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Permalink Reply by Pipeliner on December 21, 2009 at 3:43

Protesters carrying signs reading "KILL THE DRILL" while using oil, gas and coal produced elsewhere are pure NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard)

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Permalink Reply by Phillip Briggs on December 22, 2009 at 6:19

The Sierra Club stopped being the traditional Sierra Club back in the early 90's. Traditionally, it was an advocate of wildlands, National Parks, and National Forests. A noble undertaking... I proudly considered myself pro Sierra Club... I agreed with them 100% of the time. At the time, I was working for the National Park Service at Denali, in Alaska. I remember getting a mailer, basically asking members about their 'extracurricular' concerns... basically a basket full of 'social justice' BS. As the headquarters was in San Francisco, it wasn't hard for a putsch to occur, and the former non partisan (some of the major land issue movements, which favored the environment, were brought about by Republican presidents) Sierra Club, turned into a social justice movement... worrying about things that were diametrically opposed to the original charter.

Now, I find agree with the SC about 5% of the time... the social justice thugs have usurped the old fashioned hiking in the mountains crowd.

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