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Isn't the U.S. military also poisoning the citizens of Puerto Rico?
by voxadam 4y ago
Isn't the U.S. military also poisoning the citizens of Puerto Rico?
- aperson_hello 4y agoIt's basically poisoning anywhere where it has presence (see camp lejeune lawsuits for a recently litigated example)
- capableweb 4y agoDon't you mean the citizens of the United States? They might be residents of Puerto Rico, but according to law they are citizens of the US. > All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after April 11, 1899, and prior to January 13, 1941, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, residing on January 13, 1941, in Puerto Rico or other territory over which the United States exercises rights of sovereignty and not citizens of the United States under any other Act, are declared to be citizens of the United States as of January 13, 1941. All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after January 13, 1941, and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, are citizens of the United States at birth. https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1402&num=0&edition=prelim https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim... Edit: Sorry, I realized now that "citizen" has two meanings, one of legal status and one meaning just "residing in". I'm assuming you meant the latter while I only knew of the first one before.
- voxadam 4y agoI'm sorry, I should have phrased my comment more carefully. I never meant to insinuate that Puerto Ricans aren't United States citizens. I was only pointing out that the U.S. military has been poisoning Puerto Ricans by way of unregulated hazardous waste burns and the widespread use of depleted uranium during wargames for decades, generations.
- defrost 4y ago. . . and the residents near Pearl Harbour, Hawaii thanks to the Navy’s massive fuel tank facility sunk into the mountains there. On the up side it is finally being closed, on the down side it's been leaking for decades.