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Center Opposes
'Green Welfare' Funding
For EPA 'Attitude' Training In Nation's Schools
"When are Republican Congressmen going to
wake up to the realization that the Environmental Protection Agency is
perilously close to being a subversive entity within our government?"
asks Tom DeWeese, president of the American Policy Center. The Center has
called on its supporters to contact Congressman Michael Castle (R-DE)
whose bill, H.R. 4745, would provide funding to the EPA to cultivate
"proper environmental attitudes" in the nation's school
children.
"Just what attitudes would that be?"
asks DeWeese. "An attitude that feeds the catastrophic forest fires
we're experiencing by not cutting down a tree for any reason? An attitude
that puts everyone at risk of pest-borne diseases
by banning pesticides that have protected people for decades? An attitude that mandates reformulated
gasoline that has driven up the cost to drivers?
An attitude that mandated MTBE, a gasoline additive that is now poisoning water supplies around the
nation? An attitude that ignores the Senate's
rejection of the proposed U.N. Kyoto climate control treaty and
seeks to implement it anyway? An
attitude that advocates vegetarianism?"
Rep. Castle's legislation, called "The John
H. Chafee Environmental Education
Act", would, says DeWeese, "fund every radical environmental
group in the nation to
further brainwash school children with their apocalyptic, doomsday
scenarios. None of this has anything to do with real natural
science, real chemistry or real
biology. This would give them license and funding to further invade our
classrooms."
The Center is calling on its supporters and others
to call Rep. Castle's office
at (202) 225-4165 to register their opposition to this legislation.
"There is ample documentation of the way
countless school textbooks reflect
the Green message and now Rep. Castle wants to fund a program that would have children indoctrinated with
the lies of the radical environmental and animal rights organizations.
This is little more than a welfare program for
Green organizations who would use taxpayer dollars to fund the same
propaganda they would have to pay for out of their own resources. That is
a very bad idea and must be defeated," said DeWeese.
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