Let me preface this
article by stating one key point... Bullshit!
Disinformatzia is the Russian word for
anti-counterrevolutionary propaganda. Let's give a nod to our
friends at Websters for their fine grasp of the language
and this words English introduction in 1939.
Disinformation" dis*in*for*ma*tion
(noun)
First appeared 1939 This fine phrase was coined by none other than the the most perverse son of a bitch to ever walk the face of the earth, Joseph Stalin. Tavarich Stalin killed everybody in Soviet Russia or imprisoned them at Gulags in Siberia to sew mittens for the KGB. He invented disinformatzia to cover it up. Complete control of the press, radio and eventually television kept the Russian people ignorant and in fear. It wasn't Reagan and Star Wars that created Glasnost and brought the Berlin Wall down. It was the Internet and the Age of Information. You cannot oppress an informed population.
Our forefathers, you spineless (or shall I
say spine traumatized?) Glamis squids must remember these guys.
Franklin, Washington, Hale, Monroe and Jefferson to name a
few. Just to remind your brains addled by years of sniffing race
gas, they believed in freedom of the press. As a matter of fact
they dug the idea so much they made it the first freaking
ammendment to the Constitution of the country, they risked and even
lost thier lives to build. They knew one other truth to be self
evident, besides all men being created equal: My point here is not to go on a lenghty diatribe about Russian history or Constitutional interpretations, rather to address the following article of last Thanksgiving printed in the Bible of Bleeding Liberalism aka The Los Angeles Times. You may want to read the LA Times article before proceeding... Good you're back. Now I could point out the large number of falacies, for instance that the injury rate is decreasing not rising. Statisically there are a greater number of injuries but the rate has dropped relative to the number of visitors to the Dunes. Bad science by the Liberals again (disinformatzia). You see friends the Duning Masses are swelling! Each year more people are discovering the joy of the desert and abandoning their tree hugging ways, trading there shitty-assed electric cars in for sandrails with turbos, NOS and going duning! Due to better awarness, rider training and improvements in the technology and handling characteristics of these intrinsically dangerous machines, the injury rate per hour of operation is way down. The decrease in injuries owes little to the oppressive enforcement policies and Draconian rules the BLM imposes on us, and owes everything to changes we have fostered from within our sport, ourselves. Another falacy is that this rate of injury and death is somehow abnormal for a population of this size. With over 100,000 visitors (more like 175,000 from estimates by the military taken from arial photographs) the injury/death rate is commensurate with any population it's size on a big holiday weekend. A nameless source at Escondido's Palomar Hospital confirms their admissions to be roughly comparable on a busy weekend like Thanksgiving. Escondido's population slightly exceeds 100K.
Three deaths and 390 admissions to the ER? Come on you lying
dirtbags, let's look at what happens in any hospital in a metro
area that services a 6 digit population on a four day weekend.
Let's see, at Glamis there are no shootings, no heroin
overdoseses, no rapes, no murders, no 16 year old kids coming to
class with combat shotguns. There are no beatings, OK, maybe some
mutual fist fights, but boys will be boys. There are only a few
meatheads busting themselves up doing what they love to do. And
endangering only themselves and the other meatheads that knew the
risks when they signed on for the adventure. Well, you can keep LA
on a big weekend, I'm taking my chances at Glamis. I can deal with
busting my own ass while living on the edge and sucking the marrow
out of life, but I'm not interested in being target practice for a
bunch of meth crazed LA gangbangers. Enough said about the mayhem and carnage ,other than those greedy bastards at the hospital in Brawley should be glad to have the business. You don't think just like Chuck and Jeannie at Boardmanville they make their annual budget on the profits from those big weekends?
Toddlers barely
able to walk strapped in high performance machines? Can't say I've
ever seen it, sure it happens, but to what end? To create a driver
that at age 16 actually deserves a license to operate a motor
vehicle? That knows how to drive under high stress and demanding
conditions? Praise the Lord, sign me and my unborn Republican demon
spawn up today! I'd rather be on the road with a bunch of kids that
have 10 or 15 years of off road experience under their belts than
some deer in my headlights, squid that pisses his pants everytime
he gets on the 5 Freeway. It is prevalent, insidious and pervasive. Disinformation is the tool of the oppresive, the stock and trade of demagogues and the song of tyrants. As off road enthusiasts we know this article is pure unadulterated bullshit. We read it and we get angry at the author and at the publisher, we read it and we laugh at it's far fetched stupidity. But we know the truth. Think of average Joe reading the morning paper, never been to the desert, never been anywhere but his office, his home and occaisional foray to his wife's purse to borrow back his balls. These people accept this crap as gospel, it's in the Times! It must be true! This type propagandist rhetoric cannot go unchallenged this Thanksgiving! Every year the Times runs a similar story lambasting off roaders at Glamis and designed to incite the masses of huddled little city dwellers to protest the devastation of such a tiny and frail resource as the desert. Hell, they have never been, how would they know that it goes on and on forever, it reaches to East into Texas, and North into Washington. We can't hurt it, but it can sure hurt you, try being out there for a few days without an off road vehicle. So this year lets be ready, the LA Slimes is gonna run another Glamis Inasanity article to try to get us shut down, you know what to do... You cannot oppress an informed population!
Make your voice heard... SPEAK
OUT!
A note from the Editor… This is my forum, not
yours! If you don't like my views or opinions, April 1998 "Green Stickers and Sacremento Slickers" March 1998 "Fees At Glamis" Feb. 1998 "Greens At Glamis" Jan. 1998 "New Years Resolutions" Dec.1997 "The BLM" (Bureau of Lame Mismanagement) Nov. 1997 "Chicks In The Desert" Mr Dune's Table of Contents SPONSORED BY: 
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