The United States continues to look more and more like a Kurt Schlichter novel, such as People’s Republic. Description from Amazon below.
America’s growing political and cultural divisions have finally split the United States apart. Now, as the former blue states begin to collapse under the dead weight of their politically correct tyranny, a lethal operative haunted by his violent past undertakes one last mission to infiltrate and take out his target in the nightmarish city of Los Angeles, deep in the heart of the People’s Republic of North America.
On to this week’s continued rolling out of Schlichter’s prophecies.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, May 5, 2022
Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
Justice Department Launches Comprehensive Environmental Justice Strategy
Attorney General Launches New Office of Environmental Justice
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland was joined by EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan today in announcing a series of actions to secure environmental justice for all Americans. In addition to launching a new Office of Environmental Justice within the Justice Department, Attorney General Garland also announced a new comprehensive environmental justice enforcement strategy to guide the Justice Department’s work and issued an Interim Final Rule that will restore the use of supplemental environmental projects in appropriate circumstances.
“Although violations of our environmental laws can happen anywhere, communities of color, indigenous communities, and low-income communities often bear the brunt of the harm caused by environmental crime, pollution, and climate change,” said Attorney General Garland. “For far too long, these communities have faced barriers to accessing the justice they deserve. The Office of Environmental Justice will serve as the central hub for our efforts to advance our comprehensive environmental justice enforcement strategy. We will prioritize the cases that will have the greatest impact on the communities most overburdened by environmental harm.”
“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.”
Consistent with President Biden’s Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta issued a comprehensive environmental justice enforcement strategy to guide the Justice Department’s litigators, investigators, and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices nationwide to advance the cause of environmental justice through the enforcement of federal laws. Developed by the Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) in partnership with EPA, the strategy will ensure that the entire Department is using all available legal tools to promote environmental justice.
The Justice Department also launched its first-ever Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ) within ENRD today. This new office will be a critical resource as the Justice Department implements the new comprehensive enforcement strategy. Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim named Cynthia Ferguson, an experienced ENRD attorney with more than a decade working on environmental justice issues, as Acting Director.
Finally, the Justice Department issued an Interim Final Rule today that will restore the use of supplemental environmental projects in appropriate circumstances and subject to guidelines and limitations set forth in a separate memorandum issued by the Attorney General today. For decades before 2017, EPA and ENRD relied upon such projects to provide redress to communities most directly affected by violations of federal environmental laws. For this reason, they are particularly powerful tools for advancing environmental justice. The Justice Department’s Interim Final Rule invites public comment on the new guidelines and limitations, including to inform any future changes to the Justice Department’s approach.
Topic(s): EnvironmentComponent(s):
Environment and Natural Resources DivisionOffice of the Associate Attorney GeneralOffice of the Attorney General
Press Release Number: 22-472
We sure dodged a bullet when McConnell invoked the Biden rule and refused to put Garland’s SCOTUS nomination up for a vote. Can you imagine that man in power for life?
BTW- Remember when the media described Supreme Court Garlic Justice nominee as centrist and moderate? Hate to see what a radical looks like.
I find this a very interesting and revealing statement.
I assume that “indigenous communities” he is referring to the Siberian-Americans who came here before some arbitrary cut-off date. Everyone else since then is considered foreign regardless if they are the descendants of Norse Atlantic adventurers from a millennia ago. And those people apparently can’t handle the weather.
But more important, despite the entire span of human existence demonstrating otherwise, non-Whites can’t handle weather either – otherwise what does “communities of color” mean?
So only the non-poor White Man can handle weather. Even more, there is absolutely no change in the climate, on any metric, that doesn’t produce harm to everyone but the non-poor White Man.
And not just some or many, but all not poor White Men are impervious. And all colored and indigenous people regardless of income strata “bear the brunt” of this “harm”. They are saying that The Climate is sentient, yet can only be altered by the non-poor White Man to do evil – or that the poor and non-White are inferior.
I wish the non-poor White Man Attorney General Merrick B. Garland can explain why his fellow collaborator EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan (non-White), isn’t as resilient or capable of enduring the same weather.
Subtitle: Rise of the Watermelons
In Italy in the 1930s people joked that Italy had two types of fascists — fascists and anti-fascists. We in the U.S. are there now also, and it doesn’t surprise me terribly. During college five decades ago it dawned on me that, generally, the committed Democrats and leftists were the very fascists they abhored. They were commonly people who’d never done anything more risky than ski, knew very little about how machines, systems, and institutions worked, had an inaccurate knowledge of history, and had much more confidence than capability. I have worried about their constant power grasping tendencies ever since.
Glenn Greenwald has lately documented how quickly Democrats have taken on overtly authoritarian beliefs; their views on freedom of speech being just one point in support of that claim. Scary. All I can do is tell the truth as I see it, and vote.
Please everyone check out Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie 2000 Mules.
We must apply maximum pressure now to prevent another theft of elections in November.
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First off, fascism has always been a form of socialism.
Secondly, socialists and communists have always had a core of totalitarianism, since that is the only way to force people to live under their preferred solutions.
There’s a reason why socialists have to build walls to keep people in.
How control of capital and business is implemented is the major difference. Everything else is minor.
‘During college five decades ago…’
That timing sounds about right for when PoMo jumped into the class room from the darkest recesses of the faculty lounge. While JRR Tolkien always insisted his LOR was not an allegory, it certainly parallels what we’re going through today.
Positive Discrimination.
It has all the wrongs: patronising, condescending and utterly utterly fake.
That the folks preaching it don’t see that, is what’s really worrying in all this.
Who, what and where next for their ‘Good Intentions’
Democrat politicians and their “Green New Scam” accomplices have caused enormous damage to the environment and to the economy and to our very lives and created bureaus and agencies with police powers to punish those of us who fought them tooth and nail to stop them.
Now we face a new agency and new rules that will punish us even more and strip us of more rights and of our wealth and property as they push the nation into oblivion. Most of the rest of the Western World is pledging to the same suicide pact.
The Obama-Biden puppet regime stooges are pushing us into a civil war for our survival if the 2022 elections don’t result in a massive paradigm shift BACK towards liberty. If the USA collapses, Western society is lost, and a new dark age will begin that may never end.
It’s enough to make one wish for a different country in which to live.
Whenever politicians talk about communities, what they are really talking about is communism. It is the same word and endorsing it has the same effect.
A way to prop up failed policies under the guise of good.
Does this mean no U.S. lithium and REE processing?
They are really pushing hard with the “price of gas and diesel” parameter…..
Time to oil the shooters, folks.
Always read the fine points:
“The project should also be designed to reduce the detrimental effects of the underlying violation …” The DOJ has already identified “underserved communities” as uniquely victims of climate change. Private entities serving or representing those communities (social justice warriors) are automatically assured of getting pieces of any settlements.
“Similarly, the Justice Department and its client agencies shall not propose a specific entity to be the beneficiary of any projects carried out under any such settlement, although the Department and its client agencies may specify the type of entity.” See above comment.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/08/ford-is-selling-8-million-rivian-shares-sources-say.html
KEY POINTS
Has anyone ever actually defined “environmental justice”?
Picture a game of “Hangman.”
Don’t be silly…They’ll never do that lest they spoil the latest witch hunt…
That’s where the pinko pigs get to transition all the greenhorn farm animals-
Electricity Shortage Warnings Grow Across U.S. (msn.com)
Baboons are running the government under Biden and no one can tell whose running Biden. Allow we can say is that he barely qualifies as a sentient being.
Since AGW/eco-Marxism is a religion, it’s a violation of religious freedom by the government enforcing it on everybody. With Christianity, Juduism, Islam, Bhuddism, ..and so forth you have a choice to practice it or not. Where is the ACLU on this?
Maybe it’s time to use lawfare agianst them.
The weaponization of the DOJ and EPA takes a giant leap forward. This is a further implementation of the woke ideology of the Buy-den cabal to establish a hierarchy of victimhood based on identity politics. The use of this nebulous, highly flexible Orwellian concept of “environmental justice” will be used to further the ominous Eco-Socialist plans of the Buy-den cabal. This intentionally vague quasi legal concept fits right in with the new Ministry of Truth and will allow the DOJ and EPA to unleash a goon squad of lawyers to feed political opponents into show trials; a spectacle of political theater complete with massive fines, reeducation and potentially the gulag (prison) for what are deemed egregious violations.
What he should have said:
Although violations of our immigration laws can happen anywhere, communities of color, indigenous communities, and low-income communities often bear the brunt of the harm caused by crime and illegal drugs,” said Attorney General Garland. “For far too long, these communities have faced barriers to accessing the justice they deserve. The Justice Department will serve as the central hub for our efforts to advance our comprehensive immigration enforcement strategy. We will prioritize the cases that will have the greatest impact on the communities most overburdened by illegal immigration harm.
Notice they never define “environmental justice”. This makes it easier for them to make up rules and crimes as they go along.