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[pct-l] Search and Seizure



> Well..this is sure to cause a storm...

I'm not sure what you're getting at.  Could you elaborate please ?

heh heh


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Subject: Re: [pct-l] Search and Seizure


> Well..this is sure to cause a storm...
>
> My own attitude is that my access to public lands is a form of
> entertainment.  No more noble than going to the movies...attending a
public
> lecture...going to a porn site on the Internet.  I do not have the
calculus  that allows me
> to quantify my hiking as any more objectively noble than any  of these
other
> activities. I am not so wise that I feel comfortable  asserting my own joy
is
> anymore worthwhile than your garden variety heroin  addict's.  When not on
the
> trail I can often be found obscenely fondling my  hiking equipment..a
sickness
> that does no one but myself any harm.
>
> The issue of bear canisters...and the arbitrary bureaucratic rules of the
> various agencies that administer forest and grass lands...that seems to
vent so
> many spleens in this chat room...I gotta wonder if your living rewarding
and
> self fulfilling lives.  So it's dumb to add 2 1/2 pounds to my  backpack,
and
> Ms Ranger..the Fifth says you can't check on my baggy of  gorp...this is a
> battle worth all  the effort I've seen here?
>
> So I carry a bear canister where required, or even when it's suggested...I
> purchase the forest passes used here in the Northwest...(I hike from car
to
> car...picking up the one when I finish and going back to my starting point
to
> pick up the other...I gotta buy two passes...at $60 a shot...for both
cars?
> The man says yup...(but then am I environmentally correct..two  cars...one
a
> Suburban...the other a Jeep...this vast use of foreign oil..do I  deserve
the
> joy?))
>
> I guess what I'm saying is that I can see, certainly, that you can argue
> that the sundry and various administrative rules enacted by the men and
women in
> green may be wrong..or right..and that the money collected by them for my
> access  to wilderness areas may be misused.  Myself..if they say I gotta
wear  a
> bearbox covered with Victoria Secrets best..so be it.  I have trust  that
> their hearts are in the right place no matter how silly it may seem to me
at the
> time.  And when I'm asked if I am carrying a bear canister...I smile  and
say
> yes ma'am...it's right here.  Or when asked if I have my forest  pass..I
smile
> and say yes sir, it's right here.  It may indeed be  silly...or even
> stupid..but I remember good people can disagree, and that this  is not a
moral
> battle...just a disagreement over administrative policy...and  that I've
been wrong
> before.
>
> Folks..it's a good thing to fight the good fight... this world is filled
> with troubles enough to keep us all occupied for more than this one
life...but
> you'll all have to forgive me...if you wanta draw the line at bear
> boxes...access fees to public lands...to these sort of matters...and are
unable  to just
> stand with a smile on your face and say...well...on this tiny
matter...I'm
> gonna compromise a little..well...I'll buy you a beer at that trail  town
we
> both get to...but you're gonna have to forgive me smiling at you kinda
funny...
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