Water commission full of ‘myth-information’
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Editor,
It seems that Mr. Chris Tweeten, recently published scholar emeritus in the Missoulian, Dec. 19, 2012, is now our resident state expert on misinformation. Isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black?
Exactly how is the truth, straight from the penned works of Mr. Tweeten and his band of merry men, to be labeled misinformation by him? Oh, I get it, we’re not supposed to have been able to actually read and understand the Hellgate Treaty of 1855 or the Winters Doctrine of 1908 or the Allocation Act or the McCarren Amendment or case law decisions that don’t necessarily support their claims — or the (now) 1,400 pages; no, the 1,200 pages; no, the 1,100-plus pages of his current Federal Reserved Water Rights Compact (commonly known as the three-legged stool) as posted and constantly changed on the DNRC website. Interesting. I guess these people; no, folks; no compact opponents (it seems Mr. Tweeten can’t seem to make up his mind which pronoun to call his [I guess] adversaries by); good luck with that, Mr. Misinformation.
Has anyone else noticed that only claims are made, but neither proof of claim nor verification of claim is ever provided by this illustrious group of lawyers; just statements we should accept on face value? They just wash it all away with a grand gesture and sweep of their hand followed by eloquent, official sounding “generalizations” about misinformation. How amazing. Maybe they’re not lawyers after all; maybe they are just magicians. Now you see it; now you don’t. Say one thing; write another; and never the twain shall meet – in public.
Sometimes, I just wish these over-intelligent, contracted service providers to the State of Montana would just come out and say what they’ve actually put in writing instead of assuming that the general public are too ignorant to understand it all. When the truth does inadvertently leak out during a presentation, they seem to spend an inordinate amount of time explaining it away with extreme generalities that are not in the state or the public’s best interests. Myth-information at its finest.
Michael Gale
Ronan
