MIM Notes 228                   February 15, 2001

Norton endorses "right to pollute:" Ruling class hands MIM another 
gimmee

MIM says "thank you" to President George W. Bush and his Cabinet 
pick for the Interior Department of the U.S. Government, Gale A. 
Norton. Gale Norton has endorsed a "right to pollute" for 
property-owners in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. 
MIM always appreciates honesty by the ruling class, because too 
often the proletariat and its allies are foggy about what the 
capitalist class really stands for--property above survival 
rights.

The Boston Globe pointed out this about Norton: "As state attorney 
general [of Colorado], Norton supported a program in which 
corporate polluters were allowed to report infractions voluntarily 
and fix them without informing the public. Environmentalists said 
this ''self-audit'' policy, similar to a program Bush initiated in 
Texas, gives companies too much leeway in deciding what kind of 
pollution is harmful.

"In one widely noted case in Colorado, Norton did not take action 
against a Louisiana-Pacific mill that was operating without a 
permit. After nearby property owners won a court suit against the 
mill, showing that Louisiana-Pacific was illegally polluting, 
federal officials fined the company $37 million. But Norton did 
not pursue state penalties in the matter, according to news 
reports."(1)

MIM would point to Gale A. Norton as someone so twisted that she 
would end up in a re-education camp for thinking what she does, if 
Maoism comes to power. In her case, she has done more than just 
think about it; she has committed blood crimes against the people 
in the name of this philosophy.

Twisted Western humyn-rights activists have gone so far as to deny 
that capitalism stands for property rights above survival rights. 
One of these Western activists constantly berating Maoism and 
lecturing the Chinese people from Taiwan is Jim Walsh.(2) This 
chauvinist mouthpiece said that in fact Amerikan law guarantees 
medical care and food to children! He did this despite knowing 
that the United $tates was one of 15 countries out of 186 that 
refused to sign an international agreement in 1996 to protect "the 
right to eat."(3)

Such is typical of Amerikan nationalism masquerading as humyn-
rights activism. The fact that Norton can pick up the idea of a 
humyn right to pollute shows just how worthless the whole idea of 
Western philosophy of "human rights" is. Plenty of other sick 
lapdogs of imperialism have told MIM that there is a humyn right 
to interview with the CIA in college career centers, and not a 
right of protesters to protest the CIA!

People who think Al Gore is an environmentalist need see if he 
said that survival rights should be defended by organized force 
against property-holders: He did not say it anywhere. While 
millions die premature deaths from pollution every year, Gore is 
busy compromising the right to live itself, so that the 
capitalists can go on making a profit.

There is no right to pollute, but there is a right of the 
oppressed dying from pollution to exert organized force against 
polluters for profit. That organized force is called dictatorship 
of the proletariat, which is the enforcer of humyn rights which 
are survival rights--not the "right to pollute" and others that 
people like Bush and Norton support. We are for the best 
environment for humyns possible within our knowledge and we are 
fighting to take away the right to profit from pollution that 
individuals have under capitalism.

Note: 

1. Boston Globe 14Jan2001. 
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/014/nation/Big_fight_likely_for_
Bush_Cabinet +.shtml 

2. See MIM FAQ point to talk.politics.china: 
http://x59.deja.com/[ST_rn=if]/getdoc.xp?AN=544754829&CONTEXT=9796
16352.104470 9451&hitnum=9 

3. The UN-sponsored World Food Summit, see MIM Notes 126 & "US 
opposes 'right to food' at summit" & "US aide to press rights in 
China," Boston Globe Nov. 18, 1996, p. a2, and The Baltimore Sun, 
Nov. 18, 1996, p. 9A.