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From: vlv@drux1.UUCP (Vaughn Vernon)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Strip Miners, Guns have no respect...get no respect
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Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 12:42:29 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  7 12:42:29 1985
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So now we get a guy who is complaining about guns and has to drag
someone else into the picture, like say a "coal miner".

>> I have been hunting with friends and relatives, in Wisconsin, and have
>> been taught the proper handling of firearms. I had great fun doing it
>> as a kid, and learned tremendous respect for the environment as a
>> result.
>
>Gee, this must be the same kind of respect for the enviroment that
>strip miners have.
>
>Paul Wilcox-Baker.

***** set augers to drill *****

I'm not talking about an individual who is shooting truck drivers (guns!)
or the coal miner who throws paper on cans out his pickup's window
because he doesn't care about the land he lives on.  I'm talking
about the coal miners who have to make a living just like anyone
else.  So why should *we* deside that everyone in Kentucky or W.Va.
or wherever should "freeze to death in the dark" just so some city
folks can head for the mountains for a weekend and say "this is so
great".  Then they go home to a place where I guess factory workers
have "no respect for there envinronment" because of all the pollution
they cause when they have to go to work and make a living!  And those
beautiful mountains should be there at and for your convenience, only
for *your* good.

Oh well, just send everyone in Corbin and Barborville Kentucky to say,
Detroit Michigan to build cars right!  Yeh and take a fish out of the water
too!  In almost all cases each person I went to high school with have
*choooooosen* to stay in Kentucky!  Call it home ... you know. Oh they
can always work somewhere else right, like a shopping mall or a McDonalds.
Wrong!  Those places go out of business as soon as there is no coal mining!
You know, no money to buy hambergers and clothing(!), not only the coal
miner but the hamberger flipper and the cloths salesman too.  Called
environmental imbalance!

I also suppose that a lot of people are not informed as to the reclamation
standards to be met by the the coal miner after they have "raped the
land".  You see, after the land becomes useful you can build a nice
new house on that formerly "beautifully wasted" mountain.  With what?
With the money *earned* from mining coal!  You can also have animals
and raise crops.  And believe me there are plenty of mountains without
coal in them which are left naturally beautiful.  I forget exactly how
much but I believe that the majority of Kentucky is National and State
Forest!  Alot with coal in them'thar hills ... untouchable.  And no,
strip mining cannot be blamed for those Kentucky floods.  It's caused
from too much rain!  Seen it rain cats and dogs for a week non stop!

So please, if you are going to pick on a gun user and put them into
a low-life category then pick on a person who kills people and put
them in the category of murderer.  And if you insist on calling a
hunter a low-life then please pick a low-life category not a "coal
miner" or a "factory worker".  Why not "computer programmer" Paul!

***** keep augers drilling *****
				with sensitive toes,

				Vaughn L. Vernon (human)
				AT&T ISL
				Denver, CO
				drux1!vlv