Wednesday, September 17, 2008

What’s the motive?


I wish Bruce Willis would keep his big ose-nay out of matters that are really none of his business, like where the new airport should be located.

His opinion that site 13 in Camas County, already rejected as unsuitable, is the "best" place for a new airport must be based on all the expertise he's gathered from years of taking (mostly private) planes. What else could qualify him to make such an arrogant and ignorant claim?

He wants to donate the land in question, maybe dump it gratis for a tax write-off. Or perhaps he's got his eye on a local airport to serve a bigger and better Soldier Mountain Ski Resort, which his company leases.

He tried this stunt a few years ago, a surprise appearance at a Friedman Airport Authority Meeting to announce he was ready to donate the same land (that time it was only 1,000 acres; he's upping the ante to 2,000 now). He got no takers then, because it's the worst possible place for an airport from every standpoint, from unsuitable weather conditions to the ecological damage.

Here's my advice to Bruce: Why not just keep making movies with a lot of gratuitous violence rather than trying to inflict real violence on a pristine landscape and its wildlife—the elk who winter near the site, the Sandhill cranes and antelope, the dozens of species of migrating birds who rely on the prairie's marshes.

There must be an agenda here. Whatever it is, it's not a good one. One has to ask, what's in it for Bruce? Why is he acting like such a pusher?

Judith Freeman

Fairfield




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