GOP Platform Proposes To Get Rid Of National Parks And National Forests

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GOP Platform Proposes To Get Rid Of National Parks And National Forests

BY JENNY ROWLAND -- GUEST CONTRIBUTOR at Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/07/15/3798652/gop-platform-national-parks/

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The Republican platform committee met this week to draft the document that defines the party’s official principles and policies. Along with provisions on pornography and LGBT “conversion therapy” is an amendment calling for the indiscriminate and immediate disposal of national public lands.

The inclusion of this provision in the Republican Party’s platform reflects the growing influence of and ideological alliance between several anti-park members of the GOP and anti-government extremists, led by Cliven Bundy, who dispute the federal government’s authority over national public lands.

“Congress shall immediately pass universal legislation providing a timely and orderly mechanism requiring the federal government to convey certain federally controlled public lands to the states,” reads the adopted language. “We call upon all national and state leaders and representatives to exert their utmost power and influence to urge the transfer of those lands identified.”

The provision calls for an immediate full-scale disposal of “certain” public lands, without defining which lands it would apply to, leaving national parks, wilderness areas, wildlife refuges, and national forests apparently up for grabs and vulnerable to development, privatization, or transfer to state ownership.


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[pkdu]

1. Koch-suckers. nt

[AgadorSparticus]

2. +1,000!!!

[AgadorSparticus]

3. I really despise them and will take greater joy watching their f*cked up convention

And come November when they get their asses handed to them. How can you go at National Parks and Forests? Arrrgh!!!

[auntpurl]

4. WT actual F?

Who the F is against national parks???

[TwilightZone]

5. Corporatists.

You know...the real ones.

[auntpurl]

6. Jesus.

How do these people grow? What happens to them to make them like this? I don't understand.

[TwilightZone]

7. Yeah, I don't, either.

I also don't get how anyone can support this kind of nonsense, much less a significant chunk of the American voting public. Kind of boggles the mind.

[Nay]

8. Of course it does! Think of the lovely views opened up for the use of the rich

who will erect large estates! All that money flowing into govt coffers to . . . make them even richer, and maybe, just maybe, YOU can get a coveted job as a maid, nanny, or gardener! Think of the possibilities!

[glennward]

9. What a great ad that would make just before November...all those swing states...and red states

How much money would they lose if the GOP got their way?

[greymattermom]

10. Some western states would lose a fortune if that happened

What about Utah?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. I'm sure some power companies would bid big for Yellowstone.

All that geothermal energy to tap.

[MBS]

12. outrageous.

Our country INVENTED national parks. It's one of our proudest achievements as a nation.
And, by the way, a Republican, Teddy Roosevelt, was a key player in this achievement.

Not to mention the beauty of the land, and all the ecological reasons why we need to preserve and nurture our biological heritage.

So bizarre for "conservatives" to care nothing about about conserving our historical legacy and biological resources.

We have GOT to get rid of these destructive, irresponsible congress critters. Please may we somehow be able to flip both houses of Congress in 2016.