Action Alert: Environment 2004 (Non-Profit) Tied To Democrat Campaign

Talk about a vitriolic, Bush-bashing, conservative-bashing, Republican-bashing, harangue! A friend sent me this message that Environment 2004 sent to it's members:

How do you plan to celebrate this 4th of July? Fireworks, town parades, barbecues, or perhaps a trip with your family to a nearby national park may come to mind. Every year, nearly 300 million people visit our national parks to enjoy some of the most spectacular scenery and historical treasures our country has to offer. But if you're headed to a national park this weekend, you might be disappointed to find closed visitor centers, crumbling infrastructure, and a shortage of even skeleton park staff. Sadly, after over three years of neglect by the Bush administration, many of our national parks are in no state to receive the volume of visitors who show up at their gates.

This week, the Kerry Campaign has teamed up with Bruce Babbitt to expose how the Bush administration has failed to fulfill its campaign promises to protect and restore America's national parks.

Senator John Kerry has proposed increasing funds for park management to provide critical relief to our decaying National Park System.

On the campaign trail in 2000, President Bush promised to "restore and renew" the National Park System and to eliminate its $5 billion maintenance backlog. However, since taking office, only a small fraction of the promised funds have actually been delivered. Instead, the Bush administration has pushed for an acceleration of energy development and the construction of coal-fired power plants along park boundaries, and has opened up millions of acres of protected areas to road-building.

What's more, Bush has made repeated attempts to deceive the public about the extent of his administration's neglect, imposing a gag rule on the release of independent reports that document the effects of the chronic under-funding. When the head of the Park Police tried to come forward about the budget crisis, the Bush administration suspended and tried to fire her.

Senator Kerry, on the other hand, has promised to provide the needed funds to solve the budget crisis at our national parks. His proposal to increase the National Park Service budget by $600 million over the next five years would allow for long overdue maintenance repairs and staffing increases. Kerry also proposes to reinstate the protection of roadless areas, ban old-growth forest logging, and impose tougher regulations for energy, mining and timber development on public lands.

For a leader with a proven track record as a strong advocate for proper stewardship of the nation's parks and public lands, Kerry is the clear choice. As a senator, Kerry has opposed oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and has fought to preserve and extend designated wilderness areas.

Taking good care of our dwindling wild areas is in everyone's interest. Park-related tourism nationwide generated $10.6 billion in revenue for local economies and supported 267,000 jobs in 2001 alone. What's more, keeping our parks clean, safe and properly managed will make sure that future generations can continue to enjoy family vacations to these national treasures.

Environnment2004 is making sure that Bush doesn't get away with glossing over his failure to fulfill his campaign promise to restore our parks. Your help is critical to enable us to expose Bush's lies and ensure that voters in key swing states like Florida, Minnesota and New Hampshire elect a president who will look after our environment. Please consider making a donation today as you prepare for a relaxing 4th of July weekend!

Here's 17 reasons why the eco-fascists are spitting mad -

This spring the eco-socialists lost 17 out of 17 court cases they filed to stop logging on our nation’s collectivist federal forests.

The court victories mark a turnabout from recent years, when so-called environmentalists succeeded in delaying and halting logging projects that many Western lawmakers said would have removed the trees and underbrush that fuels wildfires.

The Healthy Forests Restoration Act, passed by congress last year, trumped the whining and junk science used by environmental Marxists to stop logging. This no logging hysteria caused massive conflagrations in the federal forests, resulting in the loss of millions of acres of trees, the destruction of entire eco-systems, destroyed thousands of homes and buildings and covered the sky with massive pollution.

The law authorizes up to $760 million a year to treat up to 20 million acres of federal forests and grasslands at risk of catastrophic fire.

Mark Rey, the Agriculture Department undersecretary who directs U.S. forest policy, said, “Any month when you win 14 out of 14 cases is a good month.”

Judges are required by the new law to weigh the environmental consequences of inaction in considering tree-cutting projects.

Chris West, vice president of the American Forest Resource Council, a timber industry group, said “what the judges are recognizing - as Congress did overwhelmingly - is that we have a crisis situation facing our forests.”

The freedom hating eco-socialists are now running from courtroom to courtroom, trying to find a judge who will ignore the law so the forest fires can get roaring again.

These people are not environmentalists. They’re socialists who don’t want to see anyone making a dime off these trees. They’d rather see the forests burn to the ground than see jobs created and products produced.

Great update on some judicial wins for our side.

Agree totally - they are marxists whose real nightmare is that someone might actually make a dime off of the forests. And/or to protect the environment for one species or even a handful they destroy it for dozens of other species.

If you knew nothing else about them - their illogic alone would brand them as socialists.

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