the city a 'strong message'

By Romantic Heretic

Politics • September 2013 • Views: 1,755

On Sept. 11 Detroit experienced a four hour long blackout in a major heatwave.

Well, it turns out the power was shut down. It didn’t fail. The ‘Emergency Manager’ decided that a ‘strong message’ needed sent to the city to cut down on power usage.

I guess the ‘Emergency Manager’ position means they are supposed to cause an emergency, not deal with one.

The GOP are thugs. It’s that simple.

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8 comments

Was Shellie Zimmerman Wearing A Hoodie??? Sat, Sep 14, 2013 9:53:23pm

Is doing something like that even legal?

KingKenrod Sat, Sep 14, 2013 11:48:53pm

Based on news stories from legitimate journalists, here’s what really happened: At 10AM Wednesday, two of the five lines that provide power to downtown Detroit failed. The city started calling their customers to tell them to turn of their AC and reduce power usage to protect the remaining lines. At 12:45PM a third line failed - that was when the city decided to cut the power to public buildings, to protect the remaining 2 lines.

Romantic Heretic Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:50:28am

re: #1 Was Shellie Zimmerman Wearing A Hoodie???

Is doing something like that even legal?

It is in Michigan. The Governor got the power to appoint people in place of elected officials to handle ‘emergencies’.

What’s really odd is that there hasn’t been a peep from the Tea Party about this.

re: #2 KingKenrod

You didn’t follow any of the links, did you?

Dark_Falcon Sun, Sep 15, 2013 7:13:28am

re: #2 KingKenrod

Based on news stories from legitimate journalists, here’s what really happened: At 10AM Wednesday, two of the five lines that provide power to downtown Detroit failed. The city started calling their customers to tell them to turn of their AC and reduce power usage to protect the remaining lines. At 12:45PM a third line failed - that was when the city decided to cut the power to public buildings, to protect the remaining 2 lines.

Concur. “They weren’t acting fast enough” doesn’t mean “They needed to be taught a lesson”, what it means is that “Consumption of electricity was still too high, so we had to cut power before the system failed completely”. But of course that won’t be the story to leftists who just want to paint the emergency manager and his staff and ogres and the population of Detroit as helpless victims.

Timothy Watson Sun, Sep 15, 2013 7:59:26am

re: #2 KingKenrod

re: #4 Dark_Falcon

They shut down the entire network with absolutely no warning, not even to law enforcement. People were stuck inside of elevators.

One of the people involved was laughing about it and said “we had to send them a strong message” during an interview and immediately started talking about how the city had to privatize the system.

Political Atheist Sun, Sep 15, 2013 8:43:05am

SoCal has had the exact same thing happen. “cept the Dems have run this state for decades. Now that we have smart meters and a networked system there will always be warning. But any electricity provider will cut power to save damage on their equipment. Lines, transformers etc.

Political Atheist Sun, Sep 15, 2013 8:53:49am

Oh dude dunno about this source. LEIU paranoia, overblown headlines…

KingKenrod Sun, Sep 15, 2013 9:46:17am

re: #3 Romantic Heretic