Two rows of chairs were lined up back to back, one less chair than the number of players. Music plays and everyone wanders in a circle around the chairs until the music stops - then everyone tries to sit down. The person without a chair is out. One chair is removed and the music starts again. One person is eliminated each round until only one remains.

 

Musical chairs at the NRC...  Trying to find accountability at the NRC is like a modern game of musical chairs except that the number of chairs depends on the remaining officials left to "face the music", and we have little control over the music. The chairs are NRC office posts such as Regional Administrator, Director of the Division of Resource Management and Administration, Chairman and Commissioner. The music is provided by the voices of wronged former employees and supporting members of congress left crying out for justice.

 

The musical chair game at the NRC appears to be a top down and backward version.  Former NRC commissioner and Chairman Richard Meserve left his chair to  Nils J. Diaz. When Chairman Meserve left his chair, it wasn't that the music had stopped.  The music, or, the voices of former employees and supporting members of congress left crying out for justice were still going strong. Never-the-less, he left his post and left the mess of the Ron Bath case behind. He simply shirked his responsibility, in my opinion and belief, and left Ron Bath with a ruined life, no accountability of the NRC, no admission of wrong doing by the NRC, and no remedy to restore Ron Bath to a normal life. As a regulator, Richard Meserve must have known this was wrong.

 

Meanwhile, Chairman Nils J. Diaz believes the music has stopped.  The music is still there,  however, provided by the voices of wronged former employees and supporting members of congress  left crying out for justice.  It is my belief that he took his seat prematurely. The music never stopped, but that never stopped him from taking his chair and pretending that the music had ended.

 

The former Regional Administrator at region 4 is no longer in that position. He was moved away to Washington D.C. to another post. He also believes that the music has stopped.  The fact is that it hasn't.

 

The former Director of the Division of Resource Management and Administration has been "put out to pasture" in my opinion and belief. She also believes that the music has stopped. The fact is that it hasn't.

 

 

Did these individuals leave the NRC game of musical chairs of their own choice, or were they merely marched to the next empty seat? Accountability gets harder when the persons and chairs get mixed up. 

 

Did you ever notice how bad people that do bad things get sent away?  It should be noted that even though the people responsible for bad things go away, the problems remain.

 

Coming soon!  A look at where these NRC people came from and a look at other messes left behind by them for others to clean up.  Some in their past or present positions that created the Ron Bath retaliation firing case were transferred to escape past indiscretions. Lets examine some interesting backgrounds soon.

 

Quote: "All messes have to be cleaned up eventually". Ron Bath   March 01, 2004