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.
Last year around Atlanta the man-made lakes (no natural ones in GA) which provide all potable water were drying up despite court-mandated release of much of the remaining water just to keep the Purple Bank-Climber Mussels (I kid you not) downstream happy (they survived droughts before without our help). Lotsa words thrown around, but nothing physical happened.
I kept wondering what was going to happen when four million rednecks couldn’t flush.
Few Californians know that California as we know it shouldn’t exist. Go read/watch “Cadillac Desert”, documentary of how what was hardcore desert was turned into a lush breadbasket by wholesale statewide theft of water.
I’m finding out the hard way Atlanta is similar.
Considering inanimate/nonsentient objects can be sued, you have a point. Someone will realize how to turn those tables.
Considering what Pelosi said recently, maybe it’s closer than we think.
Pretty soon golden geese will be endangered..
America will have no more golden geese to lay any golden eggs..
People are not up in arms, because they are the frog in the slowly boiled pan of water.
This is what communism/socialism/PC-ism is doing to our country.
Which leads to two questions.
1) Where's Walter Duranty?
2) Where's Beria?
...and a third one.
What is the take of the Congressional and Senatorial delegations of California on this?
Need a photoshop of the ubiquitous Shephard Fairey poster of Obama, which reads not "Hope" but "Stalin".
Wow!
Glad to know I'm not the only one suspicious of government supplied water dependent farmers' supposed 'right' to grow crops in a desert.
I support independent farmers who maintain their own water supplies, in areas naturally conducive to farming.
Enough of Big Agriculture and their collectivist irrigation schemes. They always wind up soaking the taxpayers, while the Resnick-of-Beverly Hills types cash out!
(Excuse me while I put on my flame-proof suit.)
By not turning the water on, they have a slim chance.
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