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- From: nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
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- Subject: Re: Sheep in Organizations
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.163305.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 00:33:05 GMT
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- In article <58020@dime.cs.umass.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec25.130508.1@acad3.alaska.edu> nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
- >>Proplem is that some 75% of the land in Alasaka is either Federal or
- >>State Government or Local Governments, of Native Corps.
- >
- > That's 75% of a whole lot of acres. But why do you think that you have a
- > right to grab land from the public or the native americans?
- >
- Some of the Native Americans have also had to put up with Federal Land that no
- one can use.. Bering Strait National Perserve. Many people can't even hunt
- there and it is next door..
-
- >>> You're asking for a handout. You want the general public to give you our
- >>> property for your private benefit. Why the hell should we? There are
- >>> millions of acres of privately held land in Alaska. Earn some money and
- >>> buy some instead of trying to grab our public land.
- >>
- >>Yes there is some private land.. But have you ever tried to do anything with
- >>much of it. Also by Alaska State Law you can't own the sub-surface rights to
- >>the minerals available..
- >
- > Take that up with the state of alaska. Not my problem.
- >
- >>Question why does there have to be so much "Public"
- >>land most is in places where you can't even get to unless you have a plane..and
- >>even if you have a plane, you can't set foot on it..
- >
- > Because many of us value the preservation of some wilderness on the
- > north american continent, and we would like *our* public land to be used
- > that way.
-
- Well many off don't care for your ideas of "public land" if you so much want
- public land and parks, then spend some of your own money and buy land and make
- them parks, maybe even give them to the Park Service.. My State is aState, even
- thou the War Between the States forced the issue of weather a state can succeed
- from the union. Many in Alaska are tired of a Federal Government who lives in
- its own paradise and care nothing for us in the Western US/Alaska.. Alaska has
- many of the same reasons for why the American Colonies decided to get out of
- the British Empire.. We are tired of living in a land where people in other
- states have more of a say in our politics than we do.. It is time for people in
- the states to reconfirm thier rights, get rid of the IRS (not actually part of
- the US Government or it is said so, how it got around the direct tax classue in
- the US COnstitution). I know our views are to different, in many of the same
- way we live in different ends of the US..
- >>>
- >>> No. I mean that National Parks are for the benefit of all americans and
- >>> public property should not be given away.
- >>>
- >>Question is how did this "Public Property" come about? And why must the FED
- >
- > Same way that private property came about: theft.
- >
-
- Okay I hope you don;t mind if I steal your private home, and land and make it a
- park so maybe sometime my great grand children might actually visit it..
-
-
- >>own land anyway? I wonder how money the GOV pays to upkeep/maintain FEDERAL
- >>land that they don't need to maintain. Turn most or all over to the States or
- >>the Public..
- >
- > The Federal government owns land because the public gets advantages out of
- > common ownership of land that it would not get out of private ownership of
- > land.
- >
- Why must the Government take care of alot of services that can be better taken
- care of by private organizations or by smalller governemtal organizations??
-
-
- >>>>When the founding fathers started our nation is was becuase of economic
- >>>>reasons, they were all land owners.. Do you think they would liek it that they
- >>>>did not own the land, but were only borrowing it.. Read up what feudalism is
- >>>>and you find what Im talking about..
- >>>
- >>> Tom Paine was not. Ever heard of him? But you should read some works by
- >>> the founding fathers if you want to invoke them. For example, you might want
- >>> to read Jefferson's letters to Monroe on land ownership. He explicitly
- >>> dismisses the theory that ownership of land should entitle the land owner
- >>> to use it up or to do with it whatever he/she pleases. Maybe Jefferson
- >>> was a, god I hate to say it, *socialist*.
- >>>
- >>Did they all not earn their bread on land, also did not Tom Jefferson own
- >>slaves... Maybe I should read the letters.. I try to keep an open mind.. I just
- >
- > If you're going to claim that the founding fathers would have agreed with
- > you, you should read some of their writings. While they were big on private
- > property, they were also big on civic duties and public good.
- How can you get private property when must land is locked up for
- 'preservation>.
-
- >>get annoyed when to build a road, dam, or anyting to benefit the local
- >>population, you have to fill out a 400+ page environmental impact statement,
- >>and that drives the price of the project up thru the roof..
- >
- > The reasons for these regulations are that before we had them we enjoyed
- > many terrible and poorly planned roads dams and drainage projects that
- > are now costing us lots of money to undo.
- >
- Well some were badly planned, but why? Question is are they bewtter planed now
- that the FED has its finger in the stew. Nope.. There is a point where micro
- managing goes to far..
-
- >>As I say again, do I meddle in your politics of your state? If I don't have the
- >>courtesy to not meddle in the polictics of my state. And that includes all
- >>lands therein..
- >
- > Guess again. We all live in the same country, and our federally owned lands
- > are not the property of just the citizens of the states where the properties
- > are found. But, go ahead, meddle in our state politics, it's a free
- > country.
-
- Okay, next time Kennedy comes up for re-election, Ill donate money for someone
- other to be elected. Only difference between my early family and the Kennedies
- was mine where cops and his were crooks..
-
- >
- >>
- >>
- >>Michael Adams
- >>Alias: Morgoth/Ghost Wheel
- >>nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
- >
- >
- > --
- >
- >
- > yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu
-
- Maybe we need to start a new thread, this is getting rather long..
-
-
- Michael Adams
- Alias: Morgoth/Ghost Wheel
- nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
-
- Merry Xmass.. HAppy Hanakah. Good Quanza(sp), HAppy New Year. Merry Orthodox
- Christmas.. Happy Winter Solstice (I know a little late)..
-