Ruralicide

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Ruralicide

Policies have Implications

By Stephen L. Wilmeth

            Benny Peiser sent me another invitation to attend one of his lectures on climate change policy.

            In this case, it will be a discussion presented by Rupert Darwall and a band of renegade MPs (Members of Parliament) entitled Climate Change Act at 10. From the synopsis, it appears the audience will be entertained with the dismal results of the British domestic version of ‘save the world’. The outcome is fuel poverty of poor Brits has worsened, the country’s industrial base has withered over the life of the legislation, and the social divide has deepened.

It has been an epic failure.

Darwall’s mission to expose the green tyranny with its totalitarian roots of the climate industrial complex, though, should be riotous. He is a hound dog on the hunt.

            My only regret of not being able to attend Dr. Peiser’s highbrow junta is the carefully choreographed and fashionably late entrance with a normal and customary standard western starched look that would be expected.

“And, what is that?” you may ask.

It would be full western regalia replete with my custom fitted Jim Spradley hat with Wranglers stuck down in a new pair of El Paso vamp tooled, 18” boots with glaring New Mexico red and yellow Zia crafted tubes not with the words Land of Enchantment, but, rather, Land of Ruralicide running down the off and near sides.

            I’d bet a $100 Benny would know who had arrived!

            Policies have Implications

            If anybody still reads a newspaper, three or four issues should have made the front page last week.

            The first would be France set itself on fire. The second would be that a $15 minimum wage in Seattle has gutted the low wage earning capacity in Seattle. The third would be the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish has officially declared humans no longer the alpha predators in the food chain in the state, and the last and fourth article would be that the United States Forest Service has reactivated the entire logic of Sherwood Forest. Henceforth, perpetrators of harm to the Crown’s protected animals would not just be ruined they would be subject to being drawn and quartered when such allowance is finally signed into law.

            Policies have implications.

            The French bourgeoisie has had its fill of leaders who have never started a lawn mower or fished a merde out of a plugged toilet. They demonstrated they would not tolerate a public heist that would run the applied tax on fuel to 65% (collected by their government that would not be satisfied even with a 100% tax).

President Macron played it tough until he saw his little ambition threatening to start a civil war. Blinking back outright fear, the French Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe declared, “No tax is worth putting in danger the unity of a nation.”

Seattle has done something politically similar.

Implicitly suggesting minimum wage earners should be satisfied serving coffee forever, a study has found low wage earner rolls have tumbled. It is also robbing each of them another $125 per week in adjusted scheduling. What Seattle has embraced runs the risk of eliminating service industry jobs completely. Have you been in one of the automated McDonalds yet? Push hard enough and entrepreneurs will figure out how to rid themselves of labor costs.

Then, there was the case of the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Commission agreeing to green light the release of more wolf/dog hybrids into the wilds. They joined the howlers! They agreed unanimously to move forward with the underlying mission statement that hunters, with their purchase of licenses and paraphernalia, are not going to be the alpha predators in this green state.

No sir! That is going to be reserved for the wolf, and, if hunters don’t believe this, just hang on.

That was demonstrated with the eviction of New Mexico rancher, Craig Thiessen, from his forest allotment stemming from his admission of killing a wolf in 2015. Short on details, the key point of the report was the letter sent to “New Mexico Congressional Representatives” by Regional Forester, Marie Therese Sebrecht justifying her actions. One must assume that as long as she got the sympathy of those wolf advocates nothing else matters. We can only guess what Mr. Thiessen’s mortgage holder might think, or his banker, or his family, or his pastor. Take a man’s livelihood and what does he have left?

It certainly isn’t life.

Ruralicide

Unlike Thiessen’s plight, somebody is recognizing lives of rural Ireland.

Facing ruin in carbon taxes similar to the French, Ireland’s rural society can’t afford arbitrary, regulatory imposed fuel taxes. A statement issued by an advocacy group is exactly what the majority of rural Americans feel and face.

Reality of Farming’s (Agriculture) importance to the rural economy must be given equal consideration to the “scientific and environmental” (implications) of climate change.

The statement continued.

Farming and food production is not just a part of rural economy. To a large extent, it is the total of rural economy.

The real implication is rural cleansing.

In 1944, the Polish born, U.S. jurist Raphael Lemkin coined a new word in his book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. From the Greek word, genos, and ‘cide’ borrowing from Latin meaning “act of killing”, genocide was created. He was trying to describe “the killing of a tribe”. The word is now universally used.

So, it is time to do characterize something similar regarding the rural component of society. Policies have implications and the incessant pursuit of separating the human element from the natural, rural world has become an accepted cause. Since we started with the French, let’s borrow from the old French word “Rural” and add the component of “killing” as created by Lemkin.

Ruralicide is what we are experiencing, and it has systemic and poisonous implications.

Stephen L. Wilmeth is a rancher from southern New Mexico. “My state is again facing the consequences of political and legacy lunacy.”