TC: I should add one more point. You say “If you don’t like the rule try to get it changed.” What Americans are now learning that such an effort is increasingly hopeless. Consider for example the demands by parents that school boards and teachers stop including blatantly pornographic materials in school curriculums and libaries. Seems quite reasonable, and something that once made aware of every school board in the nation would agree.

Instead, in far too many cases, possibly a majority, parents have been ignored, silenced, sued, and even arrested for daring to complain. And in far too many cases, their complaints were utterly ignored. Porno remains in elementary school libaries, and continues to be taught in elementary school classrooms.

My point was to note how this lack of response by government officials is feeding a growing frustration. You want people to follow your rules, then you better listen to them when they protest those rules. If you don’t, they will begin to defy you, with the defiance escalating as that frustration builds.

TC: The whole point of my essay is that people have grown very tired of bossy individuals attempting to enforce stupid rules that make no sense. I specifically point out that the rule against leashed dogs in Sabino Canyon is utterly stupid. As I noted quite clearly:

The effort to re-introduce bighorn sheep in the Santa Catalina mountains will not be affected one iota by a dog being walked on a leash in Sabino Canyon, where there are thousands of visitors each day, shuttle buses running, and plenty of normal disturbances. Similarly, walking a dog on a trail isn’t going to kill any of these new bighorn sheep.

Similarly, the rule against bicycles makes as little sense.

But nowadays if the government orders something, no matter how stupid, we must all obey, blindly, stupidly, and meekly. That’s what happened during the COVID panic, to everyone’s now long term distress — with some people dying because they obeyed blindly.

My point is that people are far less willing to go through that again. They are demanding the government use some common sense, and not be so arrogant. I guess you just don’t mind that arrogance and abuse of power.

NYC: When is a law not a law? When it is an executive order.

“Both a president and a mayor essentially ARE THE LAW as per their sworn fiduciary responsibilities of their offices in the interests of the people and the country. And so, when they choose to allow what is counter to rational thought, common sense and their sworn fiduciary responsibilities to their office and the interests of the people and country, then they have chosen irrational thought and no common sense and to surrender their fiduciary responsibilities to the people and the country. And there is a term for that, starts with “T” ends with “EASON”.”

https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/sanctuary-city-law-is-no-law

I was walking my sons rottweiler through the park one day and came across a deer with a new fawn. They did not run away. In fact they both let the dog walk up to them and sniff them. As I reached out to pet the fawn the mother walked between us and pushed the fawn off into the woods. The dog being well trained just sat down next to me and whined that he couldn’t follow them.
This is dangerous to the wild animals.
Even worse their are houses around the park and MANY of the residents actually feed the deer who wank into their yards.

A few months ago the state stepped in to do a culling. The residents sent up a stink to save the deer. They did not think there was an over population problem and the states estimate was not correct.
The state went ahead with the culling but only used two spots in the park to do it. Both gulf courses on opposite sides. They wanted to kill 190 over 3 weeks with sharpshooters at night. They took 125 the first night. They ended up taking 204 in just three nights the first week.
The meat was all donated to a local soup kitchen.

I can still go through the park and almost touch a deer a day.

Never believe the environmentalists.

Several of the comments here illustrate the dog issue is not about Big Horns but about people who don’t like dogs.
Actually, it is often about people who don’t love their own dogs enough to discipline them and leash them. Which then gets translated to “Well, we just can’t allow dogs, at all, then.”

Too many Americans don’t adequately train their dogs to be obedient and restrained. Even on a leash they can be unruly and disturb other people (trails are often not very wide).

So, when seeing “stupid regulations” like that, you can think your less-disciplined fellows for “why we can’t have nice things.”

And it remains to be seen what the new balance may be.

And that being said I think this is relevant to that statement:

THE OBAMA EFFECT

“Mr. Obama prevailing in the 2008 presidential election famously said one and did three essential things in the furtherance of “The Agenda” and has delivered us all to where we are today. ”

Obama in search of a new balance.

https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/the-obama-effect

https://tucson.com/news/local/northwest/dogs-pose-a-threat-to-bighorn-sheep-survival/article_76c80b78-efc3-57c6-aa92-e9839fe55694.html

I have noticed a lot of parks have very different rules and relationships with volunteers. Some are actually rather adversarial. It all depends on the director overseeing the volunteers.

There are very few actual rules regarding the volunteers.

F: Fixed. Thanks.

The reasons why the volunteer patrol was suspended were not described initially, expect for vague statements that the volunteers needed “retraining.”

“except” in place of “expect”