Andrew Sage

Sometimes a slippery slope argument can also be a fallacy, but in this case, building roads into the wilderness will permanently change the nature of that wilderness and will lead to other losses of protection on public land.

Lee makes the argument that it's important for search and rescue and for border access.

There is already mechanized access for search and rescue.

Search and rescue helicopters, for instance, can access wilderness areas.

They have agreements in place with land management agencies which allow them to do this already when there is a risk to human life.

The bill also talks about removing invasive species and reducing fire risk by removing fire fuels down by the border.

Again, I'm guessing what this would do would be this, this would, I mean, if you fire fuels, like look at the Southern border near where I live, right?

Like think of the California sagebrush chaparral, like clearing fire fuels there would completely change that landscape forever.

Yeah.

it would remove much of the value that this wilderness has.

Not as untouched, right?

People have lived in this area for tens of thousands of years and that they have touched that nature and they have lived alongside it and worked with it.

But it is an area that is significantly less damaged

than most of the united states right the bill would also inventory fires and damage to wilderness caused by migrants i guess this is just an attempt to say another bad thing about migrants it also prohibits any housing of migrants on federal lands unless it is in a prison

It's Lee taking this border hawk stuff and strapping it onto this crusade that he has been on for a long time to deprive people in the United States and people visiting the United States of access to their public lands and eventually to sell those lands off to the highest bidder.

He introduced it on October 2nd.

It's in the committee stage right now.

This probably is one of the things that folks could call a representative about and suggest it's a very bad idea.

Talking about bad ideas, Maduro has announced the formation of an international brigade to defend his incredibly corrupt regime in Venezuela.

I say this as someone who has been to Venezuela.