I’d recommend you do a head count and find out which media outlets - radio, TV, print - are on your side. Then organize a meeting and plan a counter-offensive.
I’m sure there are hundreds of businesses fed up with the bureaucrat fascists who would be willing to buy ads. You need to get a foothold in friendly territory, then spread your influence outward.
Look around and find someone with a computer and layout skills. Get some writers on board. You’ll also need someone to call on businesses to buy ads.
Find a printer with a web press. For about $1,000 you can print up a magazine-size publication - 32 pages, 5,000 copies - to get the information out. Businesses buying ads will pay for production costs, writers and an advertising person, plus give you a small profit. For an extra $150 or so you can print up 10,000 copies.
Give away copies of the magazine to businesses and let them sell the magazines for $1 to public. If a business buys an ad for $75, give it 150 copies. That will pay for the ad plus give a small profit. This strategy will encourage businesses to buy ads.
The magazine can be used to explain what individual rights are, how the bureaucrats are robbing people of their birthright and investigative pieces can be done.
This will get your message out and start putting the fascists on the defensive, as they’ll need to justify their Marxist policies to readers and constituents.
I know that they are regulating natural resource users to death. Pretty soon, we will have to open the floodgates and allow development on our farms and ranches because they can no longer afford to comply.
Currently, the state wants to:
(1)shut down all suction dredge mining through AB 1032 and the hearing next week at the water quality control Board on mining impacts;
(2) add a whole bunch of new regulations to implement “recovery” measures for coho on the timber industry (and I thought “recovery” actions were voluntary;
(3) regulate agriculture through
(a)water quality total maximum daily load limits on sediment, nutrients and temperature,
(b) new riparian and wetlands controls,
(c) waste discharge regulations (WDRs,)
(d)Section 404 Clean water act permits (now they want to remove “naviagable waters of the US so the feds can control nonnavigable in-state streams)
(e) incidental take permits on salmon,
(f) 1603 permits from the Dept. of Fish and Game to divert water from a fish bearing stream
(g) new limits on development in a flood plain
It’s time to renew my commitment as a citizen to the founding values of my country. I have been working various venues for years— if the immigration bill defeat is an indication, then there is hope for this country yet.
Thanks for the timely information. I hope to find a way to make use of it soon.