Curt

Shame on every last one of us for letting it happen. Please people let's boot these criminals from office and throw them in jail where they belong before there is nothing left if it's not too late late already.

The total sellout of Crown

The total sellout of Crown lands and privatization is a long standing plan of the Fraser Inst. advocated for 30 years, based on the idiotic economic theories of Milton Friedman.

This was why the Fraser Inst. along with a hundred more, have been set up in the 70s to mislead and enslave the public.

Back in the 80s, one of the top propagandists of the Fraser Inst. Arnold Block, now , I believe in New Orleans (?), who also wrote a piece here on the Tyee a few months ago, published a book and propagandized that all Crown lands should be sold, also all rivers, lakes and even the oceans cut up and divided between corporations as "environmental protection measures", because of Adam Smith's " invisible hand of self interest" theory.

This is the garbage also being taught in our universities as the "science of economics", while humanity and the Earth go down the sewers.

Ed Deak.

The BCFS

The "Forest Service" has been under active dismantling for MANY years. Attributing the systemic FS destruction to only one government is disingenuous and myopic. It's been going on steadily for 30 years. Forest management, has for a number of years, been the responsibility of forest companies, with a corresponding reduction of FS management staff. How silly is that? Who is looking out for the public interest? NOBODY. Forest management staff were a multi-faceted workforce, managing forest operations full time and instantly available for fire duty during fire season. It worked. FS people who were totally familiar with their districts, capable of many diversified tasks, including Forest Act enforcement of a wide variety of regulations as well as intimate knowledge of forest activity.
What do we have now? "Specialists" from somewhere, who only have knowledge of satellite photos, computers and draughting tables. And even those are being contracted out !

Our forests and our natural environment

Where has this government considered the public interest? All this is deeply disturbing and now requires strong reaction from the public and position statements from the leadership candidates going into upcoming election. A commission of inquiry would be a good start.

It makes perfect sense...

...if your government happens to be the executive arm of the Fraser Institute, whose philosophical mandate is that every atom of common property ought to be be privately owned.

If you can't sell it, you've got to give it away. If you're going to give it away, you'd better not inventory it lest someone realize what's been lost.

There's no point in wasting

There's no point in wasting time going after governments, when they're using the scriptural licence, issued by universities, fraudulently called "economics" to commit their crimes.

In a way it is the same licence people used to burn witches, the Inquisition, and the warfare still going on between the sects of different religions.

I've been wondering for years, when the Tyee will wake up to the fact that there's no point in complaining and publishing endless articles and cries over the effects of criminal activities, without exposing the reasons and licencing theories that justify them.

Ed Deak.

Mission to gut BC Forest

The day after a Campbell was elected he threw out the Forest Practices Code and announced the logging industry would be self policing. A year later he allowed logs to be shipped south far in excess of he 6% allowed by law. Shortly after that people started reporting acres and acres of logs being stockpiled in Washington State.

Next our mills started going down and the machinery was auctioned off, magically to international enterprises. Very soon after the log piles disappeared and showed up in China. Then the bottom fell out of the Canadian market, and why wouldn't it when you can buy Chinese lumber at half the price. I wonder if that isn't because they pay 25% of the labour costs.

This whole process was repeated for the paper industry a couple of years later. PS did you ever look at the campaign donations of the Liberals. I did. Guess who donated $50,000 each?

Phay.....Where do you think

Phay.....Where do you think Gordon will get his most lucrative directorships from, following Carole Taylor's example ?

Ed Deak.

but what are we going to do about it?

Do you think the people of this province will care enough to boot these thieving, treacherous criminals from office next chance they get? Not if the corporate media (including the CBC of course) can help it.

Do you think the people of

Do you think the people of this province will care enough to boot these thieving, treacherous criminals from office next chance they get? Not if the corporate media (including the CBC of course) can help it.
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Nope. The Socreds aka faux libs will get another 4th term like they had before Harcourt won..

The NDP will never form government unless a significant 3rd party to split the vote plain and simple. History backs that up.

No vision aside from short term eceonomics

The liberal government stopped land use planning, aside from a few select areas like the Mid-coast and QCI. That took the public voice out of natural resource management. At the same time, they placed more of responsibility of making operational decisions regarding forest management in the lap of industry.

Now, placing operational decisions in industry hands is not such a bad idea, if you have good land use planning and regulations. But with mninimal land use planning, and less meaningful regulations, the public resource has less of a chance of being managed for the public good, and more of a chance of being managed more solely for the objective of industry.

The present economic system

The present economic system is based on quarterly profit reports.

When a corporation shows lower profits, regardless of the best of reasons, their stocks drop and they can't afford to worry about anything else.

And this is the main reason for the destruction of the environment and humanity, but nobody dares to point this out, because that wouldn't be "competitive", and may scare off "wealth creating investment".

Ed Deak

As I understand it,

As I understand it, economies are suppose to serve societies, but we now have it ass backwards, societies are to serve economies.

Van.....Corporations have

Van.....Corporations have declared themselves, with the help of so called "economists" as being THE ECONOMIES, and pimp governments are forcing their demands on the real economies, which are the "people, schools, health services, etc. and the environment" that keeps everything going, happy and alive.

Their excuse is the "Invisible hand of self interest" concentrated in the hands of the multinational corporate mafia, just as it was in the hands of the Stalin era politbureaus, and nothing else counts.

By the way, Adam Smith never wrote what's fraudulently attributed to him.

All he said was that when people invest in domestic economies, they'll reap benefits they never expected.

That's all. I can print the whole thing from his book, if necessary .

Now tell this, and quote what Smith really said, to the economics departments of the SFU and UBC and all over the world.

So, where are the politicians and the writers to point out this fraud?

Ed Deak.