Posted on 09/08/2005 4:47:14 AM PDT by conservativecorner
"... Green Left – pursuing its agenda of valuing wetlands and topographical “diversity” over human life – sued to prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from building floodgates..."
Oh my!
But now look at all the new wetlands and marshlands that have been created throughout New Orleans! The envirowackos were right!
This makes great political points but I think a more measured look at hurricane protection needs to be explored. Making NOLA a walled fortress with channelized river flows on one side and the Gulf eventually lapping up on its walls is perhaps not the way to go.
All enviro wackos should be shot on site. Or at the very least, judges should bar them from the courtrooms.
My dad was a geophysicist. His best friend was a USC geophysicist once nominated for a Nobel Prize. They'd both be spinning in their graves if they knew all these idiots were blaming people for tsunamis, hurricanes, and global warming (a cyclical phenomenon extant on earth long before man ever showed up).
It sure beats the HELL out of what they have right now.
Add the Katrina deaths to all of those malaria deaths from banning DDT to the toll of environmentalist whackos.
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I can attest to this type of action, first hand. As I stated in a thread yeaterday, I personally sat in on numerous VTCs and budget hearings for the COE Mississippi Valley Division (which includes NO), as late as 2003 and it was no different than this article. Wetlands, waterfowl habitat, lease turns and silver shad got much more discussion and political attention that the levees of NO. The NO District DID NOT like this but their voice was drowned out by heavy-hitting environmentalists that pretty much keep the Corps in constant litigation.
I cannot stress how much this article hit home for me.
In the 1970s, an obviously insane US Congress gave any person or organization legal standing in court to sue if they perceived environmental policy was not being carried out by the federal government.
This wrong-headed policy has allowed eco-fascists to carry out a destructive and deadly attack on the economy, private property, and most important, on people peacably going about their lawful business.
Eco-fascists go judge shopping to find a radical Marxist in black robes who is willing to ignore law and common sense to implement a fanatical socialist agenda to attack and destroy America.
For example, most enabling environmental legislation contains a clause that states the economic impact of a proposed environmental action must be considered before implementation. I never hear that aspect addressed in any court opinion. Rather, the leftist judges simply rule in favor of any idiotic scheme or junk science proposal dreamed up by bureaucrats or the eco-fascists - the people or the economy be damned.
I'm sure this story will be front page news and every network will devote many hours of prime time coverage to this over the next six months.
I'll hold my breath waiting.
As they used to say on "Laugh-in" (dating self seriously):
VVEEEERRRYYY EEENNNTTEERRRESSSTTIIINNNGG!!!!
Scratch any of our cultural/social/political/ problems we face today. . .and you will find a squirming, lying Liberal. . .or their fingerprints. . .
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Planning for a category five hurricane was, indeed, visionary thinking. Few people believed such a storm would take place more often than once every few centuries, and no one had the political will to fight for the funding such a project would necessitate. However, scientists had long warned about New Orleans’ vulnerability to the potential for massive loss of life caused by such things as the environmentalists’ lawsuit. A National Geographic article, written after a smaller hurricane last year, captured the sentiments of one such expert:
“The killer for Louisiana is a Category Three storm at 72 hours before landfall that becomes a Category Four at 48 hours and a Category Five at 24 hours – coming from the worst direction,” says Joe Suhayda, a retired coastal engineer at Louisiana State University who has spent 30 years studying the coast…“I don’t think people realize how precarious we are.”
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This reminds me of the environmentalists who have prevented logging and tree culling in the West, thereby giving us the recent catastrophic forest fires.
These people need to be stopped before they destroy all of us!
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