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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (103484)	5/9/2005 5:58:19 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise is actually the core organization we are discussing. In a 1993 CNN interview, Ron Arnold said, about environmentalists, he wanted to "kill the bastards." I have included that quote below, and cited the entire source so you can read more about them. Look around and let me know what you think. The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise's primary goal is totally unregulated capitalism. In other words, capitalism without any regulation at all to ensure that the entire environment is not degraded. While I am a capitalist, I believe that coporations need to be regulated. If they are not, they exist entirely to make money for their shareholders, but do not pay the costs to clean air or water, etc. If they are not regulated everyone loses, because they have no incentive at all to leave protect the earth from harm. What gives a corporation the inherent right to destroy the environment, which belongs to everyone, especially future generations? Do we not have some responsibility to protect natural resources and treasured landscapes from degradation? I thought I answered most of your concerns in the reply to the PM I sent you. If not, please let me know. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Environmental Working Group, in a Wise Use group analysis, says it is ironic that the CDFE website represents a credible, rational opposition to the environmental movement given Arnold's role: "in developing the radical, polarized and extreme early version of 'wise use' that vilified environmentalism and environmental activists, threatening that his goal was to 'kill the bastards.' (CNN interview, May 30, 1993) The[n] again, Arnold has also been quoted as having said that "Facts don't matter. In politics, perception is reality." (Outside magazine, December, 1991)" [4] (http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/clear/by_clear/webreview.html) sourcewatch.org