How We Rationalize False Arrests and Misused Authority
You might feel better that some of the men hanging from the trees were no angels. You might take consolation in the bribes and forged dates and mislabeled bill of ladings on some of the 91% reused and repaired equipment. But there's not much "pollution crime" to see here. I have hundreds and hundreds of photos of men and women who were accused, some of whom lost their businesses.
They were arrested thanks to one gnome-like dude in Seattle, who enlisted an exotic photographer, and made up a strange, bizarre, unsupported statistic, framed with words like "ghoulish" and "macabre", "skeletons" and "witches brew". E-Stewards ran and got the rope, tied affordable internet to a wooden stake, and applauded while dictators lit the match. It was a witch hunt, charged with racial exoticism, misleading photography, water samples from downstreams of textile mills, rumors and hyperbole.
It's all recorded on my hard drive. I have a suspicion, they will get me next, somehow. Three years ago an E-Steward company came and offered virtually every one of my Vermont clients to collect their junk TVs for a penny a pound. It was predatory pricing, and the sole purpose was to put me out of business. And they probably justified it to themselves by calling me an "exporter-lover". I see them circling around a CRT glass recycler who refused to join E-Stewards, refused to pay for "certification". With the foreign market now better researched, they will turn on the domestic recyclers, and manufacturers.
To Kill a Mockingbird. That accuser made the story up. There were no facts to support the accusations against Tom Robinson. And there are no facts about Benson, or Semarang, or Penang factories.
The 80% "statistic" is a lie, it's a fabrication. It comes from a single source, a man so certain of his mission that he calls the very people targeted "collateral damage". Personally, I don't think that definition works when you declare someone guilty, aim your gun, and shoot them.
You might feel better that some of the men hanging from the trees were no angels. You might take consolation in the bribes and forged dates and mislabeled bill of ladings on some of the 91% reused and repaired equipment. But there's not much "pollution crime" to see here. I have hundreds and hundreds of photos of men and women who were accused, some of whom lost their businesses.
They were arrested thanks to one gnome-like dude in Seattle, who enlisted an exotic photographer, and made up a strange, bizarre, unsupported statistic, framed with words like "ghoulish" and "macabre", "skeletons" and "witches brew". E-Stewards ran and got the rope, tied affordable internet to a wooden stake, and applauded while dictators lit the match. It was a witch hunt, charged with racial exoticism, misleading photography, water samples from downstreams of textile mills, rumors and hyperbole.
It's all recorded on my hard drive. I have a suspicion, they will get me next, somehow. Three years ago an E-Steward company came and offered virtually every one of my Vermont clients to collect their junk TVs for a penny a pound. It was predatory pricing, and the sole purpose was to put me out of business. And they probably justified it to themselves by calling me an "exporter-lover". I see them circling around a CRT glass recycler who refused to join E-Stewards, refused to pay for "certification". With the foreign market now better researched, they will turn on the domestic recyclers, and manufacturers.
The 80% "statistic" is a lie, it's a fabrication. It comes from a single source, a man so certain of his mission that he calls the very people targeted "collateral damage". Personally, I don't think that definition works when you declare someone guilty, aim your gun, and shoot them.
