Environmentalist Nutjobs to Native Americans: “Drop Dead, Literally, Drop Dead”
An Aleut village in Alaska offered to swap 50,000 acres of land for use as a wildlife refuge in return for being allowed to build an 11-mile gravel road to an airport so that villagers in need of lifesaving medical care could be transported to Anchorage. They have been fighting the Federal Government for thirty years to build the road and, in that time, nineteen people have died for lack of medical care they could otherwise have received.
But the Obama Department of the Interior shot them down, because Gaia.
Safe to bet Interior Secretary Sally Jewell never has to worry about being hundreds of miles from the nearest life-saving medical care.
The Aleuts should just go ahead and build the road and dare the Feds to stop them. Similar to what Democrat Chicago Mayor Richard Daley did with Meigs Airfield back in 2003. He got away with it, of course, because he’s a Democrat.
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“Safe to bet Interior Secretary Sally Jewell never has to worry about being hundreds of miles from the nearest life-saving medical care.”
It would be entertaining to arrange things so that Jewell (and all eco fanatics) were unable to get any emergency medical care.
For that matter, since they all love Gaia so much, force them to live without *all* modern technology.
That would be fair, right?
Comment by pst314 — February 27, 2014 @ 10:08 am - February 27, 2014
I agree they should just build it anyway.
I get trying to preserve wildlife and the environment but I don’t see where building a road is going to do much harm in this area to the environment-it’s not like Field of Deeams where building a road will result in millions of cars turnin up to drive I it.
It’s a road in a remote area that would provide a quicker and safer emergency plan for those in need.
Comment by Just Me — February 27, 2014 @ 11:08 am - February 27, 2014
“I’ve listened to your stories, now I have to listen to the animals.” Who the heck does she think she is, a Disney princess?
Comment by Sean — February 27, 2014 @ 11:39 am - February 27, 2014
Just build it. it’s a safe bet that the enforcement class in DC will never go there to see if there is a new road. If they do go up there, and actually drive on that road, it is a safe bet they won’t question if it is a legitimate or illegitimate road.
Comment by Professor Hale — February 27, 2014 @ 12:07 pm - February 27, 2014
They got into trouble because they asked permission.
Comment by Professor Hale — February 27, 2014 @ 12:07 pm - February 27, 2014
I’ve been saying for years that progressives LOVE humanity–they just hate actual people. http://www.zazzle.com/progressive_love_sticker_bumper_stickers-128106186309771768
Comment by Bastiat Fan — February 27, 2014 @ 12:16 pm - February 27, 2014
Maybe Sally can send then some small pox infected blankets too, for good measure. I can’t help but recall Rev. Joseph Lowery’s benediction at Ogabe’s first inauguration. “When the red man can get ahead man; and white will embrace what is right. That those who do justice and love mercy say Amen.”
Comment by runningrn — February 27, 2014 @ 3:31 pm - February 27, 2014
Hold on!
I thought (apparently fallaciously) that Aleut’s were at one with nature, the primary custodians of the environment and like all native Americans held in special esteem as a protected species different from other Americans.
The Great White Father is screwing with the noble Indians again. Time for Deborah Hannah to sit in a tree.
Comment by heliotrope — February 28, 2014 @ 8:56 am - February 28, 2014
I often historically-disagree with Mr. Daley and his father’s politics, but you got to admire they had style in wielding mayoral power.
Comment by Ted B. (Charging Rhino) — February 28, 2014 @ 1:08 pm - February 28, 2014
At some point, the states are going to have to actively resist federal overreach.
If this has been going on for 30 years… that includes GOP administrations. What’s their excuse for not approving this a long time ago?
Comment by KCRob (SoCalRobert) — February 28, 2014 @ 8:15 pm - February 28, 2014
One legal question: If someone tries to prevent you from a measure you require to save your life; what is the proper limited response in a legal manner you can engage in to take the action required to save your life?
For example, I’m having a heart attack and someone tries to keep me from going to the doctor in a timely manner… can I shoot him and call it “self-defense” as I rush to the hospital?
One follow-up question: Who will be populating the juries for a possible murder/self-defense case in this area of Alaska?
Comment by gekkobear — March 3, 2014 @ 1:03 am - March 3, 2014