Sludge Watch ==> BUSH Nixes Public Access to EPA Libraries!

[Maureen Reilly]

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Bush Nixes Public Access to EPA Libraries!
  

by Frank J. Ranelli
    

http://www.opednews.com

What has been termed, "positively Orwellian", by PEER Executive Director 
Jeff Ruch, is indeed frightening. It seems that the self-appointed 
"Decider", George W. Bush, has decided to "end public access to research 
materials" at EPA Regional libraries without Congressional consent. In 
an all out effort to impede research and public access, Bush has 
implemented a loosely covert operation to close down 26 technical 
libraries under the guise of a budgetary constraint move. Scientists are 
protesting, but at least 15 of the libraries will be closed by Sept. 30, 
2006.

"Public access to EPA libraries and collections will end as soon as 
possible", according to a report found online at PEER, an acronym for 
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. All total, nearly 
80,000 documents, not in digital format, are being boxed up and placed 
in infinite limbo status by the Bush Administration. The scene from the 
Raiders of the Lost Ark, where the Ark of the Covenant was wheeled into 
a massive sea of identical box crates, inside an enormous warehouse, 
comes vividly to mind.

The suppression of information to the public and efforts to control the 
flow of information of the sciences has reached critical mass. Shades of 
the once science fictional book, Fahrenheit 451, are dangerously close 
to reality and the banning and burning of books looms all to surreal, 
but are more fact than science fiction now. Who could have ever 
envisioned that Ray Bradbury's vicious, futuristic, dystopian society 
would ever come to fruition; but it may indeed have done just that!

See, Bush positively does not want the American people to know about the 
real effects of global warming, mercury levels, air pollution, and any 
other topic, which if known about by the populous, would undeniably be 
dire for "Corporate America". Bush is unconcerned with your health, my 
health, the health of our children and the future of this planet we all 
call home. What he is concerned about is the gleaming health of the 
bottom lines of the corporate trough from which his completely corrupt 
and dangerous enterprise feeds.

Bush believes he is at the top of the evolutionary food chain (if he 
even believes in evolution) and can dictate the very nature of our 
environment and of the entire planet around us -- for his own immoral 
needs -- and we are being asked to sit idly by; ignorant, servile and 
likely very sick and ill! You may turn green from toxic poisoning and 
the ground may become red from scorching heat, but as long as companies 
such as Exxon/Mobile remain in the black, all is well in Bush's 
pernicious plans.

Conservation of our ecosystem is out of the question for Bush and his 
global marauders of all the Earth's resources. The only thing 
"conservative" about Bush is his own unyielding pursuit to conserve his 
master's big profit margins and the subsequent suffocation of America's 
right to know about that which affects our health, our country and our 
planet. Those big profit margins come at an enormous price tag, one that 
Bush has heaped most unkindly on the rest of us to pay for, but 
certainly not on those who put this buffoon in office!

At this rate, it may be irrelevant to think ahead to 2008 as a chance 
for emancipation and liberation from Bush's dream of a Pax Americana; as 
by 2008 there may not be anything left to govern or save from the Bush 
regime!

Honestly, what's next to be deemed a matter of national security or an 
unfortunate victim of bogus budget slashes to reward the ultra-rich and 
privileged few -- the alphabet?

For more information about PEER, visit the PEER group at 
http://www.peer.org and help put and end to Bush's "positively 
Orwellian" assault on access to public information that just might save 
your life and the planet!

 

Take action -- click here to contact your local newspaper or congress 
people:
Stop Bush From Closing EPA Regional libraries

Click here to see the most recent messages sent to congressional reps 
and local newspapers

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Frank J. Ranelli is a free-lance political writer, researcher and 
author. In addition, he is an activist and advocate for the progression 
of peace and the advancement of the Democratic Party. He currently 
focuses his journalism on educating people of the dangers of the Bush 
administration, election reform issues, how the war in Iraq is immoral 
and why the impeachment of President George W. Bush is necessary to 
restore our democracy. His writing has been well-received and widely 
published in a variety of news outlets and across the Internet. His 
"smartly-written and imagery invoking" articles have earned him such 
praise as, "Written with directness, strength, passion...It's great when 
it smacks, glares, grabs one!" -Ms. Joyce Benedict, Park Guide for FDR 
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