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On 07/19/2011 09:48 AM, Art Deco wrote:
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">Saundra,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">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.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">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.</font></div>
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<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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?<br>
<br>
Paul<br>
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