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Well said! comradely Gary On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 3:35 AM, Michael Yates via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > I have spent a great deal of time in Utah over the past ten years or so. > And in may other Western states as well. There is a great deal of federal > (public) land in the West, especially in Utah. The Bundys and others of > their ilk, many of them Mormons, have no real concept of land belonging to > all of the people. And it seems that some here can't conceive of this > either. We should all take the view that this is, as Woody Guthrie sang, > our land. It must be protected by all of us, and we must demand that > wildlife be protected on such land and that it must not be logged, mined, > and ranched, creating a situation where those who lease such land and who > pay very little for this privilege come to believe that this land is > theirs. The Mormons who run Utah lock, stock, and barrel, lust to control > federal lands in the state. And I can guarantee you that if they did gain > control over it, they would soon enough sell or lease it to private > corporations who would mine, frack, and ranch it to its death. Already the > once clean air in southern Utah, home to five splendid and amazing national > parks and several national monuments, is almost always hazy and polluted. > If the state gets the land, the air, water, and soil quality will diminish > beyond recognition and good luck to the animals, other than cattle. Edward > Abbey, who has been mocked by certain "left liberals" who neither know nor > care about these matters but who waste their days bashing Hillary Clinton > and praising Bernie Sanders (neither of whom give a shit about the > environment either) was always willing to stand up to the cattle interests > and the state and federal policies that have subsidized them for so long. > We should emulate Abbey and stand up to all of the crackpots and > capitalists whose very essence wreaks havoc on Mother Nature and demand > that these lands belong to all of us and must be preserved, expanded, and > cared for for all time. The Bundys and all like them belong in prison. The > sooner the better. > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gary.maclennan1%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
