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Date Posted: 06:15:56 07/09/11 Sat
Author: McGee
Author Host/IP: 97-120-181-2.ptld.qwest.net / 97.120.181.2
Subject: NCO/Art Hyland

What Needs to be Said

A weekly column written by Art Hyland. Art has been closely following economic and political issues for over 40 years as a past owner of several medium-sized businesses. A graduate of the University of Washington, a Naval officer, and upon the sale of his businesses, he ran for and was elected a county auditor. Art was responsible for a budget larger than Clatsop County's as well as overseeing the elections, recording and payroll functions. His private and government experience has given him the perspective to comment upon both. You can contact Art at ahyland@northcoastoregon.com.

ShareKeep the Beaches Free for Mules
In continuing the tradition of adopting more and more of what has turned California into a museum of how people used to work, produce, develop and create, Oregon, and more specifically Portland, has adopted the “Hollywood Post-Economy” philosophy (HPE). HPE --where united, “smart” governance promotes coordinated actions to achieve “outcomes” promoted by self-anointed individuals and groups seeking to limit the earth’s inhabitants and its gross domestic product.

This is not a new call by the leftist elites of this world. In fact, it is quite an old theme, perhaps starting with Malthus himself, but more recently with the Sierra Club in the 1970s in California, where they decided the problem with all ecological problems was overpopulation. However, it was not exactly a problem embraced by the general population who at the time was engaged in the aforementioned producing, developing and creating a California where man’s limitations were considered limitless. People were flocking to move there because of the optimism of such a golden place. So the Sierra Club environmentalists, not liking any of this optimism, along with many sister environmental organizations throughout the world, took another tack: if we can’t depopulate the earth now, we can educate the earth’s plebeians by highlighting their abusive living practices. Why, just a few days ago Al Gore pleaded with the girls of the world to stop, well, you know. It’d be easy if they had Mr. Al in the hotel room begging for massages in certain places.

Meanwhile, also in Portland, we see Democrat Mayor Sam Adams, an HPE graduate with his sexual orientations as a bonus, promoting, encouraging, and of course celebrating the things he likes to celebrate, such as the “Keep Portland’s Parks Barefoot Friendly” campaign, organized by the Surfrider Foundation. Or you may have seen Sam at another Surfrider event, a coffee shop discussion about a new book, “Plastic: A Toxic Love Story,” where the anointed gathered to discuss the narrow defeat in Oregon’s legislature of a state-wide plastic bag ban. No matter that Oregon, like California and so many liberal states, are broke or getting there as fast as gays seem to be multiplying. Fiscal issues are just so, well, annoying, so they concentrate on plastic and paper bags. Or throwing money away on wind farms and wave energy.

But because global warming, CO2 restricting, economy-killing energy planning have already been well-established in Oregon, it’s not difficult to populate Portland’s coffee shops and parks to highlight the damages population causes upon a once-pristine geography of Oregon. Two Minutes of Hate (ala “1984”) perhaps, but lattes take ever so much more time to perfect, so two minutes expands to hours, days and years.

Surfrider Foundation is just one more of a species of environmental non-profits which are native to California but have become toxic, non-indigenous varieties in other states and nations. According to them they are “a non-profit [of course] organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s oceans, waves and beaches through a powerful activist network.” They originally just advocated for surfers of California’s beaches, but then expanded into a socially-conscious, regulation pushing, multimillion dollar, educational lobbying group that now aligns with such power entities as the California Coastal Commission, one of the first political bureaucracies set up to expropriate private property through public extortion. Surfrider even co-publishes an annual report grading those same commissioners on the degree to which each passes their “conservation voting score.” Which translates into how best to “save the beaches” by restricting private property and limiting use of it by its owners, all without just (or any) compensation. With the power of the Coastal Commission, Surfrider and many similar environmental organizations have helped crush constitutionally-protected rights in their efforts to expand public use of private property through the power of land regulation and permit control.

In Oregon, Surfrider lobbies for every kind of environmental issue concerning waterways “collaborating,” as they say, with other groups and “stakeholders” to effect environmental changes, which invariably means placing more and more control in the hands of government, which in turn leads to interpretation and enforcement in the bureaucracies that actually operate government. This is accomplished one small step at a time, with no one in government or politics caring to look at the accumulations. Therefore, with the passage of years, accumulated environmental regulations very slowly choke the citizens of their freedoms, regulate the citizens until they are herded like cattle. We are all becoming like Winston in “1984,” who could not even think without worrying that his thoughts were being scrutinized. It has become a cliche to list some of the phrases of the Orwell book, but unfortunately by becoming cliches, Orwell’s warnings have been ignored, having become humorous references to events or trends to which the public has been taught to be indifferent.

It all comes together for the students of EPH: control population by celebrating the diversity of gays, lesbians and other non-reproducible mules of the human race; regulations enforced by ever-parenting government at all levels requiring public adherence to “best practices” of living on this fragile earth. The level of awareness of these environmentalists is without equal, according to them, and that’s why the “science is settled” in so many of their areas of concern. They just know. Why would anyone dispute their perfect intentions when it’s in the public good that we all work together to promote a better, more educated population of “stakeholders.” Workers of the government unions, unite! Are Thought Police far behind? Hell no, they’re here already. Led by Big Brother Democrat Governor Kitzhaber.

And if you’re not already sick of this, wait until tomorrow. But there is a way to defend yourself: understand that these people are “batshit” crazy--as Dennis Miller famously declared--“I guarantee you, [these people] sleep upside down!”

And to whom HPE appears as BdH, which, in German, is short for the German Hairdressers Association, which makes as much sense as anything to this group. But then, it was a California Democrat who created the now famous “drunk the Kool Aid” moniker, when he led an actual suicide convention of pied piper followers from San Francisco to South America. Well, there you go, population control in its most direct method. Al Gore, get with the program.

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