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From: Barbara Millikan <barbara.millikan@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: [boo] Ursula Le Guin responds to the Oregonian Article on the
Bundy Occupation
To: "Marsha W. Freed" <marshawfreed@xxxxxxxxxxx>
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/01/19/3740829/ursula-k-le-guin-oregon-lte/
Here's the whole article, even better, except for the Oregonian
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Marsha W. Freed <marshawfreed@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Thank you for this! This is so well written! Marsha W Freed.
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*From: *Barbara Millikan
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Bundy Occupation
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<http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/01/headline_on_malheur_is_inaccur.html>
an
epic Letter to the Editor that was a spirited defense of American public
lands:
The Oregonian’s A1 headline on Sunday, Jan. 17, “Effort to free federal
lands,” is inaccurate and irresponsible. The article that follows it is a
mere mouthpiece for the scofflaws illegally occupying public buildings and
land, repeating their lies and distortions of history and law.
Ammon Bundy and his bullyboys aren’t trying to free federal lands, but to
hold them hostage. I can’t go to the Malheur refuge now, though as a
citizen of the United States, I own it and have the freedom of it. That’s
what public land is: land that belongs to the public — me, you, every
law-abiding American. The people it doesn’t belong to and who don’t belong
there are those who grabbed it by force of arms, flaunting their contempt
for the local citizens.
Those citizens of Harney County have carefully hammered out agreements to
manage the refuge in the best interest of landowners, scientists, visitors,
tourists, livestock and wildlife. They’re suffering more every day,
economically and otherwise, from this invasion by outsiders.
Instead of parroting the meaningless rants of a flock of Right-Winged
Loonybirds infesting the refuge, why doesn’t The Oregonian talk to the
people who live there?
Ursula K. Le Guin
Northwest Portland
