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Ever wonder where the term 'eco-fascist' came from?  You need to look at
Nazi Germany and its Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.  He was the
driving force behind Hitler's policy of the Big Lie.  If you lie loud
enough and long enough, there are some people who will believe you.  And
this is exactly what environmental extremists are doing with regard to the
Ward Valley low level radioactive waste disposal site.

Here is what one such admirer of Goebbels' tactics recently posted here:

>WARD VALLEY EMERGENCY ACTION ALERT
>This is the most critical point in the struggle to save Ward Valley from
>a radioactive waste dump. Plans are to bury dangerous, long-lived
>radioactive waste from nuclear power reactors in shallow, unlined
>trenches above an aquifer, just 18 miles from the Colorado River, in the
>midst of critical habitat for the threatened desert tortoise and in an
>area considered sacred homeland by Native American tribes. The dump
>threatens our precious water supply!

Note the 'dangerous, long-lived'.  Of course this poseur doesn't want to
define *how* dangerous or long lived - because he knows he dare not engage
in a discussion of facts.  Note the 'nuclear power reactors' - no mention
of the fact that most of the material will come from hospitals, where it
had been used to save human lives.  Note the 'shallow, unlined' trenches -
more deceit.  Note the 'just 18 miles' from the Colorado River', as if Ward
Valley poses a threat to the river (it's actually 22 miles away).  Of
course what this twit won't tell you is that the U.S. Geological Survey
study that showed that water passing through the Ward Valley dump would not
reach the water table 600 feet below it for at least three million years -
if ever.  This is long after any radioactivity in the dump would have
dropped far below background levels.  The real fact is that rain water will
seep into the ground only about 10 feet before it evaporates - we *are*
talking about a desert here. The claim that the 'dump threatens our
precious water supply!' is yet another lie.  There is not a single honest
or credible expert who claims that, only environmental extremists who
despise the truth.

And of course what these cretins *don't* want to discuss is the
alternatives:  leave the waste where it is, in the hospitals and power
plants where it poses a far, far greater threat to water tables and human
safety than it ever would in Ward Valley.  The truth is that these liars
could care less about the Colorado River, the desert tortoise, or human
life.  Because if they did, they would support the safe disposal of these
low level wastes.  Instead, they oppose *every* single storage proposal
that has been or ever will be put forth.

>We must act now!  Our grassroots coalition must generate an unprecedented
>outpouring of resistance to this impending catastrophe.  We are appealing
>to everyone who cares about our precious natural and cultural resources
>to take the time to contact each and every elected official on this Alert.

The catastrophe will be if these liars and hatemongers win.  Do you really
want people like this to have political power?  Do you *want* low level
radioactive waste stored in lockers in your local hospital?  Or do you want
to do without electricity? Or modern nuclear medicine?

I have absolutely no connection, of any kind, with the proponents of Ward
Valley, the nuclear power industry, or even the medical community.  But I
*am* offended by lies, like those told by these anti-Ward Valley
eco-fascists.

Andrew Russell
arussell@bix.com

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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
 (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an 
 endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

 - H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) -
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