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To: hardhead

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.


6 posted on 07/11/2004 10:20:57 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Gen. Custer wore an Arrowsmith shirt to his last property owner convention.)
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To: sergeantdave

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.


7 posted on 07/11/2004 10:39:44 AM PDT by Let's Roll (Kerry is a self-confessed unindicted war criminal or ... a traitor to his country in a time of war)
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