Sludge Watch ==> Rural Residents Suffer Loss of Rights due to Sewage Industry

[Maureen Reilly]

Subject: Suffering from same loss of rights


http://www.tnonline.com/node/226462

LEHIGHTON TIMES NEWS

October 11, 2007



Suffering from same loss of rights





Dear Editor:

An article in the Lehighton Times News, entitled "Citizens of East Brunswick 
are made of tough stuff", has made it down to your sister-Commonwealth of 
Virginia.

I want to compliment the signatories of the article, Annette Etchberger on 
her articulate treatment of a situation that, I assure you all, is not 
restricted to East Brunswick or Pennsylvania.

We in rural Virginia are suffering from the same loss of rights as a result 
of the sewage sludge industry. In our case, the Washington Post, in the late 
1990's, wrote a series on the history of how we became one of the "sewers" 
of the nation the who, what, how, why, when and where they are now of those 
who created this insidious stranglehold on citizens' rights.

If our fellow citizens in Pennsylvania have the ability to track campaign 
contributions, you might wish to follow who is receiving large donations 
from Texas. It's a true eye-opener.

And many of us in Virginia are also wondering "What has happened to our 
Democracy?" Perhaps we can rediscover it together.

Kim Smith

Madison, Virginia