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Iconic airboats won’t be part of Everglades culture for much longer
The Miami Herald ^ | 12/27/13 | Sue Cocking

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: agenda21; airboats; environmentalism; everglades; liberalagenda; obamasfault; tyranny; usparkservice
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This is another example of government intrusion into local culture and a denial of rights based on environmental activism and extremism. Worse, it's going to cost some lives because the air boaters routinely rescue people lost or involved in accidents. It will reduce the amount of education kids get on the region provided by both schools and parents or friends. Airboats are among the least intrusive vehicles that can penetrate deep into the swamp. Yes, they're loud but so is the thunder that rolls across the region often and so are the aircraft that fly over the region. I grew up out there on airboats. I learned to drive one out there. I feel like a small piece of my soul is being eradicated.
1 posted on 12/27/2013 11:30:46 AM PST by ExSoldier
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To: ExSoldier

Agenda 21.


2 posted on 12/27/2013 11:32:22 AM PST by MeganC (Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell! https://mattbevin.com/)
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To: ExSoldier

Screw the government and its permits!


3 posted on 12/27/2013 11:33:30 AM PST by onedoug
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To: ExSoldier

I feel like a small piece of my soul is being eradicated.

It is, that small part called freedom.


4 posted on 12/27/2013 11:34:11 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: ExSoldier

Some of the Park Service rangers that try to enforce this will wind up as gator chow.


5 posted on 12/27/2013 11:34:39 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: GladesGuru; SWAMPSNIPER; Joe Brower
PING
6 posted on 12/27/2013 11:37:18 AM PST by ExSoldier (Stand up and be counted... OR LINE UP AND BE NUMBERED...)
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To: ExSoldier

Always wanted to ride an airboat.


7 posted on 12/27/2013 11:39:36 AM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: ExSoldier
Well there goes my planned Gentle Ben reboot movie.



Maybe I can sell the idea to Michael Bay.
8 posted on 12/27/2013 11:41:22 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: ExSoldier

Obama’s watermelons strike again.


9 posted on 12/27/2013 11:43:04 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the.tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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To: reg45

It’ll probably come down to that.

I hope no one is delusional enough to think this regulatory burden will ever get better...

Even those politicians who target one industry for “protection” or “repeal of burdensome regulation” invariably want some other industry burdened instead. Regardless of political Party.

The trend, for longer than most of us have been alive, is for the government to grow and freedom to shrink.


10 posted on 12/27/2013 11:43:34 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: ExSoldier

Reminds me of the episode of Big Bang, where they had the time machine prop from the original movie. Penny described it as looking like “something Elton John would ride through the everglades”.


11 posted on 12/27/2013 11:45:16 AM PST by tacticalogic
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To: Dead Corpse

Agreed. I have yet to see a politician of either party who was actually willing to eliminate a Government Department or put even a handful of bureaucrats out of their jobs.


12 posted on 12/27/2013 11:58:37 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ExSoldier

Not to worry. Since the Bay Area has more Red Sox fans than Rays fans...the Duck Boats are coming....


13 posted on 12/27/2013 12:02:04 PM PST by ken5050 (This space available cheap...)
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To: ExSoldier
I feel like a small piece of my soul is being eradicated.


Well, that's the intent, is it not?

14 posted on 12/27/2013 12:02:38 PM PST by rdcbn
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To: ExSoldier

Another reason to elect can conservatives into Congress and the White House.

A federal agency, in this case the Parks Service, is MAKING LAW. They can call it a “rule” or a “determination” or a “regulation”, but it is in essence a LAW.

Congress ALONE has the power to make law, according to Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution: “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”


15 posted on 12/27/2013 12:06:34 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: ExSoldier

This is nothing less than the continuation of the long war on whites and heterosexuals. Whatever those two groups like is fair game for a skirmish. After we’ve lost a thousand skirmishes, game over. At least that seems to be the theory. But I’m kind of hoping it’s game on.


16 posted on 12/27/2013 12:08:28 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: wally_bert
Always wanted to ride an airboat.

Do it if you can ... they're a lot of fun. NOT fun to get hit in the face by big flying bugs, though ;-)

17 posted on 12/27/2013 12:18:23 PM PST by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: ExSoldier

One thing I learned by living overseas was that it’s one thing to pass a law or edict, it’s quite another to enforce it or obtain obedience to it.


18 posted on 12/27/2013 12:18:32 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Having some small say in who gets to hold the whip doesn't make you any less a slave.)
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To: wally_bert
Always wanted to ride an airboat.

Get a good set of ear plugs first and ear muffs to go over them.

19 posted on 12/27/2013 12:20:57 PM PST by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: ExSoldier

The Everglades is going to be re-designated by the Fed.gov as: Area 52.


20 posted on 12/27/2013 12:21:15 PM PST by 2harddrive
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