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The EPA's Assaulton Robert Friedland
by Glenn Woiceshyn
[The following letter was published in the Globe and Mail on Sep/05/96.]
Dear Editor,
Re: "Friedland Victim of Star Chamber"--by Terence Corcoran--Aug/30/96--The
Globe and Mail
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ability to get a Canadian judge to seize
US$152 million of Robert Friedland's assets, because Mr. Friedland was a major shareholder
of a mining company that allegedly left a messy mine site years ago, sets a dangerous
precedent. Aside from the fact that the EPA contradicts the U.S. Constitution, its
power to enforce retroactive, non-objective law to extort money from Canadian citizens
for the "sin" of enhancing U.S. mining output represents a major leap toward
a new Dark Age.
But, will our intellectuals express outrage at this unjust intrusion by the U.S.
government? Not on your life they won't. Aside from despising businesspeople and
sanctioning the nature-worshipping, anti-human cult of environmentalism, their anti-Americanism
stems from contempt of the U.S. constitution and its protection of individual rights.
As long as American intrusion advances collectivism and statism, not individualism
and capitalism, our intelligentsia will remain silent and shamefully gleeful in the
face of injustice.
Sincerely,
Glenn Woiceshyn
© 1997 Glenn Woiceshyn. All rights reserved.
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