We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake
because it's the infrastructure of our communities, and if we
want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture
which are to create communities for our children that provide
them with the same opportunities for dignity and enrichment
as the communities that our parents gave us, we've got to start
by protecting that infrastructure; the air that we breathe,
the water that we drink, the landscapes that enrich us. We're
not protecting nature for nature's sake. We're protecting it
because it enriches us, yes, it enriches our economy and we
ignore that at our peril. But it is also enriching us aesthetically,
recreationally, culturally, historically and spiritually. Human
beings have other appetites besides money. And if we don't feed
them, we're not going to grow up
we're not going to become
the kind of beings that our creator intended us to become.
Robert F Kennedy Jr. |
Republican election officials at the local and state level
have used the rules to give GOP candidates an edge on Election
Day by creating new barriers to registration, purging legitimate
names from voter rolls, challenging voters at the polls and
discarding valid ballots.
Robert F Kennedy Jr.
On the 2004 US presidential election. |
After carefully examining the evidence, I've become convinced
that the president's party mounted a massive, coordinated campaign
to subvert the will of the people in 2004.
Robert F Kennedy Jr.
Writing in in article titled 'Was the 2004
Election Stolen?' in 'Rolling Stone' in 2006, in which he accused
Republicans of preventing more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from
casting ballots or having their votes counted - enough to have
put John Kerry in The White House. |