Saturday, March 24, 2012

The Witches of Le Roy

The American Spectator : The Witches of Le Roy
So it wasn't long before Erin Brockovich was in towntrying out for her next movie role and assuring everyone thatenvironmental contamination was the likely culprit.
Why environmental contamination would only affect teenage girls,particularly cheerleaders, was something left for the newspaper andTV reporters to figure out.
And of course they didn't.
So it wasn'tlong before the cameras and notebooks were following Brockovich allaround, barging onto the school grounds at one point to collectsamples proving her theory that a railroad accident that hadspilled an organic solvent forty years before must be theperpetrator.
When school officials turned them away, there wasanother TV moment in which Brockovich told CNN, "Usually when I'mconfronted by officials barring access to something, they usuallyhave something to hide."
The whole town was in general agreementand soon public officials were hooted down and accused ofcover-ups.

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