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Please don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming staff, not in the least. I
think this is all politics, that's what I tried to say. Also, as to the suggestion of violence that was just to make a point,
ala Jonathon Swift, who suggested things much worse long ago, just to shake
people from their complacency. This administration never ceases to amaze me by their audacity. I hope
history is as unkind to them as they have been to their country. -----Original Message----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enviro-Mich message from "Alexander J. Sagady"
<ajs@sagady.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- At 01:42 PM 12/14/2006, you wrote: >I usually stay out of these kinds of things; I don't like to get
involved with "politics", but this is so under-handed, heinous and
yet brazen, I just can't take it. > >Why not just take EPA staff out behind the woodshed and shoot them?
Imagine the cost savings. Curtailing access to information is akin to
"destroying" information. This is ridiculous. I understand there may
be some budget problems but when the wagon train pulls out at midnight, it's
probably cause they wanted to travel by night, like little vermin. > >Scott Dierks Please don't blame "EPA staff" The
"EPA staff" that are offended by what is happening are the reason and the source of why you, the public,
are hearing about this destruction of library information at all. Blame the top political appointees and the White House Office of Management and Budget....those are the "managers" that are
calling the shots. The only solution, really, is to un-elect [or impeach] their enablers. By the way, threats of violence are not allowed on Enviro-Mich.... ....please play nice. > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-enviro-mich@great-lakes.net
[mailto:owner-enviro-mich@great-lakes.net] On Behalf Of Gary Stock >Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 1:00 PM >To: Enviro-Mich >Subject: Re: E-M:/ EPA SCRUBBING LIBRARY WEBSITE TO MAKE RE > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Enviro-Mich message from Gary Stock <gstock@net-link.net> >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >MICHDAVE@aol.com wrote: > >> House Democratic committee chairs demanded that EPA
Administrator >> Stephen Johnson assure them "that the destruction or
disposition >> of all library holdings immediately ceased upon the Agency's >> receipt of this letter and that all records of library
holdings >> and dispersed materials are being maintained." On
the very next >> day, December 1st, EPA de-linked thousands of documents from
the >> website for the Office of Prevention, Pollution and Toxic >> Substances (OPPTS) Library, in EPA's > >Curses! > >Normally, this would be where I could jump in to advise that Google
or >the Wayback machine (http://www.archive.org/index.php) could
protect us >from the mongrels set upon us by Resident Bush. > >Sadly, EPA implemented protocols that advise web crawling services
(the >largest of which typically respect such directives) _not_ to index
much >of the EPA site. > >Thus, many EPA documents -- the level of detail and volume of data
we >could expect for most .com or .edu sites -- were not being
preserved by >most of the popular search and archiving services... > >:-( > >GS > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >Gary
Stock
gstock@unblinking.com >UnBlinking
http://www.unblinking.com/ >Googlewhack
http://www.googlewhack.com/ > > The best proof for a claim that terrorists
are crazy or evil > would be to acknowledge that the White
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