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Notorious U.S. Coal Executive Remains Blindly Unrepentant for His Part in the Deaths of 29 Miners
Don Blankenship Is an American Criminal
A Notorious U.S. Coal Executive Remains Blindly Unrepentant for His Part in the Deaths of 29 Miners
Donald Leon Don Blankenship, the former head of Massey Energy who is serving federal prison time for his role in the deaths of 29 coal miners six years ago in West Virginia, got beaucoup headline treatment this week for issuing a manifesto in which he pronounces himself an American political prisoner.
Give the man kudos for a stunt that got traction.
Theres his phrase American political prisoner on top of a story published by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday and on an article disseminated far and wide by the Associated Press. It appears over and over again in the state where it hurts the most on far-reaching West Virginia Public Broadcasting, on West Virginia Metro News (the voice of West Virginia) and on small-town news sites hither and yon across the state.
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He conspired to violate mining health and safety standards in the run-up to the explosion that claimed those 29 lives on April 5, 2010, at the Upper Big Branch mine south of Charleston. Thats why hes behind bars now, albeit for not that long a time or at that hard core a prison. Blankenship is already midway through his one-year stretch at Taft Correctional Institute, a minimum-security facility in sunny Southern California. He gets out in April.
He was the best-paid U.S. coal-industry executive ...
http://ieefa.org/don-blankenship-american-criminal/A Notorious U.S. Coal Executive Remains Blindly Unrepentant for His Part in the Deaths of 29 Miners
Donald Leon Don Blankenship, the former head of Massey Energy who is serving federal prison time for his role in the deaths of 29 coal miners six years ago in West Virginia, got beaucoup headline treatment this week for issuing a manifesto in which he pronounces himself an American political prisoner.
Give the man kudos for a stunt that got traction.
Theres his phrase American political prisoner on top of a story published by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday and on an article disseminated far and wide by the Associated Press. It appears over and over again in the state where it hurts the most on far-reaching West Virginia Public Broadcasting, on West Virginia Metro News (the voice of West Virginia) and on small-town news sites hither and yon across the state.
...
He conspired to violate mining health and safety standards in the run-up to the explosion that claimed those 29 lives on April 5, 2010, at the Upper Big Branch mine south of Charleston. Thats why hes behind bars now, albeit for not that long a time or at that hard core a prison. Blankenship is already midway through his one-year stretch at Taft Correctional Institute, a minimum-security facility in sunny Southern California. He gets out in April.
He was the best-paid U.S. coal-industry executive ...
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Notorious U.S. Coal Executive Remains Blindly Unrepentant for His Part in the Deaths of 29 Miners (Original Post)
kristopher
Oct 2016
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underpants
(182,877 posts)1. Blankenship is scum
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)2. I agree..but scum is too kind for him..He is like "Killer Ants"
No feelings of guilt...just death, and killing those in their path...including other ants.
juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)3. this is why he should never get out. He plays the workers like fox does.
the workers vote against their best interests.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeplwrOdv0jO8IKcXTAqYhg