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Rick

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He HAS gutted the clean air
and water acts and made it possible for oil companies (amazing how many
times that comes up) to pollute in greater quantities than they have
since the mid 1970's.

You have to provide me with specific legislation or rule changes, please. If
one looks at Clear Skys legislation, the biggest complaint is that it isn't
tough enough, although its a lot tougher than what hadn't been PASSED in
Congress or implemented by the previous administration. Last year had the
lowest levels of Ozone in decades, partly because of a wet year, partly because
of controls that have been in effect for years.

He does not "preach access to public land," he
preaches exploitation and destruction of it.

Do you believe that we should make all Public Land a National Park? I firmly
believe that we should be allowed to exploit resources on public land in a
reasonable manner. If one looks at many of the Western States like Wyoming, the

Feds own over 75 percent of the State, to shut off all resources on Public Land
pretty much destroys the economy of these states.

however, more concerned about how he has placed
restrictions on free speech (ex: arresting people for non-violent
protest on the sidewalk at the Republican Convention), established an

investigative arm that is worthy of the gestapo (check out the wrong
books from the library and the feds don't even need to swear out a
warrant to investigate you, all in the name of heimat, excuse me,
"homeland" security), and attempted to institute policies that are clear

violations of the separation of church and state, and you have a civil
rights record that is actually worse than his environmental one.

Now I agree that some of the legislation on Homeland Security is a little
scary, but the worst elements of it were actually already in place in the "War
on Drugs", like that little know Material Witness thing. Nobody seemed to care
back then.

I would point out that Historically the US and most countries have reacted a
lot worse in times of national crisis like 9/11.
I believe that we put the Japanese in concentration camps, suspended habeas
corpus during the Civil and WWI, and generally violated a lot of peoples civil
rights back then.
SYOTR
Larry C.