Ted Turner has a few causes beyond buffalos

Ted

Turner has a few causes beyond buffalos

Thanks should go to Susan Bertram

whose letter to the editor published Jan. 23 alerted Peachtree City residents

to the impending opening of Ted's Montana Grill. In addition to the rip-off

of the taxpayers for various federal agricultural subsidies, Turner is

up to his neck in other hypocritical activities.

According to Audrey Hudson

in the Washington Times Weekly Edition of Jan. 25, Ted owns 1.8 million

acres across 10 states and is the largest private landowner in the U.S.

He has received $217,000 in taxpayer funds [for the years] 1996-2000.

You can enter a "Bison Hunt" on his property for $10,500. He

also has circled his properties with an illegal electrical fence that

traps and electrocutes wildlife.

Why no squawk from PETA? Because

he gives oodles of money to environmental groups. This makes him a "New

Democrat" and gives him a free pass into the club of the politically

correct who can do no wrong. It also guarantees him immunity from media

criticism.

According to Hudson, Ted also

cuts timber and drills for natural gas on his property and has bulldozed

a mountaintop for better views. Environmentalist pressure has discouraged

cutting timber and drilling in adjacent national forests so that they

will remain "pristine." This government policy also makes Ted's

resources more valuable.

In addition to giving millions

to the wasteful, inefficient and socialistic U.N., Ted's most recent international

meddling has involved something he calls the Nuclear Threat Initiative,

which he launched as soon as George Bush entered the White House. The

timing is suspicious.

Where was Ted when Bill Clinton

swept aside decades of government security regulations to allow his rich

friends to sell super computers to the Chinese Communists, giving the

Chinese the ability to upgrade their nuclear weapons? Where was Ted when

the Chinese passed nuclear weapons skills to India? Pakistan? Iran? Libya?

North Korea?

Where was Ted when Janet Reno

stonewalled the Los Alamos investigations into suspected Chinese theft

of our nuclear secrets? Where was Ted when it was determined that the

Chinese were aiding the North Koreans in nuclear missile development?

Where was Ted when Al Gore made secret deals with the Russians, subverting

legislation Gore himself sponsored, to keep high-tech weapons out of the

hands of "rogue states?" Where was Ted when Clinton-Gore refused

to invoke sanctions against the Chinese for proliferation when all of

the above became known? Why all the concern about nuclear weapons just

as soon as Bush was elected?

We should tell Ted to donate

his buffalo steaks to a local food bank on the way