ev of Trescott, ME The radical viros like NRCM, Audubon, and RESTORE are carrying on this very expensive guerilla theater -- dutifully promoted here as if their banging their collective spoons on their highchairs were "news" -- in order to disrupt, delay and economically strangle anyone who tries to use his own private property -- no matter what "compromises" are exacted from him. They are never satisfied.

The elitist viro pressure groups will not tolerate individuals owning property here because they have targeted the area for a National Park takeover, pushed for the last 20 years: They want to eliminate private property for their own bizarre combination of feudalism and eco-socialism, to be run by an autocratic Federal bureaucracy.

This was expressed so revealingly by Roxanne Quimby herself to Yankee Magazine: "To me, ownership and private property were the beginning of the end in this country." She admits that she is using the mechanism of private ownership herself only in order to destroy it by buying land to flip it to the government and remove it from private ownership.

The viros will not tolerate anyone owning property who actually wants to own it. Hence the savage attacks on Plum Creek coincident with their phony insistence on Quimby's "property rights".report abuse

freddy of oakland, ME With the right connected lawyer, Plum Creek will get what they want.. Like Faripoint and Verizon deal..report abuse

Maine Commenter of Portland, ME I'm sorry but this article reads like a NRCM media release. Talk about slavish.report abuse

Fifi of Fryeburg, ME I love what AntiLiberal said. Let us common sense property owning tax paying people take back our state and demand to be left alone. Stop telling people what to do. If I want to put a bench within 100 feet of a stream I need a variance from the Appeals Board. Who snuck that rule in? I can't buy burning bushes anymore because they might pop up along the Interstate? Who came up with that idea? My insurance rates will go down if I vote for a seatbelt law (of course I wear it)? Stop lying - our rates didn't go down!

I'm sick of you liberals in MY great state of Maine telling me what to do. Hell, you even convinced this spineless LURC to vote down the Redington wind farm. Stop talking out your butt and put your money where your mouth is.

You people really think you love this state more than the rest of us. You just love CAUSES! You just love POWER! You can feel better about your lonely tunnel vision lives by getting needless and inhibiting legislature through your sessions in Augusta.

Don't tell me how to live. I recycle, I compost, I collect rainwater, I ride my bike, I hike, I burn wood instead of oil, etc. I love this state more than any of you. Stop telling people what to do. Start repealing some of these invasive laws and ordinances that have snuck in over the years. Get out of my life.report abuse