L'etat c'est moi
Sep. 6th, 2006 07:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lapsedmodernistSo, what do YOU think Bush did/is doing that he needs to cover up this badly? I mean, it can't be just the standard increase pollution and kill fish in plastic soda holders, Mr. Burns-style. What has he released into the drinking water that we are all ingesting now, slowly but surely?
Bush Declares Eco-Whistleblower Law Void for EPA Employees
Stealth Repeal of Clean Water Act Protections by Invoking "Sovereign Immunity"
By: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
Published: Sep 4, 2006 at 08:40
The Bush administration has declared itself immune from whistleblower protections for federal workers under the Clean Water Act, according to legal documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). As a result of an opinion issued by a unit within the Office of the Attorney General, federal workers will have little protection from official retaliation for reporting water pollution enforcement breakdowns, manipulations of science or cleanup failures.
Citing an "unpublished opinion of the Attorney General's Office of Legal Counsel," the Secretary of Labor's Administrative Review Board has ruled federal employees may no longer pursue whistleblower claims under the Clean Water Act. The opinion invoked the ancient doctrine of sovereign immunity which is based on the old English legal maxim that "The King Can Do No Wrong." It is an absolute defense to any legal action unless the "sovereign" consents to be sued.
The opinion and the ruling reverse nearly two decades of precedent. Approximately 170,000 federal employees working within environmental agencies are affected by the loss of whistleblower rights.
"The Bush administration is engineering the stealth repeal of whistleblower protections," stated PEER General Counsel Richard Condit, who had won several of the earlier cases applying environmental whistleblower protections to federal specialists. "The use of an unpublished opinion to change official interpretations is a giant step backward to the days of the secret Star Chamber." PEER ultimately obtained a copy of the opinion under the Freedom of Information Act.
Relatedly, please familiarize yourselves with the 1933 Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Reich, a.k.a. Hitler's Enabling Act; pay special attention to article 2.
No, seriously, what do YOU think Bush did this time? Ticking genetic time bombs in cucumbers? Blowfish bred in North Carolina lakes for the purposes of race wars? Warfare through targeted weather modification? Share your guesses HERE! It will be wacky fun.
Bush Declares Eco-Whistleblower Law Void for EPA Employees
Stealth Repeal of Clean Water Act Protections by Invoking "Sovereign Immunity"
By: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
Published: Sep 4, 2006 at 08:40
The Bush administration has declared itself immune from whistleblower protections for federal workers under the Clean Water Act, according to legal documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). As a result of an opinion issued by a unit within the Office of the Attorney General, federal workers will have little protection from official retaliation for reporting water pollution enforcement breakdowns, manipulations of science or cleanup failures.
Citing an "unpublished opinion of the Attorney General's Office of Legal Counsel," the Secretary of Labor's Administrative Review Board has ruled federal employees may no longer pursue whistleblower claims under the Clean Water Act. The opinion invoked the ancient doctrine of sovereign immunity which is based on the old English legal maxim that "The King Can Do No Wrong." It is an absolute defense to any legal action unless the "sovereign" consents to be sued.
The opinion and the ruling reverse nearly two decades of precedent. Approximately 170,000 federal employees working within environmental agencies are affected by the loss of whistleblower rights.
"The Bush administration is engineering the stealth repeal of whistleblower protections," stated PEER General Counsel Richard Condit, who had won several of the earlier cases applying environmental whistleblower protections to federal specialists. "The use of an unpublished opinion to change official interpretations is a giant step backward to the days of the secret Star Chamber." PEER ultimately obtained a copy of the opinion under the Freedom of Information Act.
Relatedly, please familiarize yourselves with the 1933 Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Reich, a.k.a. Hitler's Enabling Act; pay special attention to article 2.
No, seriously, what do YOU think Bush did this time? Ticking genetic time bombs in cucumbers? Blowfish bred in North Carolina lakes for the purposes of race wars? Warfare through targeted weather modification? Share your guesses HERE! It will be wacky fun.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2006-09-06 01:08 pm (UTC)My gut feeling is that everything this administration has done in terms of creating a police state is there for the purpose of putting the boot to the american public's throat when stateless neo-liberalism wrecks our economy the way its nationalistic predecessor has done to so many others in latin america, asia, and africa over the last 50-500 years.
no subject
Date: 2006-09-07 01:40 am (UTC)