Jack Kemp

The Love Canal (near Buffalo) discoveries and toxicity scandal in the late 1970s caused the government to look into the water at military bases - and essentially cover up what they found, but not for long. The Camp Lejeune toxic mess was actually BIGGER than the Love Canal chemical contamination, making it the nation's biggest known contamination site. After Boot Camp, young Marines are sent to Camp Lejeune. One million veterans as well as their wives and their children (and also civilian workers) living on base were exposed to these poisons.

If Hitler and Stalin got together to figure out a plan to harm the U.S. Marines in a hidden way, they couldn't have come up with anything much different than the toxic water at Camp Lejeune. If a private breeder of dogs gave his puppies such toxic water, the ASPCA would close down the breeding farm. If fact, the business wouldn't want to do this because they can't sell sick dogs for long.

A NOTE FROM DANA MATHEWSON:

Nobody was forced to drink water from the so-called Love Canal. That is, until the "owners" ignored the rules of the sale of the place and sold the land to the city (following the "cleanup") to have schools built on it. In all fairness I must point out that the city (the Niagara Falls gummint was never noted for "smarts") pulled the old Emminent Domain dodge and the owners had not a leg left to stand on. Your choices get pretty narrow when a legal gun (or illegal, in that case) is being held to your head.

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