Tolkkinen: Why worry about traffickers destroying Boundary Waters when Stauber is willing to do it himself?
Rep. Pete Stauber may have been spending too much time in D.C. in recent years and not enough time soaking in the natural beauty of his district.
What other explanation could there be for his enthusiasm for a plan to install surveillance equipment and infrastructure and allow motorboats and airplanes in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Voyageurs National Park?
The Border Lands Conservation Act, introduced in the U.S. Senate by none other than Sen. Mike “Let’s Make Political Hay Off The Assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman” Lee of Utah, would allow new roads, spy towers (called “observation points” in the bill, but I doubt they’d build observation points on the forest floor), surveillance equipment, bridges, fences, and motorized vehicles and boats into this refuge for wild things and world-weary humans. It permits aircraft to take off and land in wilderness areas, which, unless they’re using floatplanes, would seem to require landing pads and runways.
Lee and Stauber seem to feel that these watery wilderness areas are the next front in the war against human traffickers, terrorists and drug smugglers, so we’re going to sacrifice them in the name of protecting our country.
Isn’t that lovely? Isn’t it exactly what you want in your back country adventure, to know you are being surveilled by the Department of Homeland Security while you skinny-dip in the clear waters of a lake you thought you had all to yourself?
Wouldn’t you love to hear federal agents zooming around the wilderness on ATVs?
Wouldn’t it be so wonderful if your brown or Black family or friends were accosted by agents demanding to see ID?
And I thought the GOP was against big government.
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