LETTERS: JOURNET'S SCARE TACTICS

To the editor:

If I were a lawyer, after reading Alan Journet's letter to the editor, I would simply say: Objection! Each conclusion he reached is an assumption based on his opinion and offers little or no factual content.

I find each of these policy assumptions to be little more than a continuation of scare tactics offered by arrogant-thinking elitists. Do we really feel that these bureaucracies, such as the EPA or the Fish and Wildlife Service, are the only bodies that stand between us and environmental destruction? Give us a break. This typifies the feeling that government always knows best and individuals, be they people or businesses, cannot be trusted to do the right thing.

This altruistic, all-caring attitude has become extremely thin. Either you abide by more and deeper regulations and intrusions by the federal government, or you somehow are destructive and surely uncaring.

Regulations for environmental preservation are certainly necessary and needed by a civilized society. However, Gestapo-like tactics of confiscation and bullying landowners simply because some bureaucracy has suddenly decided a person's land has become a wetland is not at all what a republic is about.

I take great personal offense at one statement about the "prospect of seeing American wild species become extinct." This convoluted argument means liberals care and you don't if you don't support this liberal viewpoint.

My objection should be sustained by the people of the 8th District by supporting the conservative candidate, Jo Ann Emerson. Our intention is not to eliminate environmental protection but to establish a balance between people's economic and social needs.

STEVE SHELTON

Sikeston