Posted on 07/23/2002 4:06:13 AM PDT by kattracks
How about The Wildlands Project? That's extreme. TNC was instrumental in funding it.
Shall I go on?
Go on all you want. If you want to convince me that I am wrong though... you are going to have to put more thought into it than rattling off website names. Are you making allegations about NC?? - If so, name them, prove them... I am not going to do the research for your allegation.
If you know of sins NC is committing, name them.
I cant explain it, I don't know about it. Apparently you do... Is this a test? - Are you trying to convince me that you are right, or just setting us up as adversaries? - I am not an adversary, but a possible ally. I am listening, sell your thinking to me.
I will not do your homework for you. I pointed you in the direction. It is up to you to learn the truth.
Ahhh. I see. So it's a matter of degrees. Osgood labels it a paltry sum so that makes it ok.
BTW kattracks, good post. You've been hitting them out of the park lately.
Also, in Washington State, there was a fire that was burning and about 10 firefighters were sent in to fight it. Four ended up dying because bureaucrats in DC dithered over scooping up water out of a local creek (there was a possibility of scooping up a fish that was endangered). The four made tents in the forest to try and survive after they were cut off from safety by the fire.
They were immolated.
If I provided you a series of oversimplified examples, you would "what if" them to death, or keep asking for more proof, and ask me to keep digging for you. Then you would walk out, "not convinced." Meanwhile, I invested $300,000 of my own money in putting that case together in as concise and readable form as I could. In it, I showed the misbegotten results of the environmental movement and how the system benefits wealthy investors using tax-exempt funds at public expense. I isolated the philosophical and economic principles involved and proposed an alternative system, showed how it might work, suggested an implementation strategy, and stated in unmistakable terms what is at stake if we don't do something about the environmental movement soon. I even gave you a source of free samples.
You want it all for free, you want it simple, and are too lazy to go read the freebies. All are typical of an urban environmentalist land-thief. You clearly don't care enough about nature or your freedom to make such an investment and I won't waste more valuable time trying to convince someone incapable of doing their homework.
No, but you might get me interested in your ideas and why you think the way you do. I am neither urban or lazy. Only pressed for time and hopeful that all of you who seem to know so much about the evil of NC could give me so much as a paragraph describing the scene. Until this morning I didn't even know their name, only heard about their concept. a few hours later, after asking you to describe your your claim that they are corrupt, I am lazy if I have not already bought a book on the subject. Excuse me.... I was working in between.
Wasn't Americans getting a $350 check called "extreme"?
Calling Ann Couler! Calling Ann Coulter!
I was re-reading this thread, and saw your post.
Let's be clear that the villain here is not the Nature Conservancy, tho clearly that point can be argued by principled people.
The villainy here is the Federal Government.
There is much to learn. Unfortunately, we (at least I) live in a country where the press is supine on matters like this.
FRmail my friend Carry_Okie (Mark) about this. Dave
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