the Voice of Steely

[Steelhead]

deedle sez:
>Okay, howzabout a McDonald's franchise at the Great Wall, and Coca Cola
>swilling Aborigines?  Seems to me we've invaded the rest of the globe in a
>more permanently pestulent way than any lil' ol' fahr aint possibly could.

Quite right. But understand, the multinational timber companies importing
the shiploads of logs contaminated with pathogens that threaten to wipe out
our Douglas-fir forests, Monterrey pines and red maples, are the same
companies (i.e, Weyerhaeuser, ITT Rayonier, International Paper (the
Rockefeller's timber company) and Georgia-Pacific (plunderers of the
redwoods in Vineland country) which are slashing and burning these primary
forests in Indonesia, Chile, southern Mexico, Siberia and Brazil--leaving a
wake of destruction, extinction, and genocide in their path. Everybody pays
for this kind of brazen and ruthless economic colonialism. It is a movement
from the localized tyranny of the state to the global tyranny of the
corporation.

Steely