Animals

Animals, birds, bugs and fishes vs. humans

August 16, 2001

STRAIGHT TALK
By Muriel Sluyter

The Endangered Species Act has killed four firefighters. After the Forest Service denied any delay in responding to the firefighters’ request for water, Fox News presented them with evidence and witnesses that refuted their claims, so the Forest Service released this timeline of events:

At 5:30 a.m., the firefighters call for water to extinguish the fully contained fire. Shortly after 10 a.m., helicopters arrive, but aren’t permitted to use water from the river.

According to Jan Flatten, U.S. Forest Service, "At 12:08, the dispatch office ordered a helicopter. However, because there were endangered species in the Chewuch River, they wanted to get permission from the district to get there to the river to take water."

1:15 p.m., crew desperate, requesting tanker with own water supply. 2 p.m., rangers approve helicopter. 3 p.m., helicopters make first water drop. 3:58 p.m., 30-mile fire explodes. Air tankers diverted, helicopters grounded. 5:22 p.m., four firefighters pronounced dead.

William La Juenesse, Fox News correspondent, spoke to two firefighters who were caught by this fire. They say no water was ever dropped.

There was water available and no reason for the denial of water, except that no emergency had ever been officially declared, and that is the only circumstance that permits taking water from a river containing endangered species. In America’s new value system, endangered fish are of greater value than humans, so four brave young people’s lives were sacrificed on an altar erected by perverted environmentalism.

The Oregon farmers who have lost their crops and perhaps their farms to the Endangered Species Act used to be loggers and sawyers. But environmentalists decreed the spotted owl was more important than the people who lived and worked on that land. So the loggers became farmers; now their farm water has been taken for endangered fish, and one of those is a trash fish.

The ranchers around Yellowstone lose their stock to wolf packs; in some parts of Montana and Idaho, it is to grizzlies. Now, southern Arizona farmers and townspeople could lose much of their water to a clam, all in the name of saving the environment.

Environmentalists rhapsodize over the minute section of the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge on which the President intends to drill for badly needed oil. They put pictures on TV of animals running across beautiful wild country and tell people that is what ANWR looks like. But Jonah Goldberg, a syndicated columnist who has been there, says it looks more like hell frozen over in winter, and is a "petri dish" infested with voracious mosquitoes, nostril flies and parasitic warble flies in summer; the pictures they put on TV are of an entirely different part of the refuge. Honesty is never the best policy if it interferes’ with environmentalists’ agenda.

How much longer are the majority of Americans going to tolerate the depredations of a minority who ride roughshod over our rights? Will we learn that there are no limits to the outrages of which these people are capable, or are we slow learners?

We had better become faster learners and begin calling our congressmen and senators with our concerns; otherwise, it is a matter of time until we ordinary, hard-working Americans lose control over our land — land on which we will continue to pay the exorbitantly high taxes needed to provide wages for our oppressors.

Our newspapers are filled with issues dear to those who value animals, etc., more highly than humans. Unborn babies are America’s truly endangered creatures, but we don’t see an endless stream of articles on an Endangered Unborn Babies’ Act. We do see demands that no unborn baby be protected, whether in an embryonic stage or within weeks of his projected birthday. Curiously, the most rabid supporters of animals, etc., are also the most vehement in their demands that babies be killed at any time, for any reason. They insist our world is over-populated, so live babies are unwanted.

We whine about natural disasters, but permit the ACLU to strip every reference to God from public life. We permit environmental and political anarchists to destroy our God-given freedoms; we rant about global warming and accept phony studies as fact, but are outraged when the God we have ridiculed and denigrated turns His back on our problems. Rocket science, this isn’t.

Many Americans have become dumb, unquestioning sheep; if we don’t become more vigilant, we will share the fate of sheep.