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EIN News says, "Borneo Blowpipes Fight Biofuel Barons. Hundreds of Borneo tribesmen armed with blowpipes are blockading roads in protest against companies they accuse of destroying their rainforests to grow oil palms for biofuel, cooking oil, soap and margarine. The confrontation is taking place in the endangered forests of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, where members of the Penan tribe have existed for centuries as nomadic hunter-gatherers living on fish, wild animals and plants. (indiatimes.com)"
Here we have a typical example of a misguided Democratic group. While it involves only a few hundred Borneo tribesmen, it is also applicable to the total population of the United States. People do not always know what's good for them, which is why our government was set up as a Republic rather than a Democracy. Growing oil palms could be very beneficial to the Borneo tribesmen. They would be able to work in the harvesting of palm oil, with economic advantage to themselves, such that they could improve their water supplies, housing, etc.. Could this be a better life style than shooting each other with blow guns, as they have been doing for at least a few hundred years? "Living on fish, wild animals, and plants" also creates an unreasonable sympathetic reaction from semi-educated fundamentalists, who would like to return the world to primacy, without any consideration of the disadvantages of such action. Meanwhile, they love their iPhone's.
Contrary to Democratic leadership in the US government, who forces its position on the US public, I believe the Borneo tribesmen should have a right to maintain their aboriginal standard of living versus opportunities for what they may consider to be improved lifestyle, if it is explained to them. They also need to be educated on the legal aspects of property rights. They are already well accustomed to property rights in an aboriginal society, but are likely unfamiliar with modern legal aspects, as opposed to tribal warfare.
There are also several significant emotional/social aspects in the news quote. Notice the wording of "destroying rainforests" to the questionable advantage of having biofuel, cooking oil, soap and margarine. Environmentalists would certainly kick up their heels on this statement, because they have an unreasonable nostalgic interest in rainforests. However, God put all natural resources on this earth for our benefit of use. If rainforests need to be eliminated for the personal advantage of humans, so be it.
Notice also the use of the term "Biofuel Barons". This is obviously intended to place the reader's emotional sympathies with Borneo tribesmen fighting against the rich and powerful. The average US citizen generally takes the attitude that he has been deprived of economic advantage by the rich and powerful. Through this jealousy, he will always side with the underdog, no matter what the facts of the case may be.
With these obvious deficiencies of the average citizen, it should be apparent that our Congress should take a Republic form of government attitude rather than a Democrat form of government attitude, in the performance of its duties and any necessary confrontation with the Administration.