A different subject - forestry management…

The supposed environmentalists are, in some cases, now losing their homes along with thousands of others throughout the United States, caused by the law they pushed making it illegal to cut the forest undergrowth. There is, every year, untold thousands of acres of forests burned due to this law. How in the world could they call themselves environmentalists? This is another reason that it would be a good idea that the Senate and Congress should be called to account for the ridiculous laws they enact. See attached:

Equality: Piggy Tom Daschle Rules
July 26, 2002
by Kim

Napoleon, the dictator pig in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, proclaimed:

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

Tom Daschle plays by a similar manifesto. He could grunt:

“All states are equal, but some states are more equal than others.”

More Equal
Napoleon Daschle’s porcine-like caper deals with environmental laws in his home state of South Dakota.

The powerful Majority Leader slipped language into an anti-terrorism spending bill exempting South Dakota, and only South Dakota, from environmental regulations and lawsuits. Because of Daschle’s underhanded action, South Dakota can log and clean underbrush from public forests to prevent fires.Howls
When the little South Dakota dictator’s imperious move was discovered in the halls of Congress yesterday, his fellow (no-so-equal) lawmakers were rip-snorting mad.Representative J.D. Hayworth of Arizona, a state where raging bonfires have consumed homes and a half-million acres, complained:

“It certainly can only be described as blatant hypocrisy on behalf of the Senate leader to claim on one hand to be the champion of the environment and then on the other hand to cut a special deal for his home state.

“What he is proving today is that true environmentalists are willing to have effective forest management. This is a classic case of somebody saying one thing for political posturing, and doing another for public policy.”

Representative Scott McInnis of Colorado, another state hit hard by wildfires, said:

“It will be interesting indeed to find out if what’s good for Mr. Daschle’s goose is also good for the West’s gander.”

Decree
The simple language that Napoleon Daschle slipped into the appropriations bill says:

“Due to extraordinary circumstances, timber activities in South Dakota will be exempt from the National Forest Management Act and National Environmental Policy Act, is not subject to notice, comment or appeal requirements under the Appeals Reform Act, and is not subject to judicial review by any U.S. court.”

Brush & Logging
Environmentalists oppose thinning the forest to prevent fires, and, of course, they oppose logging in general.

Already, one environmental group, the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance, has announced a lawsuit to strip out Napoleon Daschle’s stealth exemption before it becomes law with the rest of the bill.

More than 50,000 fires have devastated 3.7 million acres of forest this summer. Napoleon Daschle doesn’t want South Dakota’s beautiful Black Hills to become the Char-Broiled Black Hills. Good for him.

Lesson
But his modus operandi to accomplish that goal says a lot about him. He snubbed 49 other states of the same right to protect their national treasures and guard private homes from devastation.

Hopefully, this episode will register with his supposed allies in the environmental community that he can’t be trusted. When a pig has his snout firmly affixed to the trough, what he says matters little — it’s what he does that matters a lot.

Action
Tell Senator Tom Napoleon Daschle that dictators generally pay a steep price for their little piggy ways. Eventually, they wind up on some silver platter with an apple in their mouths.Thanks.

As you know, I feel that all the earmarks should be placed on the internet. I also think every law passed should be available on the internet at one site. Wouldn’t you like to know IMMEDIATELY who votes for these stupid laws, such as forest management, border control, the immigration fiasco, and other inane laws so we could immediately start a campaign to get them voted out of office? Another thing, I, and I know you also would like to know who the lobbyists are, how they influence the vote, what their motives are, and what was the price paid and to whom.

The Congress, Senate and their staff are mostly lawyers, and these laws are put before the people in such a burdonsome manner in legalized language that we are unable to decipher what they are doing. They are always investigating. Seems to me, a little self-examination in their own houses would be appropriate. The inordinate interest taken in Paris Hilton, English royalty, Hollywood, and so forth does not bode well for our country and its future. There is more interest taken in diets and cosmotology than in government passing laws that take away freedoms and cause laws to be passed, such as the forestry bill, and the efforts being taken to change the direction of peoples’ thoughts on the immigration law being crammed down the throats of the American CITIZENS.

The Democrats asking for how Vice President Cheney handles secret documents are getting their howls of protests in. Where was their outrage when Pockets Berger destroyed and mishandled secret documents to keep him and the President from having to pay in any manner for their screw-ups with Bin Laden? He and Clinton didn’t want the 9/11 commission to get hold of them, which they never did. Does anyone think there was any real investigations by the 9/11 commission when one of the members from the Clinton administration was the one who made sure the FBI and CIA couldn’t talk to each other or the police?

By the way, has there been any massive forest fires in South Dakota this year or last?