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Originally Posted by nostatic
that sounds suspiciously like the US govt...
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No doubt in my mind the decline was inspired by greedy voters who want something for nothing, and are willing to trade their votes for reward, and by those who would trade rewards and influence for money.
Way too many people nowadays who would gladly trade personal gain for the welfare of the country.
Our founding fathers believed that this greed and immorality would be balanced out by those with higher morals, and it worked for a long time. Only problem is, the moral side is getting as corrupt as the immoral side.
We're screwed.
As far as the eco-terrorists go, anything carried to excess becomes evil.
Tree-huggers took their ideals to an extreme. They started out as people who cared for a cause and tried to lead by example. Then they realized that other people weren't doing exacly what they thought they should do, so they because more vocal.
They became frustrated when they realized they couldn't tell others how to live their lives, so they resorted to civil disobedience (which is also evil
AFAIK). Then they took it even further, resorting to criminal acts. That made them criminals and terrorists, and anyone who supports them is a co-conspirator.
The danger is when people adopt a cause, they are still people and are still irrational, confrontational, and basically stupid. They don't realize this and their arrogance leads them to think they know better and have the right to decide what everyone else should do. that makes them dangerous.
In 1983 I was involved in organizing the Barstow to Vegas off-road motorcycle race.
It had been stopped for several years prior by these nutjobs. Most of them had never seen the desert before, but they claimed we were endangering the habitat of the desert tortoise.
We obtained permission to run the race provided the trail was limited to 100 feet wide, following the freeway most of the time, and we could only run about half the normal distance.
The wackos showed up en-mass the night before the race without our knowledge and tore down most of the course markers and re-directed the rest sending riders every direction, even into dangerous situations. The result was riders were scattered all over the desert and they had a much greater impact to the environment because of the enviro-wackos. Some riders got lost and spent the night in the desert stranded. Some were inured and had to be airlifted out after they crashed going off a cliff or some other object that would never have been on a course.
The next year the wackos protested saying that we didn't follow the rules, even thought they were the reason we didn't.
Greenpeace sucks. Sierra club sucks. People suck.