As sage has said, I stated my opinion at least 20 times and I'll repeat it again.
I "don't want the State to take over the current Federal Public lands", I want the Feds to keep it but "the Feds must stop screwing with the multiple use concept of their stewardship".
HOW MUCH MORE SIMPLY, SUCCINCTLY, STRAIGHT FORWARD CAN I BE.
The Feds need to stop locking out various users though increased regulations and restrictions and manage "all" these public lands as they were intended, at there inception. Stop creating more parks, monuments, park and monument buffer zones, wilderness areas, and wilderness study area. They need to stop using these lands, and access issues, to garner political votes. They need to stop creating more and more and more and more agencies that have more power than the National Forest Service and the BLM agencies, such as the EPA, US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Endangered Species Act and all the other agencies that have been created, that are judge and jury, outside the public and election process.
Pres. T. Roosevelt who established these lands and the original management concepts would roll over in his North American Wildlife Conservation Model grave, if he could see what the Feds have bastardize the Federal Lands System into. You never convince me it was Roosevelt's vision to restore all of these big game species and lock them away from the hunting community through one kind of access restriction or another.
Roosevelt would roll over in his 2nd Amendment Rights grave, if he could see what politicians have done to the right to own and bear arms and he would go into a rage if he knew how much more restrictive they are still trying to make them. He didn't lead the Rough Riders into Cuba to give the country up to pacifists and pacifist sympathizers..
Roosevelt would roll over in his Endangered Species grave, if he could see what politicians do by establishing bureaucracies to control. beyond the reach of the highest office in the land and how these bureaucracies have used spotted owls, snail darters, condors, and wolves etc alter big game species on public lands.
Regarding voting for an individual, regardless of his Political Party. If you think you can ignore National and State Party Policy in State and Federation elections, and vote for the individual, in hopes that that individuals personal integrity and interest will influence or change Party Policy, you have no clue how National and State politics functions. If the Party Policy say's it supports more gun control, you'll get more gun control , regardless of how your local Legislature votes. Haven't you noticed, "Federal Politicians vote Party LIne". Do know what that means? If you don't you damn well better look it up before you vote again.
All you Republican's, you go ahead and vote for a Democrat, over this land transfer deal and see what else you get to go with it.
Does hope and change mean any thing to you?
Your idea of hope and change isn't their idea of hope and change. If you switch who you vote for over this issue, you best be prepared to live with all the other issues you'll get to go with it.
You can, I won't!
But I don't expect a single one of you "rugged, independent, tougher than boot leather individuals" to blink a tear as the National Party Policy goes up your backside", after the votes are tallied.
When they come for your guns, don't b!tch, smile as you hand them in. Don't forget Grandpa's Model 12, and that pretty old 1894.
When they create the next wilderness study area, in your back yard, bend over a little, if you can't reach your ankles, they'll help you get there, so they can slip it in, thank them for their gentleness.
When they dump a load of wolves in your National Forest, take your ipad out on your hikes with you lap dogs, so you can record the howls of the kills, and give that woman weeping in orgasmic ecstasy, back down town Philadelphia, a warm and gentle hug, to share your joy and deepest understanding.
When they close access to your back yard, so the spotted owl, the fly catcher, the condor, and the sage grouse can die off without your interference, sigh a gentle sigh and know you did you part, because you cared by GAWD.
Oh yea, I know, I know. Paranoia is a nasty, rational altering companion.
Ask the Canadians, ask the Australians, ask the British, ask the Mexicans. Their "lack of paranoia" did them a lot of good, "DIDN'T IT"?
Can't happen here?
If you think what the State will do with these lands, if they get them, is predictable, you sure as hell don't have to predict what the Feds will do, they are already doing it. They are just turning up the heat slowly so the frogs don't notice the change in the temperature. (ssssshhhh, if you don't struggle and fight, we can just do it slow, so it won't hurt)
NOW, I've also said this 20 times, but I'll repeat it again.
I don't trust the Republicans much more than I do the Democrats, but I'm focusing my efforts on the Republicans. (you all will do what you want, just be damn sure you're happy with the "total" package.)
Be sure you know what you're electing "my friends", for the 20th time, votes have far reaching comprehensive consequences, far beyond your hunting honey hole.
Wear your Republican's butt out, to make sure we preserve Roosevelt's "multiple use" concept, in it's entirety. These damn Republicans know damn well most of us will vote Republican, regardless of this issue, and they think they can take advantage of it. Don't let them, let them know, if they try to force this issue, we'll elect Republicans that will approach this public lands issue differently than an Federal Lands transfer. FIX THIS TAR BABY WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE FIXED, WITH IN THE FEDERAL SYSTEM, LIKE IT WAS INTENDED WHEN "THE REPUBLICAN T. ROOSEVELT" BUILT IT FOR US.
Ask yourself this, I'm I willing to hunt with only archery equipment, forever, and defend my country from a tyrannical government, be it Republican, Democrat, Communist, Sharia, Fascist, Nazi, or whom every, with a Molotov cocktail and a butcher knife, like the Polish and the Hungarians tried to do in 1953. It's a hell of a lot easier defended our country in the election booth than it is at our front door, staring down barrel of an AK47 or an M4 carbine.
Again.........20 times, again. This land transfer is not going to happen. The State knows it, so do the Feds. If anything, we'll see the State attempt to settle for a large revenue allocation from the Feds, off oil, gas, mining, lumber, etc revenues that are presently going to the Federal government and or private industries (in the way of taxes and/or cooperate profits, the State's (not just Utah) believe they need this revenue, with western State's rapidly expanding population and related public service requirement and in my opinion, our States deserves a larger share of the revenues being generated off these lands.)
I understand many of you disagree, for now it's a free country, so I get disagree with you, as do you with me. It's great isn't it. What's more, for now, I can do it, for free, over the internet, "for now".
Don't squander it, for any reason.
DC
