Defend Rural America on Oct. 22
By Liz Bowen
YREKA – After
visiting Siskiyou County last summer, noted author Kirk MacKenzie of the book
titled “Money|” was shocked at the situation facing rural citizens. He learned
their livelihoods, property and families are under attack and time is of the
essence.
MacKenzie is from San Francisco. He wanted to share the extent of the
threats with his urban friends and groups. In a show of solidarity, he and
Debbie Bacigalupi began organizing a bus tour. It has grown and is now an event
expecting 1,000 attendees from throughout the West.
On Saturday evening, Oct. 22nd at the Siskiyou Golden Fairgrounds in
Yreka, CA, MacKenzie will present a DVD film documentary on Siskiyou County and
its people.
Admission is free, but donations will be accepted to pay for the venue.
Registration begins at 3 p.m. when the gates open for networking among early
attendees. Groups can purchase a space for just $20 to share their information
and connect with like-minded folks. The bus from San Francisco will arrive at 4
p.m. And the event begins with the premier of the documentary at 6:30 p.m.
During five days of “vacation” MacKenzie took 83 clips of video as he
interviewed farmers, ranchers, businessmen and leaders who are working to
protect their Constitutional rights and property.
“There is a crisis going on here and the rest of the country doesn’t
even know about it,” said MacKenzie. “We need to draw a line in the sand and
say ‘no more’ to over-government interference.”
After learning about the fraudulent science being used by groups and
government agencies to remove four hydro-electric dams in the Klamath River,
MacKenzie was mobilized. Siskiyou County Water Users had proposed Measure G on
the ballot last November, which won by 79 percent of the voters – not to remove
the dams.
But, still the people of Siskiyou County are ignored by state and
federal agencies, along with Tribes and Non-Profit Organizations, who claim
they have “a stake” in what occurs in Siskiyou. The county has virtually been
dismissed by the “stake holder” group, which developed the Klamath Basin
Restoration Agreement behind closed doors – secretly!
Now, U.S. Dept. of Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, is consistently
voicing his opinion that the dams should be removed. It is up to Salazar to
sign the document that will eventually destroy the four huge dams. MacKenzie
hopes he can be swayed from this decision.
The second part of the event will be just as powerful as Siskiyou
County Sheriff Jon Lopey leads a groups of Constitutional County Sheriff’s in a
panel discussion, including Question and Answer period.
For more information contact Louise Gliatto at 530-842-5443; Liz Bowen
at 530-467-3515 or Erin Ryan at 530-515-7135. Also check out the website: www.DefendRuralAmerica.com
The BLM Kanaka Valley meetings at Green Valley Elementary School in Rescue were not just about rare plants, recreation and hunting privileges. It's about preserving private property rights and our Constitutional liberties.
So how does what’s transpiring at Kanaka Valley apply to you, and what can you actually do about it? Visit our Agenda 21 page to learn more about Agenda 21 coming to your neighborhood soon: http://teapartyinthehills.org/agenda_21_50.html
Similar to the debacles at Magnolia, Cronan Ranch and other American River watershed properties, residents of Kanaka Valley are being squeezed by Big Government and their NGO allies (Non Government Organizations). Historically meetings have been deliberately “stacked” by proponents who are working aggressively to promote socialist Agenda 21, also known as “Sustainable Development” or “SMART Growth.”
Also please be sure to call these elected officials to voice your concerns about the threats of Big Government invading your neighborhood soon:
Dist. 1 Supervisor John Knight: 530-621-5650
Dist. 2 Supervisor Ray Nutting: 530-621-5651
Dist. 3 Supervisor Jack Sweeney: 530-621-5652
Dist. 4 Supervisor Ron Briggs: 530-621-6513
Dist. 5 Supervisor Norma Santiago: 530-621-6577
Senator Ted Gaines: 916-651-4001
Congressman Tom McClintock: 916-786-5560
Land Grabs, Property Rights, Water Rights, Food Control and more: It's Agenda 21!
Articles on Agenda 21 on our blog here.
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After one becomes familiar with the UN's Agenda 21, it becomes easier to connect the dots in the daily news. It's not all about water and land grabs; Agenda 21 invades absolutely every aspect of our lives.
This story illustrates Agenda 21's "Precautionary Principle" which simply states that a practice is considered harmful until it can be proven otherwise...guilty until proven innocent. The Feds inspecting homes have no proof of wrong doing, they conduct the inspection without probable cause.
Feds come knocking in Pennsylvania for home inspections -
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Water, Water Everywhere...Except For California's Farms
Jan 20, 2011
Auburn Journal
By TomMcClintock
House Chamber, Washington, D.C.
The Department of Interior issued an announcement yesterday that perfectly illustrates the irrationality of our current approach to water issues.
California’s precipitation this season has gone off the charts. Statewide snow water content is 198 percent of normal; in the all-important Northern Sierra snowpack is 174 percent of normal. This is not only a wet year – it is one of the wettest years on record.
Yet yesterday, we have this announcement from the Department of the Interior: that despite a nearly unprecedented abundance of water, the Bureau of Reclamation will only guarantee delivery of 45 percent of the California Central Valley’s contracted water supply south of the Delta. This is the same percentage they received last year with barely average rainfall.
This is of crucial importance to the entire nation, since the Central Valley of California is one of the largest producers of our nation’s food supply. California produces half of the U.S.-grown fruits, nuts and vegetables
on the nation’s grocery shelves and the prices you pay are directly affected by the California harvest.
The deliberate decision by this administration in 2009 and 2010 to divert hundreds of billions of gallons of water away from the Central Valley destroyed a quarter million acres of the most productive farmland in America, it threw tens of thousands of families into unemployment and it affected grocery prices across the country.
At the time, the administration blamed a mild drought, but never explained why a drought justified their decision to pour 200 billion gallons of water (that we did have) directly into the Pacific Ocean. In a rational world a drought means that you are more careful not to waste the water that you have.
The real reason for this irrational policy, of course, is that they were indulging the environmental Left’s pet cause, a three-inch minnow called the Delta Smelt. Diverting precious water to Delta Smelt habitat was considered more important than producing the food that feeds the country and preserving the jobs that produce the food.
But that issue is now moot. This year we have nearly twice the normal water supply at this point in the season, and yet the Department of Interior will allow only 45 percent of normal water deliveries to California Central Valley agriculture south of the Delta.
The difference comes to 1.1 million acre-feet of water. 1.1 million acre feet. Now consider this: since December 1st, the Central Valley Project has released 1.4 million acre feet more water into the Pacific Ocean than they did just last year.
Let me repeat that. At the same time this Administration is denying California Central Valley agriculture 1.1 million acre feet of their rightfully contracted water in one of the wettest years on record, it is dumping 1.4 million acre feet of additional water into the Pacific Ocean.
M. Speaker, this is insane. Coleridge’s lament “Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink” appears to have become the policy of this administration.
The American people did not invest billions of dollars into federal water projects so that their water can be dumped into the ocean to please environmental extremists.
This policy may have been cheered by the previous Congress, but it won’t be tolerated by the new majority, nor by the American people.
There was a time when the principal objective of our federal water policy was to assure an abundance of water to support a growing population and a flourishing economy. But in recent years, a radical and retrograde ideology has taken root in our public policy, abandoning abandoned abundance as the objective of our water policy and replacing it with the government rationing of government-created shortages.
I cannot imagine a more disturbing example of this ideology at work than the announcement yesterday by the Department of Interior. Even faced with a super-abundance of water, they are determined to create and then to ration water shortages.
The American people expect better and they deserve better. They deserve a government dedicated to restoring jobs, prosperity and abundance – all of which is well within our reach – if we will simply reverse the folly that was on full display with yesterday’s announcement.
Ironically, this announcement came on the same day that the President ordered his agencies to identify regulatory policies that are harming the economy.
M. Speaker, it appears the Department of Interior missed that memo.
