Mainstream Media and Government Remain Silent as Activists From All Over the US Deliver Aid to FlintBy Claire Bernish In fact, the situation, in many ways, continues to worsen as the government not only originally failed to keep informed residents of the economically-depressed city whats being done to solve their crisis, but failed to provide adequate supply for their daily lives. Imagine suddenly being unable to turn the tap on in warming weather for much-needed rehydration. Imagine not only attempting to cook a meal for your family, but sanitizing cooking utensils, pots and pans, dinnerware, and more without being able to turn on your faucet. Imagine bathing with individual water bottles or bathing your children this way. Imagine attempting to clean your house, your laundry, anything without freely-flowing tap water. Imagine discovering the government you perhaps took for granted poisoned your entire community, but continued forcing you to pay the inflated bills for toxically tainted water. But instead of admitting its mistakes and taking responsibility, that same government and the states governor then also obligated you to pay the tab for its own unjustifiable defense. Worse still, imagine meager solutions were available in the form of donated water drops but the government didnt bother to inform you they were even taking place. Imagine the government sought to quash the issue by spying on those who dared speak up on social media. Now, imagine those who not only spoke up, but brought action against this blatantly corrupted government suddenly turned up dead. This is life an abhorrently inexcusable reality for the residents of Flint. And after a flurry of attention in the mainstream media who quickly vacated the area once headlines no longer gathered the appropriate share count, or when crises of similar proportion across the country came to light your inability to drink water from the tap remained no closer to being solved. Fortunately, humanity hasnt been lost to a headline. selfnewss across the country have again stepped in where the governments shameful penny-pinching and refusal to accept responsibility should have with #OpFlint. Those activists from around the country largely, but not at all exclusively associated with the collective calling itself Anonymous, traveled to Flint, yet again, over Memorial Day weekend to provide residents with an enormous quantity of donated water. Though itself an extraordinary act of selflessness, the activists didnt and havent stopped with simply allowing anyone in need to show up and take the precious resource. In adhering to principles the government never could, OpFlint activists visited locals who might not have heard they were in town. What they found should make your blood boil. Seven weeks, laments an unidentified Flint resident, pointing to a paltry collection of bottled water, as captured in video footage by one of the activists. And this is how we bathe. Is anybody trying to fix this problem for you guys? asks an activist taping the encounter. What can we do? Were not contacted she says, as the activist clarifies: No, I mean, is the government trying to do anything to fix this? Were not contacted by anybody, she continues, Nobody knocks on our door. Nobody but us have come to your door to do anything to help you? Nobody lets us know by letter when theres a meeting, the resident elaborates. I hear about meetings when its on the news and its too late for me to get down there. Asked by the activist about the notification for the OpFlint water drop he gave her, the resident pulls the folded flyer from her pocket, unfolding it, and reads: The resistance. Strength in unity. Ballenger Park, May 29th I will be here. Because somebody gave me a paper. That is why I will be there, she says, intimating the activists not the government initiated tangible action to help her and her family. Somebody gave me a paper, she reiterates. Nobody in my city gives me a paper. I dont get informed. Until its too late. Outrage over the nearly purposeful poisoning of Flints water supply with lead hadnt been known until Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha put her neck on the line standing in the face of criticism from the states EPA, the media, and other government bodies to deliver the scientific evidence. Hanna-Attisha endured mudslinging and putative debunking of egregious proportions before she ultimately received a degree of tragic vindication, with the reluctant admission Flints water, indeed, had been contaminated with lead. Though the Flint Water Crisis topped the news for some time, information on follow-through or far more accurately, lack thereof has not. Enter OpFlint and its incredibly diverse amalgamation of activists willing to step to the plate when government wholly failed in its duty to provide the single most basic human need to the citys residents. An amazing collective of dedicated activists from around the United States invested their own time, money, and dedication to ensure whatever the governments claims Flints residents will attain the potable water Michigans government failed to provide. After charitable contests in which the donors of the largest bottled water supply could earn various prizes, the real work of helping fellow humans got underway. Convoys of U-Hauls, trailers, and vans made their way to Flint to provide water the government failed to and not for Internet fame or triumph, but because no matter what Nestls CEO might claim clean, potable water comprises the most basic of human rights. As these activists checked in from various locations across the country, one thing became clear a widely-varied collective of individuals with good intentions can facilely accomplish what the government never will: good faith. While focus may remain fixated on which group protested what, and how ostensibly violently it did so, these people these individuals did what government didnt feel necessary: it provided clean water. For the uninformed residents of Flint, Michigan, this activism was gold. For the uninformed residents of the country relying on mainstream media to inform them of imperative news this should be a call to abandon ship. Claire Bernish writes for TheFreeThoughtProject.com, where this article first appeared. Imagine if some of those affected went and took out the trash responsible for this. Bang FREE of charge, clean water is a human BIRTHRIGHT that no constitution, no law, no layer has ever defened! The first reality slap upside the head is that government is not going to solve the problem I mostly agree except I say the government willingly refuses to solve the problem. The people that did this should be required to live in the area and use the water THEY claim is safe!!! Mucho better than jail!!!! The author statesthe state government in conjunction with emergency managers needlessly endangered the lives of every resident in the city by poisoning its water supply with toxic lead? This is sloppy journalism at least. Unlike the authors spin on what happened, Some contend the Agenda 2030 globalists are using this tragedy in Flint as a way to take control of all that fresh water found in the Great Lakes. Clearly, in the globalists eyes, and apparently the authors eyes, the locals are too inept to remain in control. This piece seems to further the Agenda 2030 movement by not being honest with the facts. I.e. Its well known the Governor was kept out of the loop by mid-level bureaucrats. What have you been able to find about those people who kept the information from the Governor? What were their motives? What are your motives? Flint is evidence that the government only cares about us as long as they get tax money out of us. Our president cares more about allowing male teachers and students to urinate in the girls restrooms in public schools than what is going on in Flint and this nation. We need to change this government or well all be Flint. And they only care when they get caught The next thing should be to get that which more toxic than lead out. If they can work on the fluoride, everything else is easy. I agree with Invisible Man. Something is fishy about this story-not that it did happen, but in reading this story something seems off-just the words and phrases used Also, wheres Michael Moore? One would think hes somewhere there helping his alma mater gov vs GOD THE FATHER GOTTA TEST IT OUT GOD IS READY this smacks of the mob involved at the highest govt levels, the mob would do something like deliberately poison people to make a profit. In order to fix some of the damage already done the govt should be handing out DMSA [not DMSO] pills that are cheap, effective ,safe FDA approved to remove lead from the body even in children. Just like they are supposed to hand out iodine pills when there is a nuclear leak. For nuclear leaks, iodine pills would help until the radioactive iodine decays in a few months. Nice! WTG all. *Theyll send them plenty, as long as they profit far beyond reasonable expectations. But youre right to say they wont send a drop in aid to Flint 