Eco-farmer-terrorist

The Navy needs to build a new runway. They found a spot they like. What's the problem? Farmers and birds.

The nemesis of the farmers and the bird-loving environmentalists is as formidable as they come: the U.S. Navy. The Navy is making an appeal to patriotism and arguing that it is justified in buying -- or, if need be, seizing -- more than 30,000 acres of farmland near the refuge to build a landing strip to polish the skills of pilots for its snazziest new crop of planes, the supersonic F/A-18E/F Super Hornets. The landing strip would be the first major new Navy facility since the 1960s and would break ground at a time when bases across the country are closing.

Little do the farmers know in that very instant they were transformed from domestic heroes that provide sustenance to patriotic Americans into "environmental whackos" and will now be derided as such on the Rush Limbaugh show. I'm sure Bill O'Reilly will tag them as "socialists," Ann Coulter will write them off as communists, and Karen Huges will say they are in bed with al Qaeda. Life moves pretty fast. Try and keep up.