Watch as China attempts to reverse its environmental problems, and note how difficult and expensive it is, what draconian measures are required. Watch as other countries- India for one, where a tourism professional recently remarked, as a twist on India's promotional slogan, "Incredible India, drowning in its own excreta"- flounder in their desperate attempts to reverse decades of ignorance and abuse of land and water-

And then look hard at our EPA appointees, who have worked diligently to destroy our own visionary laws and methods of controlling pollution while maintaining a burgeoning and healthy economy. Who are these people, who would have the US citizens, subjected to the same poisons and fouled rivers as the citizens of China or Mexico?


Who are they? What do they believe? Who pays them to betray us?

And they dare to speak of the economy as they dismantle the systems that brought us clean air drinking water and wetlands and wildlife, and as our economy tanks ever lower, as the money flows into the pockets of their global masters, and the citizens, struggling to pay their bills, are stuck with the poisonous effluents that the masters do not have to pay to get rid of.

Somewhere, there has to be accountability. What we have witnessed is not 'business as usual." It has been a concerted attempt to bring the US into line with India, Mexico, China, to open it for exploitation as a resource colony, just as we once did with Guatemala and bananas.

Human rights and environmental protection are obstacles to the kind of profits that global businesses expect or demand now. America's laws ro protect assets and resources like clean air and water and wildlife are relatively unique, even if they have proved extremely practical. What we are seeing is a carefully orchestrated scheme to get rid of them. It's not so complicated, really.

Where is the anger, though?

Accountability appears to be on the horizon for these people, hence the knee jerk reactionary events.

How many criminals will come out of the EPA in handcuffs over the next year? How many will flee to non-extraditing countries?

How does Steven Johnson even look his children in the eye knowing that he is trying to help leave the world worse for them then he knew it.

Actually no government employee is allowed to speak out under any administration, without it being vetted by higher ups. The mosre controversial the higer up.

In this case, Marion, that doesn't apply. The EPA employees have always been able to talk freely to the Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office - in fact almost any federal employee can speak to the GAO. This is an entirely new phenomenon, reversing the standard.