| Kooks Burn Down Houses to Save Bugs, Weeds |
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| December 7, 2004 |
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<FONT COLOR=003399>Listen to Rush Conduct the Broadcast Excellence Transcribed Below...
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All right, we've been talking about environmentalist wackos a lot lately. It's amazing. You know, I don't have "topics" on this program. I don't sit here and say, "Okay, I want to talk about X tomorrow," and I don't get up, go through the newspapers looking for things to "attack." I just look at things to defend, actually. I look at what things I believe in are being attacked, and I see the need to defend them. But something happens after every election that the liberals lose. They just get wackier and wackier and wackier and more extreme and radical and funnier, and so we've got militant environmentalists on the prowl. Now they have committed arson 25 miles from Washington, D.C., "in a very upscale housing development in Maryland."
(Washington Post:) "A dozen empty houses in a new Maryland subdivision that is the focus of a long-running environmental dispute were destroyed and numerous others were damaged yesterday in what officials said were more than 20 coordinated, methodically planned arsons. No one was hurt, but the attack left the Hunters Brooke subdivision, near Indian Head in Charles County, scarred with blackened, gutted houses and terrified residents in the quiet community near the Potomac River about 25 miles downstream from the District. For the  past five years, two subdivisions in the area, Hunters Brooke and the yet-to-be-built Falcon Ridge, have been a source of fierce opposition from environmental groups, which have sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers for allowing houses to be built in the area. Environmentalists assert that the houses will damage Araby Bog, a 6.5-acre wetlands area that is home to endangered insects and such rare plants as the halberd-leaved greenbrier and red milkweed. The bog filters rain and upwelling waters that feed into the nearby Mattawoman Creek and the Potomac." So these wackos have destroyed twelve houses, all to protect endangered insects and rare plants as the halberd-leaved greenbrier and greenbrier and the red milkweed. Now, these are environmentalist wackos. These are classic environmentalist wackos destroying other people's private property to go out and save... These people are absolutely absurdly insane. They are certifiably insane.
I mean, you can have affection for the red milkweed, and you can have affection for the halberd-leaved greenbrier, and you can have an affinity for endangered bugs all you want, but it doesn't give you the right to destroy people's private property. If you love these things so much, go take 'em and put 'em in your backyard and grow them there and leave everybody else's business alone. I wonder how many liberals were buying these houses? Well, some of these houses, it should be pointed out, ladies and gentlemen... You know, I'm trying to exercise a little straighten here, but I'm not gonna do it. Some of these houses are owned by minorities. I don't care who they voted for, H.R. It doesn't matter. These houses are owned by minorities, and as such, we need to ask: Are these hate crimes? Is this arson hate crimes because minorities bought these houses and were building these houses that have been torched now in order to protect some freaking insects and the red milkweed. Get a picture of a red milkweed and put it on your refrigerator if you have such an affinity for them. I know that's a bit extreme, but come on.
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RUSH: Okay, let's move on. On we just turned the Dittocam on, folks, for you subscribers at RushLimbaugh.com. The natives are getting restless out there, so it is on. It will be on the for the remainder of the program. Here's Rich in Bakersfield. I'm glad you called, sir. Welcome to the program.
CALLER: Thanks, Rush. It's a pleasure to talk to such a sharp mind.
RUSH: Thank you, sir. (Laughing) Thanks. Thanks so much.
CALLER: The problem I have is I believe that these environmentalist wackos that are burning these houses in Washington ought to be considered terrorists and how come they're not setting in Guantanamo Bay.
RUSH: Well, you know, this is terrorism. It's no different. It's domestic terrorism, torching these houses, private property. The difference here, some might say, is there was nobody home. Nobody died. They made an effort here to only destroy property, but nevertheless, I know. I'm not excusing it. I'm not excusing it. Terrorists try to kill people; these people apparently tried to avoid that.
 CALLER: But are they not also causing terror and fear to the people that own those houses?
RUSH: Absolutely. They're terrorizing these neighborhoods. It's been going on for a long time, and you're from Bakersfield. I'm sure you remember the story about the poor farmer out there driving around on his tractor and he happened to go over a kangaroo rat nest or something and they took his tractor and they charged him and was going to put him in jail and took away his land from him.
CALLER: Yeah, well, people even in your area of Florida where they won't let 'em cut the grass over there because it's going to endanger some field mouse or something to that effect, so they've basically got a trailer sitting in the middle of seven foot high grass.
RUSH: Yeah, that's to protect the manatees because sometimes they're too stupid. They don't know enough to stay in the water. You see these Protect the Manatee bumper stickers all over the place. Ah, you got real law enforcement problems in this state. There's no question. Rich, thanks for the call. I appreciate it out there.
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