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To: rubbersoul who wrote (112936)4/28/2008 7:15:57 PM
From: E. Charters  Respond to of 312623
 
pftt...This post went the way of Rosie Montana EC<:-}



To: rubbersoul who wrote (112936)4/28/2008 7:16:27 PM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 312623
 
All throughout those countries it's the same story. Corruption, outside agitators taking the villager's sides to tilt at the mining windmills. Soros should be ashamed. He has made his money off far more damaging megaprojects. Would be sneeze at loaning a regime with no ecological morals money, or funding offshore drilling? nooooo.... but take the center stage and sneer at the imaginary bugaboo of pollution from a mine when he doesn't know the first redox line of inorganic chemistry? This is like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson being ombudsman for every time a black man fakes a stubbed toe on the honkey system. It is beginning to look like a self serving sideshow where the supposed victim gets swept aside in favour of self aggrandizement of the ignorant and hypocritical saviours. The villagers will get compensation ten fold to their loss sans doot. Relocation, jobs, and better than those dirt poor rocky goat farms with 1 million year old cadmium in the water. The reason they don't have any teeth is probably because the nearest dentist or drugstore with floss is 100 miles away. This could change, but Greenpeace is opting for older goats and less teeth. It takes better pictures for National Geographic.

sheeesh!

The first bit of corruption the villager misses is the endless delay for permit was engineered by the politicos pandering for his vote. The second bit of corruption he misses is what isn't in his pocket. If that changed, then his attitude would mellow. I could see a multi millionaire holding out if he had a ski cabin in the mountains someone had to move, but.. the village goat farmer who makes 1700 a year and gets offered 10,000 for his land, a new goat pasture and stock? Really? Someone is paying him for his story and brainwashing him... there has to be more to it... We expropriate properties every day. For freeways, schools, public works. The mining act of Ontario stipulated for development of the country that all property rights would be subject to arbitration. Mining rights had precedence. It seemed logical to our forefathers that there was no sense making a few campers dogs in the manger to billions in resources that would benefit the country. Now we are being told that mining is superfluous to all other claims of right. What right?

A lot of people dig in their heels and smile upon the concept that a man's home is his castle. Ok, sure.. if he buys a plot of land and plants rutabagas.. there is no way the state has a right to budge him. But find an oil well there... or find that is just right for a freeway, rail line, transmission line, gas pipeline, town water line, viaduct, flood control, nuclear power station, and ffttttt! he's gone. Plebiscite 1031. City council. Old Fred's farm is history. Only 148,000 case in Ontario so far. So let's stop the bitching Suzuki et al. Where were you when the 401 went in and swallowed 300 farms north of Toronto? Where were you when the Trans Canada pipeline split 10,000 properties in Ontario. Where were you when the garbage dump and the sewage and the sewage pond displaced families? Our farmers march on Queen's park because they CAN'T sell out.. not because you want Rosie Montana in their backyard. They can't make a sou farming and it's a business. Marketing boards and land taxes made sure of that. So what is this quaint villager concept all about? Money. Pure and simple. Coffee's on and it's 6 O'clock.

EC<:-}|