[at-l] Escalante

[yumitori@montana.com (Ron Martino)]

> Oh yes, lets drag out the non-sequitors. I don't recall saying much about
> how the land was acquired, I just said when Weary asked which park I would
> eliminate that my first selection would be Escalante. The secretive and
> wholly political way this was done is my major objection. Along with the
> peon colonial status that the Democrats assign the intermountain states. Not
> many votes out there and too many of them are Republicans. I would applaud
> the formation of a 1.7 million acre park in Maine or Maryland.
>
> Bryan

	You were claiming that the creation of the Escalante National Monument
was a land grab, even though no land was actually 'grabbed', but when I
bring up past cases where the government actually did take land away
from its owners you consider it ancient history, and not worth
discussion. Interesting.

	I'm all for a libertarian approach to government, but this country is
nowhere ready to such. The American people in general are too selfish,
too childish in their behavior.

	You have quite the commentary on the way the the intermountain states
are treated by the federal government, yet I live here and you dismiss
my views. Shall we review the history of the region? The number of
robber barons that stole land, ripped it apart for short-term profits,
cheated their workers, polluted the air and water and land, then took
their money and left? what do you think? Shall we continue to let the
new generation of wanttabes do the same thing? Or should we try to save
what's left for everyone, not just a few industrialists and their
political flunkies?

	Ron
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