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Posted: 6/16/2002 1:38:26 PM EDT
I heard on the radio that a state foresty technician, who was on patrol making sure there were no illegal fires, started a fire in a campfire, which spread out of control and started the present fires in Colorado. She has been arrested.
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Are we sure this was not intentional? They have now shut down several forests to ALL activity, for the duration of the drought.
Almost marshal law in some areas, and now they have called up more troops to stand by in case of more fires. creepy |
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Quoted: Are we sure this was not intentional? They have now shut down several forests to ALL activity, for the duration of the drought. Almost marshal law in some areas, and now they have called up more troops to stand by in case of more fires. creepy View Quote Not surprising... Here in the Northwest, there have been confirmed instances of govt. workers and others planting evidence to close areas because of "endangered species", and rigging the science like last years shut down of the Klamath basin farmers... |
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Is it being argued by some that this fire was set intentionally, and that the fire was part of an over-arching Grand Conspiracy?
Surely there is room in this world for simple, ordinary human stupidity and chance to shine through. For some of you: Is there any occurance that is NOT part of some enormous, ill-defined but menacing plot to destroy our liberties? |
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Did anybody else notice that RAF's post seems more than a little suspicious??? I wonder who DIRECTED him to make that post.
I bet he's got a UN flag on the wall of his garage... |
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Quoted: For some of you: Is there any occurance that is NOT part of some enormous, ill-defined but menacing plot to destroy our liberties? View Quote Yeah...a few...[:D] And, if one does a little work they may find it's not so "ill-defined"... |
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Quoted: Is it being argued by some that this fire was set intentionally, and that the fire was part of an over-arching Grand Conspiracy? Surely there is room in this world for simple, ordinary human stupidity and chance to shine through. For some of you: Is there any occurrence that is NOT part of some enormous, ill-defined but menacing plot to destroy our liberties? View Quote Raf, not to flame you but I lived back in the NE (Groton,CT) for 18 months, and what you posted is exactly what I would expect from your neck of the woods. Everybody out here knows the extreme fire danger, and would not intentionally light a fire after it has been banned, unless they would just happen to be form some place out east. Tourists would do something that stupid, I have seen them climb over the rail of a viewing area to get close up pics of some brown bears that were fishing up spawning salmon in Sitka, AK. believing that they were chained up there for their enjoyment. Of course, she could just be some misguided bimbo, who got her job due to a quota system, and thought since she was .gov that she could do no wrong and was above the ban. But I find that even harder to believe if she was really supposed to be there to catch the violations. So why is it so hard to believe that the fire was intentionally set? In fact she did intentionally set it. Did she intend for it to get away from her control and burn down the forest? I don't know for sure, but she will get a pass, just like all feds who blow it. E.G. The sniper who took out Vicki Weaver, the federal watermaster who allowed Reno to flood Jan 1997, and various others I could name, but it still wouldn't convince you, would it? We are a fierce independent people out west and we don't like .gov involvement. dave |
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Well said Dave. I was born & raised in Massachuetts, and I can tell you this. Yankees ain't what they used to be........
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Quoted: Did anybody else notice that RAF's post seems more than a little suspicious??? I wonder who DIRECTED him to make that post. I bet he's got a UN flag on the wall of his garage... View Quote |
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[size=4][red][b]LATEST TWIST:[/b][/red][/size=4]
"CASTLE ROCK, Colo. - A U.S. Forest Service employee set the fire that scorched more than 100,000 acres in Colorado and forced thousands to evacuate by [red]burning a letter from her estranged husband[/red] in the Pike National Forest, authorities said Sunday." And now the usual flood of quotes. - Marriage Counselor Smokey says: "Only you can prevent forest fires." - Ban estranged husbands.... for the children! [:D] |
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My wife was the town secretary in Copper Canyon, Texas for five or so years. In years without a lot of rain, town placed a prohibition on burning yard clippings, shash piles, etc. Every year, some stupid bastard would burn anyway, and usually take a few acres of someone elses land with him. Stupidity is pretty universal.
-hanko |
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OK so now we got one female .gov employee in Colorado that's burned down the SW approach to Denver. And another female .gov employee in Colorado responsible for setting loose "mad cow" disease into the wild deer and antelope population. Who's hiring these bimbos?? And who's responsible for supervising their escapades??
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Quoted: Is it being argued by some that this fire was set intentionally, and that the fire was part of an over-arching Grand Conspiracy? Surely there is room in this world for simple, ordinary human stupidity and chance to shine through. For some of you: Is there any occurance that is NOT part of some enormous, ill-defined but menacing plot to destroy our liberties? View Quote no. SSD |
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We are a fierce independent people out west and we don't like .gov involvement.
-Well said, Dave Though I may be a transplant I could not agree with you more. First we are told it was an illegal campfire, now we are told it was a park ranger? It's just typical. It may have been intentional, it may have been negligence, either way, she should rot in that nice womans prison we have down in Canyon city. |
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Quoted: And another female .gov employee in Colorado responsible for setting loose "mad cow" disease into the wild deer and antelope population. View Quote Ok, I must have missed something. WTF?! Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas... |
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Intentional or not, I could really care less. The fact that she is the one who reported the fire and then LIED about the whole thing lets us know she knew what she did. She knew it was wrong!
This person needs to be punished. She was in a position that knew the dangers and she chose to set a fire. She knew what could happen. |
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Quoted: Quoted: And another female .gov employee in Colorado responsible for setting loose "mad cow" disease into the wild deer and antelope population. View Quote Ok, I must have missed something. WTF?! Remember the Alamo, and God Bless Texas... View Quote GBT, this is open source news from about a month ago. Seems a female .gov wildlife biologist (Dr. Elizabeth XYZ) at a wildlife research station near Ft. Collins took it upon herself to inject samples of specimens from animals infected with "chronic wasting disease" into captive deer and antelope. Only problem was her "captive population" wasn't so captive. She did not have the usual precautions of double-fencing, sequestered feeding facilities or sterile "cordon sanitaire" procedures. The end result is her "captive" test population intermingled with the indigenous wild population, the test population was infected with CWD (or CJD or mad cow disease) and now the entire population of Rocky Mountain deer, antelope and elk are at risk. I believe its Minnesota(?) that currently has an unlimited open season on whitetails. MN(?) wants to totally eliminate the species in some areas to try to slow down the spread of CWD. I've read a reduction of 16,000 to 17,000 animals but I believe those numbers are dramatically low. |
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Note to all bimbos who want to burn a letter from your estranged husbands.
Use a damm fireplace! Preferably in a controlled environment such as an indoor dwelling. |
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I believe you are talking about WI, Arock.
It was 15,000 deer, now since they've given birth it's 25,000. It's only a 285 square mile area. |
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Quoted: For some of you: Is there any occurance that is NOT part of some enormous, ill-defined but menacing plot to destroy our liberties? View Quote One could perhaps make a stronger case that such conspiracy exists among Wildlife and EPA types than among our beloved friends at the ATF & FBI. There have been evidence of the former documented and corroborated in the mainstream press. |
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Looks like my original post struck a nerve with some of the tin-foil hat crowd.
Notice if you will that they seldom provide proof for their Grand Conspiracies, but most often chain together coincidences and happenstance events that tend to support their fables. All else is discarded as irrelevant, especially if it conflicts with the True Believer's world view. Proof??? Who needs it??!! Especially when you can use selective reporting of the facts, innuendo, and mere hypothesis in its stead. |
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She makes a fire in a fire ring thinking she knows what she's doing, to burn a letter. Fire gets out of control, causing lots of damage. 250,000 dollars worth of damage I believe...
She reports the fire and lies. Investigation finds out she caused the fire. She'll now get as little as 10 years and as much as 20, 3 felony counts if I recall correctly. Moral of the story? Burning love letters in the forest makes Smokey the Bear cry. Don't know about you but I think this is worse than that cow kicking over a lantern and starting that one fire. I mean holy crap, a love letter. A friggin' love letter... |
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Quoted: Looks like my original post struck a nerve with some of the tin-foil hat crowd. Notice if you will that they seldom provide proof for their Grand Conspiracies, but most often chain together coincidences and happenstance events that tend to support their fables. All else is discarded as irrelevant, especially if it conflicts with the True Believer's world view. Proof??? Who needs it??!! Especially when you can use selective reporting of the facts, innuendo, and mere hypothesis in its stead. View Quote Raf, here's a link to a story about Fed. employees planting evidence to expand endangered species protection.[url]http://www.ruralcleansing.com/articles/article015lynx.htm[/url] I am NOT going to do research for you. You may want to surf this whole site, which is run by a friend of mine. You people who criticize the "tin-foil hat" crowd need to get off yer lazy ass's and do some checking...... |
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Quoted: You people who criticize the "tin-foil hat" crowd need to get off yer lazy ass's and do some checking...... View Quote And maybe join the NRA also. I hear the gubmint wants to take away our guns too. Of course, it might just be silly paranoia. [peep] |
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And then there was the fire that scorched Yellowstone National Park a few years ago. That fire was started by .gov crews "backburning" to "prevent forest fires". Just like the New Mexico fires that burned Los Alamos were .gov set for the same reason.
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I heard another blurb on this on the radio going to work this morning-she was the one that originally reported the fire and claimed that she tried to put it out. Some investigators (land management??) told her that they thought there was no way she could have smelled the fire from where she claimed to have been prior to discovering the fire. Then she gave a statement about the letter from the ex-husband or whoever. I am suspicious if this is even the truth, or an attempt by her to put a better spin on the situation.
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Quoted: I am suspicious if this is even the truth, or an attempt by her to put a better spin on the situation. View Quote I agree the spin is in about the "letter" scenario. ALL media outlets are carrying the same story worded exactly the same. It's like they're all reading off the same script. Not that it makes any difference but the lock-step does make you wonder. Who's doing CYA here?? |
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Oh my guess she is lieing. I've heard that people sometimes start fires trying to look like a hereo by putting them out. My only other guess is she set it because she's some kind of whacko who likes fires. Haven't there been fireman who were arsonists.
I suppose the investigators could be trying to set her up as a patsy to hang this on, but that seems kind of far fetched. |
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Quoted: Oh my guess she is lieing. I've heard that people sometimes start fires trying to look like a hereo by putting them out. My only other guess is she set it because she's some kind of whacko who likes fires. Haven't there been fireman who were arsonists. I suppose the investigators could be trying to set her up as a patsy to hang this on, but that seems kind of far fetched. View Quote What do they call that?? Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy?? Or is that just mothers and nurses who injure or kill children to get praise for reviving them? |
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Wonder how many spotted owls she killed.
BTW....if the horny toad was so horny, why is he endangered? [:D] |
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Quoted: Quoted: Looks like my original post struck a nerve with some of the tin-foil hat crowd. Notice if you will that they seldom provide proof for their Grand Conspiracies, but most often chain together coincidences and happenstance events that tend to support their fables. All else is discarded as irrelevant, especially if it conflicts with the True Believer's world view. Proof??? Who needs it??!! Especially when you can use selective reporting of the facts, innuendo, and mere hypothesis in its stead. View Quote Raf, here's a link to a story about Fed. employees planting evidence to expand endangered species protection.[url]http://www.ruralcleansing.com/articles/article015lynx.htm[/url] I am NOT going to do research for you. You may want to surf this whole site, which is run by a friend of mine. You people who criticize the "tin-foil hat" crowd need to get off yer lazy ass's and do some checking...... View Quote Lib, I have heard that. It's wrong as hell, but not news to me. I don't deny that people do bad things, they surely do. I do, however question the propensity of some individuals and groups to to take each misdeed as though it were a little piece of string, ball them all together, and claim that the ever-expanding ball of string is really a giant conspiracy instead of what it really is: a collection of similar but unrelated small bits. Now, I'll make a deal with you: If you respect my intelligence and diligence, I'll return the favor until you prove different. How's that? Fair enough? |
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Quoted: She makes a fire in a fire ring thinking she knows what she's doing, to burn a letter. Fire gets out of control, causing lots of damage. 250,000 dollars worth of damage I believe... View Quote Add another zero (or two) and you're probably a lot closer. I liked the quote from her neighbor, who said that she's a great gal and that "I don't blame her for anything." If I were the reporter, I would have bitch-slapped him ON THE SPOT. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Looks like my original post struck a nerve with some of the tin-foil hat crowd. Notice if you will that they seldom provide proof for their Grand Conspiracies, but most often chain together coincidences and happenstance events that tend to support their fables. All else is discarded as irrelevant, especially if it conflicts with the True Believer's world view. Proof??? Who needs it??!! Especially when you can use selective reporting of the facts, innuendo, and mere hypothesis in its stead. View Quote Raf, here's a link to a story about Fed. employees planting evidence to expand endangered species protection.[url]http://www.ruralcleansing.com/articles/article015lynx.htm[/url] I am NOT going to do research for you. You may want to surf this whole site, which is run by a friend of mine. You people who criticize the "tin-foil hat" crowd need to get off yer lazy ass's and do some checking...... View Quote Lib, I have heard that. It's wrong as hell, but not news to me. I don't deny that people do bad things, they surely do. I do, however question the propensity of some individuals and groups to to take each misdeed as though it were a little piece of string, ball them all together, and claim that the ever-expanding ball of string is really a giant conspiracy instead of what it really is: a collection of similar but unrelated small bits. Now, I'll make a deal with you: If you respect my intelligence and diligence, I'll return the favor until you prove different. How's that? Fair enough? View Quote Until the next time I see the term "tin-foil hat".... |
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Quoted: Looks like my original post struck a nerve with some of the tin-foil hat crowd. View Quote What are you talkin about? You were the first to suggest a "Grand UNified Theory of Conspiracy" here. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Looks like my original post struck a nerve with some of the tin-foil hat crowd. View Quote What are you talkin about? You were the first to suggest a "Grand UNified Theory of Conspiracy" here. View Quote See? |
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Quoted: We need a tin-foil hat smiley. View Quote [img]http://zapatopi.net/afdb/afdbsmiley.gif[/img] (Hope it links!) |
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Quoted: Looks like my original post struck a nerve with some of the tin-foil hat crowd. View Quote Note if you will, that you degenerate this discussion to name calling immediately. Looks like I struck a nerve with the hotheaded moderator crowd. If you had a grasp of the English language, you might have noticed that I was actually casting a hint of aspersion on the traditional "tin foil hat" crowd. But hey, all you have to do to discredit someone is call them a TFH, and now anything I have to say is not worth discussion. I thought about trying to explain my original attempted communication, but now that you're slinging names, I don't see any point in trying to elucidate. |
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