Posted on 12/27/2013 11:30:46 AM PST by ExSoldier
Privately operated airboats, icons of the Gladesmen culture of the Everglades, will be dwindling in number because the Park Service isn’t granting any new licenses.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
I’ve visited most of the national parks west of the Rockies in the last five years. The bulk of the tourists you see are White or Asian. Can’t say about queers; I don’t recall seeing any real flamers.
They are not going to regulate themselves. They need to be reminded of their place in Government. The power of the Fed is subservient to the States, They only exist because the 50 States allow them to exist. They are restricted by the Constitution to a very few powers.
There are some people who are afraid of what a COS will do to our Constitution. The answer is a COS can not change one word of the Constitution. They can only propose amendments. It will still take ratification by 3/4 of the 50 states. Only good can come from the Convention.
Of course politicians of both parties are against it, it threatens their power and that, folks is what it is all about for them, power...
Check the bushes.
Simple... run the boats illegally.
May as well take an M-79 along with you and take out the government gunboats when they close in.
Enough is enough.
Once the leftist federal government figures out a way to eliminate pesky common people but keep our tax money rolling in they will have finally created their liberal utopia.
We common people want to spoil the parks and natural areas by actually using them.
We want to run around free, doing what we like with no government direction or regimentation.
We don’t want to be penned up in city apartments like caged rats in a government laboratory.
The government wants to control us and regiment us like chickens in an egg factory - restricted to government approved areas but still [producing every day.
They don’t want us living like free range chickens, stomping on the grass, going where we like, living free of oppressive government regulations and restrictions.
It’s just too messy a concept for government control freaks to accept.
Well Wally_bert,
If you go to Everglades City they have these airboat rides that take the same little canals and go the same routes and theyy pack a dozen or so fools in and take you out to see a gator or three.
Incredible fishing and just plain fun and stay away from anything labeled park service.
“Some of the Park Service rangers that try to enforce this will wind up as gator chow.”
Lot of places to get lost down there.
As always, those who lie down with socialists (call them enviro’s, commies, liberals, whatever), always get screwed by those socialists.
These folks were just white, working class “GimmePigs”, fools who believed taking land from the many and giving it to the Government (which is Communism's basic premise, I note) would be good for them.
It wasn't.
Those “Gladesmen” are largely weekend warriors. They are a far cry from the people who once made a living in the Everglades, people like Totch Brown, Raymond Rewis, and their many neighbors who were from families which settled the Glades and lived there until urban commies in government agencies forced them off the land.
Consider them as “Kulaks lite”, just being starved out a bit at a time - or regulated out, one regulation at a time.
In the Pinecrest area, those people were warned, regularly, but did nothing when they could have so done.
I will soon publish a book on this, and having been both a member of Sierra Clubs Florida Executive Committee (FLEXCOM) and having known ParcPersons from the local Armed & Rangerous to the Sec. of Interior’s abuse and the nauseating behavior of Florida's “Possum Police”, you might well find it interesting to read. Alas, the book is full of one Trough Feeder after another, and one NGOPerson after another - all busily and successfully depriving Florida residents of their property, Constitutional Guarantees, and finally even their American heritage.
As you know, far too may teachers in the Miami-Dade Pooblik Skrewl Collective are socialism infected and few have even heard of American Exceptionalism. Indeed, the average Edumacator did little better than their students on a test I administered to them as part of a program I developed for Dade Schools.
The program produced both continuing ed courses for teachers and courses for students. The results showed there is something profoundly amiss in the Pooblik Skrewl Collective’s.
The same failure to teach the core concepts which made the American Republic an exception to the sad history of one tyrant after another, made possible the communizing of the Everglades.
As for the National Park Service, it has long been known inside the Beltway as a refugia for fools, collectivist fools, too. PM me and I will show you a videotape of a friend who was Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on the Interior. His considered comments are far more harsh than what I posted here, and he had both the scientific/professional, and the political knowledge and experience to support his statements.
In closing, I must remind all that the “Gladesmen” were decidedly hostile towards my for reasons clearly defined by a past Everglades National Park Superintendent. That same perspective is what was cleverly used by the Trough Feeders and their allies, to socialize the Everglades with the help of the “Gladesmen.”
I, and my colleagues, tried to sound a warning, but all were blinded by the allure of a socialized Everglades, such as: “Something for nothing”.
“No nasty landowners posting the land.”
“A place for ‘traditional uses’ in perpetuity.”
I doubt anyone will listen now, just as they didn't listen when I told a past Airboat President that they needed to heed their lawyer, Bill Horne. He was as good as a DC lawyer gets.
When I mentioned to him that Fred the Wonderdog was still stupidvisor of BCNP he said, “I was going to fire that stupid “bachelors child (author's word choice, not Horne's) but I left before I got around to it.
A pity, that - because Fred was an hyper eager regulator.
Anyway, I doubt anyone will want to do anything effective, so time to give the keyboard a break.
Happy New Year to you and yours, and may your students not attack you.
The Alternative to air boats... Geeee... Thanks Liberal whackadoodles!
Once the leftist federal government figures out a way to eliminate pesky common people but keep our tax money rolling in they will have finally created their liberal utopia.
Robots.... Fear Robots.... They will give the elite control freaks everything they wanted...
“TAnybody remember Lincoln Vale”
That program died on American TV, but was very polular in Germany. I think it is still on hte rerun channels over there.
“Some of the Park Service rangers that try to enforce this will wind up as gator chow”
PETA might consider that cruelty to alligators.
Isn’t this the same bunch shut down our national parks and forests and tried to stop our veterans? I ran a Corvair powered acrobat on the Tuscarawas River here in Ohio. Damon that was fun
When that happens I’ll stand up and cheer.
What are the Seminoles going to do? [What peace treaty? The Osceolas are going to be pissed]
This is not good.
Oh, and for posterity, I've been to a decommissioned Nike missile battery in the Glades...
5.56mm
Are these the same National Park Service dufuses that tried to lock up the War Memorials recently? The Kenyan’s brown shirts are really , really pushing their lucks. Floating thru a swamp has got to be one of the most damaging things that could ever ever happen to the world’s eco systems. No doubt kills eagles. Probably causes global warming, Certainly melts the ice caps faster. And surely causes florida sink holes.
Guys in boats have got to be stopped!!!Refer to the Connecticut story and line up to turn in your swamp buggies.
Joe,
The airboat rides in the Everglades City are limited to mangrove and some salt marsh habitats. The varied areas used by the different airboat operators once offered opportunities to see as much of the varied Everglades habitats as one wanted. One could even make arangements to take a private airboat into areas inaccesable to the large ride boats.
Socializing the Everglades destgroyed all that.
Now, there is no way to access most of the Central Plains area, arguable the nicest part of the entire Everglades.
Thanks to the faulty premise of “wilderness” even National Park scientists can’t take an airboat anywhere except on designated trails in the Park. trails reserved for ParkMan’s Armed & Rangerous or their bureau-scientists.
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