FIRE! Press Release Issued.

EBUCK, FIRE! ^ | 10/16/2002 | EBUCK

[EBUCK]

****Press Release****

Fighting Irresponsible Radical Environmentalism (FIRE!) has installed a new billboard 1/2 mile north of exit 35, I-5, visible from the Northbound lanes, between Central Point and Gold Hill.

It reads:

Thank You EnvironMENTALists for Making the 2002 Fire Season All It Could Be! ****Image Attached****

Eric Buckner and numerous members of the popular conservative Internet forum, FreeRepublic.com, funded the billboard. Their purpose was to express outrage at the severity of recent Oregon wildfires due to the irresponsible and ignorant behavior of environmental activists.

Buckner explains, "It's time we brought the burden of accountability to environmentalists and their parent groups for the failure of their policies. Environmentalists, and the apologist politicians they control, bear full responsibility for the severity of the West's wildfire situation. Anytime someone is not held accountable for the results of their actions, disaster is the result."

The group believes that fire may be a part of the natural order, but not after 80 years of fire suppression, and NOT in the presence of noxious weeds. Environmentalists, in their hatred of the timber industry, have destroyed the capability to prevent such disasters.

“Tens of thousands are out of work, millions of acres are scorched and who's to blame? Environmentalists and their insane "hands-off" policies. The West has been building up to this for decades. All this time, environmentalists have barred every attempt to avert disaster. They were warned and they didn’t believe it. They appealed every ruling that went against them. They protested every battle they lost until they got their way. Well, they got their way and look where it got us. Look at the 'former' Kalmiopsis Wilderness (otherwise known as the Biscuit Fire). Look at the death and suffering of wildlife. It was totally unnecessary.”

“We have hundreds of thousands of acres, denuded as effectively as any clear-cut. After the fire, weeds are the first to recover, and spread with minimal competition from native plants. Come winter, rivers and streams will be choked with eroded mud. If it burns again in a few years, the damage may be irreversible.

“The real irony is that in their insane and misguided attempts to protect the forests, waterways, and fauna, environmentalists have sealed the fate of those very same forests, waterways, and fauna by disallowing human intervention. This isn’t about whether we care about nature. This is about who is going to fix it, how will it be paid for, how to verify and assure accountability that the job will be done right.

“We believe that private industry can do that job better than politicians, lawyers, and urban activists without a clue. Private Property rights, recreational/commercial land usage and water rights are a big issue with us. We plan to continue on the same path in the future. Perhaps doing similar things in states like Arizona, New Mexico, California and South Dakota.”

Contact: Eric Buckner. E-Mail : EBUCK@KEEPANDBEARARMS.COM

[EBUCK]

Yah, right....

EBUCK

[Grampa Dave]

So Stalin sent you his picture?

[EBUCK]

Nope, he sent me this.....

But I figured that he must be in disguise since the fella in that picture is dead (at least as far as I know)....

EBUCK

[Aquamarine]

This is so good! Thanks for the heads up!

[Granof8]

BUMP

[Grampa Dave]

Hopefully some Freepers in S. California will start a collection and put this sign up on a bill board in S. Kalifornia.

That fire caused a lot of smoke and problems for weeks hundreds of miles around it.

[FReethesheeples]

BUMP!

[FReethesheeples]

MEGA-BUMP!!!!!!!!!

[FReethesheeples]

Mega-dittos!

[Grampa Dave]

Visalia was close.

One of these days you might load your husband's pictures and post a vanity. Be sure to ping me and some of the regular anti enviralists.

Hopefully some conservative group in your area will see our Oregon FIRE billboard and decide to put one up in that area.

[rintense]

bitchslap? Oooh, you know I want to be part of that. Way to go, EBUCK!

[FReethesheeples]

Dittos to DixieChick!

[FReethesheeples]

BUMP!

[Grampa Dave]

Send a few bucks to FIRE, and you can be part of the Freeper B$tch slap team. Everyday that bill board is up, it is like 50,000 Bitch Slap day, (how many vehicles drive north on I5 each day past that sign.)

Hopefully some Freepers will want to put that billboard up in California, Arizona, Colorado, Alaska and maybe New Mexico for a great round of Bitch Slapping the Watermelon Enviral Jihadists, whose agendas burnt up a lot of America these past 3 summers.

[stalin]

That was an excellent post Carry-Okie. I wasn't expecting somthing that good from this bunch. Your post points out that I am right. It wasn't environmentalists that caused the problem. They are only a small part of the problem.

You say that I have no idea then you essentially agree with me.

[Carry_Okie]

It wasn't environmentalists that caused the problem. They are only a small part of the problem.

No, they are an enormously valuable asset to the fascist system: They give it ideological cover and provide it democratic power. Without those, the system could not operate. The environmentalists are indeed accountable for this mess.

[Carry_Okie]

but something stopped it at the edge of the Sequoia National Forest.

Yup, a thinning job. Somebody got the bulk of the white fir out of there (and you can see it in your photo). They had better clean it out of those old groves or they are history.

[stalin]

Your previous post makes it very clear that it was the forest service that caused this mess. I agree.

Now we need to fix it. Blaming the environmentalists is false and wont fix it.

Litigation is a problem and must be resolved in order to clear the brush and small trees that are the problem , chocking the forests and causing these fires to be so terrible , but environmental litigation didn't cause the problem. Fire supression did and environmentalists had nothing to do with that. In fact , if we had listened to them earlier we would have limited fire supression and these fires wouldn't have been so bad. You can't honestly ignore that.