I think the meat of this post shouldn't be lost;
STAY CLASSY.
Calling people tyrants and calling out individual members in front of the audience may get you high fives in the hallway, or popularity in highschool, but it does us no real good. It will be used as ammunition against us when the last battles are fought.
Hopefully calm and logic will prevail here and we won't get all of our freedom stripped away from us.
Our passion and our unity is our strength, but it must be focused and controlled. While a win for the envrionmentalists is just a feather in their cap, it is a change in lifestyle for us.
Imagine if we told them they can no longer be environmentalists. And conviened a 'blue ribbon task force' to make it law. They would have lost their civility far earlier than we have kept ours, and that is essentially what they are trying to do to us, is trying to tell us how to live our lives. Classic leftists.
We are on the right track here, just STAY CLASSY.
BTW Paul, Joe, Holy Greenback, and the few others who have been driving this bus, enough thanks can't be given for your efforts.
Maybe years in the future when you are bobbing in your 'yak in La Jolla, or silently sliding between kelp stringers with your gun at the ready, you'll feel some deep satisfaction. Because people came to take away your freedom, and you stood fast, and stood there with class and pride and said NO!
I will.
Willy
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