Interview: Anti-Flag
interview by james wright
Everyone wants you to live in fear. The government wants you to be afraid. If you’re afraid you’ll seek security in their arms. After all isn’t that why we have government? To protect us? Protect us from the threat of terrorism? Protect us from the threat of Iraq dropping bombs on us? Protect us from more attacks?
That’s what the government wants you to believe. They want you to be afraid of terrorists, Iraq and even that black guy living on the corner who keeps to himself. Why? Because if you’re afraid, then you’re more likely to trust them and you’re less likely to be afraid of big corporations. Because if you’re afraid, you’re less likely to see the sad state our environment is in. You’re less likely to see that everyday you’re personal freedom is being eroded.
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This Georgia-built Carolina Skiff 238 DLV is being used in Virginia’s public hand dredge fishery on the Rappahannock River by watermen Chris Belvin and Michael Shackelford. Larry Chowning photo.
Two 45-foot Chesapeake Bay wooden deadrise workboats, a Canadian Provincial 45-foot fiberglass boat and three Georgia built Carolina Skiffs constitute a small commercial fishing fleet.
Partners Chris Belvin of Tappahannock, Va., and Michael Shackelford of Gloucester County, Va., own, work and maintain this small fleet of boats.
“We’ve got a lot of boats between us, and we need a lot of boats,” says Belvin who, along with his partner, works from several commercial fishing licenses in Virginia’s portion of Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean.