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July 13, 2004
Goodbye Trees
So in case you guys haven't been paying attention, Bush finally succeeded in lifting the logging ban on our national parks. So... in a few years don't be surprised if we don't have any trees or wildlife or clean rivers left in the US.
Why are we logging you ask? Well, the bill provides for roads to built through the national parks. Why might we need a highway through Tongass National Forest in Alaska? I dunno... surely not to give eskimos an easy way to visit the big cities to the south... I wonder if this means that our wilderness will be subject to *pause* DRILLING! Why would we opening up national forests to drilling when Bush supposedly supports alternative fuel methods that DON'T POLLUTE?! This is one twisted administration.
Seriously, how can anyone out there support Bush? If you plan on voting republican (or not voting at all), then you clearly have no idea of what's been happening in the past four years. If you are not furious with the state of things, then you have not been paying attention!
There are people at my work who support Bush and refuse to read or listen to anything that doesn't have a radical conservative slant to it. People who only watch Fox News. While they certainly have every right to believe whatever they want, and say whatever they want, I don't understand how anyone who claims to be moral, who claims to believe in a religion, who believes in the Constution of this country and the ideals of democracy can support the actions that our administration has undertaken and plans to undertake in the future. How can people be so blind?!
The worst thing is that whenever someone tries to argue in favor of Bush, instead of presenting logical arguments and facts, you'll hear one of three repeated arguments: 1) "Clinton did this and that and nobody complained then, so why are you complaining now?" 2) "All the bad stuff about Bush is just a product of the slanted liberal media. If news wasn't so biased, you'd hear the real truth." 3) Some form of circular logic or doublespeak like, "Everyone used to complain that Bush was stupid, now they're all saying he's an evil genious. Well which one is it? He can't be both, so clearly neither is true." These lame excuses have nothing to do with the issue at hand, and are just excuses that idiots who cannot back up their beliefs because they've never actually thought about them make in order to continue living in their ignorant splendor. The other problem with these arguments is that they're totally baseless and nonsensical for obvious reasons which I will explain:
1) Whatever Clinton did or didn't do does not matter. This is not a case of "he did it first so it's OK if I do it too." Since I wasn't talking about Clinton, I am neither defending or criticising anything that went on during that administration. The simple fact of the matter is that for Clinton's 8 years, the most unhappy that the country got with him was due to the fact that he had an affair with a secretary. Bush has been drawing worse criticism than Clinton ever recieved, and it has been coming since before he was in office and as a result of many many different things. And if you want to argue about the bombings that Clinton authorized, while killing anyone is most definately bad, killing many more people without consulting the UN and lying to the entire world to justify it is much worse. So please stop comparing every mistake Clinton made with the mistakes Bush is making. Clinton is not the one currently ruining this country, and that is what is important right now!
2) Slanted liberal media?! If anything, the media is slightly more conservative than what should be considered rational. And before you go whining about how the media always uses goofy photos of Bush, or talks about how bad the radical right-wingers are; before you go complaining how liberal newscasters are attacking the "moral" republicans, consider that we've had to hear the mind-numbing liberal bashing of insane conservatives like Rush Limbaugh (to name just one) who could be described as borderline-evil because of the terrible things that they say. Even moderates have been attacked for being too "liberal" by these right-winged fanatics. It's about time that the left has decided to take a stand for itself, and it's only a shame that it's taken such a long time and such extremely bad times to bring forth people not afraid to speak for the other side.
3) Oh my god I can't even continue writing about this. I'm too upset knowing that there are people who actually argue against reason...
I don't have time to wrote more, but rest assured THERE IS MORE! If you actually do support Bush and you have a mind open enough to actually explain why instead of just bitching about something that Clinton did being justification for anything Bush wants to do, by all means post it. I would seriously like it hear. I can't write any more... >_<
*) I just realized that this post turned from a lament to trees to a political rant. Sorry about that, trees. I didn't mean to steal the show from you. And now, more about trees:
I think that I shall never see,
A poem lovely as a tree.
Posted by dminky at July 13, 2004 10:30 PM
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