NewWest blogger Bill Schneider has recently caught the US Forest Service  doing some reprehensible and possibly illegal things. There's little new in that, other than the fact that what Bill caught them is unrelated to classic resource extraction. It is specifically related to the agency's attempted transformation of free-flowing recreation into commodified wreckreation —  i.e., the transformation of leisure into an extractive industry.

In Bill's piece, he blasts the agency's brass for what they are doing and for the contempt they are showing the citizens who pay their salaries.  I'd just add that the top brass within the agencies are, with few exceptions, people who have been promoted to the current positions specifically because of their willingness to serve the anti-democratic interests which have come to control this nation and its government.

Bill's piece is titled "Stretching the Law is Not Good Policy"  and stretching the law has become policy within the Executive Branch of government. The USFS is merely an element within the Executive Branch.  Bill's piece is subtitled "FS Digging Its Own Grave."  I take no comfort in knowing the US Forest Service is Digging Its Own Grave, though I accept this to be a statement of unvarnished fact.

The USFS and the FDA, and the EPA and all of the other elements within the Executive Branch of government are digging their own graves. If these agencies succeed they will, in combination, have dug the grave of America.

Scott

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