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MLPAi I hav lived my whole life 52 years i know when corperate is takeing control from us.

by Michael A. Carpenter (ahra [at] mcn.org)
I have been involved in the MLPAi for a year now, spent to much time to much money and to much anger.We DID not vote on this they added the i to the end to make people think they did since it is ten years old.I supported it they way it was intended a seven page law,but of course just a few lines made it hijakable to who has the most money.If it were anything like what it should have been it would already be done and it would not cost any where near what it will.
I first hated going to sea i got deadly sick only one who has been in that place knows the pain and wishing you were really dead.One thing you find out very soon is they have no sympahathy for you and the trip will be over when it was said it would be and you just know you will be dead.

I had a friend i grew up with Darwin an avid fisherman and free diver. I was in my i hate life just got divorced boho for me right. One day Darwin convinced me to go Abalone diving the limit was four a day or in your control you could give them away to friends or to who ever you would like to,then get four more.

I hike down a cliff that was a major work out in it self,put my gear on Darwin barking orders like i should know how to get all this protective gear on and quickly,no time to lose well i look up and he is headed out over the surf rolling up and down head down useing his snorkel to keep from sucking water.

Ok here i go who care if i die i am doing this and i am going to do it well.So off i go head down kicking though the rocks and foam kelp and i see a sight that bought me back to my childhood
were i sat at my Aunts Anna she was my best friend.and had a wonderful fish tank were i sat for hours deep in my own world.Now wam i was five again except i was inside the fish tank.

You must remember this is Salmon bay Albion visibilatiy three feet that is an ok day i have seen 15 on very rare days and i have thousands of days in and below the water The islands in Southern Cal, are night and day.The sounds up North are still yet different,then ther is South East Alaska snow on the deck back bays with artifacts form Russia everywere underwater that noone can see unless you dive and killer whales.

Back to that first day what realy hooked me to a life that had to be somthing in or on the ocean.
i looked down and saw a Capaizoni they love to eat baby Abalones you can find, i have three small whole abalones in there insides when you cleand them a treat small three inches.

Here i am i have no weapon i have an iner tube an ab iron a messering devise not even a knife i could not afford one. My hunter intinct kicked in and i slowly went with my hand toward his head and grabed and came up out of two maybe two and a half of water with a fish by the tail it had slip all the way frtom the head to the tail were i was not going to let go i got it back to shore and i had dinner that i did not get from a store.I fiishished the dive and got three abs which is good for your first time it is not easy people think it is but it is hard work and it is local food sourse
great on our carbon foot print .If they say we can not do this in the future becuse someone in Washinton DC. It will trully be a lost at a time when we need to take back our local food sorces
Noyo food Forest,Maybe get the Sea Urchin Hatchery program back yes we had one and divers payed for it. You should take the time to meet a diver or a fisherman and talk to them they just may amaze you and tell you somthing that you did not know. We are all people who like clean air
no oil in our water claen food no pollition in our rivers we know corperations coming to town and selling(stealing) us what is all ready ours because we have protected it.

I am no going to say look here go there oh the PEW the RLFF packard maxiam I am so sick of all these people and name and there ties to each other it is all there it just would take your life away
to try and follow it. I say look in your heart and use common sence follow the real money
and last the mlpa people will go away at the end of the summerthey will show how they care so much about you and yours i'm not going away. I just have one last thing to say BP stock is droping like a rock they well not have any money left to pay. Also WhoSold When Did they Sell And how much money did the bigwigs make off of the selling of stgock in there companay that is going broke. Mik Carpenter
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