Posted on 09/17/2009 11:11:26 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
I want to know how the situation covered on Hannity today is not cause enough for armed insurrection by the people of California against the tyranny of Washington DC.
I want to know how governor Schwarzenegger has not called out the national guard and by force of arms turned the water on.
I want to know how any rational human being can look at the starving of an area, the destroyed landscape, the human misery caused by artificially starving an area of a natural resource and defend it.
I want to know if our government would accept such actions committed by a foreign power and not declare it an act of war. We know they would. Yet I want to know why this isn't an act of war against the American farmer and California in particular.
When I look at things in our nation's history like the "Whiskey Rebellion" arms have been taken up for far less provocation against an overreaching government.
I want to know how Nancy Pelosi can decry the language of political speech while allowing the government she serves in to starve and decimate the people of her state while holding the most powerful position in the legislative branch.
Why are we accepting this? Why are we trying to work through the courts? Why are our elected representatives failing? Why have we allowed people to starve, regions to parch, families to collapse, communities to turn to dust?
How are these people not emptying out their gun cabinets and taking up arms against being starved by an oppressive government?
If this won't cause armed insurrection nothing will.
Great pics!! Hopefully this is a spark that sets the whole thing off. Rebellion. San Joaquin is not the only place that’s tinder dry....Real Americans have had enough.
I wonder how many of them voted for Obama? Elections have consequences...
It’s a mess, but I guess he’s just SOL because we can’t do a thing about it until election time. Civility rules.
I didn't know anything about Ukraine, until another FReeper posted about it.
The story has an example of criminal non-reporting by the press (Walter Duranty- apparently our media problems are nothing new).
It is an interesting read, and something everyone should know about.
Not saying that this is what our government is up to. But there is something very strange going on.
Would our Federal Government shoot people to save smelt?
Ukranian women are the prettiest anywhere.
it will take some acts of peaceful civil disobedience on a mass scale like this to overturn the current trends
Let’s see what happens . If the Iranians have the nerve to try it so should we .
It's obviously late and your mind has wandered elsewhere LOL.
http://www.c-win.org/5232009contracostapump.html
No one appears to have benefitted more than companies owned or controlled by Stewart Resnick, a Beverly Hills billionaire, philanthropist and major political donor whose companies, including Paramount Farms, own more than 115,000 acres in Kern County.
Resnick’s water and farm companies collected about 20 cents of every dollar spent by the program.
Those companies sold $30.6 million of water to the state program, participated as a partner in an additional $16 million in sales and received an additional $3.8 million in checks and credits for sales through public water agencies, documents show.
“For a program that was supposed to benefit the environment, it apparently did two things it didn’t benefit the environment and it appears to have enriched private individuals using public money,” said Jonas Minton, a water policy adviser to the Planning and Conservation League, a California environmental advocacy group.
Representatives of Resnick’s farm and water companies did not respond to repeated requests for interviews. A woman who answered the phone at the Resnick’s holding company last week said, “We don’t talk to the press. It’s company policy.” She transferred the call to a company official who did not respond for an interview request.
I’ll tell you why, because feminism has raised a nation of wimps. This nation was founded on less than whats going on now, arms were taken up, a revolution was begun... but we are afraid... same reason only one plane fought back on 9/11. We have become complacent, soft, tv watching, video game playing, weaponless, complacent frogs in the pot. We are finally seeing a glimmer of life from a few..but not nearly enough.. we will never vote corruption away, and we need to stop hoping that we will..not when the Republicans are just as bad as the Dems.. if you aren’t willing to actually fight for this country, you shouldn’t be here.
Yes...I apologize.
I had written up a nice statement about the Famine in Ukraine and that their top soil was 150 feet deep but I turned the page and lost it. So...
I can see a silver lining in all of this, at least the Muslim invasion will get NOTHING, for WE HAVE SALTED THE EARTH.
You need to rent Chinatown.
Nothing more than they did in Klamath Falls OR. in the 90s. Same meme save the mud sucker fish - farmers there took action to open the gates but the feds sent agents in to close and guard... just more of the War on Natural Resource Harvesters - nothing to see move along.
“I was furious beyond words watching this tonight.”
I can’t imagine the emotions on the farmer’s side of things in this. This needs to become a central rallying point for the Tea Partiers!
I mean, why worry about food production or small businesses when the future of a non-native guppy is at stake!
Big changes coming in 2010!
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