Tea partiers, do you like playing the shill, the stooge or the dupe (take your pick) for the two Koch brothers? Their action front, Americans for Prosperity, often is the Tea Party. Their money bin dwarfs that of Scrooge McDuck! And besides front making, they pollute. Koch family arms are the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse": oil, butane, benzene and formaldehyde.

April 9 — To the Editor:



Tea partiers, do you like playing the shill, the stooge or the dupe (take your pick) for the two Koch brothers? Their action front, Americans for Prosperity, often is the Tea Party. Their money bin dwarfs that of Scrooge McDuck! And besides front making, they pollute. Koch family arms are the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse": oil, butane, benzene and formaldehyde.



In 1995, the Kochs were fined for 300 oil spills into rivers, a total of 3 million gallons.



In 1999, a jury found them guilty of negligence and malice in the deaths of two teenagers from a leaky underground butane pipeline. Wanna bet Charles or David ever do jail time?



In 2001, they were indicted for 97 dumpings of benzene, a carcinogen, totaling 91 tons.



Since 2005, after buying Georgia Pacific, the brothers have each year been brewing 2.2 billion pounds of formaldehyde, another carcinogen. Charles finances congressmen enough to stymie every National Institutes of Health attempt to regulate it, even though David sits on the NIH board.



Their issue's front, Cato Institute, discredits the consensus on global warming. Basically oil barons, they fear that other folks will be making the big money from non-carbon fuels.



Their $35 billion money bin is the front of the anti-Obama movement. The bin has been and will be used against any Democratic president. The Kochs are out to destroy progressivism.



Want to do a number on them? Get Congress to require orange jumpsuits, shackles and long jail terms for big polluters. They also need to shift tax breaks and subsidies from the barons to non-carbon producers.



J.A. Hoage



Severna Park, Md.