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Cobia Seeker
08-12-2004, 05:21 PM
( As posted in another site )

Hypocrites in Uniform

Well, They're back, on YOUR tax money, of course...

The NPS can't re-open pole road because it was a "natural process" that overwashed the beach and created all that new habitat, that they can't interfere with by restoring the needed, desirable and traditional access.

Why, the eco-crazies even started whimpering and whining that it wouldn't be "right" to interfere with the "natural process" that created Isabel Inlet, and effectively isolated Hatteras and Ocracoke Villages from the rest of the world. It wasn't until the Secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, said "do whatever it takes to reconnect those citizends to their livlihood, restore their utilities and public health support services, etc", that the Wackos realized they were fighting a politically unwinable war and they slunk off to lick their wounds. Why some of those hypocritical sycophants even collected awards for their efforts after they were dragged kicking and screaming aboard the recovery team.

The same people who would have let the citizens, women and children alike, die of starvation in the dark in Ocracoke and Hatteras rather than "interfere with natural processes" in the park, are now INTERFERING AS FAST AS THEY CAN with natural processes as part of their efforts to keep their pet birds happy in those egregious closures.

That's right, folks. The Civil Service TRAPPERS are going about their business of eliminating the fauna like foxes, raccoons, etc that might , as a natural process, mind you, eat a bird from time to time. There were a couple of these guys laying out a trapline among the dune field about a mile south of Cape Point yesterday. One of these bozo's with that fancy Dept of Agriculture hat and GSA truck even explained that those Raccoons "aren't a native species"... Imagine that ! Thought that the Naturalist in Raleigh's expedition wrote about the Raccoons on the outer banks when he was here in the 1500's... Anyway, even if the RED foxes aren't native to North America, they are sure well established, and isn't species colonization a "natural process"?

Oh well, If you are with the government you can just say "Screw natural processes when it suits my agenda!"

Just like the deliberate reintroduction of those amaranthine weeds at the most popular point on Hatteras Island last year in the unspoken hope that the thing would justify a future exclusion of the public from their National Park.

Anyway, the trappers are slinking around again. Be interesting to learn How Many Tax Bucks it Takes to Catch one of those Cute Little Foxes This Year. Do all ya'll think you're getting your money's worth? And where's PETA when they might do some good for a change ?

sand flea
08-12-2004, 08:10 PM
Yet in other parks (http://pierandsurf.com/faq/hotspots/va/backbay.shtml) people can buy their way into refuges that you and I could be arrested for even walking through after dark.

I'd just like to see some consistency.

rattler
08-12-2004, 08:40 PM
you got that right...used to be open beaches, but build a couple of high doller homes and its no access. can't even park on the street. :( . i pay taxes...heres a thought...a big one gets them like isszy, there gonna use my tax money to fix their problems and most likely do it first(high dollar neighborhood)....this kind of stuff just gets to me sometimes :mad: sorry to spout off :(

Orest
08-13-2004, 09:06 AM
45% of US live within 55 miles of the sea coast and the shores of the Great Lakes.

Yet - Only 1% of our sea coast and Great Lakes shore is PUBLIC.



http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/recreation_use/chap2-3a.htm

AL_N_VB
08-13-2004, 01:40 PM
I have sent our representative,Ed Shcrock,an e-mail,and let him know that we are waiting fer some more info,regarding this subject......this just pi$$e$ me off.I thought access was still granted to those that were grand-fathered in,and no more passes were to be issue,through Back Bay.

Guess ,money does buy everything...but not the right to discriminate

k-tom
08-13-2004, 04:48 PM
Turn in the Trappers to PETA, should make for an interesting sceniao.

Dyhard
08-13-2004, 09:54 PM
I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT! I USED TO DRIVE DOWN THAT BEACH EVERY SUNDAY TO FALSE CAPE AND CAROVA , SOME OF THE BEST FISHING THAT ONE COULD IMAGINE, UNTIL 1974, THAT IS WHEN THEY CLOSED THE BEACH AFTER PROMISING THAT THEY WOULDN’T. They want the area for themselves, you know! THEIRS!!