David Cobb--another Texan come to exploit Humboldt County

One Texan came to Humboldt County to exploit under-harvested old growth trees in order to get rich. Another Texan came to exploit community conflict in order to obtain political office.

Mr. Cobb writes his opinions in the Times-Standard with words one has seen used over and over again in the last 20 years by enviros attacking Pacific Lumber Company's owner out of Texas. One can only wonder why one man in Texas arouses so much animosity among Lefties but I guess a Great Satan is needed to mount a religious war which is what environmental activists actions amount to--certainly environmental protection or common sense doesn't enter their social change equation as witness the continuing failure of activist actions to stop the man in Texas from doing more or less what he wanted too all along with his Humboldt County land.

If environmental protection activism were a business, it would be bankrupt by now but unfortunately, environmental protection activism is not a business but more like a religion with religion's tendency to mistake myths for facts. A business cannot succeed when it's business plan doesn't work. But enviros "succeed" even when they lose because they don't have to win the hearts and minds of the general public, only the hearts and minds of counterculture and liberals who pony up the money that keeps enviro orgs going despite lack of success. It's a win-win situation for enviro activists and their orgs. They couldn't lose even when they did lose. "Well, we lost that court case (as if enviros ever willing admitted losing court cases) because the judge was in Maxxam's pocket. Give us more money and we'll defeat them next time.." Meanwhile old growth trees continued to be cut.

Said before and will say again, if a tenth of the effort put into enviro protest against Maxxam were put into figuring out how to regain PL back into local ownership, Palco would be our community's. But heck, actually resolving environmental conflicts is not fun for serious conflict addicts, the like of which comprise the majority of activists in Humboldt County.