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RAPTOR: RAPTOR is Objectivism based and represents a diverse membership. It includes Veterans, Snowmobilers, ATVers, hunters, and others as active participants. The membership has two unifying elements: 1. An understanding that Individual Rights, including Property Rights, are inherent rights of man, are a product of nature and of Natural Law, and are Constitutionally protected. As rights they are not revokable government privileges; and 2. Firm opposition to any anti-American Snowmobilers, ATV'ers, profiteering business owners or politicians who feel they have a right to employ government to seize other's private property via adverse possession, condemnation or deliberate misapplications of the law. (These particular power sports advocates are a new and growing left-wing threat to private property ownership, nationwide.) WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES: Bayfield County Wisconsin is ground zero for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) to initiate its co-operation plan which encourages local and county governments to execute large-scale, brazenly socialistic, private-property confiscations for creating a statewide snowmobile/ATV trail system through private property. This WDNR State Trails Network Plan is being implemented in order to justify brooming ATVers and snowmobilers out of public lands in general. POWER SPORTS ORGANIZATIONS: Many power sports organizations are politically and philosophically cutting the ground out from under themselves by opposing private property rights in the name of creating recreational trails. These groups have jumped aboard the WDNR's socialist bandwagon in their short-sighted quest to expand their markets and profits. In the long run, their irrational attempts to reconcile capitalism with its enemy, socialism, will ultimately backfire. HYPOCRACY AND SILENT CONSENT: Ironically, many recreators, organizations and their supporters are the first to complain and express shock when the same government socialists close off trails through public lands to snowmobilers and ATV'ers, all the while demanding even more government seizure of private land for creating new public trails to run through private properties. Such hypocrisy and such blindness to the government's obvious ultimate intentions for the eventual disposition and use of public lands is almost unbelievable. Recreators, sports groups and their promoters who silently observe these activities from the sidelines are equally responsible. Why? Because their inaction gives tacit consent to left-wing opportunists, who happily exploit corporations' and recreators' short-term goals only to further their own long-term goals to gradually abolish all private property rights in Wisconsin. The camel's nose is already under the tent. RESULT: Understanding the gravity of the situation and its implications for private property ownership, many Wisconsin landowners have now pre-emptively closed their privately-owned, permissive-use trails to the public. ACTION REQUIRED TO IMPROVE TRAIL CONDITIONS: 1. Contact politicians and place letters to the editor in the conflict counties demanding a return to American principles and cessation/reversal of private property confiscation. 2. Boycott any businesses, organizations or local governments which either promote or, through their inaction, tacitly allow left-wing assaults against private property rights. Only by cutting into the profits of the racketeers and opportunists will the message to cease and desist these anti-American private property confiscations be clearly conveyed. 3. Demand that all government entities open roads and trails in public woods and parks to snowmobilers and ATV'ers. Those lands are already in the public domain, and belong to the citizens. Opening these public lands will virtually eliminate any need to target private properties to accomodate power sports enthusiasts. As citizens, and joint owners of these public lands, Americans must oppose those left-wing government bureaucrats who, in tribute to their environmental mania, have closed off these already-public trails (federal, state and county) to any motorized sports. There is surely no cause worthier of decisive action than the protection of individual freedom and property rights, American style. © 2002 RAPTOR
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