I had a couple of things to post here again and one of the posts was really LONG.
I decided not to put THAT one up since it would be 'political' and NOT politically correct concerning some of the MANY reasons for these fires and that is not allowed in this section. Meaning, the fires were NOT only started by the drought, lightning strikes, etc.
I do believe that there are many MORE REASONS for these fires including POOR, clueless, insane and stupid forest management, lack of proper logging/harvesting where it is needed so that fresh trees can grow and get proper sunlight and snow/rain, the beetle kill and other diseases that CAUSE dying trees, dead/dying trees and brush that are allowed to stay there UNTIL A FIRE STARTS AND GROWS and NOT be touched according to STUPID RULES, SOME fighting between the state and federal people - FEDS stopping STATE firemen from fighting fires since they did not have the approval of the feds in areas where there were NO federal workers fighting fires, including in our own state of Montana - fact and this did NOT only happen a few times HERE and in other states, Foreign Terrorists, Home Grown Terrorists, LONE WOLF NUT JOB FOREIGN/DOMESTIC TERRORISTS with full intent of murdering people and destroying homes/businesses and INFRASTRUCTURE - THEY COME IN ALL FLAVORS, THOSE ELF FOLKS OR WHATEVER THEY ARE CALLED NOW, illegal aliens aka criminals, squatters from all backgrounds, CRIMINAL TRANISENTS - I should write a book about this issue and you should hear some of my speeches, drug runners, drug makers of illegal drugs where they use FUEL - stolen fuel or bought fuel, thieves selling legal Rx stolen meds and illegal drugs, illegal camping especially when it comes to squatters and those CRIMINAL TRANSIENTS again, corridors of drug trafficking criminals in RURAL, small town, wilderness/woods areas and ON the highways, drunks/drug addicts being careless with their cigs and other drug crapola and when they CAMP ILLEGALLY, other ordinary people being careless, FS workers who may be burning more old love letters like the chick out of CO or CA, LE not enforcing the LAWS ON THE BOOKS when it comes to these repeated criminal transients with LONG records including illegal camping - camp fires, trespassers on private and public property in and out of town, stupid, mean and careless people who do not care what they destroy because it is NOT their property, professional arsonists, more illegal aliens including ones that have been tossed out 14 times or more (This state alone. Another recent case.) and who have LONG records of making, selling and transporting drugs, GANG members - huge issue and tons more.
I could give explicit cases of the criminal transients IN this state - city, small town and rural, the illegal aliens, the growing gangs, the insane explosion of illegal drugs and what our news says over and over again but you already know the drill there. Throw in some murderers too.
STOLEN FUEL from ranchers and farmers in this state and across this nation doesn't help either.
These FIRES are NOT all caused by lightning or by the drought or by diseased trees.
I should run for office but after speaking to some of the 'politicians' and others on MY local, county, state and national levels... I would like to live longer than 65 years old. My b/p and sanity could not take it.
I have NEVER SEEN the justice system fail so much, ! judges that people, not just ME, wonder what the heck they are ON with their ! decisions, such poor EXCUSES GIVEN and pity parties given for CRIMINALS with LONG RECORDS including violent and violent/sexual crimes, NO enforcement of the laws already on the freaking books for many of these perps including the illegal aliens and other bs as I have seen in THIS STATE or maybe it is just a western thing that I still have not gotten used to seeing. I hate it and so do other Montana people including MT born/raised people.
Yeah, yeah, there are MANY REASONS for these fires and it is NOT only due to natural causes due to stupid decisions made by clueless rocket scientists.
I have friends in .gov work on various levels and with paid/volunteer fire fighters. My own brother retired from the Federal government (NOT the FS) and so did his wife and a few of my friends, I have some who fought fires with the FS and a few who worked for the FS in other capacities. One of them was a big shot aka a HIGH OFFICIAL with the FS and he died recently from old age and from an infection. So I am NOT knocking all .gov workers, fire fighters, the BOOTS ON THE GROUND PEOPLE, peace officers, emt workers, smoke jumpers, etc.
THE PROBLEM GOES MUCH DEEPER, IT IS IN ALL AREAS of CRIME and criminal behavior, societal issues, NO enforcement of the laws on the books, etc.
The forest fires are not only caused by NATURAL CAUSES in my opinion and from what I have SEEN in our LOCAL NEWS and western news. Simple facts and even with criminal transient behavior with camps AND camp fires and drug runners - drug makers in the woods/wilderness and even in small towns and cities. Facts that have been proven even in this college town and UP north if people really paid attention to the news and know about the camps and those houses here in town. One smart, old lady complained about it as others did for a LONG TIME too. Her partner saw it too. I will tell you that they did not LISTEN TO HER, she only got a bit of news coverage, she had a 5 year problem with those ! next door to her, she complained to the landlord/owner of the property over and over again, she kept a 2 year LOG about fires in a yard, a few feet from her garage, dead grass, bad smells, people coming and going at all hours, and later ON that house and other house were proven to have been METH MAKING HOUSES. She reported it over and over again to the landlord, the police, the city, the county and so forth. NOTHING WAS DONE and I wonder who was on the take since it was allowed to go on for 5 FREAKING YEARS a few feet from her garage?! Other people in other parts of town where they had STUFF GOING ON including fires/smells - oh my! It is a wonder that her house and other houses were not destroyed by fire and people killed. Some other fires got started in town with drug making. Some criminal nut job started a fire in his apartment complex because he could not abide by the rules and he was 'angry'.
It is a well known fact that in some parts of the woods/wilderness - you do NOT take a hike without being ARMED or even if you have one or more dogs and walk as a couple. I am talking about 2 legged people who may prey upon you not the 4 legged creatures now. There are some parts of the wilderness and woods that you may not want to run into a specific group of people. My husband and I and others have seen some things where it just did NOT look or feel right - bad vibes so we did NOT choose to hike, camp, hunt or fish there. The people and their camping sites were not kosher and, in fact, we went in and LEFT as soon as we saw them even if we did not see 'drug making going on' outside. I only know what I see on the news and in some movies but some things and some people do not add up in the wild.
Many western people and others all over the country KNOW this fact about some wilderness areas where you hike in or can only drive to and leave your truck.
Professional arsonists - insurance money is another reason WHY some of this is going on. Plus many people want our own already messed up infrastructure ruined for a time frame or completely destroyed even if it needs work since it has been so NEGLECTED over time.
TRUTH IS SOMETIMES STRANGER THAN FICTION when the inmates aka some politicians and criminals aka inmates RUN THE ASYLUM.
Old Lady Cate
PS: Susan, you have mail. Thank you.
