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Letter: Citizens’ rights are under attack

Sunday, Dec. 5, 1999 | 10:04 a.m.

Prosperity and freedom depend upon the right to private property, yet it is being destroyed under the guise of environmentalism. The true objective is not preservation, but power. Yes, it is the property of the bourgeois -- the middle class -- that is the principal target of Marx and his present-day disciples. And each day that passes sees more members of the middle class taxed and regulated off of their property, in accordance with Marxist dictates.

Federal, state, and local government property already accounts for 42 percent of the total land area of the United States, but that is not enough, it seems. According to the watermelon Marxists (green on the outside, pink on the inside), government -- especially the federal government -- must assume ownership of more and more property in order to protect the environment from rapacious exploitation by private interests. And whatever land the government doesn't own outright it must regulate and control in Draconian fashion, say the eco-extremists.

FRANK M. PELTESON

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