JSherlockHolmes@... said:
> This is a list directed at a common hobby, motorcycle enjoyment. To be
quite frank, we don't need your "ego" mentalist attitudes. You know, its
people like you that have screwed up our sport in the first place. For
instance, the Sierra club managed to get the Barstow to Vegas race canceled
because of the desert tortoise. Even thought there wasn't any documented or
substantiated evidence that the race had ever caused harm to the desert
tortoise. >
I say:
Now lets see, the desert tortoise has bbeen around a helluva lot longer than
anyone on this list. Nice to know someone speaks for them.
JSherlockHolmes@... said:
> Subsequently, many businesses and communities that enjoyed decent profits
from the race and accompanying tourism, lost millions of dollars, a huge
impact on their communities.>
I say:
Hmm, tourism! What a great way to depend on a living. Not to mention to
turn your population into a money-grubbing bunch who tend to educate
themseles less and less since they count on "manna from heaven" to eat, not
their own labors.
JSherlockHolmes@... said:
>Then a few years later the Sierra club was caught taking money from mining
and development organizations just to keep the Sierra club from interfering
with their activities in desert tortoise environment. Supposedly, the Sierra
club was going to relocate the disturbed desert tortoises. It was later
learned that the Sierra club arranged for the tortoises to be kept in
overcrowded pens, until they were eventually
destroyed.
I say:
Perhaps since you're so wise and always right anyhow, you could be Captain
Planet, and make eerything allright.....
JSherlockHolmes@... said:
> This is just one example of the many shady activities that the organized
eco terrorists are guilty of. Thanks to people like yourself, we have lost
millions of acres of family activity area just because of your "special
interest" desires. Studies have shown that families that participate in OHV
activities together, stay together longer and the children are less likely
to be involved in criminal activities. But that doesn't matter to "ego"
terrorists like yourself. All you can see is that people that don't think
like you are misguided or just plain criminal.
I say:
And ya know, I couldn't care less about that stuff. To me, if the criminal
justice system was fair, we'd need less prisons, as we'd kill criminals for
a lot less than we do now. But anyhow! Since most people reside in areas I
can't begin to consider real "outdoors" your little family group just became
10% of the US population. Screw the minority, we don't need your agenda on
us. (Look guys, I can make noise and pollute anywhere I please! And damn to
Hell any liberal bastard who don't want me doing anything I please!)
JSherlockHolmes@... said:
> You wonder why we have special interest groups based on motorized
recreation like the AMA, ABATE, etc. Why do they exist? Because WE want them
to. You don't seem to understand that the majority of the American public
does not agree with, or sympathize, with people like you. And for me, thank
GOD they do exist. It is one of the few ways that we can keep zealots like
yourself under control.
I say:
Ooooh, the big bad AMA! Do they do anything other than bitch about people
being required to wear helmets? I'm in a state that you can wear what you
please, you can take a razor to your hair, and ride with the wind whistling
across your scalp if you please where I am. But you know... If someone
don't care about the brains in their skull, I'd rather they get the choice
to possibly get said brains spilled on the street for all to see. Woldn't
that be macho? I don't know who ABATE is, so I can't rag on them...
JSherlockHolmes@... said:
> As an American you have the right to your opinion. However, as an American
I have the right to tell you to keep your hands off my BBQ's, my steaks, my
chops, my chicken, etc. If you don't want to eat meat, then don't. But keep
away from my rights as an American to eat as I like, and to recreate as I
like. In fact, I'm sure many would appreciate if you kept your "ego"
mentalist ideas to yourself. This is not the forum for them.
I say:
We're ALL ego-mentalists, babe! If you weren't yourself, would you write
such a huffy letter of response?
Chris Astier