THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, August 2, 1994 TAG: 9408020003
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 43 lines
Finally, an environmentalist who has some idea of what's going on. Lisa Kensler discovers (``Assessing environmental issues,'' letter, July 24) that members of her community are rebelling against the acidic dribble of environmental propaganda.
In response to her allegations that your editorials ``polarize the readership'': Until recently, no conservative would have accused this paper of fairly representing the conservative majority in Hampton Roads. Your exposure of EPA and environmental-group tactics has finally sounded a proper alarm regarding the unconstitutional evils of our envirocrats.
Virginians are slowly making a sea change in the way facts about our environment are falsified and slanted by a socialist agenda to remove our economic freedoms. A polarized public is exactly what we're getting as the environmental fraud is exposed. The possible loss of Lake Gaston as a water supply is the bitter result of laws and propaganda that the Chesapeake Bay Foundation promotes loudly; only now the laws and propaganda are being used against our citizens for purely economic reasons by North Carolina.
How further hypocritical of Congressman Owen Pickett to call the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission a ``four-letter word.'' The commission is doing exactly what he and our liberal lawmakers designed it for - confiscation of power and redistribution of wealth.
Only now can Virginia Beach residents all recognize the toxic-thought process that similarly affects communities all across the country when the abusive and excessive Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act impose our government's $100 billion solution to a $100 million problem.
Virginia Beach can stand up for its own rights here and send Jim Chapman to Congress to protect our interests from Washington.
JOHN F. PAINTER
Virginia Beach, July 26, 1994
Editor's note: Mr. Painter is a member of the Virginia State Advisory Board for Air Pollution Control. by CNB