Rebels Without a Cause

Big rally in Hamilton Montana this weekend by a group of folks tired of the smoke from forest fires. Seriously. These people paid a lot of money for nice homes and retired here because it is (was) so beautiful and now their "viewshed" is disturbed all summer by this decidedly unattractive smoke. They want the US government, which they all hate as the primary agent of all things evil and socialist, to DO SOMETHING, stop the fires, remove all the trees, change the direction of the wind, SOMETHING. They are not all wealthy and retired, of course, many work hard for poor wages and have simply bought the package of lies and distortions sold by a corporate dominated media and culture. The modern form of"chains".

These folks are, of course, backed by those same corporate interests that prefer option #2 ,remove all the trees, otherwise known as the Presidents "Healthy Forest Initiative". Nothing new here, conservative morons with an idiotic gripe manipulated by business interests in the search for higher profits. These are the same folks who burned their Dixie Chicks CDs, who sport NO Grizzly Reintroduction bumper stickers on their gas guzzling 3/4 ton pickups, and who still think Osama bin Laden and Saddam Husein are the same person. (seen one raghead , youve seen em all) John Kerry is a fake hunter while Dick Cheney is a real one.

Lots of them built their new mansions way up on the hillside ("million dollar views" in the real estate parlance) right next to the unhealthy forest and the grizzly bears. So that the evil government has to spend millions of the working class's tax dollars to protect them and the lives of firefighters are put in more danger trying to prevent the inevitable. I'm going to the rally Sunday and will ask to speak in favor of massive government forest thinning projects funded by tax hikes on the wealthy and hiring masses of immigrant labor at high wages so that they can help their communities back in Latin America. I will also call for zoning regulations so people stop building in the urban /wildland interface and a massive tax on carbon production because in the final analysis it is the global warming caused by us mass consumers which is really causing the smoke.