-Caveat Lector-
so now employment is more important than the wiping out of entire species?
eco-system be damned, full speed ahead?
people can find work, there are other sources of water - as of yet
endangered species have no recourse to return.
if you kill the fish, you kill the animals that live on the fish (and the
animals that live on them in a growing spiral outwards), and cause a
population boon in the animals that the fish eat, which in many cases are
harmful pests.
people are not the whole of the planet
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Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate
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> Subject: [CTRL] The Bell Tolls (fwd)
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> The Bell Tolls - Wed Jul 11 16:32:51 2001
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> The Bell Tolls
> http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/7/10/221453.shtml
> Phil Brennan
> Wednesday, July 11, 2001
>
> "...no man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
> continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
> Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
> manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death
> diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind, and therefore never
> send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
> John Donne (1572-1631)
>
> That bell is tolling for your fellow Americans in Klamath Falls,
> Ore. ... just as one day soon it will toll for you. And it's not
> joyful sounds of the Liberty Bell you'll hear, but the mournful
> clangs of a funerary bell tolling the death of your cherished
> freedoms.
>
> What do you have in common with the folks in Klamath Falls?
> Everything that has to do with your constitutional rights to be
> free of asinine and destructive restrictions imposed by a distant,
> out-of-control government dancing to the tune of a socialist cabal
> that wants to run your lives because it thinks you are too stupid to
> control your own destiny.
>
> If you haven't heard about what's happening in Klamath Falls, it's not
> surprising. The TV networks from which most of you get your news
> haven't seen fit to concentrate on the events there - they're too busy
> bringing us up to date, almost minute by minute, with the latest
> details about Rep. Gary Condit and his fling with the missing
> Chandra Levy, or touting the latest polls allegedly showing President
> Bush's approval ratings plunging.
>
> Anyway, what's at issue out there in the Golden West is the matter of
> the survival of drought-stricken farmers now threatened by Uncle
> Sam, who is more concerned about the welfare of the sucker fish
> than he is about that of living American citizens.
>
> Three months ago the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced it would
> withhold nearly 90 percent of the area's irrigation water to protect
> two species of endangered sucker fish.
>
> That's right - when the welfare of a breed of fish about which I'll
> bet you never heard of is threatened, the people be damned.
>
> The result? Catastrophe for a lot of your fellow Americans.
>
> Writing in the Seattle Times, reporter Craig Welch brilliantly
> described the havoc wreaked on the people in the area by the
> besotted members of the U.S. Congress, federal agencies and the
> courts.
>
> "Farmland here is so dry it crumbles like old cement, but tensions in
> this drought-desiccated valley are boiling over. Three times in five
> days last week, protesters frustrated at the government's refusal to
> release irrigation water from nearby Upper Klamath Lake used
> saws or a blowtorch to open headgates and release water from
> behind a dam.
>
> "Prompted by court decisions and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
> biological opinions, the decision to cut irrigation water here affects
> most of the 170,000 acres served by Upper Klamath Lake," Welch
> wrote. "While some farmers still have state water rights or private
> wells, and others still get water from two nearby lakes, most farms
> are so parched their crops have blown away and the soil may be
> damaged for years.
>
> "Elsewhere in town, food-bank supplies are stretched. The county's
> mental health services are up 60 percent over the same period last
> year.
>
> "Alfalfa prices are so high struggling cattle owners can't afford it,
> but hay producers short on water have no crop to sell to take advantage
> of the market.
>
> "Work at one local hairdressers has 'dropped off like a lead sinker,'
> one cosmetologist said.
>
> "County officials estimate some 30 wells also have gone dry, and
> they blame empty irrigation canals they say help recharge deep
> aquifers."
>
> All this to protect a so-called endangered species without which
> mankind could easily survive and prosper.
>
> There was a time when Americans would have rallied to help their
> neighbors no matter how distant geographically they might be. But
> aside from what amounts to a mere handful of concerned
> Americans - mainly members of the Wise Use movement - the
> response from the great mass of those of their fellow citizens who
> are aware of the Oregon disaster has been a yawn and a shrug of
> the shoulders.
>
> This kind of thing has been happening more and more frequently -
> Americans being denied their property rights and their livelihood to
> satisfy the whims and caprices of an elitist bunch of so-called
> environmentalists who care not a whit for their fellow humans -
> Marxist ideologues who can weep bitter tears over the plight of the
> sucker fish but give full approval to the slaughter of their fellow
> human beings in the womb, along with the gruesome peddling of the
> bodies of these unborn Americans.
>
> In the name of the Endangered Species Act, jobs have been lost,
> private property has been confiscated, publicly owned lands have
> been closed to the public, vast economic damage has been done to
> certain areas of the nation, whole industries have been shut down,
> all to protect bugs and birds and other lower forms of life whose
> contributions to the welfare of mankind is so minimal as to be
> invisible.
>
> How does all of this affect you? Simple. If it can be done to one of
> us, it can be done to all of us. Someday your company, for example,
> may find itself the target of a government agency, or lawsuit made
> possible by the trial-lawyer-friendly Democrat leadership in the
> Congress. You may lose your health insurance because lawsuits
> made possible by Congress raised the cost of health care
> insurance to a point where you or your employer can no longer
> afford it.
>
> Someday, your job or your property will become victims of the idiot
> idea that insects or owls take precedence over people. Will there be
> anyone to come to your aid besides a handful of your closest
> neighbors?
>
> In his book, "The End of Sanity," Martin Gross wrote that "blatantly
> irrational behavior is rapidly being established as the norm in almost
> every area of human endeavor. There seem to be new customs,
> new rules, new anti-intellectual theories regularly foisted on us from
> every direction. Underneath, the nation is roiling. Americans know
> something without a name is undermining the nation, turning the
> mind mushy when it comes to separating truth from falsehood and
> right from wrong. And they don't like it."
>
> But not liking it is not enough. Either the mass of the American
> people will become aroused enough to put an end to all of this
> socialist power grabbing or the land of the free and the home of the
> brave will become the home of the slave.
>
> A good beginning would be a mass protest against this insane
> Endangered Species Act. Congress passed this idiot legislation;
> Congress can end it. Throughout the entire history of this world
> species have come and species have gone. Does anybody really
> miss the dinosaurs or whole slews of other vanished critters?
>
> Nature regulates itself. It is the height of arrogance to suggest that
> this generation can and should alter what is obviously a law of
> nature. If these environmentalists had been around in the age of the
> dinosaurs they would have fought to save the endangered (and
> voracious) tyrannosaurus rex.
>
> If enough of us rally and tell our members of Congress to junk this
> law once and for all - or find another line of work after the 2002
> elections - we can begin the long and arduous task of reclaiming the
> liberty we inherited from the Founding Fathers - liberty we have
> allowed to be slowly taken from us over the past 100 years or so.
>
> In a speech at Harvard in February 1999, Charlton Heston told us
> how we can begin to fight back. I'll leave the final words of this
> column to him.
>
> "When a mugger sues his elderly victim for defending herself ... jam
> the switchboard of the district attorney's office. When your university
> is pressured to lower standards until 80 percent of the students
> graduate with honors ... choke the halls of the board of regents.
> When an 8-year-old boy pecks a girl's cheek on the playground and
> gets hauled into court for sexual harassment ... march on that school
> and block its doorways. When someone you elected is seduced by
> political power and betrays you ... petition them, oust them, banish
> them. When Time magazine's cover portrays millennium nuts as
> deranged, crazy Christians holding a cross as it did last month ...
> boycott their magazine and the products it advertises.
>
> "So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the
> hallowed footsteps of the great disobediences of history that freed
> exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of
> an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men, by God's grace,
> built this country."
>
> Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com.
> He is editor and publisher of Wednesday on the Web
> (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National
> Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for
> the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the
> Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood
> Committee, which won statehood for Alaska.
>
> Phil Brennan
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