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    An Incident Showing the Need for Revolution

    Ohanian Comment: Although this isn't about education, it is illustrative of what's happening in education policy: The Bush administration and its state ed allies don't listen or debate issues--because they don't have to. Dissent will not be tolerated. King George--the one in England--had similar thoughts. When are we going to have a revolution?

    Oct. 14, 2003 | Last Saturday, Golden Gate University Law School in San Francisco held a daylong symposium on the Bush administration's environmental record titled "Wild Ideas: George W. Bush on Wilderness and Wildlife." There was just one problem: The law school couldn't get anyone from the Department of the Interior's National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or Bureau of Land Management to show up. A former Bureau of Land Management employee, who retired this year, appeared on one panel, noting that within his agency "the administration has been very clear that dissent will not be tolerated."

    Opening the conference, Paul Kibel, an adjunct professor at the law school who co-directed the event, stressed that the organizers had tried to get representatives from the agencies being discussed to come talk about their policies and practices: "Several were invited and accepted. Later, some of these invitations were unaccepted." The one National Forest Service employee who did make an appearance got a round of applause from the audience of law students, environmental advocates, lawyers and state regulators for having the courage to show his face.

    California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, who gave the event's keynote address, wasn't surprised that federal officials were largely missing in action. "Look at the title. If you were any of the Bushies, would you show up?" he joked, adding: "They're getting a little thin-skinned about trying to defend their environmental record, because it's essentially indefensible." . . .
    [this is an excerpt]

    — Katharine Mieszkowski
    Bush's greens: Too extinct to show up
    Salon.com
    2003-10-14
    http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/10/14/symposium/

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