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2naSalit

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9. I'll have to ask my neighbor...
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 11:47 PM
Feb 2016

He called me up just to talk about what he was reading somewhere. He's pretty well informed so I don't brush off his sources, he said he was reading that the kochheads were heavily involved.

This makes sense because what this whole mess has brought to the surface is the fact that there are GOP state a federal electeds who want to privatize the commons. Now who would want that and why? Well the aforementioned have a lot extractive industries in operation on public lands from mining, petroleum and timber... they want no regulation, they want to dig, drill and chop down everything for their profit while turning this, or what has been in the past, democracy into a feudal system. How to bring that about? Start funding the crazies, with Obama in office they took advantage of the frustrations of racists and other low info people by giving them some $$ and a plan. And who, in the minds of so many, but ranchers to make this all look like wholesome folks fighting government oppression and leaving them with no place to put their cows at taxpayer and environmental expense?

That was the gist of our conversation this afternoon. It's what I have been suspecting all along but not willing to voice my thoughts due to them possibly not being well received.

I'll check for sources.

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