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b>  "Private Property" issues are indeed sweeping the country as
 b>  Rush Limbaugh popularizes it.  Wise Use has pushed "takings
 b>  legislation" in many states.  This sells; "Beware! Big Government
 b>  wants to take or regulate all our property!"  Very emotional, 
 b>  as all good propaganda is.

best as I can tell, this was orginally Doug's posting.  Equating the Wise
Use movement to Rush Limbaugh or suggesting that he is responsible for its
genesis would be like suggesting that Meryl Streep is the lightening rod
for all environmentalism in the country.

There was a property rights movement before Limbaugh and will be one
after.  What Newt Gingrich wrote into the Contract for America has been
written countless times before he embraced it.  I don't reject their
participation any more than you see the Sierra Club bashing Meryl Streep
for grandstanding, but Newt's a politician and Rush is a meditician, and
the rest of us are just trying to get something accomplished.

The Wise Use movement offers a target as broad as the side of a barn
because it is thouroughly unorganized, which is what most of us like about
it.  You can say whatever you like about wise use, and it doesn't defend
itself with imperial tone because it has no king.  Some poor slob like
myself wanders on to do battle, but not for Rush or Chuck or Ron or Newt. 
My branch of the wise use movement is quite democratic, it does what I
say, thinks what I think, and acts as I direct it.  It's just me.  Of
course I send my internet bills to Lyndon Larouche, but you know he hasn't
sent me a check yet.  Maybe someone could put in a word on my behalf.

Keep dreaming Dougie.

Have a Nice Day unless you work for the government.

Brian Bishop
No Disclaimer(There is no excuse for me)