Just another branch of Liberal Fascism – in this instance, trying to stop fishing. Yes, including recreational fishing:
The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.
This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is “fluid” and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn’t issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters.
That’s a disappointment, but not really a surprise for fishing industry insiders who have negotiated for months with officials at the Council on Environmental Quality and bureaucrats on the task force. These angling advocates have come to suspect that public input into the process was a charade from the beginning…
The wilderness, you see, is for the elite – they can afford to the extra charges necessary to be “green” by definition of environmentalists. The wilderness is not, however, for you and me – us knuckle dragging Bible- and gun-clingers are actually a nuisance out there. How can the fabulously wealthy be expected to enjoy, say, Lake Tahoe if a bunch of middle class cretins are there fishing and hunting and driving boats around the lake?
I doubt much that Obama is even aware of what is going on – sure, in the general sense he’ll always mouth whatever is fashionable at the moment vis a vis the environment, but the real drivers of this are the screwball leftists he’s appointed lower down in the bureaucracy. They are determined to reshape environmental policy and they will not shape it towards the benefit of the majority of Americans (if the majority of Americans benefit from it, the environmentalists will feel they’ve failed).
Whether its something as simple as a weekend angler, or something major like grabbing millions of acres and setting them off limits, the whole thrust of these Enviro-Fascists is to “protect” America from Americans. If they can make it more expensive, more difficult or downright impossible for Americans to use our common lands, they’ll do it. They know best, you see?
We won’t be able to undo this until we beat Obama in 2012 – but once we do we have to be sure that the next Republican President rescinds Obama’s regulations and executive orders whole sale…better to be safe than sorry, and as we don’t know what bits of liberal fascism will be inserted in the fine print, our best defense will be to get rid of them all.
Then we pass a law requiring a 2/3 vote in Congress before public lands can be placed off limits to public use and development…
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