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The Spectacle Blog
No, the Gulf Coast does not have a monopoly on green policies being used to steal your freedom and bankrupt you — to coin a phrase — but is only (for now) the latest example. Watch this.
As gut-wrenching as this is it is actually a very common tale, or at least the elements are present in every hare-brained consequence I have encountered in two decades of the vague, sweeping “environmental protection” regimes which have flowed from Washington, enacted in the name of salvation though — as the narrator here asks — it makes you wonder what’s really going on. I no longer wonder; I yell it from the rooftops.
When such extremism dominates, the typical response is ultimately a countervailing extremism. America is different. Sadly, however, we do tend to simply allow the casualties mount from policies that, after all, we’re assured were adopted with the best of intentions. Even were that true, so what? Look at what you are doing, to people. Surely there’s a middle ground.
Remember how our lawmakers spend their days, and the shrill groups they kowtow to. And think about what they need to actually spend their time working to fix.
Seen enough yet?
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dapster| 9.7.10 @ 3:05PM
Chris,
Yes Sir, I have seen enough, as I've lived this travesty every day for the past 3 years.
Most of the folks in the video are my friends or at least acquaintences, their plight AND their pain are genuine, in case anyone was wondering.
Not only are the locals and visitors being kept off of public lands for dubious environmental reasoning, the same groups that are pushing this tripe are also opposed to replacing the aging "Bonner Bridge" across Oregon Inlet, the only road and bridge connecting Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands to the mainland.
Notable quotes from an article in the Hatteras Island-based "Island Free Press" concerning the bridge debacle:
“This is the most studied project in the history of U.S. transportation,” Jim Trogdon, chief operating officer for the North Carolina Department of Transportation, said last week.
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The Bonner Bridge was opened in 1963 and slated for a useful life of 30 years. The bridge is now 17 years past its due date for replacement. And, although DOT says it is safe for the public, it has a sufficiency rating of about 2 out of 100 and has been kept open with millions of dollars in repairs.
The Draft Environmental Impact Statement on replacing the bridge was issued in 1993. After several supplements to the DEIS, a Final Environmental Impact Statement was issued in September, 2008.
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The Department of the Interior has weighed in that the EA is not sufficient, and that there needs to be another supplement. So has the Southern Environmental Law Center, representing a half dozen environmental organizations.
More recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, also commented, and that agency also favors a supplement, though somewhat more tepidly than DOI. EPA says it “believes the preparation of a Supplement FEIS might be appropriate.”
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has also been heard from and apparently has no problem with the use of the Environmental Assessment rather than a supplement.
“Our position,” Trogdon said, “is that we don’t think (a supplement to the FEIS) is necessary, and we don’t think it’s likely to happen.”
What most folks involved in the process do think will happen is a lawsuit by environmental groups.
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We as a nation need to put a stop this these PUBLIC "Land Grabs" by powerful environmental groups, as this is but a test bed for trying to do the same on PRIVATE lands.
Please help us!
Booger| 9.7.10 @ 3:30PM
"It's the thought that counts"... Statists rely on the muddle headed "moderates" to provide them votes based not on what they actually accomplish, but on what "nice, caring, etc." people they are. This is why the founders restriction of voting rights to property owners was such a good thing. Property owners actually have to take a level headed approach to business, with little regard for "good intentions", or they end up losing their property. Thus, the property owner is a voter accustomed to filtering out the balderdash, hogwash and horsefeathers that make up the appeal of the Demosocialist Party of Amerika. Those who rely on the dole, or who simply drift through life relying on the kindness of strangers, however, are ever so impressed with "good intentions", regardless of results, and of course vote accordingly.
aware| 9.7.10 @ 5:26PM
Again proving beyond all doubt that all government is a vast bandit gang. From the zoning boards to the White House. No matter who the hell runs it!
If you deal with the Mafia they don't pretend to be anything but criminals. At least they are "honest" criminals, whereas "government" has convinced most dumb asses that it "protects" you FROM criminals. Right! The biggest extortion/murder for hire/protection/theft operators in human history are here to "protect" you! And most "voters" actually BELIEVE this is unquestionably true!
This outrage didn't just happen in the last 3 years, is been going on for a hundred years! Maybe longer! We ALL are having our tax dollars used to crush every thing we hold dear and all that is good. Does it take MORE than a ton of bricks to fall on some people?
Nixon gave us wage and price controls, eliminated the last vestige of monetary sanity, instituted affirmative action and gave us the EPA so don't tell me electing Republicans will fix anything.
Coming soon........1789!
Won't Say Who I am| 9.7.10 @ 5:58PM
If I lived there, I guarantee that not one of those signs or barriers would still be standing.
This was done in the Kelo, Ct. fisaco and the time has come to begin fighting back
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 9.7.10 @ 7:32PM
Have we lost our collective minds? What the hell man, seriously, what the hell? I've been to that restaurant on the beach, in one of my many trips to the lovely Outer Banks. So the answer to saving a bird, is to close the beaches to a community that makes its living dealing with fishermen? Why in the world, would God give birds wings in the first place? Maybe it was for the simple reason, to fly away, when a truck driven by a fisherman comes to close to it. If the bird doesn't know how to get out of the way, then maybe this bird need to be driven over (it's a stupid bird). I'm sure they'll figure it out, here comes a truck, start flapping wings, now fly away. I'm a smart bird!! No, that's too easy, let's destroy a small town instead!!
Deborah D | 9.8.10 @ 7:52AM
This video makes me spitting mad. I live near a NC beach (not Hatteras). These same folks could do to my sister's land what they're doing there. Unelected bureaucrats and judges get together with enviromentalist whackos to undermine the basic rights of Americans -- an unholy alliance similar to businesses and government in cahoots. This is a small window into our future if we don't get it back soon.
billy harper| 9.8.10 @ 7:59PM
I have said this many times .If there were no piping plovers .would your life be better or worse THINK ABOUT IT I'll take the people on the outer banks any day.
Bennett Meador| 9.9.10 @ 2:28PM
I am an enviromentalist, a bird-watcher, a fisherman - an outdoorsman! I have raised and released Bald Eagles for GA DNR and I have been a fishing guide in AK. I have traveled this great country and seen and used many of OUR beautiful public lands. But I'll be darned if I care one bit about the piping plover nesting and wintering at Hatteras. This IS NOT their preferred habitat and they will not survive and produce with ANY regularity or certainty on these beaches. The CHNS RECREATION AREA was created for the American citizens - humans!!!! We need special interest groups to stop telling us how to live and give the island of Hatteras back - BACK TO THE PEOPLE OF HATTERAS!!!!!!