Posted on 09/17/2009 8:26:34 PM PDT by Jeff Head
While Hannity was there with all the farmers and allies, I wonder if anyone suggested a big ol’ bus caravan of these farmers to DC to march on Congress and park outside the WH gates! How about a turn the water off sign for the WH and Shelly’s garden of produce...how would they like that?
I agree, too. Cut that chain and turn that valve. Perhaps that’s where the next march should be.
It's really simple, dispatch the National Guard to the valves, turn the water back on, and keep them their until the feds give up.
Pelosi wants this law, let her enforce it!
My thoughts on the water shortage, is that southern California has the responsibility to become more self-reliant. Placing a few nuclear reactors on So-Cal beaches or close by, would provide power for now and the future, and a by-product of millions of gallons of desalinated water.
It angers me that our city planners don’t do any forward thinking whatsoever these days.
I like the idea of just taking the pumps by force and forming a people’s army to guard the gate.
Well said!
If the farmers and people supporting them don’t take action the enviro-nazis and the judges in their pockets will win this war as they are with other enviro issues.
But for the rights they do have, they must stand. The minnow does not have legal rights to it. only judicial decisions based on...in all likelihood and if experience and history serves as any precedent...junk science.
I think Obama, Holder, et al are cowards. Look at how Obama backs down when challenged on anything....Wright, Ayers, Van Jones, etc. He’s a street thug with no leadership abilities and I think his support is getting to be very thin.
That needs some research. So the fishermen are having problems! I wish he would have had the chance to explain from that point of view what that has to do with the farmers not having water.
I wish, too, that Hannity would have pressed him about the water sale to SOCAL.
I think the water in the delta is controled by the state water agency.
The water that was shut off not only feeds the farmers but the domestic water supply for all of Southern California.
It’s a hugh pumping system that feeds a canal as big as most rivers.
I doub tthat anyone in a state agency would have the balls to turn on the system against a federal judges order.
I doubt Arnold will do anything so couragous. JMHO. But these farmers already have the numbers behind and with them. They are a far, far larger population of individuals than the 1500 farming families in the Klamath Basin. They could organize and have thousands on hand.
Jeff, Thanks for the article and ping. I drove past this area two weeks ago and was shocked to see what is normally a lush green landscape this time of year...brown with small patches of green...dry dirt brown. There were groves of trees parched and dead or dying...hundreds of acres...many hours of driving. Words don’t adequately describe.
Does remind me of Klamath Falls all over again.
I agree with you 1000%
Massive resistence. Law enforcement doesn’t have the personnel or the funding to deny everybody in the country water for the food we eat, and the San Joaquin Valley supplies a large portion of it.
Not only farmers should be involved. Everyone who buys agricultural products should be there in force.
Whoever controls the water, controls the food. Hope and change isn’t going to fill your belly.
“Placing a few nuclear reactors on So-Cal beaches or close by, would provide power for now and the future, and a by-product of millions of gallons of desalinated water “
LADWP had plans for 10 reactors on the coast in the 60s anf the environmentalists shut them off then.
If they couldn’t get them approved 50 years ago there’s no chance today!
The endangered species act is FEDERAL, not state, but I quess you don’t know that.
Was it my imagination, or did the crowd boo every time the RAT congresscritter tried to speak?
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.
This is just like the 2001 water crisis. The government taking water that doesn’t belong to them.
Thanks for the thread, Jeff.
Do that and turn the valves on with a huge crowd around. The Feds then move in to stop them. All the while the media is covering the growing scene.
Obama seems to cave when his actions are exposed to masses of Americans.
It might work.
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