A while back, Tony Dean wrote a column for the Argus Leader titled, "The power of prairie dog politics". Here is the introduction:
In recent days, the SD Stockgrowers Association has opposed the expansion of a national park in South Dakota, while other ranchers have opposed the creation of the nation's first prairie wilderness on a national grasslands in western South Dakota. They claim the wilderness proposal lacks support, ignoring that the three largest grazing permit-holders, favor the designation.
They claim to hate public lands but don't take advantage of the cheap grazing fees that are, by any description, a subsidy. And they resent sharing those lands, whether they be Forest Service, BLM or state school and public lands, with the public. They get by with these attitudes because theirs is a powerful lobby.
Gee, I wonder how much rent Tony Dean pays when he films his fishing programs on public waters? Anyway, I found this column by Ilana Mercer that points out environmentalists like Tony Dean are primitive:
Primitive man worshipped nature and imbued inanimate things with human qualities. So do environmentalists.
She then describes how environmentalists like Tony Dean are socialists:
Environmentalism is socialism revived; the Greens are the Reds incarnated.
In his seminal work, "Capitalism," Reisman elaborates on the philosophical affinity between these maniacal movements: The Reds argued that "the individual could not be left free because the result would be such things as 'exploitation,' 'monopoly' and depressions. The Greens claimed that the individual could not be left free because the result would be such things as the destruction of the ozone layer, acid rain and global warming. Both claim that centralized government control over economic activity is essential. The Reds wanted it for the alleged sake of achieving human prosperity"; the Greens for the alleged sake of avoiding environmental damage."
Tony Dean shows his "Reds" by attacking those stand up to government intrusion:
The SD Lockout is a good example of how they play the game of prairie dog politics. Some don't like the idea that a Game, Fish & Parks conservation officer can come on their land to check for violations, licenses, etc. Because the Game, Fish & Parks Department didn't back off on their use of the Open Fields doctrine, the affected ranchers did what they always seem to do. They closed their land to hunting, and though they've never published a list of participating landowners, they claim to have shut down hunting on over 4 million acres of land in western South Dakota. This is one case where Gov. Mike Rounds deserves a pat on the back for backing Cooper on his insistence of maintaining the Open Fields doctrine to assure that game laws are followed.
As my previous post points out, the Argus Leader seems to think that pheasants are more important than America’s freedoms. And now they seem to have given ink to Tony Dean, an anti-gun sportsman and promoter of socialism, who obviously believes pheasants are more important than America's freedoms. His primitive ideas certainly date back to times prior to the founding of America.
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