Garment Factory Fire Kills – Who’s To Blame?
Posted by Michelle Moquin on November 27th, 2012
Good morning!
After being in the garment industry and working with factories overseas myself, reading about the recent tragedy of the deaths of over 112 garment factory workers in Bangladesh, is one that hit me hard. There is no excuse for any factory to lack safety standards that protect their workers, just so they can meet the demands of their bottom line, at the expense of the workers’ safety.
But the blame doesn’t stop there. We, as a society are also to blame. In my opinion, if you buy clothing at stores such as the Wal-Mart brand stores, you are contributing to the lack of safety for workers, as well as their deaths. People who shop at those stores to get the cheapest price…people who demand a cheap garment, are encouraging retailers and manufacturers to look the other way when it comes to protecting the factory workers because they need to meet their bottom line.
It is a vicious cycle. The more we demand to get a better price, the more the stores demand cheap labor to meet those prices, and the more the factories cut their costs to meet their bottom line…the more the workers, from factory to salespeople, suffer.
The factory workers died in a fire in Bangladesh because there were no emergency exits to escape the fire. And just like the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York, workers jumped out the windows to their deaths. And now just this past Black Friday, Walmart workers were striking for better conditions and pay. When they suffer because they can’t make a living…they can’t afford to buy anything, the fight for lower prices continue, and so does the cycle.
And yet many other people keep shopping there with no regard or accountability for their actions, and their affect on their fellow humans’ livelihood.
Walmart’s saying, “Save money. Live better” is a lie. Just how low are they willing to go at the expense of a decent quality of life, not to mention, human life itself?
Here’s the write:
Fire kills 112 workers at Bangladesh garment-maker
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Fire raced up the floors of a Bangladeshi garment factory with no emergency exits, killing at least 112 people, some of whom jumped from the eight-story building where they made clothes for major global retailers.
The factory outside the capital, Dhaka, is owned by Tazreen Fashions Ltd., a subsidiary of the Tuba Group, which makes products for Wal-Mart and other companies in the U.S. and Europe.
Firefighters recovered at least 100 bodies from the factory and 12 more people died at hospitals after jumping from the building to escape, Maj. Mohammad Mahbub, fire department operations director, told The Associated Press on Sunday.
“Had there been at least one emergency exit through outside the factory, the casualties would have been much lower,” Mahbub said.
Local media reported that up to 124 people were killed. The cause of the blaze that began late Saturday was not immediately clear, and authorities ordered an investigation.
Army soldiers and border guards were helping keep order as thousands of onlookers and anxious relatives of the factory workers gathered, Mahbub said.
Relatives of the workers frantically looked for their loved ones. Sabina Yasmine said she saw the body of her daughter-in-law, but had seen no trace of her son, who also worked there.
“Oh, Allah, where’s my soul? Where’s my son?” wailed Yasmine, who works at another factory in the area. “I want the factory owner to be hanged. For him, many have died, many have gone.”
Tazreen was given a “high risk” safety rating after a May 16, 2011, audit conducted by an “ethical sourcing” assessor for Wal-Mart, according to a document posted on the Tuba Group’s website. It did not specify what led to the rating.
Wal-Mart spokesman Kevin Gardner said online documents indicating an orange or “high risk” assessment after the May 2011 inspection and a yellow or “medium risk” report after an inspection in August 2011 appeared to pertain to the factory. The August 2011 letter said Wal-Mart would conduct another inspection within one year.
Gardner said it was not clear if that inspection had been conducted or whether the factory was still making products for Wal-Mart.
If a factory is rated “orange” three times in two years, Wal-Mart won’t place any orders for one year. The May 2011 report was the first orange rating for the factory.
Neither Tazreen’s owner nor Tuba Group officials could be reached for comment.
The Tuba Group is a major Bangladeshi garment exporter whose clients also include Carrefour and IKEA, according to its website. Its factories export garments to the U.S., Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands, among other countries. The Tazreen factory, which opened in 2009 and employed about 1,700 people, made polo shirts, fleece jackets and T-shirts.
Bangladesh has some 4,000 garment factories, many without proper safety measures. The country annually earns about $20 billion from exports of garment products, mainly to the U.S. and Europe.
In its 2012 Global Responsibility report, Wal-Mart said that “fire safety continues to be a key focus for brands and retailers sourcing from Bangladesh.” Wal-Mart said it ceased working with 49 factories in Bangladesh in 2011 because of fire safety issues, and was working with its supplier factories to phase out production from buildings deemed high risk.
Mahbub said the fire broke out on the ground floor, which was used as a warehouse, and spread quickly to the upper floors. Many workers who retreated to the roof were rescued, he said. But he said that with no emergency exits leading outside the building, many victims were trapped, and firefighters recovered 69 bodies from the second floor alone.
“The factory had three staircases, and all of them were down through the ground floor,” Mahbub said. “So the workers could not come out when the fire engulfed the building.”
Many victims were burned beyond recognition. The bodies were laid out in rows at a school nearby. Many of them were handed over to families; unclaimed victims were taken to Dhaka Medical College for identification.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed shock at the loss of so many lives.
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association said it would stand by the victims’ families.
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My heartfelt condolences go out to the families and friends of their loved ones lost.
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November 27th, 2012 at 7:02 am
Zen Lill : Great explanation of all the complicated talk about souls.
I know more now.
November 27th, 2012 at 7:12 am
Foods That Fight Pain—Some Work Better Than Drugs
Many of us turn to medications to relieve pain. But research has shown that you can help reduce specific types of pain—and avoid the side effects of drugs—just by choosing the right foods. Here, the common causes of pain and the foods that can help. Unless otherwise noted, aim to eat the recommended foods daily…
OSTEOARTHRITIS
Osteoarthritis causes pain and inflammation in the joints.
Best foods: Bing cherries, ginger, avocado oil and soybean oil.
A study in The Journal of Nutrition found that men and women who supplemented their diets with Bing cherries (about two cups of cherries throughout the day) had an 18% to 25% drop in C-reactive protein, a sign of inflammation.
Bing cherries contain flavonoids, plant-based compounds with antioxidant properties that lower inflammation.
Ginger also contains potent anti-inflammatory agents that can reduce joint pain.
A double-blind, placebo-controlled study found that 63% of people who consumed ginger daily had less knee pain when walking or standing. I recommend one to two teaspoons of ground fresh ginger every day.
Avocado oil and soybean oil contain avocado soybean unsaponifiables (ASUs), which reduce inflammation and cartilage damage in arthritis patients.
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
This autoimmune disease causes systemic inflammation—your joints, your heart and even your lungs may be affected.
Best foods:
Fish and vitamin C–rich foods.
The omega-3 fatty acids in fish increase the body’s production of inhibitory prostaglandins, substances with anti-inflammatory effects.
A recent study found that some patients who consumed fish oil supplements improved so much that they were able to discontinue their use of aspirin, ibuprofen and similar medications.
Ideally, it’s best to eat two to three servings of fish a week. Or take a daily fish oil supplement. The usual dose is 1,000 milligrams (mg) to 3,000 mg. Be sure to work with a qualified health professional to determine what supplement regimen is right for you.
Foods rich in vitamin C (citrus fruits, berries, red bell peppers) are effective analgesics because they help decrease joint inflammation.
These foods also help protect and repair joint cartilage. A study in American Journal of Nutrition found that patients who ate the most vitamin C–rich fruits had 25% lower risk for inflammation.
GOUT
Gout is a form of arthritis that causes severe joint pain that can last for days—and that “flares” at unpredictable intervals.
Weight loss—and avoiding refined carbohydrates, such as white bread, commercially prepared baked goods and other processed foods—can help minimize flare-ups.
You also should eat foods that reduce uric acid, a metabolic by-product that causes gout.
Best foods:
Celery and cherries.
Celery contains the chemical compound 3-n-butylphalide, which reduces the body’s production of uric acid. Celery also reduces inflammation.
Both sweet (Bing) and tart (Montmorency) pie cherries contain flavonoids, although the bulk of science supporting the anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties of cherries has been done using tart cherries.
(An exception is the study that found that Bing cherries relieve osteoarthritis.) It is hard to find fresh tart cherries, so I recommend dried tart cherries or tart cherry juice.
MIGRAINES
These debilitating headaches are believed to be caused by the contraction and dilation of blood vessels in the brain.
Best foods:
Oats, coffee and tea.
Oats are high in magnesium, a mineral that helps reduce painful muscle spasms—including those in the muscles that line the arteries.
In one study, researchers found that people who took 600 mg of magnesium daily had a 41.6% reduction in the number of migraines over a 12-week period, compared with only a 15.8% reduction in those who took a placebo.
You can get plenty of magnesium by eating high-magnesium foods. A small bowl of cooked oat bran (about one cup), for example, provides more than 20% of the daily value. Other high-magnesium foods include oatmeal, almonds, broccoli and pumpkin seeds.
The caffeine in coffee and tea helps relieve migraine pain. The antioxidants in both beverages also are helpful.
Caution:
Consuming too much caffeine—or abruptly giving it up if you are a regular coffee or tea drinker—can increase the frequency and severity of headaches. Limit yourself to a few cups daily.
MUSCLE PAIN
It usually is caused by tension, overuse or an actual injury, such as a strain or sprain. Because tendons and ligaments (the tissues that attach your muscles to your bones) have little circulation, muscle-related pain can be very slow to heal.
Best foods:
Tart cherries and rose hip tea.
Eating as few as 20 dried tart cherries can help reduce pain. So can tart cherry juice.
Example:
At the Sports and Exercise Science Research Centre at London South Bank University, researchers gave one-ounce servings of tart cherry juice twice daily to athletes who did intense workouts.
These athletes regained more of their muscle function more quickly than those who didn’t drink the juice. Studies also have shown that the juice can reduce muscle pain after exercise.
Rose hip tea is high in vitamin C, as well as anthocyanins and a substance called galactolipid—all of which have been shown to combat inflammation and may help ease muscle and joint pain. Have several cups daily.
NERVE PAIN
Inflammation or injury to a nerve can cause a burning, stabbing pain that is difficult to control with medications. Examples of conditions that cause nerve pain include sciatica (pain along the sciatic nerve from the lower spine down the back of the leg) and neuropathy (nerve damage), a painful complication of diabetes.
Best foods:
Turmeric, figs and beans.
Turmeric, a yellow-orange spice that commonly is used in Indian and Asian cooking, is a very effective analgesic. Like ginger, it is an anti-inflammatory that has been shown to reduce pain about as well as ibuprofen—and with none of the side effects.
Both figs and beans—along with whole grains and green leafy vegetables—are rich in B-complex vitamins, which are essential for nerve health.
One study, which looked at a form of vitamin B-1, found that patients who took as little as 25 mg four times daily had an improvement in neuropathy. Other B vitamins may have similar effects.
Source: David Grotto, RD, founder and president of Nutrition Housecall, LLC, a consulting firm based in Chicago that provides nutrition communications, lecturing and consulting services as well as personalized, at-home dietary services.
He is author of The Best Things You Can Eat: For Everything from Aches to Zzzz (Da Capo), to be published in January 2013. http://www.DavidGrotto.com
November 27th, 2012 at 2:02 pm
Thank you, Martha.
Shetold, dead energy(?), kind of an oxymoron to put those 2 words together in any context, isn’t it?
Misch, very unfortunate for these people and their families, very sad and so easily preventable.
Walmart and other big box retailers actually don’t care as long as they make money…it would take a retail consumer strike day to get them to pay attention but so many are into their own need to survive, families almost poverty level here who go to WM for cheap (and crappy) food to feed the fam, etc…
We could shut it all down but it would take a massive movement to get attention, and, hmm, that could happen and it could be me starting it, you just never know…
My condolences to the families of the factory workers, I cannot imagine having to look on in horror as I thought of a loved one trapped inside…that’s gut wrenching.
Luv, Zen Lill
November 27th, 2012 at 2:06 pm
…and how hard is it to put in extra window(s) and door(s)so people can breath easy and escape fires?? – ZL
November 28th, 2012 at 4:59 am
Michelle, It’s like a flashback to the US conditions 100 years ago (and some not so long ago). We also had sweatshops and poor manufacturing safety standards………operated in death traps.
So sad……. I lived in an old mill town in NC for almost 10 years. The history of garment manufacturing in the US would make your hair gray. One more reason to pay a little more and bring manufacturing back if we can……….
November 28th, 2012 at 5:13 am
Michelle, the fire extinguishers in the building didn’t work. Most of us that worked there knew that they were there just for show for the inspectors.
When the fire started I tried to get out through the door but my manager stopped me and told me the alarm was just broken and to get back to work.
I didn’t believe him so I ran to the second floor and jumped. I broke my leg in the fall but at least I am alive. I bet none of the managers are dead.
November 28th, 2012 at 5:55 am
Michelle, there were no exits. We had to jump or escape to the roof. I was rescued from the roof.
November 28th, 2012 at 5:57 am
Thank you Zen Lill for your condolences. There needs to be accountability here for those managers. They forced us back into the building even after the alarm went off.
November 28th, 2012 at 5:59 am
Shades of the Triangle fire tragedy in New York 101 years ago. And with the powers that be doing their best to destroy any voice workers have and spreading the bald-faced lie that all unions are run by thugs and left-wing extremists, watch for another one right here in the States.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:02 am
I agree with you Zen Lill, “…and how hard is it to put in extra window(s) and door(s)so people can breath easy and escape fires?”
The owners of this 8 storey garment building without any fire exits should be jailed. We should confiscate their property, and distribute it to the victims’ families.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:04 am
Without the labor movement in this country things will be much the same here. Everytime something like this happens, who is that dies? Skilled, union workers, or illegal immigrants working in illegal, windowless, sweatshops?
We need to unionize here in Bangladesh.
Aakar
November 28th, 2012 at 6:05 am
Anyone who can afford to shop at stores other than Walmart, should do so. Oops! Those folks already shop someplace other than Walmart. Most of us can afford jeans, shirts, and shoes because they are made in a third world country.
The US is consuming it’s own economy because everyone wants more than they can afford if it’s made in America. Maybe I’ll move to Burma/Myanmar and open an export business.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:06 am
What ya got to say about this, Wal-Mart ? ? This country enacted safety standards to prevent this very thing after the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire that killed 146 people.
So what do companies in this country do now? ? They “outsource” to countries that don’t have profit robbing safety or enviromental regulations that “strangle” businesses here.
History repeats itself. . And each generation says the same thing, “We are more advanced so that won’t to us”.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:07 am
Hopefully this tragedy will motivate factories throughout asia to create more safety procedures to protect its employees. Life is more precious than silver or gold. What would you rather have, a hundred million dollars and be dead or one dollar and be alive?
November 28th, 2012 at 6:08 am
Sure you can blame Walmart. But I put blame on the Bangladesh’ Government for its failure to protect its people.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:09 am
An unnecessary amount of casualties, tragic yet something completely avoidable.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:10 am
This is much like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in this country a century ago. The exits were locked there, too.. This can’t be tolerated in Bangladesh in 2012 any more than it should have been tolerated in New York City in 1911. I hope this disaster makes the people of Bangladesh put an end to these working condititions.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:10 am
This is what happens in a world market where corporations are free to do whatever they want and no unions to negotiate safety issues.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:11 am
Just proof once again Wallmart will say or do anything to protect their employees. Such as no water on site, 120 degree work place and not even a fan or cold water, forced over time, cutting hours to eliminate health ins. What the devil do these people want decent wages? You must be kidding…right
November 28th, 2012 at 6:13 am
Sorry folks. Walmart is not to blame. They were just dumb. Are those bars outside those windows? If they aren’t. Then how come none of the workers broke the windows and made a rope out of all that material?
November 28th, 2012 at 6:13 am
Greed is deadly!.Our sympathies and prayers to the families of the victims. A simple rule on safety precautions to provide exit doors has been violated many times over in slave labor countries.
This will not stop here unless and until local govt. officials will remain corrupt by accepting bribes from companies violating simple safety rules.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:13 am
Forget that fire crap, did WalMart get it’s stuff on time?
November 28th, 2012 at 6:14 am
I still demand lower prices and clothes made by slaves in horrible working conditions.
Signed,
GOP
November 28th, 2012 at 6:15 am
And sadly this tragedy will still result in business as usual
November 28th, 2012 at 6:15 am
This is another reason NOT to buy from wal-mart.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:17 am
If US corporations such as Wal Mart are going to use CHEAP foreign labor, they should provide a safe working environment for the workers in those factories. Just because they are foreign does not mean they should be exposed to such dangers. This is a total disregard of responsibility.
Wal Mart before any contract is in place, insist on fire escapes, route of escape and regular fire drills.(meet OSHA standards). It is all about the bottom line, money. Sad, sad, sad. Offering only $1,250.00 to the families of the dead.
Unbelievable! My heart goes out to those people and their loved ones. I agree with the mother that cried for her son.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:18 am
How come you won’t print my post?
slave labor way to go corp america #$%$ its good for the consumer #$%$ #$%$ out of site out of mine what a bunch of greedy #$%$ put these pieces of #$%$ in jail
Re
November 28th, 2012 at 6:19 am
More blood on Walmart’s hands, the crap they sell is made in Bangladesh, probably made by kids, if the truth was told, for pennies. and sold to fools in the USA for mega bucks, wake up America. How sad I will bet that most of these kids never had a chance.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:20 am
blood clothes….know your source before purchase!
November 28th, 2012 at 6:20 am
why do you think co,s go to places like this no rules no safty rules just work for very little but the cloths cost people big cash
November 28th, 2012 at 6:21 am
I agree with you Zen Lill. This stuff just makes me sick.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:24 am
Michelle, I had to jump from the the third floor. I suffered some minor injuries, but my friend, Naasih, who jumped with me suffered severe injuries.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:27 am
Michelle, we ran for the exit points only to discover that they were locked from the outside. It was too late for so many to get out. I decided to run to the roof and I was saved un harmed.
But sadly many died trying to get those doors open.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:31 am
I went to a mortuary outside Dhaka to look for my sister. It was filled with so many relatives crying, I left because the sadness was too much for me.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:38 am
Not to get off topic, but how about this. The Right is still trying to dis the black president and make his presidency illegitimate.
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Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) told a radio host he completely agreed with her assertion that investigations are needed to determine why President Obama lost “every one” of the states with photo identification requirements for voting, yet won re-election. Cuccinelli, who has lost most of the major legal cases he has brought since taking office in 2010, told the host she was “preaching to the choir.”
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Will these racist assholes ever stop?
November 28th, 2012 at 6:41 am
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus made a curious claim on MSNBC today, alleging that Wisconsin is a state “that was absolutely riddled with voter fraud.”
The problem? A recent study by the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice found just seven cases of voter fraud out of three million votes cast in Wisconsin during the 2004 election, a fraud rate of 0.0002 percent. All seven of these cases involved persons with felony convictions who weren’t eligible to vote after being released from prison.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:43 am
Or maybe Obama did more poorly in states requiring photo ID because those laws are put in place with the express purpose of making it harder for minorities who usually vote for the Democrats to be considered eligible.
Am I supposed to believe that it’s a coincidence that everyone behind these laws has an (R) next to their name and that the panic to get laws in place in swing states right before the election was just a coincidence?
Oh give me a break. The Republicans are lucky that they’re not behind bars for the things they try to get away with.
You can’t try to solve a non-existent problem that just “happens” to have the side-effect of disenfranchising Democrat voters and claim it’s just your concern for people cheating the system that is causing you to do it.
It’s the people behind these laws who cheat the system, not the voters.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:44 am
Yes- they have to fight the ‘problem’ of high voter turnout. (- looks both ways-wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more)
November 28th, 2012 at 6:45 am
President Obama did fine overall actually. Here is a map of states with voter ID laws: http://www.ncsl.org/legislatures-elections/elections/voter-id.aspx
Obama won Michigan, Florida, and New Hampshire even with the Voter I.D. laws, and even with voter suppression in states like Ohio. Of course that still doesn’t make things right and we need to make voting easier and more convenient so that all citizens have a chance to have their voices heard. We’ll have to see what the Supreme Court decides on the Voting Rights Act when it comes up. It’s not looking good but we’ll see.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:45 am
Shhhh you know the GOP doesn’t like FACTS
November 28th, 2012 at 6:46 am
As a Virginia resident who had to show a photo ID to vote I find this very amusing, especially since the President carried Virginia. And this fool wants to be our Governor. Heaven help us.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:52 am
I read this on Huff Post:
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Fox News and the Republican Party are so upset about the fact that this democratic President has a much better record as Commander-n-Chief than his predecessor, they are grabbing at any straw they can find to try to make him look bad.
They were so dumbfounded when he actually carried out the objectives of the Afghanistan, which was to get Bin Laden, their jaws dropped, and have been hanging since then…come the incident in Behghazi and they jumped like a cat on a hot tin roof in order to try to besmirch the name of the President and his reputation for being a no nonsense Commander-n-Chief….
now they are in this quagmire with Dr. Rice, not Secretary of State Clinton or Ex Director of the CIA Petraeus but Dr. Rice ….. Have they no shame? Have they no intellect? Have they lost their ever loving minds? No, No, YES. 0 ;-)
November 28th, 2012 at 6:53 am
There is absolutly no reason to say sorry….Fox is not news. It is right wing propaganda…..I hate to sund extreme, but simply put that’s all it is. It is a vehicle for the GOP to convey that they are being victimized by a liberal society, when in reality it is the far right that are doing the attacking in shady backroom politics and business. All you have to do is watch the commercials in the breaks to see who funds the spew they mass-produce. How many Dem. congressmen/women are backed by fortune-500 companies…..Not many.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:54 am
We need to coin a phrase for this kind of political-party-driven created “truths.” These have been so common, we need to encapsulate the concept of falsehood related as truth in the face of obvious evidence to the contrary.
The closest I can come to it in one word is “mendacity.” Doesn’t quite convey the concept, though. Collective mendacity? Help me out here. I’m a numbers person, not a literary genius.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:56 am
Judith, if you were required to show a photo ID in VA, then you need to report it. In VA, we are required to show proof of residence, so a voter registration card, a paycheck stub that has your address, a utility bill, or a driver’s license, are all acceptable forms of ID; it does not have to be a photo ID.
November 28th, 2012 at 6:58 am
Susan #, a Republican economic strategist who became disgusted with his own party and its party line, used the term “epistemic closure.” It means that the Republican Party was and is closed off to any knowledge or “truths” but their own often manufactured ones.
November 28th, 2012 at 7:33 am
Hafa adai, Peter, Let me answer you here. It is safer. Police Chief Fred Bordallo tells the Pacific Daily News that he doesn’t believe there is enough justification to investigate any police officers besides David Manila for alleged connections to the Blue House case
They forget to add: COVER UP BEGINS!
November 28th, 2012 at 7:34 am
Sorry Peter I was to nervous. I wanted to include. There are more “Tony’s” which went to that blue house, but since no names have been dropped, this will not be investigated.
We all know there are many more “blue houses” on our island, were the cops get freebees for protecting the mamas.
Look at Mr. Waddey with his Korean bar girlfriend, he give a good example for all the others.
What kind of crooks did we elect and support.
November 28th, 2012 at 7:44 am
Hafa adai, Nick, I can understand your caution. The GPD is directly involved in the smuggling of drugs to the island of Guam. My boyfriend who sells it has to pay off some officers to keep them from busting him.
November 28th, 2012 at 7:45 am
He sells methamphetamine.
November 28th, 2012 at 7:53 am
Hafa adai. I agree. Those Federated States of Micronesia guests who respectfully take advantage of education, work, and recreation opportunities with us here on Guam are welcome to stay.
However, we must be firm with troublemakers and fair to our own families. No one who hurts or disrespects us in our own home is welcome.
Troublemakers are free to change and are welcome to accept rehabilitation but we warn them not to take advantage of our generosity and we pledge to protect our children and our families from all harm.
November 28th, 2012 at 8:06 am
This is our home and there is no place in our island family for violence, hatred, abuse or discrimination. Let’s stand together.
Hafa Adai
November 28th, 2012 at 8:20 am
Michelle, I hear Obama is hosting that clown and LSOS mitt romney at the White House today. If mitt had won, he wouldn’t have given Obama the time of day.
You need to have a heart to heart with Obama.
Lois
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