Remember What a dork people thought he was in 1979 ?

[RainDog]

21. "Earth Day" began during Nixon's term

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...and, true to form... he was spying on them! LOLOL... because the FBI was worried "Earth Day" would start a populist uprising. What I mean to say is that Carter was in step with the scientific community, DEMOCRATS, and the rest of the world's democracies, while the powers-that-be were not - including the media... which is a lot like it is today. Same as it ever was.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2013/0422/Earth-Day-1970-How-President-Nixon-spied-on-Earth-Day

The launch of Earth Day in 1970 raised suspicions in Washington, D.C., according to former Representative Pete McCloskey, one of the organizers of the first Earth Day.

The annual event was launched as a national teach-in on April 22, 1970, by former Senator Gaylord Nelson, McCloskey and others. Earth Day galvanized a political movement that led to some of the country's most significant environmental legislation, including the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act.

According to McCloskey, "...John Ehrlichman at that time...an environmental lawyer, called me after Earth Day — he was laughing as hard as I'd ever heard, and he said, 'Pete, I've got this report from [FBI Director] J. Edgar Hoover to deliver to the president tomorrow,' because the president was so paranoid that Earth Day was going to be a bunch of anti-war kids gathered that he had put them under surveillance by the FBI," McCloskey said.

Though the report was benign, its effects were not. On April 14, 1971, Nelson and former Senator Edmund Muskie, both Earth Day organizers, released copies of the FBI reports, revealing the surveillance. The reports were the latest in a series of stolen or released documents detailing FBI surveillance of U.S. citizens through a program called COINTELPRO. After the resulting Senate hearings, Hoover said he would severely curtail such FBI surveillance.