Local group's 'top gun' has green ties

Isn't it great? Citizens For A Better Flathead has brought in a new "top gun" from Humbolt County, Calif., to set us Montana hicks straight. Our newest, fastest "green" gun is named Brian Mau. Here is what a Humbolt County newspaper, the Arcata Eye, had to say about "gunslinger" Mau after he gained control of the local county Democrat party (6/17/03): "In recent years the Humbolt Democratic Party has shifted left and could be called 'Green Party light.' Their philosophies reflect their new chair Brian Mau, who is a former Green Party member." An anti-property rights Humbolt County green group calling itself the Humbolt Organization for People and the Environment (HOPE), rejoiced at the event, stating in their May 2003 newsletter: "The local Demos now too have a Chairman Mau." With these rousing endorsements, the out-of-state green tax-exempt foundations that give CFBF their marching orders have chosen their new director well. With the import of Chairman Mau, it appears that for the green machine, amateur hour in the Flathead is now over.

If you are looking for a "top gun" in the green movement, Humbolt County, Calif., is the place to go. This is where the successful Spotted Owl scam was dreamed up that led ultimately to the loss nationwide of the wealth of our public lands to the public, and the continuing and ongoing destruction of those lands at the altar of the new anti-capitalist religion, radical environmentalism.

Even though, until recently, CFBF has chosen only to boycott and criticize the county's ongoing new growth policy effort, in his first official act at a recent county growth policy meeting, Chairman Mau informed the county planning board that while CFBF has no problem with the "quantity" of public input, they have serious concerns over the "quality" of that input. I am sure this will come as a great disappointment to the hundreds of county residents and the many business and civic organizations that have been participating in this process over the past couple years, that according to Chairman Mau, their input lacks "quality." This is a wake-up call. If you value quality growth and the economic opportunity that it brings with it; if you recognize the role private property ownership and the rights associated with that ownership play in the preservation of all our liberties; and if you don't want your new county growth policy taken over by this little extreme special-interest group, it is time to start attending the county growth policy meetings and letting your voice be heard.

I guarantee that Chairman Mau and his merry little band of green CFBF proletariat revolutionaries will be there.

Russell Crowder

Marion