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Why you can't trust government
Josey1
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Why you can't trust government
Posted: March 20, 20021:00 a.m. Easternc 2002 WorldNetDaily.com I'll never understand people - especially Americans - who think that government somehow has a monopoly on truth and justice. In fact, the more we rely on government to find truth and secure justice, the more we see how corrupt, how hopeless it is in doing either. Take, for example, the government researchers who were caught planting false evidence of endangered species in national forests. The outrageous and deliberate fraud against the American people by representatives of the government was discovered when a U.S. Forest Service employee blew the whistle on five U.S. Fish and Wildlife and two Washington state researchers who planted lynx hairs in areas where the cats did not exist. At your expense, the researchers were conducting a four-year study of 57 forests in 16 states to determine the extent of endangered lynx habitat. But that's not what they were doing at all. This was not an objective, scientific study. It was an effort, on the taxpayer's dime, to create evidence to buffalo the taxpayer. Had the fraud not been exposed - and you can imagine how many similar ones are not - the findings of these rip-off artists would have been used to create sweeping new land restrictions against property owners, citizens who utilize the forests for recreation and those who make their living in the wilderness. As Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, said: "If they hadn't been caught, you might have seen entire forests shut down on a false premise." Again, it makes you wonder, how many times precisely this has happened before. So, these taxpayer-supported pseudo-researchers made their living for four years deliberately bamboozling the American people. How were they punished once they were caught? How did we make an example of them to discourage others from repeating this kind of fraud in the future? Which jailhouse are they residing in now? Are you sitting down? The perpetuators of this fraud were not charged with any criminal wrongdoing. The perpetuators of this fraud were not fired from their jobs. The perpetuators of this fraud were not disciplined. They kept their jobs and were simply reassigned to other projects - where, presumably, their eco-activism shrouded in the cloak of scientific research will be channeled into new efforts to shake down the taxpayer and maximize federal control of land and forests. In other words, there was no punishment whatsoever. The real lesson of the lynx debacle is simply be more careful not to get caught when you are defrauding the taxpayers and subverting the U.S. Constitution. For my money, not only should the researchers have been fired and criminally prosecuted, heads should have rolled at all levels of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - from the top to the bottom. This fraud calls into question everything this outfit has done or will ever do. All the research it has ever presented is now suspect. All the research it might do in the future isn't worth the recycled, biodegradable paper it is written upon. The fraud also calls into question the fundamental principle of the Endangered Species Act. What is the purpose of this law? Is it really to protect wildlife? Or is there a bigger agenda? It seems clear the actions of these government activists were motivated by something more than a desire to preserve cats in a natural habitat in which they did not reside. Clearly, it's about establishing more federal control over more land. That was the goal. It remains the goal. The charade has been exposed. This fraud was only discovered by chance by a dedicated and ethical Forest Service whistleblower. But that agency, too, is responsible for more than its fair share of fraud and abuse. While the lynx scam got more of the headlines, the Forest Service was forced to admit that it has lied to Congress and the public about the number of visitors to national forests. The agency claimed 920 million visitors in 2000, while the real number was 209 million. Once again, the deceit was about money - bigger budgets, more control, larger bureaucracies, increased regulations and more restrictions on access by the people who pay for it all. So, please, don't tell me how we need the government to keep the private sector honest. We can always throw private rascals to the wolves when they violate the law. But the government rascals continue to get away with murder - and no one holds them accountable. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26894
Posted: March 20, 20021:00 a.m. Easternc 2002 WorldNetDaily.com I'll never understand people - especially Americans - who think that government somehow has a monopoly on truth and justice. In fact, the more we rely on government to find truth and secure justice, the more we see how corrupt, how hopeless it is in doing either. Take, for example, the government researchers who were caught planting false evidence of endangered species in national forests. The outrageous and deliberate fraud against the American people by representatives of the government was discovered when a U.S. Forest Service employee blew the whistle on five U.S. Fish and Wildlife and two Washington state researchers who planted lynx hairs in areas where the cats did not exist. At your expense, the researchers were conducting a four-year study of 57 forests in 16 states to determine the extent of endangered lynx habitat. But that's not what they were doing at all. This was not an objective, scientific study. It was an effort, on the taxpayer's dime, to create evidence to buffalo the taxpayer. Had the fraud not been exposed - and you can imagine how many similar ones are not - the findings of these rip-off artists would have been used to create sweeping new land restrictions against property owners, citizens who utilize the forests for recreation and those who make their living in the wilderness. As Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, said: "If they hadn't been caught, you might have seen entire forests shut down on a false premise." Again, it makes you wonder, how many times precisely this has happened before. So, these taxpayer-supported pseudo-researchers made their living for four years deliberately bamboozling the American people. How were they punished once they were caught? How did we make an example of them to discourage others from repeating this kind of fraud in the future? Which jailhouse are they residing in now? Are you sitting down? The perpetuators of this fraud were not charged with any criminal wrongdoing. The perpetuators of this fraud were not fired from their jobs. The perpetuators of this fraud were not disciplined. They kept their jobs and were simply reassigned to other projects - where, presumably, their eco-activism shrouded in the cloak of scientific research will be channeled into new efforts to shake down the taxpayer and maximize federal control of land and forests. In other words, there was no punishment whatsoever. The real lesson of the lynx debacle is simply be more careful not to get caught when you are defrauding the taxpayers and subverting the U.S. Constitution. For my money, not only should the researchers have been fired and criminally prosecuted, heads should have rolled at all levels of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - from the top to the bottom. This fraud calls into question everything this outfit has done or will ever do. All the research it has ever presented is now suspect. All the research it might do in the future isn't worth the recycled, biodegradable paper it is written upon. The fraud also calls into question the fundamental principle of the Endangered Species Act. What is the purpose of this law? Is it really to protect wildlife? Or is there a bigger agenda? It seems clear the actions of these government activists were motivated by something more than a desire to preserve cats in a natural habitat in which they did not reside. Clearly, it's about establishing more federal control over more land. That was the goal. It remains the goal. The charade has been exposed. This fraud was only discovered by chance by a dedicated and ethical Forest Service whistleblower. But that agency, too, is responsible for more than its fair share of fraud and abuse. While the lynx scam got more of the headlines, the Forest Service was forced to admit that it has lied to Congress and the public about the number of visitors to national forests. The agency claimed 920 million visitors in 2000, while the real number was 209 million. Once again, the deceit was about money - bigger budgets, more control, larger bureaucracies, increased regulations and more restrictions on access by the people who pay for it all. So, please, don't tell me how we need the government to keep the private sector honest. We can always throw private rascals to the wolves when they violate the law. But the government rascals continue to get away with murder - and no one holds them accountable. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26894
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