Damn Hippie Liberal Trees

[SHRED]

"As if 600-year-old redwoods give a damn for your politics.

As if struggling salmon care a whit for the Catholic Church's sneering homophobic stance on gay marriage. Like Alaskan elk think your viewpoints on war are far too lopsided to hold sway in the national dialogue.

There are typical GOP evils and there are warmongering BushCo flying monkeys and there is Dick Cheney's pallid sneer as he slaughters a small mountain of birds for blood sport, and then there is perhaps the most vile and destructive notion the GOP has succeeded in foisting upon the numbed nation to date: that caring about Mother Nature makes you, yet again, a "goddamn hippie liberal."

This is what has happened: The GOP has succeeded, woefully, viciously, in demonizing nature. Right now, to love our unlogged forests or to wish air quality to be protected or to hope our leaders don't allow monster crony oil companies to jam their snarling proboscises into our country's nature preserves for a handful of crude is now to be thought of as a dreadlocked Greenpeace-Earth First!-tofu lover."

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/01/28/notes012804.DTL

[salinen]

1. Right on the button!

As a proud hippy I clench my unmanacured fist at these earth haters. Should we admire the 3 piece suits that steal pension plans? How about the mansion dwellers and the hummer drivers? Hippies have a proud heritage of protesting illegal wars, international banking pirates, and environmental slaughterers. Fuck the bible, this earth is not our toilet to use as we lust. It is a community of beings that share the same ball.

[izzie]

2. Funny how even they do not like it in their own back yard.

I once answered a man who was screaming about the bad laws they were passing like this. Yes it was better in York when the sewers ran out of each summer home on to the rocks, with out going through a tank, it helped the rats feed, and kept the taxes down to a very low level in town. By all means lets go back to those days.In about 2 hours he came back and said some thing to this effect, Maybe you are right, as I had not thought it out and who would want sewer or anything else to take down Maine, it is just a party thing we hate all those laws. I do not think any one in the Republican party wants the land to be spoiled but they just do not think. When it hits home they usually wake up.