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Eric Holder calls Martin Luther King father of Environmental Justice
examiner.com ^ | 12/26/2010 | Joe Newby

Posted on 12/26/2010 8:59:47 AM PST by FredJake

While speaking at a forum on "Environmental Justice" - the means of injecting race into environmental issues - Attorney General Eric Holder called Martin Luther King the "father of the Environmental Justice movement".

According to a CNS News report, the Attorney General said:

“Dr. Martin Luther King, who really was in some ways the father of our nation’s environmental justice movement, may have put it best when he declared, and this is a phrase that we all know, that ‘injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,’”

He went on to say:

“The Justice Department has integrated our environmental justice goals into all of our enforcement efforts in our comprehensive strategic plans and that’s why I’ve called on every US Attorney ’s office throughout the country, all 94, to do the same and to start thinking about environmental justice as a civil rights issue. By examining environmental requirements in conjunction with our civil rights laws. I’m confident that we can do a better job of ensuring fairness, advancing justice and making certain that the most vulnerable among us are not left out, left behind, and left to suffer disproportionately,”

This from the man who once called America a nation of cowards on race and refused to prosecute members of the New Black Panther Party over allegations of voter intimidation.

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To: FredJake

Eric and Big Sis are now pushing environmental justice. They looked at the polls and saw that their only ‘program’ that polls half way decently is the environment. Not amnesty, gays or obamacare.

Their stretch on steroids effort to wrap it around national security is exactly the kind of thing that will put another nail into the coffin of the environmental ‘movement’.


21 posted on 12/26/2010 9:45:28 AM PST by Let's Roll (Save the world's best healthcare - DEFUND Obamacare!)
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To: FredJake

I fell asleep one day and woke up inside a Far Side cartoon.


22 posted on 12/26/2010 9:46:23 AM PST by the invisib1e hand ("Three hostile newspapers are more to be feared than 200 swords" - Napoleon Bonapart)
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To: FrankR
Heh, good one Frank.

Although if I had my 'druthers', he would be peeking out of this:


23 posted on 12/26/2010 9:47:09 AM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: FredJake

The Mythology of Martin Luther King.

...the gift that keeps on giving

one day he will be bigger than Aristotle


24 posted on 12/26/2010 9:51:42 AM PST by wardaddy ("Out Here" by Josh Thompson pretty much says it all to those who will never understand anyhow)
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To: FredJake
We are so far beyond screwed, I don't even know what it's called...


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

25 posted on 12/26/2010 9:53:52 AM PST by The Comedian (Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
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To: LegendHasIt
Jailbirds
26 posted on 12/26/2010 9:54:53 AM PST by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: FredJake
Holder's community activities include 'Save the Children' and his long time membership in the organization 'Concerned Black Men'.

While in law school, Holder clerked at the N.A.A.C.P. He continues to work at a law firm which represented the NFL during its investigation of quarterback Michael Vick

Just sayin.

27 posted on 12/26/2010 10:04:19 AM PST by Conservative Tsunami
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To: FredJake

Another idiot with nothing between his ears.


28 posted on 12/26/2010 10:33:56 AM PST by mom-7
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To: mom-7

Darrell Issa will have fun with DOJ in 2011. I dont think Holder will last long.


29 posted on 12/26/2010 10:45:51 AM PST by freespirited (This tagline dedicated to the memory of John Armor, a/k/a Congressman Billybob.)
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To: FredJake

Thanks for the laugh, Eric.


30 posted on 12/26/2010 11:22:50 AM PST by surely_you_jest
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To: FredJake

“Environmental Justice” is not supposed to be limited to race, but also to economically disadvantaged communities. Although it should take into consideration the cost of the damned environmental regulations themselves to such communities, it conveniently does not. Rural communities pay a disproportionate share of the costs of these regulations and bear the social and economic impacts of their restrictions. THAT should be considered under so called “environmental justice.”

All I have seen so far from EJ is state sponsored politicization of issues providing leverage for one racial group against neighboring poor communities to undermine their property rights.


31 posted on 12/26/2010 11:56:52 AM PST by marsh2
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To: FredJake

The sheer amount of idiocy that spews forth from Holder’s lips near daily is beyond astounding.....more deserving of one being taking out back of a shed and being well, umm, you know.... =.=


32 posted on 12/26/2010 12:13:04 PM PST by cranked
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To: FredJake

MLK invented agriculture, philosophy and mathematics and will come again to raise us from the dead.


33 posted on 12/26/2010 12:16:50 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: FredJake

I think this is a right and fitting tribute to MLK by the left. That is, to be used after death to trumpet causes they knew little about in life, and cared for less. It dilutes their original message, and makes them two dimensional. It is like dying twice.

Of course, the worst would be to use MLK in advertisements, to tout crap blatantly targeting the black community. Things like menthol cigarettes and malt liquor.


34 posted on 12/26/2010 12:31:17 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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