Spacing may be affected in this essay. "Errors" may be inserted at any time. I will be running scans all day after new attacks against my computer. April 12, 2008 at 7:52 P.M.
Bob Ingle & Sandy McClure, The Soprano State: New Jersey's Culture of Corruption (New York: St. Martin's, 2008).
Laura Masnerus, "Development on a Toxic Site Draws Scrutiny in New Jersey," in The New York Times, October 2, 2006, at B1.
"WEEHAWKEN, N.J., Sept. 26 -- Hadsome new townhouses selling for more than $2 MILLION hug the waterfront here, and more are on the way. On a curve in the river that offers spectacular views of Manhattan and New York Harbor, earthmovers are at work on a public park."
"But in the view of some environmentalists, the development on this immensely valuable sliver of shoreline is an experiment of sorts because of what lies beneath it: dirt spotted with hexavalent chromium, a manufacturing component that has been identified as a cause of lung cancer, liver and kidney damage and mutilations to human DNA."
"Hudson County is the nation's chromium-waste center, with almost 200 sites where it [chromium] was dumped decades ago."
How is it possible that all of the agencies of N.J. state government failed to protect citizens from this public health hazzard? Where were the people's elected officials? Judges? Mercury in state schools may cause illnesses to children in south Jersey, while contaminants in a Paramus school were allowed to fester, despite the awareness of the authorities. Who will explain to the parents of sick and dying children why nothing was done? How many N.J. officials and inspectors have been bribed, once again, to look the other way as this atrocity was allowed to take place? Do you speak to me of ethics? All you gotta do is get some women for Debbie? A few dollars for Stuart? And the sky's the limit, right boys?
In Newark, massive containers have been placed in public housing projects without explanations. Why is the safety or need for air and open spaces of African-American children dispensable? What is in those containers? Why do people not want them in the suburbs? I suggest that we place them, as sculptures, inside the New Jersey Supreme Court building.
"The state and local authorities have approved everything the developer, Roseland Properties has done, and they say the clean-up has far exceeded their standards."
I bet they do. I wonder why these approvals have been so easily obtained? Have state officials been receiving Broadway tickets and free dinners? Is this merely about cold hard cash? Inquiring minds want to know.
Is New Jersey's Office of Attorney Ethics (OAE) looking into representations made by attorneys on behalf of proponents of this development project? EnCap Golf? Meadowlands Scandal? Xanadu? How much is enough for you? (See "More From New Jersey's Tainted Legal Profession.")
The walking turds at the OAE are so paid-off or stupid that, unless you are causing trouble for the mob in New Jersey, they have no interest in your activities. Hey, any chance I can get that discovery -- all the stuff you left out last time -- including Tuchin's "reports"? How much do you need to take care of that for me?
After all, if representations made "on the record" that it is "safe" to develop properties for luxury residential use are false -- and known to be false -- when made by attorneys, on behalf of developers, then human lives may be endangered from all of the hidden health risks. If attorneys reasonably should have known that their claims that everything is hunky-dory in buidling materials or industrial waste happened to be false as they made them, then they must share some of this liability. Where is the OAE? DRB? AG? Go ahead, insert some "errors" in these essays. I'll keep correcting them. Has spacing been affected again?
It seems clear now that carcinogens are buried under the foundations of people's homes, from Jersey City to North Bergen. I think that such law firm falsehoods, if any, are unethical. Don't you? I wonder why no one cares? The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection:
"... ALLOWED the waterfront project to proceed even though various environmental groups and some scientists in the state agency contend that in residential areas, a [dirt] cap can never be protective enough."
I wonder why this was deemed "totally awesome"? Residents of these fancy new homes have a little surprise coming their way. (See "Deborah T. Poritz and Conduct Unbecoming to the Judiciary" and "Law and Ethics in the Soprano State.")
What will OAE officials or New Jersey's contaminated Supreme Court say to people with brain cancers? "On the one hand, but on the other hand ..." If your loved-one dies of cancer will it be O.K. that somebody was paid off at the OAE?
"Several other agency scientists" -- these are the supposed state regulators! -- "speaking on condition of anonymity because they FEARED RETRIBUTION, said that the Department of Environmental Protection had bent to political pressure to speed [so-called] cleanups."
No, you don't say? New Jersey's corrupt politics affects decisions bearing on public safety? I am shocked. How could that be true? It would mean that New Jersey politicians, lawyers -- and even judges -- are corrupt and do not care about the lives of residents in New Jersey. Do you believe that the opinions of such people concerning my ethics means anything? I don't give a shit what any of these assholes thinks of me or anyone else.
Is it possible that, in a state so seemingly "concerned" about whether public officials wore a safety belt in their cars or have ever received a traffic ticket, such vile and loathsome evil passes for governmental action in the public interest? Where's the New Jersey Supreme Court? Where is the state's Attorney General, Anne Milgram? Chief Justice Stuart Rabner? Where is U.S. Senator Robert ("BobbyM") Menendez? How can law enforcement and other officials be AFRAID of the alleged wrongdoers? I'm not.
"On the one hand, but on the other hand ..." Senator Bob said and added: "I am for all the people." I hope that none of you (or your loved-ones) will become sick because of this digusting corruption and incompetence in N.J.'s courtrooms and politics. That corruption should make you sick. You're better off if they just steal your tax money.
