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.
.....No wonder I like more and more the Panhandle.