Posted on 03/17/2006 10:58:33 PM PST by Tim Long
I think all the pro-life people should plan a trip for there. I know I'm seriously considering it for this year--just need to get the okay from husband. I've wanted to go for a long time anyway as I've never been. It would be a close trip for us too here in CO.
Gerard Baker, superintendent of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, was superintendent at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana when its name was changed from Custer Battlefield in 1991.
"It's a paperwork exercise," Baker said Tuesday. "From my experience, you need to cross all your T's and dot all your I's on this kind of stuff."
That is not to say he disagrees with the idea. Baker, who is a Hidatsa Indian, believes many people would like to see places such as Custer State Park renamed.
"Sometimes we put names up there that are heroes that are not necessarily heroes to everybody, to all cultures," he said. "And I think … we need to take those things into consideration."
http://tinyurl.com/o2hjq
The "buffalo people," as some tribes called the animals, were revered for their power and the good fortune they brought the tribe. "I really believe, like the old people do, that these [animals] have a spirit," says Gerard Baker, a Plains Indian who appears in SACRED BUFFALO PEOPLE, a documentary film made by the Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium in 1992. "When you shoot them, you can almost feel that spirit around you for a while."
this law isn't gonna affect tourism one iota. I visited SD a few years back. the Black Hills of the Dakotas were gorgeous. Can't say i was much impressed with Mt. Rushmore though. just a rock with some faces on it.
This is so out there, it's actually funny. Let me take a guess how this story came about: someone from a "pro-choice" group started a call-in campaign to Mt. Rushmore (how clever), then contacted an AP reporter/stringer with a "lead" and the name of Gerard Baker, who's obviously sympathetic to "the cause" -- and bingo! -- you have a headline that implies there is a massive grass-roots campaign to boycott Mt. Rushmore (a place where I'd wager none of these callers would ever consider going.)
News has become an inside job, manufactured to further one or more odious liberal agendas.
Amen! And in the off chance that tourism IS affected, it's as likely to be for better as for worse. When I have the $, Mt. Rushmore, here I come!
This is good for South Dakota.
Blood money. Who needs it. Let the killers go elsewhere.
Let them find no home that will welcome their insanity.
I don't have a problem with how the savages killed Americans but he shouldn't cry because his boys had it handed back to them the same way.
She should try those shoes in Mexico City.
First Dashole voted out
Now this, I'll be vacationing in SD this summer for sure.
Aternative Vacation Spots For Abortion Supporters.
Crater Lake {a hole filled with water}
Devil's Lake {Wisconsin -- obviously not the one in South Dakota}
The Dead Sea
The Petrified Forest
Or of course the old stand-by -- Hollywood.
Take a look at the Glacial Lakes area in NE SoDak.
http://www.glpta.org/
We plan on taking the trailerable sailboat there this summer, meeting up with the kids and enjoying ourselves. It is an easy weekend getaway from Wisconsin or Minnesota.
After over 30 years, maybe we will also plan another trip to the Black Hills/Mt Rushmore.
What is the overwhelming demographic description of women who are fanatics about abortion?
Does this match the demographic description of the folks who travel to S. Dakota as tourists?
Aren't most of these hot letters much ado about nothing--sort of like the guy who asked the doctor after an operation, "Doc, will I ever be able to play the violin?"
Doc: I didn't know you were a violinist.
Patient: I'm not, but I've always wanted to.
Anti-abortion forces are rallying and will now make it even less likely that more realistic legislation that could actually greatly slow or even make doing abortions not financially viable to be passed in this state.
This bill was a rash act that will not do the pro-life cause in our state or nationally any long term good.
I already saw this bumper sticker:
"Boycott Mt. Rushmore: Abort Future Tourists"
Thanks for the ping!
First you read the source: AP
Therefore you know it does not provide factual information.
AP simply no gravitas.
It's the AP, of course its irrelevant.
The AP would just as well report as truth that abortion laws limit the ability of homosexual tourists to reproduce via sexual conduct with each other.
The only thing this proves is that the AP left wingers write this story because THEY BELIEVE roe is about to fall and abortion issues WILL be returned to the states.
People who bother to write and complain, are not likely to go to SD any way. They view the upper Midwest as fly-over country. It sounds like a letter-writing campaign from PP. Conservative folks who have children, or even confused Democrats with children will go to SD to see Mount Rushmore, and will not be deterred by this silly pro-abortion writing campaign.
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