Eric Holder claims Martin Luther King “planted the seeds for environmental justice”

  Stating that “environmental justice” is a civil rights issue, Eric Holder claimed that Martin Luther King helped to “plant the seeds” of the “environmental justice” movement.

Dr. King, in addition to his many other achievements, helped to plant the seeds for what would become our nation’s now-thriving environmental justice movement.

  He is making that claim using the words of Doctor King which the great man wrote while in jail in Birmingham, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” So how can Eric Holder make the leap from a man fighting for the equal rights of black people to the assumption that Doctor King would also support “environmental justice?” It is easy if you are Eric Holder; you simply claim that “environmental justice” is a civil rights issue.

  The next logical question would be: how is global warming/climate change, cap and trade, and the environment in general an issue of civil rights? Eric Holder also has an answer for that question as well; black Americans are 80% more likely to live near areas where there is greater exposure to industrial pollution. Therefore–I suppose–black Americans are being unfairly treated by their surroundings.

  What Eric Holder is doing with these comments is molding and perverting a legitimate civil rights movement and American history in an attempt to justify the Justice Department reaching into the global warming/climate change debate–an area where they have no legitimate jurisdiction. 

   By examining environmental requirements in conjunction with our civil rights laws, I am confident that we can do a better job of assuring fairness and advancing justice

In 2011, the burden of environmental degradation still falls disproportionately on low-income communities and communities of color, and most often on their youngest residents: our children, my children

This is unacceptable.  And it is unconscionable.  But through the aggressive enforcement of federal environmental laws in every community, I believe that we can – and I know that we must – change the status quo

I want you to know that – at every level of the Justice Department, just like here at the EPA – this work is a top priority,” he said, adding,  “and, for me, it is also a personal calling

  Eric Holder is trying to co-opt Martin Luther King’s civil rights movement in order to justify yet another over-reach by the Obama regime and I find this to be extremely distasteful; by coining the term “environmental justice” he is trying to legitimize his “personal calling”  and stretch the reach of the Justice Department into an area where they have no business going in the first place.

  With this news that the EPA and the Justice Department will now be working hand in hand to ensure “environmental justice” we are beginning to see an unprecedented consolidation of power in Washington DC. No longer does the Obama regime have to rely on the Congress to pass his agenda, because he has extra-constitutional government agencies ready to implement his agenda by dictate, and now he has a Justice Department ready to make sure the policies are implemented–OR ELSE!