This story jumped out at me precisely because I don’t think most bloggers will cover it… yet it cuts right to the heart of the conflict between Right and Left — more specifically, between conservationists and environmentalists.

Back in July of 2006, a “small group of environmentalists” won a victory in federal court, when U.S. District Judge Anthony Ishii ordered a halt to seven reconstruction projects in Yosemite National Park. The projects had begun pursuant to two major plans: the Merced River Plan and the Yosemite Valley Plan.

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“This is an astonishing position to take: that the purpose of the National Park System is to protect the wilderness areas from human beings, rather than to afford ordinary people the opportunity to experience nature without having to be mountain men or wilderness scouts. But it fits well with an environmentalist movement that has become less concerned about the full environment (which of course includes human beings) and simply opposed to people, ordinary people, instead.”

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Get the rest of this one…
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070128/D8MUGFU80.html

This is but one more story, the list goes on and on and on and on. Many of the groups filing these suits are 501 C3 orgs. They constantly ignore the terms of being a 501, but the irs will not enforce its own rules against them!

I could list 1000 or more links of the same crap!