Don Young Quotes
We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.
Young, Don. Remarks during a House Resources Committee hearing. Quoted in The Washington Post, WP Company, Apr. 1996.
Leary was a strong advocate of the use of illicit drugs and stimulants. Yet he ignored all the side effects and negative health consequences of the processes and while he thought he was assisting people to enlarge their mental horizons, he irresponsibly and criminally damaged many permanently. His government “persecutors” themselves were also all disgraced by the extremes to which they went to prevent the counter-culture characterized by Leary and others. They became paramoid that the drug culture would morph into a protest culture against the administration. The tended to exxagerate the negative consequences of illicit drugs--especially marijuana. These exaggerations caused many people to believe Leary and others who went to the other extreme and underated the negative consequences of illicit drugs. It became a culture war when it should have been a medical problem.
Corsica was almost always ruled by a government somewhere else and Corsicans had little to say about governmental affairs which were considered like the weather—beyond anyone’s control.
Donald Edwin Young is an American politician and retired educator serving as the U.S. representative for Alaska's at-large congressional district since 1973. He is the Republican Party's longest-serving member of the U.S. House of Representatives and of Congress in history, having represented Alaska for 25 terms.
