Pubdate: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 Source: Times-News, The (ID) Copyright: 1999 Magic Valley Newspapers Contact: P.O. Box 548, Twin Falls, ID 83303 Fax: (208) 734-553 Feedback: http://www.magicvalley.com/submit.html Website: http://www.magicvalley.com/ Author: Bill Chisholm ENOUGH IS ENOUGH IS TOO MUCH When is enough, enough? Too much, beyond limits, beyond reason, beyond endurance? Overdone, saturated, unbearable? Is it really worth sacrificing the Constitution and the Bill of Rights? Is it worth putting the public health, safety and general welfare at risk? Is it worth destroying the air, the land and the water? Is there no common sense left? Does the world move on the political sound byte alone and the wishes of non-publicly elected corporate officers who have no ties to the community? I say Enough is Enough is too much, too much hype and hysteria. The "War on Drugs" created the methamphetamine problem. Too many good people busted for a beneficial herb and a valuable fiber, food and medicine. Too much nuke manure, cow manure, hog manure and too many chicken-manure politicians and bull-manure lobbyists. Too many livestock concentration camps. Too much greed. Too much economic and political power in too few hands. Is there a connection? You bet there is. Why destroy our rural quality of life to make plastic-tasting cheese and bitter-tasting milk you have to eat cake with to cover the taste? Get industrial milk, get industrial problems. Why concentrate so many animals in such a small area and then use blood-tainted oil to ship it all over the country? Why not smaller agri-culture dairies near the market? Why not human operations within the context of good stewardship and the principles of animal husbandry? Why over produce and destroy the market? In the land of the free and home of the brave, few are. Free men and women don't stand in line and pee in bottles, the ultimate invasion of privacy. A government of, for, and by the people is perishing from the Earth without a whimper, being bought and sold in the back room deals by men and women afraid of the light of day. Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights, or kiss the corporate boot before it stomps you into the ground as you grovel for some crumbs. Bill Chisholm Buhl - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake