It's Our Money: 216 Wikipedia Entries Written By Florida Department of Environmental Protection Employees at Work

FDEP's and Other Timewasting Government and Contractor Employees Caught Redhanded By Grad Student

While the languid, lugubrious, moribund, Florida Department of Environmental Protection was busy not investigating the City of St. Augustine's dumping the entire contents of the old city dump into the Old City Reservoir, guess what its languid employees were doing with your tax money?
Florida Department of Environmental Protection's underworked and overpaid state employees spent countless hours editing 216 Wikipedia online encyclopedia entries, only some of which pertained in any way to the environment or the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection didn't answer requests for comment.
The time Florida Department of Environmental Protection employees waste is not their own. It's our money. It's our time.
Thanks to a graduate student in computer science, we now know what goes on behind the scenes at places like the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP, or "Don't Expect Protection" as David Thundershield Queen calls it). The website is
and is receiving heavy traffic since New York Times and other news stories. It might be slow. Visit and you can learn more about the large organizations that either: (a) seek to censor Wikipedia entries about them, their crimes and their products; or (b) employ underutilized talents who use computers at work to write and edit Wikipedia entries.
Thousands of Wikipedia entries have been authored and edited by government and contractor employees working for otherwise tyrannical, authoritarian employers like the Department of Energy, NASA, the U.S. Tennessee Valley Authority, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman.
Amazingly, little ole DEP's employees wrote more Wikipedia entries than tatterdemalion Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), whose 74 year history of waste, fraud and abuse is mindboggling. Amazing.
It's our money -- these are government agencies and government contractors. This is waste, fraud and abuse. Worse, when they edit entries on themselves, their pollutants, their frauds, their crimes and their scandal, they bill the public for hidden propaganda.
216 entries were written by DEP employees, busily shirking their duties when they should be out prosecuting St. Augustine City Manager WILLIAM B. HARRISS & Co.
459 Wikipedia entries and edits were written by employees of the City of Jacksonville, using city servers, computers, equipment and time.
297 Wikipedia entries and edits were authored on servers owned by the Central Intelligence Agency, which is still unable to find OBL, nearly six years after 9/11 Remember when President George W. Bush said he wanted OBL "Dead or Alive"?
Instead of working on the people's business, government and government contractor employees are sitting behind their desks using computers for their own frolics. They let calls go to voicemail. They miss deadlines. They make excuses for not enforcing the law.
Meanwhile, some government and contractor employees are busy looking at pornography sites, as allegedly took place at the Anastasia Mosquito Control District of St. Johns County (AMCD) several years ago, wasting taxpayers' bandwidth and risking computer viruses, while increasing the likelihood of sexual harassment charges (as at the Times-Union, where erstwhile editorial page editor Lloyd Brown allegedly looked at pornography that could be seen by ladies working for him in an open bullpen).
Some employers -- like the St. Augustine Record and its parent company, Morris Communications (which also owns the Times-Union) -- now have strict computer use policies. Such just stewards monitor computer use, to assure that their employees are working on the employer's business, instead of skylarking and lollygagging.
Department of Energy servers contributed 435 Wikipedia entries and edits.
Corporate welfare recipients like Lockheed Martin don't make any products that you and I can buy and they inflict human misery around the world, as these arms merchants sell unneeded products to countries that use them to maim and kill, while back at HQ, their tatterdemalion office workers steal time and money from taxpayers.
Meanwhile, when is FDEP going to interview our former City Attorney, JAMES PATRICK WILSON, and our City Manager WILLIAM B. HARRIS, and our ex- Mayor GEORGE R. GARDNER, our ex- Vice Mayor SUSAN BURK, our current Mayor, JOSEPH LEROY BOLES, JR., our current Vice Mayor, DONALD CRICHLOW, and Commissioner ERROL JONES, all of whom knew of the illegal dumping and have refused to answer questions about it.
FDEP fiddles and still has not finalized a consent decree in a case involving pollution of our aquifer. It's only had since February 24, 2007.
Busy wasting time, FDEP aids and abets polluters.
It's our money.
FDEP is up for review under Florida's Sunset law. Is DEP a public nuisance? Does it deserve public funds? Will it prosecute St. Augustine officials? Or has DEP outlived its usefulness?
What do you reckon?
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
P.O. Box 3084
St. Augustine, FL 32085
904-471-7023
904-471-9918 (fax)
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