[Vision2020] Pollyanna Wants to Know: Who's the Lying Sack of Sh*t?

[Paul Rumelhart]

On 07/19/2011 09:48 AM, Art Deco wrote:
> Saundra,
> Thank you again for pointing out that the consequences of the 
> megaloads far transcend local considerations -- a point that 
> proponents either refuse to recognize or have not the guts to deal in 
> an honest manner with.
> Several of us have commented at length on these issues, but basically 
> proponents act like no one has brought them up, that they are 
> unimportant, and/or irrelevant.  Obviously the proponents are not the 
> "my brother's keeper type" and are among those that are generally 
> parts of problems but not parts of solutions.  Part of the tough 
> problems that our country and the world now face are caused by similar 
> individuals though capable are unwilling to do or to pay their share.

The evils of the tar sands project *is* irrelevant to whether or not we 
should allow them to move through town on public roads.  That's the 
downside to public roads.  You can't control what people do on them, 
apart from making sure they obey the law.  The upside is that no one can 
control what *you* do on them.  They can't, for example, decide that you 
can't use the road because you are against the tar sands project.  That 
egalitarian freedom is something I think is important, though you seem 
willing to throw it under the bus as soon as it stops being convenient 
for you.

Now, I don't know why you (and others) feel the need to conflate my 
support for that one simple idea into some kind of tacit approval of the 
tar sands project itself.  Certainly claiming that you know that I am 
somehow "part of the problem" is simply asinine.

So, when are you going to don your armor and your lance and march on the 
tar sands project?  Or are *you* part of the problem?

Paul

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