Comments for Charlotte Dennett http://chelseagreen.com/blogs/charlottedennett Just another The Chelsea Green Weblogs weblog Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:06:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on The Battle for Justice Heats Up by Stuart Weintraub http://chelseagreen.com/blogs/charlottedennett/2010/05/07/the-battle-for-justice-heats-up/#comment-14 Stuart Weintraub Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:40:25 +0000 http://chelseagreen.com/blogs/charlottedennett/?p=5#comment-14 I must say that my personal efforts to avert a war, campaign vigorously to elect President Obama and write letter after letter to a large circle of friends, some political and some unfortunately apathetic or let's say, "there are so many more things to be involved with" people about holding Bush and his administration accountable for all the many things you and Mr. Bugliosi point out in your books...... My frustration with the system that is supposed to hold the guilty accountable is probably not a microcasm of what you must feel in your passionate, (sorry, yet legalistic) opinions regarding the main point. "Why can we not make our Justice Dept. understand how important it is to try and openly flush out the misdeeds so horrific that our great country becomes so minimalized. My frustration with the understanding that the precedent set from 2001-2009 of The Unitary President can become the one solitary issue that brings us to our knees. Do we not realize how important these 2 issues are? What is the main reason we are not able or willing to move forward and get it on in a public manner? I've written letters to some of the best main stream voices from MSNBC and all the names to the NY Times and the best of the OpEd staff there. No answer from anybody. I was hoping to find the answers in your book as well as Mr. Bugliosi's book but alas I remain frustrated. Any ideas for me to look into? Any comments? Anything? I must say that my personal efforts to avert a war, campaign vigorously to elect President Obama and write letter after letter to a large circle of friends, some political and some unfortunately apathetic or let's say, "there are so many more things to be involved with" people about holding Bush and his administration accountable for all the many things you and Mr. Bugliosi point out in your books……

My frustration with the system that is supposed to hold the guilty accountable is probably not a microcasm of what you must feel in your passionate, (sorry, yet legalistic) opinions regarding the main point. "Why can we not make our Justice Dept. understand how important it is to try and openly flush out the misdeeds so horrific that our great country becomes so minimalized.

My frustration with the understanding that the precedent set from 2001-2009 of The Unitary President can become the one solitary issue that brings us to our knees. Do we not realize how important these 2 issues are? What is the main reason we are not able or willing to move forward and get it on in a public manner?

I've written letters to some of the best main stream voices from MSNBC and all the names to the NY Times and the best of the OpEd staff there. No answer from anybody.
I was hoping to find the answers in your book as well as Mr. Bugliosi's book but alas I remain frustrated.

Any ideas for me to look into? Any comments? Anything?

]]> Comment on The True Cost of Vermont Yankee by Munkle http://chelseagreen.com/blogs/charlottedennett/2009/03/02/the-true-cost-of-vermont-yankee/#comment-13 Munkle Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:22:56 +0000 http://chelseagreen.com/blogs/charlottedennett/?p=3#comment-13 Listen to Charlotte Dennett, who is running for Vermont Attorney General, debate incumbent Bill Sorrell here, on NPR: http://www.vpr.net/episode/49617/ Dennett has committed to fighting to insure Yankee shuts down as planned. Sorrell has acted as a friend of Vermont Yankee, turning a blind eye to it lying under oath to two state panels: New york Times: "Vermont Senate Votes to Close Nuclear Plant" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/us/25nuke.html?_r=1 Note that Sorrell defends VT Yankee (about 25 minutes in) and misrepresents VT Thyroid cancer incidences, going by absolute numbers (3 deaths in a recent year) which of course will be low since VT is one of the smallest states, rather than per capita. He also says Dennett "tries to link" thyroid cancer with VT Yankee radiation, when thyroid cancer has been clearly found to be a type of cancer linked to nuclear radiation. "Chernobyl's Continuing Thyroid Impact": http://thyroid.about.com/cs/nuclearexposure/a/chernob.htm Sorrell pleads ignorance to VT. Dept. of Public Health report showing a "statistically significant" 400% increase in thyroid cancer among VT women over 10 years, and implies that increases are not significant because 'when you have 3 deaths a year one more death looks like an increase of 33% over last year,' a sham argument against a controlled, 10-year study. Finally Sorrell says the cancers are higher in a distant county, Addison, than in the county where the VT Yankee nuclear power plant is located. It is common knowledge that radiation is wind and water borne, not localized, and may affect people far away from a plant more than those who live near it. "The True Cost of VT Yankee": http://chelseagreen.com/blogs/charlottedennett/2009/03/02/the-true-cost-of-vermont-yankee/ Charlotte Dennett for Attorney General Facebook (Nov. 2, 2010): http://www.facebook.com/pages/Charlotte-Dennett-for-Justice-and-Accountability/131341496909397 Listen to Charlotte Dennett, who is running for Vermont Attorney General, debate incumbent Bill Sorrell here, on NPR:

http://www.vpr.net/episode/49617/

Dennett has committed to fighting to insure Yankee shuts down as planned. Sorrell has acted as a friend of Vermont Yankee, turning a blind eye to it lying under oath to two state panels:

New york Times: "Vermont Senate Votes to Close Nuclear Plant"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/us/25nuke.html?_r=1

Note that Sorrell defends VT Yankee (about 25 minutes in) and misrepresents VT Thyroid cancer incidences, going by absolute numbers (3 deaths in a recent year) which of course will be low since VT is one of the smallest states, rather than per capita. He also says Dennett "tries to link" thyroid cancer with VT Yankee radiation, when thyroid cancer has been clearly found to be a type of cancer linked to nuclear radiation.

"Chernobyl's Continuing Thyroid Impact":
http://thyroid.about.com/cs/nuclearexposure/a/chernob.htm

Sorrell pleads ignorance to VT. Dept. of Public Health report showing a "statistically significant" 400% increase in thyroid cancer among VT women over 10 years, and implies that increases are not significant because 'when you have 3 deaths a year one more death looks like an increase of 33% over last year,' a sham argument against a controlled, 10-year study.

Finally Sorrell says the cancers are higher in a distant county, Addison, than in the county where the VT Yankee nuclear power plant is located. It is common knowledge that radiation is wind and water borne, not localized, and may affect people far away from a plant more than those who live near it.

"The True Cost of VT Yankee":
http://chelseagreen.com/blogs/charlottedennett/2009/03/02/the-true-cost-of-vermont-yankee/

Charlotte Dennett for Attorney General Facebook (Nov. 2, 2010):
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Charlotte-Dennett-for-Justice-and-Accountability/131341496909397

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