Wednesday, July 5: Casual Child Labor
Employing kids is really the solution? Who comes up with this stuff?
A 16-year-old boy died following an industrial workplace accident near the Michigan border. The accident occurred at Florence Hardwoods in Wisconsin at 6:51 in the morning, when this kid should’ve been asleep or stress-cramming for a geometry quiz. This accident is in direct violation of the state’s current labor law, but not for long.
Florence Hardwoods is a logging company located near Michigan, across the Brule River from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Wisconsin is one of 14 states with proposals to roll back child labor protections.
The people operating at the highest levers of power in this country have Swiss cheese for brains, and the holes have been stuffed with the money of special interest groups.
Side Items
Israeli Destruction: Israel withdrew its apartheid-enforcing troops from the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank earlier today, but left with a warning that the most intense military operation in the occupied territory in nearly two decades could be repeated. Twelve Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed in the two-day raid. Another day of wanton destruction and murder in the books for the corrupt military of “the only democracy in the middle east”
Cocaine in the White House Again: The white house was briefly evacuated over the weekend after the secret service discovered a suspicious powder in a common area of the west wing. A preliminary test showed the substance was cocaine…shocking. A tradition as old as this crusty country and the drugs it criminalizes for the poor while the elite abuse it carelessly and without consequence
Firework Shooting: At least three people were killed and eight more were injured in a shooting late Monday near a neighborhood gathering in downtown Fort Worth, TX. Officers determined that “several unknown males” had started firing indiscriminately into the crowd before they fled, and no suspects have been publicly identified (thanks for your help officers), so add this to the growing list of totally random acts of mass violence