Sipsey Street Irregulars: Details of how the Feds blinked in Otero. "Monday morning it looked like they wanted to throw us in jail and file injunctions."

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Details of how the Feds blinked in Otero. "Monday morning it looked like they wanted to throw us in jail and file injunctions."

Rardin has said he and commissioners could no longer stand idly by without doing something to help protect the health, safety and welfare of county residents, and improve forest watershed in communities within and around the forest.

Due to extreme drought conditions and the Mayhill Fire, the Lincoln National Forest was closed between May 12 and June 19, but fire restrictions were not lifted until Aug. 18.

Rardin said commissioners and Pearce were going to go ahead with the tree-cutting plan on Saturday regardless if the agreement was in place or not.

"I am very happy we're going ahead this way because we're working together. That's what it takes," he said. "We can't be lone rangers, but if we have to we will. We will go forward. Congressman Pearce will still cut the first tree."

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: Oh my God! People acting sensibly without a Forestry degree!!!! What ever shall we do?; September 17, 2011 at 11:19 PM
Pat H. said...: Modern forestry degrees are all about how to not use the forests at all, but return them to a state of nature with no humans at all.

Have any of you read a National Geographic Magazine lately?

They've been taken over completely by the anti-human brigades. All the forests are almost gone, the seas are dying, global warming (now climate change) is real.

All coordinated by the Wildlands Project.; September 18, 2011 at 11:42 AM
Anonymous said...: I'm surprised the greens didn't file an injunction. I'm sure they will set about with some kind of law suit soon - the commie bastards.; September 18, 2011 at 2:44 PM
Anonymous said...: "Working with the U.S. Attorney's Office has been a privilege and a pleasure," Rardin said. "I am pleasantly surprised. They're really professional at what they do. (snip) This agreement is good for both sides -- the county and the Forest Service. In the end, the Forest Service and the county will work together for one goal."

County commissioner Ronnie Rardin may have set a world record for suck-up in a single paragraph.

Tennessee would probably elect him for governor...

III N TN; September 19, 2011 at 7:24 AM
TPaine said...: Looks like the feds are now saying that they didn't blink, they allowed the folks to stage their little protest on a few acres of land that really didn't matter anyway. So was this really a stand-off that we won, or was it meaningless? Looks like the latter to me.; September 19, 2011 at 5:15 PM
Anonymous said...: TPAINE,
Do you actually expect any one, not just the feds, to say, "Well, we wussed out but you just wait".
Of course not, they have to down play it in an attempt to save some face.

Tom Bogan; September 20, 2011 at 8:55 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Details of how the Feds blinked in Otero. "Monday morning it looked like they wanted to throw us in jail and file injunctions."

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