Oris C. Szeto
August 14th 07, 07:15 AM
9/6/1995
The Superfund program epitomizes the Government's contempt for fairness.
E.P.A. lawyers have gone after Boy Scout troops, public schools and pizza
parlors, claiming the organizations can be held responsible for multi-
million-dollar cleanup costs of Superfund sites---even though they may
have sent only one or two loads of HARMLESS junk to the CONTAMINATED site.
The agency found an Oklahoma tuxedo rental store liable for cleanup costs
of an entire site, simply because the owner had paid a trash hauler $14 to
carry a load of refuse to the dump.
]
* to war against drug kingpins, to stop crime in the streets, to watch and
* monitor the militias, to put an end to hate crimes and bigotry,
[
"The Feds Under Our Beds", By James Bovard, The New York Times, 9/6/1995
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission went after a small metal shop
that it claimed hired too many Hispanic and Polish-American workers and
not enough blacks. The panel forced the company to run advertisements in
Chicago newspapers inviting blacks to file claims for compensation, EVEN
IF THEY NEVER APPLIED FOR A JOB WITH THE COMPANY.
Several of the 451 people who filed claims had been IN PRISON at the time
of the company's alleged discrimination, but the commission FORCED the
company to give them WINDFALL PAYOUTS anyhow.
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, a strip club was shut down
because its stage area was "not accessible to a stripper in a wheelchair."
]
* to extend universal healthcare benefits, to guarantee welfare reform,
The Superfund program epitomizes the Government's contempt for fairness.
E.P.A. lawyers have gone after Boy Scout troops, public schools and pizza
parlors, claiming the organizations can be held responsible for multi-
million-dollar cleanup costs of Superfund sites---even though they may
have sent only one or two loads of HARMLESS junk to the CONTAMINATED site.
The agency found an Oklahoma tuxedo rental store liable for cleanup costs
of an entire site, simply because the owner had paid a trash hauler $14 to
carry a load of refuse to the dump.
]
* to war against drug kingpins, to stop crime in the streets, to watch and
* monitor the militias, to put an end to hate crimes and bigotry,
[
"The Feds Under Our Beds", By James Bovard, The New York Times, 9/6/1995
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission went after a small metal shop
that it claimed hired too many Hispanic and Polish-American workers and
not enough blacks. The panel forced the company to run advertisements in
Chicago newspapers inviting blacks to file claims for compensation, EVEN
IF THEY NEVER APPLIED FOR A JOB WITH THE COMPANY.
Several of the 451 people who filed claims had been IN PRISON at the time
of the company's alleged discrimination, but the commission FORCED the
company to give them WINDFALL PAYOUTS anyhow.
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, a strip club was shut down
because its stage area was "not accessible to a stripper in a wheelchair."
]
* to extend universal healthcare benefits, to guarantee welfare reform,