The Salt Lake Tribune
Monday, May 11, 2009
4x4 tea bags

The same people who get apoplectic about Rule of Law when it comes to illegal immigration and who want monkey wrencher Tim DeChristopher punished for peacefully derailing an oil lease auction — shouted "The people are the government!" and violated federal rules to tear up and down the Paria River in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument on off-road vehicles.

The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the BLM's transportation plan for the monument (Rule of Law). But BLM officials did not enforce the rules, instead simply watched the ORVs plow through the muddy stream.

State Rep. Mike Noel, a would-be nuclear power plant developer, participated in the rally, which included praying (above) and warning the protesters that after the roads are taken away by the government, the feds and environmentalists will take away the right to hunt on public land.

4 Comments:

At May 11, 2009 8:06 AM , Anonymous noreastnv said...

State Rep. Mike Noel is right. Read the Orwells book "1984", the year was wrong but everything else is coming true.

 
At May 11, 2009 8:50 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Glen,
That looks like you in the picture. Do you have a secret life we don't know about.

 
At May 11, 2009 8:52 AM , Anonymous shameless enviro said...

These honyaks are going to lose. Maybe they didn't get the memo but there is a new progressive president at the helm, a thoughtful secretary of the Interior and we're on the cusp of getting a new Supreme Court justice who Obama gets to pick and a Democratic Senate majority gets to confirm.

You helped f--k up the country with Bush for the past 8 years. You lost. So go ahead and have your little protests. Prayer won't help this time around, Noel. You guys lost. Get used to it.

 
At May 11, 2009 9:25 AM , Blogger rdale said...

I'm sure there are good people in Kane County but they keep electing utter jerks like Noel and Habbeshaw. It's time for a boycott of the whole county; I'll never spend another penny there until both of them are gone. If you want to tell them what you think, here are some links:

Kane County administration

http://kane.utah.gov/contact.cfm#formarea

Kane County tourism:

http://www.kaneutah.com/contact.cfm

Let them know what you think of this stunt.

 

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