{"id":3709,"date":"2013-11-18T07:06:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T14:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/18\/environmentalist-manifestos\/"},"modified":"2013-12-25T00:09:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T07:09:23","slug":"environmentalist-manifestos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/environmentalist-manifestos\/","title":{"rendered":"environmentalist manifestos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/press_release_oh_and_co_voters_adopt_cbor_110613.pdf\" title=\"Press_Release_OH_and_CO_Voters_Adopt_CBOR_110613\">Press_Release_OH_and_CO_Voters_Adopt_CBOR_110613<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/ordinance-pittsburgh-protection-from-gas-drilling.pdf\" title=\"Ordinance - Pittsburgh Protection from Gas Drilling\">Ordinance &#8211; Pittsburgh Protection from Gas Drilling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quick read through<!--more-->one of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celdf.org\/-1-95\">Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund<\/a> manifestos reveals, and I say this as a matter of fact and not as hyperbole, a communist manifesto carving out supreme rights and unquestioned legal domains subject only to the control of an elite local party apparatus acting in the name of the people.<\/p>\n<p>So I challenge those who propose such radical departures from the rule of American law to prove how the system they seek to impose on us will work.\u00a0 This is a difficult standard for them to meet since communism has never delivered on any of its promises wherever it has been tried.\u00a0 Still, I&#8217;m eager to listen to a persuasive argument.<\/p>\n<p>But merely tossing communism on to the table of public discourse, as if it&#8217;s a self-evident solution to political questions raised by any human activity, be it environmental, scientific, industrial, legal, financial, political or social, is not persuasive.<\/p>\n<p>B_Imperial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press_Release_OH_and_CO_Voters_Adopt_CBOR_110613 Ordinance &#8211; Pittsburgh Protection from Gas Drilling A quick read through<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[72,78,118,112],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-collectivism","7":"category-good-intentions","8":"category-oil-gas","9":"category-rule-of-men","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}