"paper trail for these injustices."

Injustices? How about logistics issues instead? Your word choice makes it seem like all that is happening is that all these listed people are conspiring to gether to do some unjust thing to all the residents of the area. Like they have all got together and said, "We'll not do this stuff, only tell them we'll do it. Cause we want to mess them over..."

As if!

Speaking of documentation: You have documentation of things you've asked for and things that haven't happened. Do you also have documentation that all these things are readily available and that all these people have just decided to stonewall you? Or is that something you are assuming without documentation. If you have the documentation of this being true, present it. If not, you may want to rethink the rhetoric a bit.

That documentation blade cuts both direrctions, you know.

Doing bad things to the people deliberately would be an injustice. Injustice, however, does not include failing to do things you ask for if that failure is caused by reasons you don't know of understand. Injustice is the wrong word, and use of such invective is one reason why folks tend to resist the things you want to do that are actually good things to do. The old thing about perception "being" reality is also a blade that cuts with both edges. If your choice of words lets you perceived as only looking for the worst in them, that's what you're likely to see.

RB

RoaneBooster,
Thank you for your comment. I have thought about your ideas and decided to post the definitions of the word injustice. There are three that I found.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/injustice

Injustice

1 : absence of justice : violation of right or of the rights of another : unfairness
2 : an unjust act : wrong

synonyms injustice , injury , wrong , grievance mean an act that inflicts undeserved hurt. injustice applies to any act that involves unfairness to another or violation of one's rights
. injury applies in law specifically to an injustice for which one may sue to recover compensation
. wrong applies also in law to any act punishable according to the criminal code; it may apply more generally to any flagrant injustice . grievance applies to a circumstance or condition that constitutes an injustice to the sufferer and gives just ground for complaint .

http://www.brainyquote.com/words/in/injustice178819.html

Injustice

Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition.

An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong.

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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/injustice

Injustice

Violation of another's rights or of what is right; lack of justice.
A specific unjust act; a wrong.

SYNONYMS injustice, injury, wrong, grievance. These nouns denote acts or conditions that cause people to suffer hardship or loss undeservedly. An injustice is a violation of a person's rights; the term can also refer to unfair treatment of another or others: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” (Martin Luther King, Jr.). An injury is an injustice for which legal redress is available: The court awarded the plaintiff compensation for the injury to his property. Wrong is now more emphatic than injustice and in a legal sense refers to what violates the rights of an individual or adversely affects the public welfare: “The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth” (Charles Kingsley). A grievance is regarded by those involved as a wrong that affords cause for complaint: The warden addressed the inmates' grievances.

Thank you for your time, matt landon

Thank you for your words and time. I just wanted to let you know that United Mountain Defense and individuals including myself know that Roane county is full of kind, caring, devoted, smart, and hard working individuals who can take care of themselves. I am happy to work along side these folks and help out when I can. Thank you, matt landon full time volunteer staff person for United Mountain Defense

I'd like to applaud UMD for using the correct word-injustice- to describe events related to the ashvalanche. The catastrophic failure of the ash pond dam and the subsequent inundation of almost 300 acres and the Emory River was a massive injustice to the community and to the river. The loss of homes, backyards, roads, farmland and a portion of the neighborhood river would have been injustice enough, but to add insult to injury the area is now covered with 5.4 million cubic yards of waste that contains heavy metals. From my perspective at least, this is not simply an injustice but rather is a gross injustice and a disaster.

RB, your penchant for picking out a small little detail in a post and focusing attention on it is only slightly instructive. The big picture injustice is what is important here, not your attack on one sentence in a post from a group doing good work for the community. Instead of constantly attacking people providing constructive services to the devastated community, why don't you pick out something positive and constructive you agree with and draw as much attention to that as you do to negative things you don't agree with. As you said, the blade cuts both directions. Why don't you start practicing what you preach?

...You are exactly right. Your begetting synopsis is a fitting description of the chain of events that led to this catastophic injustice. Through your most eloquent statements you drew a visual portrait for me that goes something like this. TVA beget greed, which beget imprecision, which beget lack of critical thinking, which beget huge cash bonuses for TVA execs, which beget complacency, which beget recklessness and irresponsibility, which beget a catastrophic enviro and eco disaster, which beget injustice.

RB I just can't buy into the TVA is our upstanding friend theory. And I know that you didn't say that straight up, but you say it indirectly every time you come to TVA's defense, which is every time your hawk eye catches an anti-TVA movement in this forum. You pounce on it like a hawk on a prairie mouse. From my viewpoint TVA is not being 100% forthecoming. They have circled the wagons and are engaged in PR operations meant to downplay the catastrophic nature of this event. They are not giving their best effort in minimizing airborne contamination. The Emory River has become the forgotten frontier in spite of the fact that the Emory River has suffered the most damaging and long lasting affects of the spill. TVA is not dealing with affected property owners in a good faith manner. They are employing appraisers outside of the market area which are in turn lowballing property values to TVA's benefit. Property owners are going in mass to TVA at their beckon call yet TVA is not returning due diligence. In light of the fact that TVA has its blinders on and is campaigning to salvage its 50 acre gypsum pond which is located on a TVA designated WMA and across the lake from some pricy real estate, and in light of its obvious incapability to store ash responsibly I think it is fair to expect TVA to deal with property owners in a good faith manner and without reservation. There should be a set formula of 2x or 3x or whatever is deemed fair and then get into the business of expediting settlements so folks can get on with their lives as opposed to being held captive for indefinite periods of time. TVA is engaged in a cat & mouse game with individual property owners and its BS.