Throw the Book at Rick Snyder for Poisoning Flint’s Water
▻https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/rick-snyder-flint-michigan-water-poison
Pour les pauvres aux État Unis la loi prévoit des zones de dictature où les institutions de représentation démocratique sont effectivement abolies. L’ancien Gouverneur du Michigan Rick Snyder est actuellement jugé pour avoir abusé des pleins pouvoir sur la ville de Flint.
For the duration of his two terms in office, Snyder was hell-bent on selling off public wealth for private profit, a reckless and deeply unpopular program that was only possible because he effectively suspended democratic government for the majority of the state’s black residents.
Specifically, he used a Michigan law allowing the governor to appoint “emergency managers” over school districts and cities. Emergency managers were legally accountable only to Snyder and had essentially dictatorial powers to overrule democratically elected officials, cancel contracts, and sell public goods to private capitalists.
Under Snyder, the cities of Benton Harbor, Pontiac, Flint, and Detroit — which together comprise the majority of the state’s black population — were all under emergency management, along with some of their school districts.