Children Endangered by New Jersey's Political Corruption.

Tina Kelley, "Tainted Soil Around a School Stirs Up Dust and Distrust," in The New York Times, May 31, 2007, at p. B7.

"PARAMUS, N.J., May 30 -- After a week of confusion and worry that led the mayor here to step in and close a middle school, state environmental workers on Wednesday carted away two truckloads of soil contaminated with old, banned pesticides unearthed last fall."

Most of New Jersey has served as an illegal dump site for the mob working for industries that hope to save money by getting rid of pollutants without satisfying federal anti-pollution and dangerous waste management legislation. New Jersey mobsters are good at getting rid of things and people -- for a small fee -- so a few tons of pollutants are "no problem ... just bring the money and forget about it."

Hudson County floats over a carpet of lethal chromium, something which is unknown to most residents of that aromatic territory. Parts of Bergen County and many beach areas -- especially Tom's River -- are saturated with secret burial sites, where illegal chemicals and an occasional dead mafioso fertilize people's gardens. Politicians in Trenton (and judges everywhere in the Garden State) chuckle over this little problem and ask for their "cut." This is because they are "highly ethical."

"Students at the West Brook Middle School and their parents questioned why the soil -- containing pesticides at levels of up to 39 times the state's safety guidelines -- was not removed when it was discovered five months ago, and why we were told of the problem only last week."

When questioned about this, New Jersey politicians respond: "Hey, wadda-ya want? We had talk to talk to some people. See what we gonna do. Now we gotta find some other place to take the bodies ... Geez."

The children's welfare is a minor annoyance. The cancers that may develop during their teenage years should not get in the way of making a little money now. That's what politics is all about -- making the most of your opportunities, financially speaking. Right, Senator Bob? "On the one hand, but then on the other hand." How's that deal in Bayonne coming along, Senator Bob? Are the "chumps" still doing the financing?

"School officials said that approximately 40 cubic yards of dirt, possibly contaminated decades ago, was dug up during renovations to the 47 year-old school last fall. It was piled near classrooms."

When The New York Times says chemical waste was "dug up" rather than "discovered," you know the newspaper is discussing events in New Jersey. Badda-bing, badda-boom. He-he-he ... Geez.

"In December, an environmental testing group hired by the school district found the dirt contained chlordane, aldrin and dieldrin, chemicals banned by the Environmental Protection Agency because of concerns about their effects on human health."

Some day these almost daily accounts of visible incompetence, unethical conduct among New Jersey government officials as well as corrupt judges, followed by attempted cover-ups, will no longer make the news. It will no longer be news, only more of the same from New Jersey. Ethics? How do you even speak the word and continue to cover-up atrocities as members of New Jersey's shit stained Supreme Court? Disseminating smears about me will not conceal this criminality forever.

Why should we expect anything different from a state whose highest court displays equally nefarious behavior and cavalier disregard for its own insensitivity, along with disdain for the ethical claims of others? Portraits anyone? Wait, this article is a portrait of New Jersey life and law, even of new Jersey's Supreme Court justices. That lethal pollution is what you have become in Trenton's political circles and courtrooms. How do you live with your digusting hypocrisy, Stuart Rabner?

No worries. Business as usual. New Jersey's "politics as usual" is America's malignant tumor -- and a little surgery is now required.