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Tony Dean challenged by expert

(editor's note: This is a very long post, but understanding it is crucial to dealing with Tony Dean if he stinks his nose into the 2004 South Dakota election campaigns)

Today Tony Dean was challenged by a property rights expert…Julie Smithson. First lets see an excerpt from a Tony Dean propaganda piece promoting more government regulation by turning parts of South Dakota into wilderness areas:

Some folks in western South Dakota have concluded there’s no place for wilderness in our state. They are wrong! The States Attorney in Fall River County, and others, for whatever reason, have been traveling around, doing their best to scare the hell out of people about the evils of wilderness. They’ve even succeeded in convincing some county commissions to pass anti-wilderness resolutions, and in many of those cases, the commissioners have been acting on either poor, faulty or no information.

These wilderness proposals will have no effect on private land. All are proposed on certain tracts of public land, which does not belong to individual ranchers, county commissioners, you, or I. Collectively however, it belongs to all of us, and I am offended that some county commissioners have become arrogant enough to think they can tell any of us how federal, public lands should be used. They should be worrying instead about county business.

So Tony Dean is in favor of more Federal control and less local control. Here is an excerpt from Smithson’s response:

There's nothing "modest" about what Tony Dean would have you believe is a human user-friendly "wilderness proposal." He's no naive kid, and for all his suave talk about hunters, gem hunters, etc., ad nauseam, he knows full well about The Wildlands Project, and deserves his comeuppance for daring to ill-define "modest wilderness proposal". As he well knows, much "wide open space" is ranchland and farmland, and not all of it -- or even most of it -- is plowed.

This is far from being the first time that Mr. Dean has penned such a Trojan Horse of language deception, all the while lulling his readers into the idea that he thinks they will continue to have access to areas that are daily being gated/locked away from human access.

In past posts (here and here) I have tied the environmental extremism of Tony Dean to the United Nations. Smithson does the same:

The Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, now taking up eleven million acres in both Alaska and Canada, is also -- coincidentally? -- a United Nations Biosphere Reserve. The National Park Service is busily terrorizing those private landowners and homeowners -- known as inholders -- that dare stay within the "wilderness boundaries"! http://www.WildlandsProjectRevealed.org and http://www.cowboysandcattlecountry.0catch.com -- both these websites provide the truth about such buzzwords and language deceptions as "threatened," "endangered," "at risk," "critical habitat," or those famous nebulous button-pusher words like: "could," "may," "might," and that phrase known for its ability to fool people: "Studies show."

Tony Dean knows what he is doing. He cares about Tony Dean, but not about those rural folk that provide homes and healthy "habitat" for both domestic and wildlife, human and plant life, and the REAL diversity that "The Wildlands Project" scorns.

He is not trying to make readers feel "warm and fuzzy" without having his agenda firmly in place and the ink dry on his "conservation" partners and their arrangements.

He is not trying to tell his readers the truth -- that these lands he so blithely seeks "wilderness status" on are already "protected" Federal lands.

There is a Plan here that has nothing to do with the suave tones of surface talk, and everything to do with the cessation of cattle and sheep-raising. It has nothing to do with having a place for hunters to go where they need not "fear" encountering an ATV -- and everything to do with gutting America of her responsible resource providers.

How often does Tony Dean tell folks how wonderful cattle and sheep are for reducing the very real risk of fire? Right now there is a Plan afoot to remove all sheep -- by not renewing the grazing permits -- on lands of the Absaroka/Beartooth now-known-as "Wilderness Area" Beartooth sheep kills won't be paid: Defenders of Wildlife stops paying ranchers is the title of the article, but it's about removing all domestic grazing -- and thus, all farming and ranching.
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?display=rednews/2004/05/17/build/local/34-sheep-kills.inc

There can only be two sides in this issue: either you're a REAL environmentalist, also known as a responsible resource provider/farmer/fisherman/logger/miner/rancher, or you're a self-proclaimed "environmentalist" or "conservationalist" -- whichever is currently better perceived by the public.

The second category would define for the public what it wants the public to think a "modest proposal for wilderness" is. I leave it for the reader to arrive at which of these two categories Mr. Dean falls into.

Julie Smithson
London, Ohio
[email protected]

Here’s Tony’s response:

Darn, you caught me. This is all a United Nations plot, and I will 'fess up. We've been dropping this wilderness propaganda via black helicopters at night. You have made the world save for cattle and sheep.

Typical Tony Dean…can’t debate the issue, so he resorts to negative sarcasm.

Now I move on to ranchers.net for Smithson’s response to Tony Dean’s crap:

Mister Dean, rather than attempt to discredit the very real and honest information that I provided in my editorial -- which, by the way, contained no mention of any "dark world of black helicopters" -- why not visit http://www.Google.com and search official government websites.
Now Tony Dean attacks:

I guess, Julie, it all depends on how you define "honest."

That ought to brighten your dark world.

Truth is, I have faith in people. You see plots.

Get a life, Julie.

Smithson’s response:

My world is not dark, nor is it lacking in faith in honest people, as you know. I have a good, full and positive life. As long as you slander honest resource providers, there will be a bright light of Truth shone upon you.

I decided to provide my two cents:

When Tony Dean is confronted with someone who is informed, such as Julie…he can't argue on the issues. Instead he attacks the messenger. Tony Dean does not have faith in people. He has faith in big government. He believes taking care of Mother Nature should be handled with a legal approach. If he had faith in people, he would approach protecting Mother Nature from a moral approach.

Those who believe in protecting Mother Nature from a moral standpoint are what I call conservationists. Those who approach protecting Mother Nature via the legal system and big government are environmentalists. Tony Dean is the latter.

If he believes Julie should get a life, then he should look toward Anthony & Darlene DECHANDT and get his life back. After all, they have the same Pierre, SD address and phone number as his.

I could say more, but this blog is already getting long. In summary, if Tony Dean promotes a Democrat, the Agriculture community should take notice and understand that the Democrat can't be on Tony Dean's side and their side too. Julie agrees and also includes Tony Dean in the cabal of biased journalists:

Thank you, Katrina! It is never my intent to make other people feel bad, but since Mister Dean struck out at South Dakota ranchers (which is striking out at ALL ranchers, farmers, etc., in my book), he has put himself in the unsavory position of being on my "short list" -- which is unfortunately not so short -- of those "journalists" that think the truth is Play-Dough and they're allowed to make it into whatever shape they desire. Not! I simply cannot let falsehoods persist longer than a New York Minute when they pertain to God and Country and Responsible Resource Providers!

God bless you, Katrina -- and all those that love ranchers, ranch life and the real wide-open spaces that you find on ranches and farms!

Kranz fails to dig deep

Randell Beck as often stated that the purpose of media is to dig deep and provide it’s readers with in-depth coverage. The Argus Leader have also promoted David Kranz with at least three ads that state:

With almost 30 years experience covering South Dakota politics, David Kranz is unmatched for expertise. His insights and analysis are a must-read for anyone.

On the front page of today’s Argus Leader is a front-page report by Kranz regarding the Herseth-Diedrich special election. Here is an excerpt:

The House candidates have worked to educate voters about the special election. There are also primary elections that day for a variety of offices but independents can vote in the special election for U.S. House.

They have also organized get-out-the-vote campaigns to rally their base of support.

With 30 years of experience, Kranz knows that it would be unfavorable to Herseth if he provided some “insight and analysis" of the get-out-the-vote efforts. I am speaking about the far-left liberal Minnesota John Kerry supporters who are planning a bus trip to Sioux Falls on Memorial Day weekend. Now Pelosi and the DC Democrats are urging outsiders to come to South Dakota.

No wonder why the Headline to the Kranz report on page 8A states:

House Poll: Herseth strong with women, Sioux Falls voters

Would the strong showing of Democrats among Sioux Falls voters have anything to do with the pro-Democratic bias of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader?

More on media bais

As I have already noted, the Big Media coverage (along with the Argus Leader) last week was textbook liberal bias. Dennis Prager provides more detail in today’s column. Here is the opening:

For those who still doubt that ideology guides most of the world's major news media, the reporting of the Islamic ritual murder of Nick Berg provided textbook examples of an almost universally leftist bias. News media have essentially become propaganda organs for anti-Americanism.

Here is the ending:

The bottom line is that the United States of America is fighting the world's news media as well as Islamic totalitarianism. Until we understand that, we have no chance of winning.

Read the whole thing.

For those who are searching for IraqBabes, you will find what you are looking for here. For those who are just looking for a cheap thrill…too bad. For those who want to truly understand the anti-American bias in the media, that is spreading propaganda…read the whole post. Read all the WorldNetDaily columns that I have linked to. Especially note this:

Graphic photos appearing on Arabic websites of U.S. servicemen raping and sexually abusing Iraqi women were actually taken from American and Hungarian pornography sites.

Albasrah.net and a Tunisian website produced in France by Committee for the Defense of Saddam Hussein [Comité de Défonce de Saddam Hussein En Tunisie], posted not only the recently broadcast photos of U.S. troops abusing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners but additional ones of alleged group rape of women by American soldiers, some who are depicted holding rifles against their victims' heads.

Not the website produced in France.

We should be very disturbed about what kind of propaganda that is going on in France this week. What kind of American is Michael Moore? Now we know why the liberal left want open borders. After Moore’s conduct, he should not be allowed back in. For those you are not convinced of Moore's motives, check this out.

Globe’s institutional bias

Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily has a column that takes the Boston Globe to task for not taking responsibility for printing fake pornographic photos depicting US soldiers gang raping Iraqi women:

There is something systemically wrong at the Boston Globe for photographs like this to be published anywhere in the paper in two successive editions.

While the Globe editors are fixated on systemic problems in the U.S. military that may have led to prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, clearly the man in charge, Marty Baron, has a serious crisis in the culture of his own newsroom.

As someone who has spent nearly 30 years in the news business, most of it running daily newspapers in major U.S. markets, I can assure you that it would be unthinkable to publish pornographic images in a daily newspaper unless that paper was hiring know-nothing, inexperienced editors and providing next to no training for them.

The Globe is also blaming junior editors for the mistake. But there was a serious breakdown in the chain of command at the Boston Globe. Before this paper and its parent company, the New York Times, throw any more stones at the Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for the abuses at Abu Ghraib, they would be well-advised to re-examine their own chain-of-command problems.

Besides undermining the morale of U.S. troops in the field, the Boston Globe has also provided propaganda for our terrorist enemies at home and abroad.

The images published in the Globe will never go away. Copies of those two editions of the paper will be used by Islamist extremists as further "proof" of abuses by American GIs – abuses that never occurred.

The Globe has fanned the flames of anti-American hatred in the Islamic world against Americans in general and American military personnel specifically.

When a paper’s bias is institutional, the natural thing to do when someone has proof…is deny, deny, attack, spin, defend, deny…do not take responsibility. That is why Randell Beck has refused to take responsibility for allowing David Kranz’s pro-Democratic biases to go unchecked. When confronted with the proof, Beck has twice attacked the messengers and refused to take responsibility.

Like the Boston Globe, who is owned by the New York Times, the Argus Leader is owned by Big Media powerhouse…Gannett. The FoxNews Newswatch program last Sunday covered the issue of the mainstream media not putting the Nick Berg beheading on the front page. The reason given was that it contrasted with the anti-Bush report on the Abu Ghraib prison. The Gannett organization was specifically mentioned as being guilty of this bias. The same bias used by the Argus Leader. More evidence that the Argus Leader bias is institutional. I will now go a step further and argue that the Argus Leader is walking in lockstep with the liberal BIg Media cabal.

This is only one reason why I don’t believe Randell Beck’s explanation (as given by Greg Belfrage) about why the Argus Leader did not put the Berg story on the front page. Apparently Beck thought that the Berg story played into the hands of the terrorists. I argue that the Abu Ghraib report does that, and in fact some believe that was the terrorists’ motivation behind the beheading. I would not be surprised that Beck would argue that covering the Abu Ghraib issue provides accountability…so when do they hold terrorists accountable for they murderous acts?

Also, the Boston Globe scandal is very disturbing and the fact that very few are holding them accountable by reporting this to the masses is further proof that the bias is more than institutional. There must be some kind of unwritten rule that you do not hold another media outlet accountable.

The cabal has another hidden agenda...holding a French pro-Saddam web site accountable for promoting fake pornographic images of US soldiers raping Iraqi women as the truth isn’t anti-Bush enough for the media folks to report on. I must say...this is even more troubling than the Argus Leader's refusal to hold the liberal actions of Tom Daschle, while in DC, accountable to the people of South Dakota.

Herseth the wannabe hunter

Nick Berg insight

There is a very disturbing WorldNetDaily column that analysis what the terrorists were saying as they beheaded Nick Berg:

The Arabic message accompanying the video images of the beheading of 26-year-old Nick Berg by terrorists in Iraq is being described by a translator and expert in Islam and the Quran as a "how-to" training tape for the murder of non-Muslims by other terrorists around the globe, Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin reports.

Whether President Bush is right and the assassin and speaker is al-Qaida ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Joel Cohen, with a master's degree in Semitic languages from Princeton University and a student of the Quran at the University of Chicago, translated and analyzed the speech delivered following the killing – explaining it is a call for similar acts of slaughter against infidels. The grisly film included a statement, signed off with Zarqawi's name.

Here is the ending:

At least one U.S. military intelligence source agrees with Cohen. He says the lesson of the Berg murder is simple: If you are about to be captured by Islamist terrorists resist at all costs. "Not even one more American should be killed in this manner," he says. "Better to die fighting back than to be another example."

He cited a report in WorldNetDaily from September 2002 about an al-Qaida training video discovered in Afghanistan. Analysts who viewed the tape and shared it with law-enforcement personnel around the U.S. concluded that Osama bin Laden's terrorists are not only planning attacks with weapons of mass destruction but are preparing to kill Americans with drive-by shootings and home break-ins, through ambushes of law-enforcement officers and targeted assassinations on golf courses.

They plan kidnappings in the U.S., too, warn the experts. But they will not be seeking ransoms. Analysts point out that all scenarios involving prisoners and hostages ended in execution. None included plans for negotiated settlements for escape by terrorists.

"They plan to kill the prisoners and die in place," wrote John Holschen of Insights Training Center, who produced a report on the tape for military and law-enforcement officials.

The Berg video narration climaxes with the citation of Surah al Tawba 9.5, points out Cohen.
"This is very important because that ayat does not have to do necessarily with prisoners," he says. "In the mind of the writer of this document, it's simply a call to kill all non-Muslims and those they perceive challenge Islam. By concluding with this ayat, he wants the Ummah to know that Nick Berg is not being killed simply because he is a prisoner. He is being killed because he is not a Muslim."

Read the all thing. If far-left liberals would, maybe they would understand more about intolerance and stop attacking America. Perhaps the mainstream media should also do its job and get this information out to the masses.

Tony Dean…not Republican in heart

For those who studied have Tony Dean's web site, it becomes obvious that Tony is a big believer in public lands and anti-property rights. This analysis from a Henry Lamb column paints Tony Dean as a socialist:

For centuries, humans claimed, held and used land like all other animals – until a more powerful competitor took it. Over time, people devised ways to claim, hold and convey land without bloodshed. In most of the world, the patriarch, and later the king, was accepted as the owner of the land and entitled to dictate how it would be used and by whom.

This view of land ownership was embraced by philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes and Jean Jacques Rousseau, who believed that the king should own all the resources in order to assure appropriate distribution of the land's resources to the people. This is the philosophy from which modern socialism emerged.

John Locke rejected this view and taught that land belonged to its first possessor, who confirmed his ownership by mixing his own labor with the land and its resources to sustain his own life. This is the philosophy from which modern capitalism emerged.

In the early days of America, land ownership was sacred. Once owned, no person or government could take the owned land without just compensation. Over time, the sanctity of land ownership has been compromised by policies based on the socialist philosophy – as reflected in the reader's question. That all people have some claim to the land and its resources is a socialist belief that now permeates all U.S. land policy.

Now we know why Tony Dean supports Democrats…he is a far-left liberal. It’s time for Tony Dean to become honest about who he truly is.

Liberal outsiders coming to SD

Remember how the Democrats argue that third-party ads are negative and are from outsiders telling South Dakota how to vote. What would those Democrats say about this:

Dear Minnesota Kerry Supporter:

Do you want to make a difference? Here's your chance!

Join hundreds of dedicated volunteers from across the country to help elect Stephanie Herseth (http://www.hersethforcongress.org/, http://www.democraticaction.org/campaign/) to Congress to represent South Dakotans in Washington. Stephanie is running in a special election for South Dakota's At Large Congressional seat that was vacated by Bill Janklow earlier this year. The election is on Tuesday, June 1st - and we need your help to Get Out the Vote! Victory in South Dakota is crucial for Democrats to regain the majority in the US House of Representatives this November!

Here's how you can help: A bus will depart from the Twin Cities and head to Sioux Falls, SD (about a 4 hour drive) over Memorial Weekend from May 28 - 31. Transportation, lodging and food will be provided to all participants!

Details, below:

Depart for South Dakota:
Afternoon
Friday, May 28, 2004
DFL Headquarters
255 East Plato Blvd, St. Paul 55107

Return to Minnesota:
Late Afternoon
Monday, May 31, 2004
Sioux Falls, SD

To register, please visit www.dccc.org/sd and fill out the online form. If you have additional questions, please feel free to contact Gia Vitali with Congresswoman McCollums campaign via phone at (651) 603-1505, or [email protected].

Sincerley,

Ken Martin

Political Director

John Kerry for President – Minnesota

How would far-left Kerry supporters help Stephanie Herseth con the people of South Dakota into believing Herseth is a moderate independent? Or will they even identify themselves as Minnesota John Kerry supporters?

Perhaps someone should ask Herseth if she agrees with John Kerry’s comment from last week:

"This is something that comes out of an attitude about the rights of prisoners of war," Mr. Kerry said. "It's an attitude that comes out of how we went there in the first place, an attitude that comes out of America's overall arrogance as policy."

John Kerry wonders why he is called anti-American when he says things like America is arrogant. Also note how the funding was raised to bring these liberal outsiders to South Dakota.

Negative campaigning

DVT spotted the Terry Woster column on negative campaigning. I missed it. Why? It was in the Life section of the Argus Leader. Should it not belong on the opinion page? Is this the institutional bias that SDP talked about? In fact, it was no more opinion than the David Kranz column, which ran in the News section. Also, I agree 100% with DVT’s analysis of today’s Kranz column, the pro-Democratic bias was thick as usual.

Yesterday DVT criticized the Argus Leader ethanol report. I agree that the report did not have as much detail as you will find on DVT’s website regarding the ethanol issue. Although I noticed the coverage was more even handed than usual. Maybe that was because it was written by Terry Woster instead of David Kranz.