Total waste of time.
CBD does not care one whit about public opinion. They are driven by the
fact that they can reap millions in litigation.
This is all about money, lots of it, and nothing more.
Furthermore, whoever this guy Dunham is, he continues the misinformation
by repeating (helpfully, to the CBD cause) that humans are a vector.
That has never been demonstrated with any scientific evidence, after 6+
years of it being endlessly repeated as fact.
Until the agencies grow a set and tell the CBD to go eff itself, nothing
is going to change.
Everything about the petition is 'feel good' and appealing to
emotion/caver-logic viewpoint, and the pleas contained therein are of no
interest to the politicos or litigants. Money talks; cavers are not even
a blip on the money screen.
Anyone who thinks the White House really thinks your opinion is
important on any petition of this sort only needs to view prior
petitions on any topic of your choosing to see how they pretty much all
turn out. This is pissing in the wind.
On 04/13/2012 12:31, Kathy Peerman wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
*Subject: **Petition to keep public caves open to the public*
As you may know, the CBD is petitioning the White House to close all
public caves and fine private landowners who keep their caves open.
This is a serious threat to the caves, which are often vandalized when
responsible visitation is removed, and does nothing to protect the
bats since WNS is spread bat-to-bat. *Human contributions to spread* can
be effectively controlled with decon, assuming a human vector ever
existed. Closing publicly owned caves to the public is a threat to
conservation, a limitation of freedom, and is based on bad science,
and I am tired of not standing up to say that. If you support this
cause, please sign this counter petition to keep the caves open.
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/support-conservation-recreation-science-and-personal-freedom-mandating-public-access-caves-public/YX8Bjp3F
<https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/%21/petition/support-conservation-recreation-science-and-personal-freedom-mandating-public-access-caves-public/YX8Bjp3F>
Sincerely,
John Dunham
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