NYT- the working wounded

NYT- the working wounded

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Subject: NYT- the working wounded

Date: May 27, 2008 12:53 PM

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How about all the people wounded by Allen Steere's scientific fraud
crime committed
in Europe in order to 1) falsely qualify LYMErix, 2) not allow
neurologic cases
of Lyme to be detected, and 3) set up the RICO monopoly on national
blood testing?
http :// www .actionlyme.org/CRYMEDISEASE CHP3 B.htm

How about the fact that he determined that 4/9 of his lab workers had
inhaled borrelia,
but he determined that by using the "seronegative Lyme assay," a
condition
he now says does not exist, along with Mark Klempner?
http :// www .ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=1883122[uid]
http :// www .actionlyme.org/Klempner DQB1 0602.html

Does lying about Lyme disease in order to falsely qualify vaccines and
deny care
to sick people by deploying the psychotic psychiatrists who think they
can make
up in their own little pin heads what is causing illness signs...
constitute and
environmental hazard?
http :// groups.google,com /group/sci.med.diseases.lyme/browse thread/thread/883a6823b2a683df/ef2494333736a524?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=%22INSANE+PSYCHIATRY%22#ef2494333736a524


Yes, indeed, given the fact that these Bee stards knew all along there
could never
be a vaccine for Relapsing Fever and did not tell us that the only
thing that could
be done about Lyme disease was get rid of the deer.

It's the second biggest environmental disaster since John D.
Rockefeller, Sr.,
chose to have a monopoly on oil refineries.

At what point will the DOJ jump in, or have they been told by the CDC
that "this
secret HLA data of Mark Klempner's has bioweapons value and is
therefore a national
security risk," when the real national security risk is all the
bullshit-for-royalties-profit
by dot guv employees, who have ruined our reputations and will cause
other nations
to tramp intellectual property rights?


Certain nations are to be feared only because they watch our
shenanigans and can
see where this is going. OTHER NATIONS are to be feared because we do
nothing about
our criminally insane self-alleged scientists, who are supervised by
no one.

"Lyme Disease."

The Times does not want to talk about it because they're embarassed
now, as
regards Holc Noble and Richard Blumenthal.

You see, we fear our own lack of defense because the DOJ is stuck in
fairy-ass girly-girl
games with Karl Rove. That's the bottom line. We fear for our
national security
since the DOJ are a bunch of fags.

Rove learned his fag behavior from Bush Senior, as everyone will
recall, because
he was doing what he was doing to the Clintons via the fake criminal
allegations
starting in 1993. (The Bushies are unAmerican, since they don't play
fair.)


Kathleen M. Dickson
http :// www .actionlyme.org
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May 27, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor
The Working Wounded
By DAVID M. UHLMANN

Ann Arbor, Mich.

ON a hot August morning in 1996, Scott Dominguez reported to work at
Evergreen Resources,
a small fertilizer manufacturing plant in his hometown, Soda Springs,
Idaho. The
workday began like any other, with gruff commands barked out by the
owner of the
company, Allan Elias, who was a Wharton graduate, a lawyer and one of
the most notorious
violators of environmental and worker-safety laws in the state.

Mr. Elias wanted his workers to clean out a 25,000-gallon tank that
contained cyanide
waste. He refused to test the air or the waste inside the tank. He
ignored the pleas
of his workers for safety equipment. When the workers complained of
sore throats
and difficulty breathing, Mr. Elias told them to finish the job or
find work somewhere
else.

Mr. Dominguez, a 20-year-old high school graduate, wanted to keep his
job. Wearing
just jeans and a T-shirt, he used a ladder to descend into the tank.
Two hours later,
covered in sludge and barely breathing, he was removed from the tank,
a victim of
cyanide poisoning at the hands of a ruthless employer who would blame
his “stupid
and lazy” employees for the incident.

Mr. Dominguez suffered severe and permanent brain damage. He now has
the rigid body
movement and stammering speech found in patients with Parkinson’s
disease.

The Justice Department opened a criminal investigation of Evergreen
Resources. I
was one of the lead prosecutors on the case. We quickly discovered
that we had a
major problem.

Mr. Elias did not commit a crime under the Occupational Safety and
Health Act, which
is the primary federal worker-safety law in the United States. Why
not? Because
Mr. Dominguez did not die.

My colleagues and I were shocked to learn that an employer who breaks
the nation’s
worker-safety laws can be charged with a crime only if a worker dies.
Even then,
the crime is a lowly Class B misdemeanor, with a maximum sentence of
six months
in prison. (About 6,000 workers are killed on the job each year, many
in cases where
the deaths could have been prevented if their employers followed the
law.) Employers
who maim their workers face, at worst, a maximum civil penalty of
$70,000 for each
violation.

We ended up prosecuting Mr. Elias for environmental crimes, and he was
sentenced
to 17 years in prison. I later became chief of the Justice
Department’s environmental
crimes section, and we started an initiative — based on this case and
others like
it — to seek justice when workers were seriously injured or killed
during environmental
crimes. We prosecuted some of the largest companies in America. But in
cases where
no environmental crimes were committed, we often could not prosecute.

Employers rarely face criminal prosecution under the worker-safety
laws. In the
38 years since Congress enacted the Occupational Safety and Health
Act, only 68
criminal cases have been prosecuted, or less than two per year, with
defendants
serving a total of just 42 months in jail. During that same time,
approximately
341,000 people have died at work, according to data compiled from the
National Safety
Council and the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the A.F.L.-C.I.O.

It is long past time for Congress to change the law. First, Congress
should amend
the Occupational Safety and Health Act to make it a crime for an
employer to commit
violations that cause serious injury to workers or that knowingly
place workers
at risk of death or serious injury. Whether good fortune intervenes
and prevents
harm to workers should not determine whether an employer commits a
crime.

Congress should make it a felony to commit a criminal violation of the
worker-safety
laws, and the penalties for lawbreakers should be stiffened. The
maximum sentence
ought to be measured in years, not months.

Congress also should change the worker-safety laws so that ignorance
of the law
is no longer a defense. Employers have a duty to know their
responsibilities under
the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

Finally, Congress should make clear who can be prosecuted. Some courts
have held
that prosecution is limited to companies and their owners. Supervisors
who order
workers to break the law, as well as responsible corporate officers
who fail to
stop violations that they know are occurring, should also be held
criminally responsible,
just as they are under most other federal laws.

Most companies care about protecting their workers. But without a
serious threat
of criminal enforcement, more workers will be put at risk by companies
that put
profits before safety.

David M. Uhlmann is a law professor at the University of Michigan.

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