Megantic - It's Not My Fault

“It’s not my fault”… These are words that will explain away your house, your trinkets and maybe even your whole family.

The other day the residents of the Quebec community of Lac Megantic were left in shock after their town center was literally blown away by a massive railway disaster.  Today, as they grieve they face an unrelenting string of lies from the corporate/media Cabal, the most blatant of which is “it’s not our fault”.  I think that when it comes to mis-direction, “it’s not our fault” tops the “exploding fuel oil” story.  Fuel oil does not explode.

It’s not our fault that we transport the equivalent of thousands of tons of high explosives through your town every day.  It’s not our fault that we had no way to fight the firestorm that engulfed you.  It’s not our fault that we cancelled all useful train service to your town years ago, but didn’t see fit to build track around it.

Why is everybody now able to pass the buck and walk away?  The answer? Armies of lawyers and too many people to manage.  The value of individual human life simply had to be sacrificed.  And so Risk Management was invented to put a brave face on the specter of countless individual human tragedies.

You should get used to it.  Here is how the Lac Megantic tragedy will be explained away: Ninety-nine percent of explosive trains go through the town of Lac Megantic with no problem.  A similar train didn’t explode the other day when it tumbled off a 106-year old rusty rail bridge right in the middle of Calgary.   These same trains roll through Winnipeg.  No problem passing through downtown Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, or countless small towns day after day.  Just luck of the draw that a train blew up when it got to Lac Megantic.

We all use natural gas.  Most of us have propane barbeques.  We need to cook our burgers and we don’t want to freeze in the dark.  There is no one to blame.  Look for more and bigger gas disasters and bigger and bigger lies.  Collective denial.

My sincere condolences to the residents of Lac Megantic.