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.
Dale, I think it’s time the power utilities use some of their millions and beat these idiots to a pulp in court. We need power. We need water.
The left can go —— themselves.
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Thanks for the ping.
Turn the water on!!!
Food grows where water flows.
Is it possible, that applying the same type of pressure that was used for the Acorn and Van Jones issues would work?
(calling congressmen, twittering, emails, Fox News coverage- and fringe media maybe - I bet Lou Dobbs would cover it.)
One of the things that was very impressive about exposing Acorn was the website created - big government. There must have been an effort by bloggers out there to write on their blogs about it too.
Maybe those other groups that were involved in the DC march like Freedom Works, etc, could be contacted to join in the effort.
Pass it around Rocky. Use your contacts and lets get the network going.
You do realize it's the Feds imposing this idiocy on the good people of California against strong resistance??
It worked in Klamath.
They did boo everytime the RAT spoke. I thought the guy in the middle was having a hard time to keep from bursting out laughing.
I DON”T SEE SACRAMENTO bringing in the NATIONAL GUARD.. KALIFORNEEYA IS just as Culpable as the FEDS
My question during Hannity’s program was this:
Why don’t the farmers drill their own wells?
In Nebraska we had a well as well as irrigation ditches. (A long time ago when I was a little one!)
We need to get the word to these farmers and then be prepared to support them just like folks supported us at Klamath. I'm up for a trip in that event.
These farmers boo’d the Dem everytime he tried to speak and were for the two GOP Congressmen. They didn’t even boo Arnold. Salazar sent Arnold a very nasty letter after he got him to visit the area. Interior Secretary Salazar is an arrogant piece of crap after what I just heard tonight which figures working for ZERO.
This isn’t something that you can just “turn on.”
What we’re talking about is the largest pumping plant in the world; the Harvey Banks Pumping Plant. It lifts water using pumps that have intake pipes 15 feet in diameter, 200 feet in elevation to a canal that is wider than 90% of the interstate freeways in this country. It’s called the California Aqueduct.
I saw Hannity ,,,
FWIW : All the water belongs to the STATE!!! > . < !!!
If the Goobernator had Nads he would call out the
State Guard and cut the locks off those valves himself,,,
Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution :
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Skrooo the Greenies/Feds!!!
How is it that these environmentalists do this only under democrat presidents?
Farmers dealt with this at Klamath Falls during the Clinton years.
Did the farmers ever overcome that decision?
Thanks! I thought that was what they were talking about but wasn’t sure.
A farmer is taking the Feds to Court with a hearing the first week in October.
The major media wouldn’t report it, and 70% of US citizens wouldn’t hear about it. The 30% that would hear about it are already on the side of the farmers.
Nearly a million people marched on DC last weekend, and the major networks and print media didn’t report it.
Read #54 before you talk about turning on pumps and see what they are talking about — heard of the California Aqueduct?
The aqueduct is not dry. There are irrigation pumping stations and then gates for the irrigation along the aqueduct.
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