Tweeters,
Our political differences are many, but our birding binds us. Can we get
back on target and stay with birding?
Clarence
Cinebar, WA.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart Wechsler" <ecostewart at quidnunc.net>
To: "Clarence C. Lupo" <Gos at tds.net>; <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 1:19 PM
Subject: RE: [Tweeters] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Border Wall.


> Clarence advocates that we kill imigrants without US government issued
> papers on sight to solve the problems associated with these immigrants.
> Instead of accepting the refugees from the Nazis or sending them back to
> Europe (to be killed - as happened to many refugees of that time) he would
> just have them killed on sight because they didn't have visas (saving the
> Germans the trouble). By the same token one could argue that the Native
> Americans shouldn't have fed those starving immigrants turkey, but should
> have shot the invaders dead on sight. You might say it would have been
> much
> better for our wealth of birds and for our wealth of nature in general.
> It
> also may well have been much better for the American people of that time.
> That said, I think it would have been better if the Indians worked to
> better
> assimilate those illegal immigrants into their tribes and taught them
> their
> ways of living in better harmony with nature.
>
> We might even do well to try living in more harmony with nature now.
>
> Stewart Wechsler
> West Seattle
> mailto:ecostewart at quidnunc.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clarence C. Lupo
> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 4:44 PM
> Subject: [Tweeters] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Border Wall.
>
>
> We don't need a wall on our southern border. We need a DMZ with towers.
> Let wildlife cross. Shoot dead human invaders.
> One application would bring the illegal immigration surge to a halt. We
> are
> the only country in the world that takes pride in being raped by foreign
> invaders...
>
> How about back to birding???
>
> Clarence
> Cinebar, WA.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ravenintherain" <ccorax at blarg.net>
> To: "Stewart Wechsler" <ecostewart at quidnunc.net>
> Cc: "Dennis Paulson" <dennispaulson at comcast.net>; "Tweeters"
> <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 3:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Re: Border Wall.
>
>
>> Stewart Wechsler for president!
>>
>> Stewart Wechsler wrote:
>>> The solution to that drug trafficking and associated problems is to
>>> decriminalize the drugs putting the organized crime dealers out of
>>> business, but the feds may never do that because the powerful "drug
>>> lobby" might withhold their contributions to their campaigns I(or weild
>>> their poser in other ways) and the Feds may not be able to fund future
>>> Iran-Contra type operations.
>>> Garbage is unsightly, but rarely a big problem for the wildlife. The
>>> lizards, snakes, and spiders even use it as cover.
>>> The barbed wire fences drove the Buffalo (as well as the Plains Indians)
>>> into functional extinction. Let's not let more fences drive more species
>>> into extinction or out of this country due to government fed paranoia
>>> (and influential fence building contractors).
>>> (Everything we do and say ((or fail to do/say)) is in one way or another
>>> political to one degree or another. Anything that is in opposition to
>>> those in power is always considered "political".) Advcating for wildlife
>>> is always political.
>>> Stewart
>
>