1/9/12 Ash Tree Assassination

While traveling today through St. Anthony on Stinson Boulevard making my way home from down town Minneapolis I noticed some freshly removed old growth Parkway trees still having green paint visible around the remaining stump.

 

Immediately my thoughts returned to an article I read several weeks ago where someone in the Minneapolis Parks Department was explaining the green paint encircling the clearly healthy trees. The unelected bureaucrat said the Minneapolis Parks Department in cooperation with other governmental agencies has embarked on an experimental forestry saving project to destroy perfectly healthy Ash trees in the community then replacing them with other tree types.

 

One might ask why destroy perfectly healthy Ash trees? The bureaucrat explained the healthy Ash trees might, someday in the future, develop Ash Boar disease; the new progressive forestry saving project proactively removes the trees before a possible future disease. 

 

Have we totally lost our minds as a society? When does the endless theft of private wealth stop? Long ago government exceeded Constitutional spending restrictions moving into a phase of self propelling expansion “for expansion sake” while continuingly increasing the theft of citizen wealth; into a new stage of bloated consumption disguised as justified unproven or tested preemptive destruction and replacement.

 

Suppose during an annual medical exam your attending doctor informed you he was scheduling you a liver transplant for next week based on the possibility you might get liver disease in 17 years. Suppose, in spite of all your efforts the transplant occurred, protecting a possible future disease. How would you respond?