tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718120950252476804.post6506915261084779060..comments2023-12-28T09:21:30.579-05:00Comments on Adam Holland: Utah Miner Families speak out on mine owner Bob Murray: ” I can’t stand to listen to the man.”Adam Hollandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06245468599571473818noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718120950252476804.post-1924488507720054992007-10-24T22:27:00.000-04:002007-10-24T22:27:00.000-04:00GRAIN OF SALT ALERTThe comment from Lucky13 should...GRAIN OF SALT ALERT<BR/><BR/>The comment from Lucky13 should be taken with the following in mind:<BR/><BR/>This person maintains a blog devoted entirely to the defense of Bob Murray. He found my blog through a Google search of the term "Bob Murray". Lucky13 may very well be under the employ of Bob Murray to do PR damage control -- stranger things have happened. He may not be a friend of the victims as he claims. I may be mistaken, but I believe based on the results of my analytic software that he wrote from Winter Park, Florida; a well-to-do area more likely to house a corporate shill than a friend of miners.<BR/><BR/>I just thought you'd like to know.Adam Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06245468599571473818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718120950252476804.post-84950292404024544282007-10-24T19:47:00.000-04:002007-10-24T19:47:00.000-04:00To Lucky 13:A union would have advocated for safer...To Lucky 13:<BR/><BR/>A union would have advocated for safer mining practices. A union would do so in the future to prevent a repeat of this disaster in other mines. Why do you oppose this?<BR/><BR/>If Bob Murray were a man of conviction, he never would have created this disaster with his reckless practices. Why do you choose to side with this hypocrite against the interest of those you know? He didn't have to be God, as you state, to prevent this tragedy. He just had to use safer mining techniques.<BR/><BR/>Your comment, and those of Bob Murray as well, utilize a strange technique familiar to those following the Iraq War. You imply, and Murray states outright, that opposing or even questioning him is an insult to the miners. President Bush pushes the same line: opposing him equals opposing the troops. Both arguments are self-serving and completely without any merit whatsoever.<BR/><BR/>You take a fatalistic attitude toward the loss of life in that mine. You say it was God's will. That is not an adequate defense for the men responsible for those deaths. Where is your sense of outrage? Where is their sense of shame? Who are they to hide behind religion?Adam Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06245468599571473818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718120950252476804.post-35879277058178229932007-10-24T19:16:00.000-04:002007-10-24T19:16:00.000-04:00If I may quote you..."A strong union would have pr...If I may quote you..."A strong union would have prevented it from happening."<BR/><BR/>There is NOTHING a union could have done to prevent this accident...it was an ACCIDENT! Accidents happen all of the time all over the world yet because of Bob Murray's political point of view the entire country wants to burn him at the stake. Bob Murray has always stood behind his belief that "no amount of coal is worth a single drop of blood."<BR/><BR/>I personally knew some of these men that lost their lives & my heart aches for their families but they were not forced to work in a coal mine. Miners & their families know the dangers associated with their jobs. Miners are in a league of their own, they are proud of what they do & this way of life runs deep in their veins. This couldn't be more obvious than given the fact that the three men who died during the rescue effort had VOLUNTEERED to be there. There was never anyone that was required to assist in the rescue. Literally hundreds of men, 24hrs a day for weeks on end tirelessly stepped up for this cause...the ones who were scared to go in were immediately given other positions on the surface or at one of the other mines. Bob Murray may have a lot of power but he is by no means God and this was God's will. Everything, good or bad, happens for a reason not even Bob Murray has can control destiny.Lucky13https://www.blogger.com/profile/08460740203216367771noreply@blogger.com