LETTERS: ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIONS QUESTIONED

To the editor:

President Clinton's actions while in office are under intense scrutiny now that the Starr report is public. But Mr. Starr's report only substantiates Clinton's legacy of chronic abuse of presidential power and moral deficiency exhibited in his environmental and private-property policies. Indeed, they Clinton-Gore administration's corruptions of American ethical and constitutional values provided the necessary symbiotic conditions for the environmental movement to sink to its current disdain for human life and constitutional government.

The administration's ongoing sacrilege of the Ten Commandments bribes the environmental industry and corrupts federal and state bureaucracies to mount savage attacks on the property rights and livelihoods of American citizens in the name of environmental protection.

Clinton, Gore and their department heads routinely violate their Article 6 oath of support for the Constitution, deliberately bypassing elected officials in Congress and in state and local governments through the use of executive orders and regulatory distortions. The Clinton administration, with cooperation from an indifferent Congress, violates the Fifth and 14th Amendments' protection of private property, Fourth Amendment restriction of searches and seizures and the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of excessive fines and bail. Clinton's lust for power, exemplified by Executive Order 13083 which would have destroyed the 10th Amendment's restriction of federal action, seeks to replace our republican form of government with dictatorship.

Starr's report on presidential misconduct and abuse of power is corroboration, not news.

WILLIAM F. JUD

Fredericktown