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`THEY hate us.'' A friend called to rant about the Bush administration.
``I mean it,'' he said, sounding a tone of someone who means it. ``They
hate us. Not just our ideas. But us.''
His subject was the nation's environmentalists. And I'm afraid he's right.
Anti-conservation has become a gangland vendetta by George W. Bush and
those he entrusts to govern. I cannot see another way to explain the
endless string of one-sided decisions and the dripping condescension
with which they are delivered. Not much of anything -- not reason, not
science, not public opinion, not the future, not process and certainly
not fellowship -- stands in the way.
I will concede that environmentalists have done plenty to bring on their
woes.
Yet that's no excuse for this. Not for the inflammatory,
rub-their-noses-in-it statement offered recently in a court case brought
by the Center for Biological Diversity. In a feather-brained brief, the
administration argued that conservationists should consider the upside
of bird deaths at a remote Navy live-fire range. ``Bird-watchers get
more enjoyment spotting a rare bird than they do spotting a common
one.'' Besides, the government added, Navy bombardment keeps away people
who might otherwise disturb the birds."
How obnoxious.
Doug
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