07/23/07 Activist legislation

Just what we needed. Activists trying to help write legislation. I'm Jeff Keane; I'll be right back with the details. Two activists groups  Farm Sanctuary and Brighter Green have submitted papers to Congress that outline revisions in farm policy to be included in the 2007 farm bill. I feel better already. In the good old days these radical groups were content to oppose certain legislation or bring frivolous lawsuits to handcuff business production and progress. But now they feel they are important enough to actually help formulate legislation that affects millions of citizens. I suppose they don't think of themselves so much as important, as caring. These groups are of the same mold as the groups that cared more for an owl than the families that were dependent on the logging industry they crippled. Compassionate? No! Control hungry? Yes! I think a new definition for an activist should be someone with enough time and money whose business is controlling somebody else's business. I don't know about anybody else, but I keep busy enough with our own work that I really don't have the time to worry about running and controlling someone else's profession. These two groups say they are concerned with large-scale agriculture and food production, that may be, but it seems many activist organizations never know when their goal is reached and things are as they should be, there is always more to control. I would hope cooler heads in Congress formulate our laws and policies, not activists. I'm Jeff Keane.