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Title: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: Ben on May 05, 2022, 06:55:15 PM
This will be under DOJ. It appears they'll have enviro-cops. If they're anything like the EPA LEOs I ran into at work, they'll be gung ho aholes.

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/05/05/these-lunatics-are-dangerous-ag-merrick-garland-announces-creation-of-office-of-environmental-justice/
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: K Frame on May 05, 2022, 06:57:21 PM
So, if I'm watering my lawn, I could be charged with a hate crime because some inner city multi-gender, multi-binary, muli-nonbinary, multi-trinary family of strong people of color doesn't have a lawn?

OK... OK OK OK...

Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: Perd Hapley on May 05, 2022, 07:32:01 PM
Remember, if you want justice, you seek justice. If you want something unjust, you call it something else.

Like environmental justice.
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: Boomhauer on May 05, 2022, 08:03:19 PM
Another way to funnel billions if not trillions to the right people while simultaneously ratcheting up the totalitarianism
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: Brad Johnson on May 05, 2022, 08:24:33 PM
Guuhhhhhhgggghhhhhh.

Just shoot me and get get it over with.

Brad
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: griz on May 05, 2022, 08:52:53 PM
From the DOJ website, emphasis mine:

Quote
“EPA and the Justice Department’s partnership to protect overburdened and underserved communities across America has never been stronger,” said EPA Administrator Regan. “This environmental justice enforcement strategy epitomizes the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to holding polluters accountable as a means to deliver on our environmental justice priorities. Critical to that is the return of Supplemental Environmental Projects as a tool to secure tangible public health benefits for communities harmed by environmental violations.”

Something tells me this is more about "justice" (not the traditional kind) rather than the environment.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-launches-comprehensive-environmental-justice-strategy
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: RoadKingLarry on May 05, 2022, 09:18:25 PM
I can see all sorts of potential for abuse. Kind of scary.
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: Jim147 on May 05, 2022, 09:27:21 PM
I think there was a book about this kind of crap. We might even be discussing the author in another thread.
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: Andiron on May 05, 2022, 09:36:48 PM
So a new department of bullshit with distinct uniforms?  ATF should be just tickled to be the second most hated LEO.

Convenient.   [popcorn]
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: HankB on May 05, 2022, 11:34:48 PM
Wade through the gobbledygook and you'll probably find out part of the program will do things like buying air conditioners for hood rats.

Soon the hood rats will figure out the government-provided A/C units contain copper pipes they can sell for cash - whereupon .gov will replace the damaged or missing units - no questions asked - because, well, JUSTICE.

And . . . Profit!
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: 230RN on May 06, 2022, 06:43:45 AM
Another way to funnel billions if not trillions to the right people while simultaneously ratcheting up the totalitarianism

Well and truly stated.

Funny, first thing I thought of when seeing the OP's title was "Oh, great, another federal agency packing rods," even before I opened the thread.

So, if I'm watering my lawn, I could be charged with a hate crime because some inner city multi-gender, multi-binary, multi-nonbinary, multi-trinary family of strong people of color doesn't have a lawn?

OK... OK OK OK...

There's a scary element of truth in that scene.

Terry, 230RN
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: K Frame on May 06, 2022, 07:07:04 AM
Why does this feel like the opening act of the Zimbabwe Land Reallocation opera?
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: Boomhauer on May 06, 2022, 07:13:21 AM
Why does this feel like the opening act of the Zimbabwe Land Reallocation opera?

Because it probably is. I have noticed lately that the left has been pushing a lot of hate against landlords and property owners and calling for the seizure and re-distribution of property. It has been very heavily pushed especially in the leftist groups on social media in the past few months.
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: MechAg94 on May 06, 2022, 08:35:05 AM
Because it probably is. I have noticed lately that the left has been pushing a lot of hate against landlords and property owners and calling for the seizure and re-distribution of property. It has been very heavily pushed especially in the leftist groups on social media in the past few months.
Something like that would probably start small scale.  I am trying to imagine where it would kick off.  I assume in the inner cities where local govt is more likely to support it.
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: HankB on May 06, 2022, 08:57:12 AM
Why does this feel like the opening act of the Zimbabwe Land Reallocation opera?
Well, a lot of POCs never got the "40 acres and a mule" they think their ancestors were promised, and which they think they're entitled to even if their progenitors immigrated long after the Civil War. There WILL be a push for "reparations" for people untouched by slavery, collected from people who never were involved in slavery. Despite the fact that both the last slave and last slave owner died a long time ago.

And the administration press releases have been mentioning "tribal lands" a lot lately . . . Oklahoma is running into difficulty from court rulings by an activist judiciary when it comes to prosecuting crimes on "tribal lands" covering a BIG part of the state. Watch for more - a LOT more - of this cr@p, designed solely to divide and weaken this nation by people who hate this country and its people.
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: Hawkmoon on May 06, 2022, 09:59:55 AM
Because it probably is. I have noticed lately that the left has been pushing a lot of hate against landlords and property owners and calling for the seizure and re-distribution of property. It has been very heavily pushed especially in the leftist groups on social media in the past few months.

I saw that in action many years ago. When I started work as the [only] staff architect for the public housing agency in the nearby city, the housing authority had just taken over a 150-unit, townhouse style housing project from private ownership. The housing authority was in the midst of renovating all the units to bring them into compliance with HUD Minimum Property Standards.

The results were predictable. Within a couple of years after the acquisition, most of the units had been trashed by the occupants. I haven't driven through there for several years. The last time I did, most of the Housing Authority units were vacant and boarded up, because they had been so thoroughly trashed that there wasn't enough money or manpower to keep up with repairs. Meanwhile, directly across the street there were two privately-owned projects of similar age, design, and size. Those projects were fully occupied, the lawns were cut, the grounds weren't so full of junk that they looked like a landfill, there wasn't graffiti on all the walls, there wasn't an abandoned, stripped car anywhere to be seen ... The contrast was instructive.
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: K Frame on May 06, 2022, 10:11:30 AM
I live next to a Section 8 low-income housing complex.

The big difference?

It's a cooperative, which means that the residents have an incentive to take care of their apartments and the community in general, as opposed to purely public housing projects.

Over the years there have been some issues there, but in general, the place is kept up well, there aren't major problems occurring, the management works hard to keep gangs out of the community, and those who do create problems are generally tossed out of the community in short order.
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: RoadKingLarry on May 06, 2022, 10:45:12 AM
Well, a lot of POCs never got the "40 acres and a mule" they think their ancestors were promised, and which they think they're entitled to even if their progenitors immigrated long after the Civil War. There WILL be a push for "reparations" for people untouched by slavery, collected from people who never were involved in slavery. Despite the fact that both the last slave and last slave owner died a long time ago.

And the administration press releases have been mentioning "tribal lands" a lot lately . . . Oklahoma is running into difficulty from court rulings by an activist judiciary when it comes to prosecuting crimes on "tribal lands" covering a BIG part of the state. Watch for more - a LOT more - of this cr@p, designed solely to divide and weaken this nation by people who hate this country and its people.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGirt_v._Oklahoma
Quote
Jimcy McGirt was an enrolled member of the Seminole tribe. In 1991, having recently been discharged from prison, he moved in with and married another member of the tribe at Broken Arrow, who was 10 years his senior.[11] McGirt's wife had a granddaughter, whom McGirt would sexually abuse on an almost-daily basis when she was just four years old
Yet another fine upstanding citizen becomes a hero to the left.

The McGirt ruling is a steaming pile of libtarded *expletive deleted*it and a total flusterlcuck for the courts.
I used to have some sympathetic support for the local tribes but in the last decade or so that has changed.
My wife has been peripherally involved in Cherokee Nation politics and wholly *expletive deleted*it, what a bunch of crooked, two faced, backstabbing, fucktarded aholes. Every *expletive deleted*ing problem they have is because of the white man.
The whole "Indian Land" bullshit is getting out of hand. There has even been talk of special extra taxes for property "occupied" by whites though it hasn't gained any traction, yet.
*expletive deleted*ck you Tonto, let's play another round of Cowboys and Indians.

Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: 230RN on May 06, 2022, 12:06:17 PM
Something like that [seizure and re-distribution of property --ed.] would probably start small scale.  I am trying to imagine where it would kick off.  I assume in the inner cities where local govt is more likely to support it.

It's already started.  Think Rent Control in NYC, which is now an "accepted" fact of life and a beneficial function of the city.  One of my nieces lives in a rent controlled building in Manhattan

 I don't know what it's like in Boulder CO nowadays, but when I left (1990-ish) the city had already started to intrude on the contracting capability of landlords and began controlling the condition of rental properties.  Heck, if a party agreed to live  under a stairwell for a $pittance per month by mutual agreement, that was OK by me.
 
At least it kept him out of the rain snow and wind.

Colorado's Constitution has an article somewhere that says all laws passed must be for the health, benefit and welfare of its people, and I'm sometimes amazed at how far that clause can be stretched by entrenched do-gooders.

Terry, 230RN
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: JTHunter on May 08, 2022, 12:09:13 AM
Many years ago (mid '80s), a coworker was telling me of a problem certain POCs had in South Dakota.  He said that the Native Americans that lived on a reservation near his college would need to leave the rez is they ever got decent jobs.  Otherwise, they were expected to "share" their "good fortune" with the rest of the tribe.

Doesn't that sound like socialism/communism to you?
  ;/
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: WLJ on May 08, 2022, 12:22:55 AM
Which reminds me
Whatever happen to these people? https://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=64467.msg1304774#msg1304774
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: HankB on May 08, 2022, 09:45:41 AM
Many years ago (mid '80s), a coworker was telling me of a problem certain POCs had in South Dakota.  He said that the Native Americans that lived on a reservation near his college would need to leave the rez is they ever got decent jobs.  Otherwise, they were expected to "share" their "good fortune" with the rest of the tribe.

Doesn't that sound like socialism/communism to you?
  ;/
I remember reading a story by a former Peace Corps volunteer who served in Africa. It turned out ALL the businesses in the local villages were owned by Indians (ACTUAL Indians from India) because local custom made it impossible for local Africans to run a business - if they opened a shop they were obliged to give free stuff to their "family" which included virtually all the locals. So if a 10th cousin 6 times removed came into your shop and wanted a new pair of pants - you had to give it to him. Free.

A former colleague grew up near Ft. Sill in Oklahoma. He said the road to the nearest Indian reservation didn't have a gravel shoulder - the shoulder was a virtually solid layer of empty liquor bottles, discarded by Indians driving by. (Environmentally friendly?) Said they lived in crappy shacks but had nice cars and no problem with driving in a heavy state of inebriation. (His stories were sprinkled with a lot of comments about redskins and firewater.)
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: Hawkmoon on May 08, 2022, 11:33:11 AM
Many years ago (mid '80s), a coworker was telling me of a problem certain POCs had in South Dakota.  He said that the Native Americans that lived on a reservation near his college would need to leave the rez is they ever got decent jobs.  Otherwise, they were expected to "share" their "good fortune" with the rest of the tribe.

Doesn't that sound like socialism/communism to you?
  ;/

That's something that is not uncommon among Native American cultures. Yes, it is very definitely socialist, but it's their culture. Genuine tribes are considered by the United States to be sovereign nations with respect to their own tribal members, so if they chose to perpetuate their long-standing social system that's their choice. We don't have to agree with it, but we should respect it. I'm not aware of any tribes who subscribe to that philosophy trying to push it on a national level.
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: 230RN on May 08, 2022, 03:12:30 PM
^ "I'm not aware of any tribes who subscribe to that philosophy trying to push it on a national level."

They don't have to.  The libby-commies are doing it for them.

Terry. 230RN
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: 230RN on May 08, 2022, 03:18:37 PM
Why does this feel like the opening act of the Zimbabwe Land Reallocation opera?



(https://justforsneaks.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/zimbabwe-100-trillion-dollar-bill-obverse.jpg)

The amount is more than the serial number.

(Say, is that a true picture? I've seen it a lot, but I'm wondering if it isn't just one of those runaway memes.)

Terry, 230RN
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: HankB on May 08, 2022, 04:05:19 PM


(https://justforsneaks.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/zimbabwe-100-trillion-dollar-bill-obverse.jpg)

The amount is more than the serial number.

(Say, is that a true picture? I've seen it a lot, but I'm wondering if it isn't just one of those runaway memes.)

Terry, 230RN

The banknote is real. So are the rocks pictured. (Chiremba Rocks)

(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.qj-5kzd7Xg1WYrdnfyFB3QAAAA%26pid%3DApi&f=1)
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: WLJ on May 08, 2022, 04:15:46 PM
That's a nice boulder
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: Pb on May 08, 2022, 05:09:43 PM
Many years ago (mid '80s), a coworker was telling me of a problem certain POCs had in South Dakota.  He said that the Native Americans that lived on a reservation near his college would need to leave the rez is they ever got decent jobs.  Otherwise, they were expected to "share" their "good fortune" with the rest of the tribe.

Doesn't that sound like socialism/communism to you?
  ;/

A relative went to Africa to help a "charity".  She described this exact same thing among the Africans.  If you have property, you are expected to give it away to your relatives/friends until it is all gone.  If you don't, you are the most evil person in the world.  And there is no gratitude, because it is expected.

The Africans she were surrounded with at the "charity" were corrupt leeches.  When she went back to the states, they would send her messages demanding money for "medical treatment" for someone she knew "or he would die."
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: K Frame on May 09, 2022, 07:17:35 AM


(https://justforsneaks.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/zimbabwe-100-trillion-dollar-bill-obverse.jpg)

The amount is more than the serial number.

(Say, is that a true picture? I've seen it a lot, but I'm wondering if it isn't just one of those runaway memes.)

Terry, 230RN

There are actually MANY "balancing rocks" in part of Zimbabwe. It's apparently due to the volcanic geology in the area.

This is one I've always liked...

(https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.30a69b132eab348f9d0fff8fda962efb?rik=8LqbRrovdV6Oow&riu=http%3a%2f%2f3.bp.blogspot.com%2f-3dy2m93zVSY%2fU0vV9RnS5ZI%2fAAAAAAAAFMo%2f6I3GEaBkwDY%2fs1600%2fChiremba%2bBalancing%2bRocks.jpg&ehk=j1JC1We%2f0jwt1VH1BWEmE4LYPARH6aorgzp6aH0P9ic%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: K Frame on May 09, 2022, 07:21:56 AM
Which reminds me
Whatever happen to these people? https://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=64467.msg1304774#msg1304774

Do you really give a *expletive deleted*it?

Does anyone?
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: RoadKingLarry on May 09, 2022, 10:07:02 AM
Could they really even be truly classified as "people"?
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: Andiron on May 11, 2022, 08:58:42 PM


The Africans she were surrounded with at the "charity" were corrupt leeches.  When she went back to the states, they would send her messages demanding money for "medical treatment" for someone she knew "or he would die."

Given how incredibly cheap life is on that continent,  that's some weak leverage.
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: K Frame on May 11, 2022, 09:12:10 PM
Answer...

"Please let me know when he dies so I can take him off my Christmas/Kawanza Card list."
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: Pb on May 11, 2022, 10:10:44 PM
It really tore my relative up.
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: K Frame on May 12, 2022, 11:24:22 AM
It really tore my relative up.

I'm sure it did. Unfortunately, the social empathy that made her go to Africa in the first place also made her vulnerable to the African scumbag shysters.
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: Brad Johnson on May 12, 2022, 11:43:14 AM
I'm sure it did. Unfortunately, the social empathy that made her go to Africa in the first place also made her vulnerable to the African scumbag shysters.

This. The empathetic, altruistic, and philanthropic are scam artists' wet dream. To a scam artist, these people and organizations are just bottomless pits of resources rife for exploit.

Brad
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: Pb on May 12, 2022, 12:06:40 PM
I'm sure it did. Unfortunately, the social empathy that made her go to Africa in the first place also made her vulnerable to the African scumbag shysters.

You are right.
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: Hawkmoon on May 12, 2022, 12:20:06 PM
It really tore my relative up.

Yes -- they take advantage of that. Intentionally.
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: WLJ on May 12, 2022, 12:21:11 PM
Just like DC
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: K Frame on May 12, 2022, 12:21:23 PM
I'd never make it in the Peace Corps.

I'm WAY too "British Colonial" in my outlook.  :rofl:
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: K Frame on May 12, 2022, 12:27:45 PM
Friend of mine had a younger sister who was really into the whole social consciousness schtick. She ended up in the Peace Corps in the Central African Republic for a couple of years, and ended up falling in love with a guy, whom she brought back with her. Took a long time to get everything cleared, she paid all of the bills because it was expensive.

Within 6 months of them getting back to the United States... he takes off with his green card. It's all he wanted.

Only... he figured she was still going to be the cash cow, and he did his damndest to milk it. Her brother, my friend, had to step in in no uncertain terms.
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: Pb on May 12, 2022, 01:54:00 PM
ended up falling in love with a guy, whom she brought back with her.

This came very close to happening to my relative also.  It was horrible.
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: Andiron on May 15, 2022, 05:34:06 PM
I'd never make it in the Peace Corps.

I'm WAY too "British Colonial" in my outlook.  :rofl:

Same here.

Many years ago I went USMC, being mad about 9/11 .  4 years and I had enough.  Right about the end of that my little sister decided she'd go right all of the wrongs of the world and joined the peace corps.  Among the places she played tourist was the Ukraine...

Holidays are fun at my parents' house  [popcorn]   *expletive deleted*ing hippies.
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: Pb on May 15, 2022, 07:24:45 PM
Among the places she played tourist was the Ukraine...


Well how did that go?
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: Andiron on May 15, 2022, 09:07:23 PM
Well how did that go?

She stayed with a really cool family and taught English.  For all the relative privation compared to what she was used to, she's still on team " I'm privileged and feel bad about it".

I've managed to avoid her for the past couple of years.  She became an expert virologist, and given my status as a dirty unvaxxed science denier we sadly couldn't hang out  >:D

Saw her yesterday at our parent's and she's still double masking.
Title: Re: New Federal Office of Environmental Justice
Post by: HankB on May 16, 2022, 12:06:53 AM
This. The empathetic, altruistic, and philanthropic are scam artists' wet dream. To a scam artist, these people and organizations are just bottomless pits of resources rife for exploit.

Brad
And unfortunately, if they ever get a taste of power or authority, these people have NO qualms about reaching into OTHER people's pockets as well as their own to enrich the scam artists help the downtrodden.    :mad: