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brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder) writes:

>>>So why is it that EF! thinks that spiking is supposed to be an effective
>>>tactic in scaring loggers out of forests?  Or are their warnings to timber
>>>companies just an expression of concern over the wellbeing of chainsaws?

>>Exactly, dear boy. They wish to make it NOT cost-effective to harvest
>>timber.

>But if that's the goal then spiking fails too.  It makes it more expensive,
but not cost-ineffective.

Au contraire, the spikes are intended for the sawmill, not the chainsaw.


>and that this fear of danger is what's supposed to keep the loggers out, not 
>cost of replacing a few chains and sawblades.

There is so much misinformation on this topic that I won't venture my opinion.
Clearly there is a considerable contingent that would like to see it this way,
this includes both ecofascists on the 'left' ( wherever that is ) and would-
-be rednecks on the 'right' ( wherever _that_ is ).


>>That's all they are doing, is trying to stop habitats from being harvested.

>Come on now!  What they are doing is destroying property which does not belong
>to them, and trying to egdanger the lives of loggers.  You are rationalizing
>the criminal behavior of people who want to control resources by violence 
>rather than by consent.  These folks are criminals.  It matters not what cause
>they are comiting their crime in the name of.

Ah, the concealed prejudice emerges !!

-- richard

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