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Re: Environmentalists are mentally ill.

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From: Vicki
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 09:03
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I think you are a narrow minded individual who should get there facts
right before stating that enviromentatlists are mentally ill!

Walt Horning <whorning@pipeline.com> wrote in message news:<4g4slt47l6m44lj8it6js1io94ao3etfn3@4ax.com>...
> Environmentalists are mentally ill:
> 
>  - they get a law passed to save gas by forcing car-makers to make
>    smaller, less safe cars causing more highway deaths
> 
>       Burning less oil is more important than human lives?
> 
>  - they get a law passed to save endangered fish along some rivers and
>    the farmers cannot get water and are the ones now "endangered"
> 
>       Fish are more important than humans? 
> 
>       Its "OK" for the farmers to die instead?
> 
>  - they get a laws passed to make it twice as expensive to produce
>    electricity in California and then cannot figure out how come they
>    cannot get any power or have to pay too much
> 
>       Too many regulations are more important than humans?
> 
>  - they do not want oil drilling in certain areas but ignore the fact
>    that if there is a shortage of heating oil, little babies could
>    freeze to death
> 
>       Are a few Caribou are more important that babies?
>  
>  - they interfere with military target practice on deserted islands
>    and ignore the need for self-defense or a military force for
>    problems like Iraq
> 
>       Are a few birds more important than national security?
> 
>  - they have always protested nuclear weapons, but only with weapons
>    of mass destruction is there a defense against more "Hitlers" in
>    this world
> 
>       Are a few more holocausts what these mentally ill people want?
> 
>       "The bomb" saved hundreds of thousands of US soldiers' lives
>       when Japan surrendered. (Granted, they could have bombed
>       military targets or some less populated area for an effective
>       demonstration to get them to surrender.)
> 
>  - they moan and groan about CO2 emission, when in fact more CO2 means
>    more green plants to counter the effect of CO2 and bring the amount
>    of CO2 back in "balance".
> 
>       Are the deaths of millions of starving people worth it when
>       world economies fail due to excessive regulation?
> 
> These people may mean well, but I can only conclude they are mentally
> ill when they cannot see the harm they are doing. Some regulation is
> needed, that is for sure, but these people are no longer sensible, but
> fanatics.
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