Edward Abbey Quote

  I am often accused of not being a "team player"  I like what Edward Abbey had to say about that!

Abbey has long passed on but is still an icon of old style western environmentalism. And that style saved a lot of precious places in the West. I was lucky enough to see his speak in his prime here in Flagstaff.

Many of those precious places were, like Cape Vincent, under the direct threat of obscene big corporate profit schemes backed by big govt.rules or impotent regulation, and took sometimes radical political  and personal or group civil disobedience actions to stop the insanity.

Wow how times have changed!  Today we oppose this type of political and govt. over reach by just conceding such rules are "fair and impartial!!! 

And in Cape Vincent we not only have the impending environmental disaster, but the removal of our basic rights to stop it as well.  Govt and corporations  learned critical lessons from the old battles they lost.  Don't screw around, with the environmental logic and science that could defeat your big corporate clients... just get to work on  removing the basics of democracy by removing the critical rights any opposition  needs to ward off any govt. or corporate environmental  insanity.  Then anesthetize them with rules and regulations and reams of paper work so they will accept it as legitimate, and  frighten the opposition into submission by demanding they be "reasonable" AFTER we have taken the radical and obscene action to removed their rights.

Yet our best shot back is that these rules are "fair and impartial"?????

 I would have loved to hear what Abbey would have said about the corporate green wash and wind energy!!!  He must be spinning in his grave...which is in some secret place in the SW desert.

"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork."

Edward Abbey


One of Abbey's book that lifted him to fame and is still an icon...is Desert Solitaire.  I highly recommend it!

Also here is a video by George Carlin. 

WARNING:    Like much of Carlin's stuff it is rather raw, but hits right at the truth!!! So be warned!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AB9LZiOh1I