Posted on 08/28/2002 3:13:30 AM PDT by madfly
Like most Floridians, I'm a transplant (from NYC). I hope you can get here, but beware...you'll want to stay. The only difference between Florida and paradise is that Florida has bugs...lots of bugs...lots of biting bugs...I hate bugs!!!
Here is a general mapped route of one of the main convoys.
Would you like me to add you to my "freepers who plan on coming" list? It's getting longer by the day.
Do you know if the cars in the caravans use CB's for communication?
Yes, please add me to your list and keep me posted. I'm going to try to make it, 'tho I might be babysitting that week. My son-in-law is in the Navy and my daughter oftens travels out-of-town on her job.
I'm going to try to make it, 'tho I might be babysitting that week.
Clear you're schedule now. If we have to take a collection to ensure that your grandchild is properly looked after while you're away I'll pitch in. We need every living body and family matriarchs are especially valuable.
I've added you on my list.
When a site is fixed clear your calander Matt .. We be goin !
Editor, Naples Daily News:
Re: Aug. 15 letter in response to the Sawgrass Rebellion article by Jennifer Sergent.
"Hooray" for the Sawgrass Rebellion. It's long overdue in South Florida on the enviro-zealots of Florida for trying to intimidate property owners away from the rebellion by insinuating that it is run by a bunch of radicals.
These citizens are merely re-establishing the rights and freedoms guaranteed in our Constitution like owning a home, vehicular access to "our" public lands and preventing "our" state and federal agencies from intentionally designing Everglades projects so that their homes are flooded in Collier and Dade counties.
In the past many ideas were considered radical. Long ago one man said the Earth was round when all others believed it flat.
Martin Luther King Jr. said everyone should have civil rights. Was he radical?
Many believed going to the moon was radical, but now people, albeit very wealthy people, are reserving seats to visit space stations.
Enough about the Sawgrass Rebellion being a radical group.
What is radically pleasing here is that the cake of Everglades Restoration may fall flat in the current oven of controversy instigated by the hard-headed, one-way authoritarian and socialist attitude cloaked within the enviro-zealot community in Florida.
Audubon of Florida commented that the Sawgrass Rebellion was the "Greenpeace of the property rights community" and public lands access. I accept that as a high compliment. Even though I don't agree with their agenda, I respect them 100 percent due to their commitment and refusal to compromise.
I would never believe that the tens of thousands of property rights advocates would gather somewhere where they could be arrested, make the national news, and frighten the enviral-liars (wink, wink). You guys need those pocket copies of the Constitution to hand out to the elected reps.
The commissioners are probably remembering the boaters' blockade of the Caloosahatchee River a few years back....(^:
You never answered my question as to if I'll have the opportunity to meet you in Oct. There will be loads of FReepers there (my list is growing daily) and this promises to be the blast of all blasts. I'm getting a keg for post event festivities.
Please say yes and I'll add you to my list. You're right around the corner and it would be silly to miss something like this right in your own back yard.
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