And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 14:28:21 EST >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: BC Eco-racism 100 : land-bridges and mammoth extinction (fwd) > >Dear Mr. Dauncey: > >I have had dear friends on Cortes, and I have visited there and written about >it. I have fished there, and hiked, and watched the eagles act like pigeons >taking salmon collars from the store owner; I remember the great fish carved >in stone by the native hero whose name can be translated "Dont go fishing with >this guy because he catches so many fish there wont be any room left for you >in the boat." I remember a little man with a little donkey and cart, and >great oysters. I recall the forests and lakes, the moon shells and rock >carvings, and beauty beyond any price one could pay here in the Bay Area, >despite people being cash poor. > >I've watched Cortes be destroyed by the same forces that destroy salmon and >forests here in California and throughout the world; the same motives that >burn the forests of Indonesia, kill the orangutans, destroy the ocean floor >with trawling clearcutters, slaughter the bison who stick their noses out of >Yellowstone park onto surrounding public lands in competition with cattle >operators, try to turn desert mountains into nuclear waste repositories. . . > >Mr. Dauncey, it is not "oops" but deliberate profiteering that does this. It >is not accident, it is conscious and intentional "harvesting" until the last >unit of harvest creates a profit on the margin. It is Chicago school >economics at work. It is the marketocracy, and I ask you to take my word for >this because I have it from the man who wrote the 1981 tax cut, one of the >voodoo economists, an architect of Reaganomics, Norman B. Ture, who told me >that this was the right and proper way to run an economy. When I asked "what >about the future generations?" Dr. Ture said "money today is worth more than >money tomorrow. What has the future generation ever done for me?" >(Ultimately, the answer was put ice on his dry tongue as he lay dying.) > >If you realize that this is deliberate, not thoughtless, careening through >resources, you will then, if you are intellectually rigorous, have to come up >with a new proram to achieve your vision. I look forward to discussing it >with you. > >Sincerely, >Martha E. Ture >_________________________________________________________________ > <<<<=-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-=>>>> If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.... African Proverb <<<<=-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-=>>>> IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW...." Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
