Posted on 09/17/2009 8:26:34 PM PDT by Jeff Head
Here we go again.
I was watching Sean Hannity tonight (9/17/2009), and have been following loosely the situation in the San Joaquin Valley of California with their water crisis over the small Delta Smelt minnow and its endangered species listing.
The Farmers have water rights to that water. There is no legal water rights for that water for a minnow over the farmers. There is only a manufactured judicial legal decision by liberal judges based on junk science and the whims of administrators and bureaucrats that create these incidents based on the Endangered Species Act and a rabid environmental policy.
This is an illegal "taking", and it is unconstitutional on its face. And it simply cannot stand.
This sounds more and more like what happened in the Klamath Basin Water Crisis to farmers of Oregon and northern California in 2001. At that time, the magical fish was the sucker fish...and every farmer in that basin knew that the sucker fish was not endagered and that they did not need a "full" lake to survive. It was junk science being used to push an anti-American environmental agenda then...plain and simple...and it is the same today.
Here is my suggestion to the Farmers and their allies in the San Joaquin Valley.
You have the numbers...many more people actively engaged in the fight than we had in Klamath. In Klamath, there were many meetings with politicians...followed by meetings with "officials" of government agencies. In the end, the result was the same...the water stayed off.
It was not until a few farmers and their allies took control of the headgates and turned the water back on that things began to happen. In that case, only a dozen farmers and their allies were at the gates the next morning when 50-70 armed law enforcement officers came and took the head gates back and again turned off the water.
If we had had 1000 farmers and their allies there that morning, they would not have been able to do so.
As it was, we did not, and so those officers, who had reconnoitered our position through the night, turned the water back off...temporarily.
But that was the spark and by the next afternoon, the farmers and their allies gathered en masse and surrounded the law enforcement officers (most of whom absolutely did not want to be there) and made their life miserable over the course of many weeks.
Ultimately, after the farmers pumped the water in small quanitities, and then siphoned it in larger quantities around the headgates, at a later rally where many hundreds were present, the farmers crossed the line again and penned the government officers in.
Soon thereafter, legal decisions began to change and the crisis was ultimately resolved and returned to the status quo and the farmers got their water.
To this day the Klamath Basin has continued getting enough water to farm.
Now the fight has moved to the much larger and larger producing San Joaquin Valley.
In the end, my advise is simple.
STOP BEING GLAD HANDED BY POLITIICANS AND OFFICIALS.
FIND A WAY TO TURN YOUR WATER ON THEN STAND VIGIL BY THE THOUSANDS AND KEEP IT ON.
Your livelihood, your way of life...YOUR LIBERTY is worth the effort and the risk. And make no mistake, that is exactly what is at stake here.
And make no mistake the rest of America...YOUR livelihood, your way of life, and your liberty by extension is also at stake. For if they can do this to your neighbors there in California and get away with it...they can do it to you.
Once those lines are drawn, and you engage in civil disobedience in this fashion, people will flock to you by the tens of thousands and the administration will be forced to turn things around and magically find, as the Bush administration did before them, the "new science" to support a reversal of their current policy.
God bless you farmers there. God bless all who support you.
In the end, it is your decision. This advise is simply given from one who witnessed the same type of governmental infringement, the same unconstitutional and illegal takings, the same judicial and environmental tyranny that you are experiencing now...and stood with those who did something about it.
I just ran an idea by someone...and here it is!!
Let’s just turn the water off at San Fran Nans vineyard...just hers...see how she likes it!
You’re right Jeff. Just turn on the water and place armed guards around the pumps.
Hi there, Issaquahking.
Looks like we have to fight the same battle all over again, doesn’t it? Same gooberment sh*t, different local.
For all who are not familiar with what is happening this time, please realize that Klamath falls was not an area of groves as much as it was fields. That difference is critical!
Potatoes can be replanted the next season.
Groves take many years to reach a productive age. Loss of a grove can take decades to replace. Decades, d*mn it - DECADES!!
The people had better retake the water control system or we will all face the increased costs of importing food from some nasty turd world country.
For those unfamiliar with the economic history of food, it is instructive to note that Rome destroyed Carthage over the price of food (grain, specifically). Moving to the present, is is also instructive to look at the price of lemons and limes after Hurricane Andrew hit South Florida and killed off the groves.
The “Bronze People” (their own descriptive words - not mine) in Messico quadrupled their lemon and lime prices. Repeat, those Turd World bachelor’s children quadrupled their lemon and lime prices.
For the Liberals, that means the Mexicans raised their lemon and lime prices 400%.
Once one of America’s great agricultural areas is destroyed, what do you think the Commies in the Turd World nations will charge us for food?
It is no accident that this decision came when a crypto-commie infestation in Washington has undergone a population irruption.
Yes, what they are doing to those farmers IS treasonous in motive!
Would the Bucket Brigade want to go active again?
Still want to embrace diversity?
I live in the San Joaquin Valley and was really happy that Sean Hannity shown a light on this situation. Mendota, a rural farming town, has a 45% unemployment rate. When lettuce gets to $5 a head, you can thank a delta smelt. When arugula (are you listening, Mr. President, who likes this crummy lettuce) gets to %10 a bunch (oh right, BHO never pays for his food)... This is idiocy, pure plain and simple....A smelt vs. a living.
The RAT is Jim Costa, who never met an idiot liberal plan he didn’t like. First they sell the water, then they turn off the pump for the very little we get from rain and snow run off from Yosemite. What’s next?? Stop Bridleveil Falls in Yosemite cause some bug flows down???
What if the delta smelt went the way of the passenger pigeon? I mean if one day no one could find any ... ???
Have you suggested this to Hannity or even tried to contact Paul Rodriguez? I think you are correct, people would flock to help them... many do not realize there is more than the San Jaquin Valley at stake here, if the feds win this one .. who or what is next? The enviros want to shut off the Dams on the Colorado River because of the “chub”.... this fight in California is all of ours fight.
Citizens must stand against the gov., it’s just that simple and will not ever change.
Thanks for the advice and the CM Jeff.
HOWEVER, I didn’t suggest bloodshed. Jefferson did... The populace though need to be open to it before any rights are surrendered.
Thanks Issaquahking! It’s been awhile since I’ve looked in at the website. Been busy over there I see. *grin*
Let The Water Flow!
The delta smelt is evil. A totally sinister creature. You can tell by how thoroughly evil its friends are.
That’s exactly what i said to my husband. The Governator has authority to send in the Guard.I don’t know why it wasn’t mentioned during the show.
My advice is to kill all of the Delta Smelt. When they cease to exist there will be no reason for the FedGov to keep the water shut off.
LET THE WATER FLOW IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY!
I emailed Dan, Barbara, and Barron tonight at the Bucket Brigade.
If governor Terminator had any balls at all he would stand on the 10th Amendment and have an armed force of CA LEOs face down the Feds and turn the water back on.
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