As part of BushCo’s unprecedented effort to destroy anything and everything that’s good about America, the Department of the Interior brings you this load of crap.

A series of proposed revisions of National Park policy has created a furor among present and former park officials who believe the changes would weaken protections of natural resources and wildlife while allowing an increase in commercial activity, snowmobiles and off-road vehicles.

The potential changes would allow cellphone towers and low-flying tour planes and would liberalize rules that prohibited mining, according to Bill Wade, former superintendent at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.

Larry Whalon, chief of resource management at Mojave National Preserve, said the changes would take away managers’ ability to use laws such as the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act to oppose new developments in parks.

And who do we have to thank for this proposal to replace peace, quiet, and preservation of wildlife with Six Flags Over Yosemite?

The changes are the brainchild of Paul Hoffman, who oversees the Park Service and was appointed deputy assistant secretary of the Interior in January 2002.

Hoffman came to the Park Service after serving as director of the Chamber of Commerce in Cody, Wyo. He had previously served as Wyoming state director for then-U.S. Rep. Dick Cheney from 1985 to 1989.

Hoffman is the moron who blocked removal of religious plaques from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon and insisted on stocking the park bookstore with a book espousing a creationist view of the park’s history. Sounds like the second coming of James Watt, doesn’t he? Another one of the “use it all up because Jesus is coming” ilk.

Preservation of our national parks is way up high on the short list of genuinely inspired federal policies. Anyone who wants to further endanger those precious lands so rich cronies can grab a few extra bucks deserves to roast over a slow fire until the end of time.

There is no end to the greed of these people and no depth to which they will not sink in order to squeeze another buck. This bastard Hoffman wants to rape what’s left of America’s natural legacy and replace it with mines, cows, and condos. Elk and bison would have to make way for assholes on snowmobiles, chatting on their cellphones.

I sincerely hope that the ghost of Edward Abbey slips quietly into Hoffman’s bedroom and pisses on his head.

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