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Re: NFC: Fw: DEN Alert: Help Save the Florida Everglades
I guess the question is why should or shouldnt the US government
reallocate tax payer money for everglades restoration. /
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:01:10 -0700 Wright Huntley <huntley1 at home_com>
writes:
>
>
> robert a rice wrote:
> >
> > DEN ALERT:
> > Urge Congress to Restore the Everglades
>
> snip...
>
> Question:
>
> Where do the outfits like the Defenders of Wildlife, PETA, the
> Sierra Club,
> and various other forms of the "Green Bigot Brigade" get the notion
> that
> *congress* is a fit place to accomplish their stated (public-only)
> objectives?
>
> Congress can only pass more laws. Don't we see the problems we face
> by
> having too many already? A law is a legal right to use force to
> accomplish
> some objective of society.
>
> Each new law is, by definition, another chip off someone's freedom,
> very
> often it is their freedom to act responsibly. It nearly always
> results in
> the "Law of Government Opposites" being invoked, so the exact
> opposite of
> the desired goal invariably happens.
>
> a "War on Drugs" ends up as a government drug-price-support program
> that
> floods our cities with really bad stuff. "Gun Control" ends up only
> disarming potential victims who need help most, and encourages
> enormous
> increase the rate of violent crime. A "War on Poverty" creates an
> entrenched
> welfare society with a huge bureaucracy very anxious to keep it
> going. Need
> I mention mandatory government "education?"
>
> Prohibition of alcohol didn't last as long as the War on Drugs, and
> the
> collateral damage was much less severe, but folks in that era hadn't
> been as
> totally dumbed down by mandatory government propaganda camps, so
> they were
> more able to change and adapt sensibly.
>
> I urge all who get this to *not* appeal for more congressional
> freedom
> restrictions, but to seek out more rational ways to conserve the
> Everglades.
> People can easily out-think the ones who would spoil wilderness, if
> they
> try.
>
> When it gets into the hands of the government, they will find it is
> usually
> too late. Doors get kicked in and bullets spray. At that point it is
> really
> tough to out-think anything!
>
> s the opposite of Progress? Congress, of course. <VBG>
>
> Wright
>
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> dot com
>
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> don't let politicians fix it. ... Thomas Sowell
>
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