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You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
~ Abraham Lincoln

The Politics of Noise

Who stole your right to a quiet home
It is not an accident, nor is it mere happenstance that the world around us is as loud as it is. This page speaks of the politicians who are supposed to protect us from the dangers of noise, and their unholy allegiance to the special interest groups who spend big money to make sure that they do otherwise.

How your right to a quiet home was stolen
This page describes how special interest groups bought off the U.S. government at the highest levels, and gives the specifics on the legislation they passed to ensure that the American people would be powerless to quiet their homes by way of government regulation. Although this article focuses on the United States, much the same thing has occurred in many of the nations of the earth.

The dormant Noise Control Act and options to abate noise pollution
In this scholarly 1991 article, a Kansas University law professor traces the history of noise abatement in the U.S., including the establishment of the Office of Noise Abatement Control, the passage of the Noise Control Act of 1972, and its subsequent evisceration.

The preamble to the United States Noise Control Act of 1972
Depending on how you look at it, the Noise Control Act of 1972 was either the first step in a deceitful move by business to make it illegal and/or impractical for government to regulate noise, or it was simply a counterproductive attempt to protect the American people against the scourge of excessive and intrusive sound. Either way, the preamble to the NCA is noteworthy because it represents the first time that congress recognized that noise "presents a growing danger to the health and welfare of the Nation's population."

Download the complete text of the Noise Control Act of 1972
It actually makes for some extremely dry reading. Nonetheless, in case you would like to see it, this link will allow you to download the complete text of the Noise Control Act of 1972.

The Quiet Communities Act
Here you will find a copy of a bill that would reestablish funding for the enforcement of the Noise Control Act of 1972 and thereby, offer noise-barraged Americans some hope for homes that are not forever inundated with the roar of intrusive noise. The legislation was defeated for the third time when it was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2005.

The World Health Organization's noise guidelines for government
While local governments around the globe continue to dismiss noise as something far short of the horrendous health hazard it has become, the World Health Organization confronts the ugly reality and, in this document, spells out recommendations for local governments that will soon find themselves compelled to address the noise blight that has settled across our planet like an acoustic cancer.

Contact the United States Environmental Protection Agency with questions about noise

Navigation Guide and Timeline for the Creation and Evolution of the United States Environmental Protection Agency

The links below will take you to our sister site, New Animal Control.Org, where you will find a descripton of the role special interest groups played in the creation of our noisy barking epidemic, as well as in the corruption and the continuing dysfunction of the animal control system.

How the animal control system was highjacked, and how that usurpation spawned systemic failure

Why the animal control system remains as it Is

This page is the Index of the Politics of Noise portion of Section Five:
which is the Activist component of barkingdogs.net