To the editors:
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I think I must be alienated from most people today, because I wish I could sympathize with one side or the other about the Land Battle, but the whole issue is entirely and dangerously distracting in the face of what is really happening on our planet. Stop Taking Our Land, I know this is supposed to sound literal, direct, and alarming, but come on, didn’t it sound a little childish in your heads? Try saying it out loud. I laughed. In truth, the STOP activists frighten many of us because they actually want to bind the future of land and its “maintenance” to the ever fluctuating and someday doomed market. They are scared at the thought of other people picnicking on what was once their backyard. This particular fear is a great thing, it is a vertebra in the spine of this country; what keeps us where we are.
Meanwhile, people in other parts of the world DIE because they are too poor to move off of the land (property) they live on and it just happened to be built upon a landfill, and behind them is a toxic waste incinerator. Shoshone Indians cling to the last of their land (property) (?) on their reservation because the DOE broke the treaty they made, took the land back, and tested nuclear bombs on it and above it. Forests all over the world, and namely one nearby, Illinois’ Shawnee National Forest, are methodically decimated with your tax money for paper bags, pallets, and furniture. Our repeated tax loss is nothing compared to that of the wildlife there, left with no habitat.
This letter is for those of you who are disgusted or angry or maybe even afraid of ULTRA environmentalists like Earth First! whose motto is No Compromise In Defense Of Mother Earth. Dammit, what do humans want to do, teach the earth to compromise?
