Posted on 04/25/2011 10:58:55 PM PDT by OneVike
From the moment Richard Nixon created the EPA in 1970, and signed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) into law, they have been the primary engines of social change used by leftists environmental elitists to destroy America. They have done so by infiltrating the EPA, and the US Fish & Wildlife (USF&W) the agency which decides what animals will be listed as endangered. Now, 28 years later, these renegade environmentalist wackos are prepared to use the ESA to shut down oil and gas operations in portions of Southeast New Mexico and in West Texas, including the state's top two oil producing counties. All because of a tiny lizard they claim to be endangered, and Obama who has the power to put it on a waiting list has cleared the way for it to be listed.
Through the years the EPA & the ESA have been used to shut down vast areas of America that we as Americans need to survive in a modern world. Areas that contain, rich farmland needed to grow food that both America and foreign countries need to feed billions of people. Forest areas so rich in timber that the price of building homes could be reduced dramatically if only we were allowed to harvest them. Instead, year after year we spend billions fighting fires that reduce the timber to ashes. When it comes to energy, these government paid earth worshipers have used their power to keep us from drilling for oil, and stand in the way of building needed power plants all across America. According to a recent Congressional report America has the largest oil, coal, and natural gas reserves in the world, if tapped we could be completely energy independent. Truth is, America has enough natural energy reserves, timberland, sustainable farm land, freshwater lakes and underground reservoirs that we could reduce the cost of living for each and every American by more than 50%, if only the governments chains of restrictions were removed.
The earth worshiping environmentalists running the USF&W have used an owl to shut down logging in the Northwest, a mouse to shut down wheat farming in Colorado, a minnow and rat to end vegetable growing in California, a frog has closed fish hatcheries in the deep South, while the reintroduction of wolves are endangering the lives of ranchers, farmers, and hunters all across America from the Rockies to Maine. Now they are planning to use a lizard to shut shut down oil production in America's richest source of domestic energy, the Permian Basin of West Texas. We already have one of the largest oil reserves put off limits by the EPA in Anwar Alaska, while Obama is ignoring a Federal judges order to allow drilling to continue in the Gulf. This while almost every communist country in the world has oil wells operating in our backyard, the Gulf of Mexico.
In a logical universe, we would have politicians that would do all they can to make sure Americans had a cost of living so low that no one in America would be struggling to make ends meet. Instead these traitors would rather see Americans struggle to survive while they act as if their various government programs are saving the day. Never before in the history of the world has a countries leaders tried so hard to force its citizens to become so dependent and subservient to other countries. Many of which are our sworn enemies. Can anyone imagine Alexander, Caesar, or even George Washington forcing their citizens to humble themselves before an enemy of lesser power like Persia, Carthage, or England? No, only a modern day Judas, Ephialtes, or Benedict Arnold, would cause their own people to suffer the indignities our leaders so consistently force us to.
The current threat to America's freedom comes from a 3 inch lizard called the Sceloporus Arenicolus, or better known as the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard or the Sand Dune Lizard. It was originally classified as a subspecies of the Sceloporus Graciosus, or Common Sagebrush Lizard. Before they designated the Dune Lizards as a separate species, there were so many of them you could feed them to the Chinese as a delicacy and never run out. It was in 2002 that the Center for Biological Diversity first petitioned to have the lizard listed as endangered. The Bush administration stood in the way of the lizard being listed for 6 years, but last year Obama cleared the way by ordering his administration to back off from delaying the listing. This in spite of the news that Obama has repeatedly refused to grant species the protection for which they are known to qualify adding them instead to the waiting list. So why did he allow this lizard to be listed? There can be only one reason, and that is because Obama wants to destroy America's ability to be energy free. So his relentless attack on America's energy capabilities continues. Go figure.
There was a rally in Roswell NM last week on April 20th that had hundreds protesting the listing and there will be another one on Tuesday April 26th, in Midland Tx at the Midland Center that begins at 5 p.m. with Congressman Mike Conaway will speaking to the concerned citizens. Then on Wednesday April 27th, there will be a public hearing held at 6:30 p.m at the Midland Center. If you want to be heard then be there to support those at the front line in the battle to stop a lizard from shutting down Americas 2 largest working oil wells.
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."
-- Samuel Adams --
Leader in our Fight for Independence
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The following is from the Federal register PDF file. In it the USF&W explains what they are attempting to accomplish through the Endangered Species Act,
We, the USF&W, propose to list the dunes sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus Arenicolus), a lizard known from southeastern New Mexico and adjacent west Texas, as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended. If we finalize the rule as proposed, it would extend the Act's protections to this species. We have determined that critical habitat for the dunes sagebrush lizard is prudent but not determinable at this time.
Proposed Listing Determination We have carefully assessed the best scientific and commercial information available regarding the past, present, and future threats to the dunes sagebrush lizard. The dunes sagebrush lizard faces immediate and significant threats due to oil and gas activities, and herbicide treatments. Habitat loss and fragmentation due to oil and gas development is a measureable factor impacting the species due to the removal of shinnery oak and creation of roads and pads, pipelines, and power lines that create habitat patches and increase the proportion of habitat edge to habitat interior. In addition, impacts that are not easily quantified such as climate change, competition, and pollution may exacerbate adverse effects caused by habitat loss. Cumulative threats to the dunes sagebrush lizard are not being adequately addressed through existing regulatory mechanisms. Oil and gas pollutants are a current and ongoing threat to the species throughout its range.
We believe the following actions may jeopardize this species, and therefore we would seek to conference with BLM and NRCS on these actions:
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Oh, but that midnight sun is just so tempting.
The Won is trying to drive this country into bankruptcy.
If he can decrease our oil supply and income at the same time, that's two birds with one stone for him.
Will any of this push Texas to leave the union?
Please texas, get the process moving! I would love nothing more than to move to a free Texas.
This is what happens when a politician puts politics before whats best for the country.
Nixon pushed for the creation of the EPA and Endangered Species List because he the Enviro Wackos were getting all of the airtime on the liberal media and causing chaos. Nixon figured that if he played politics and did these things he was sure to keep the Republicans in power. The establishment plays politics only for reasons of power. They could care less of the negative impact down the road.
Enough is enough. We are in a battle for the survival of this Republic.
Does anyone else get as annoyed as I do when politicians and journalists refer to our country as a “Democracy”?
"...Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Such has been the patient sufferance of these ColoniesStates; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great BritainPresident is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
- He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
- He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
- He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only...."
That’s the best idea I’ve heard In a while!
Texas is already on fire!................
Stop the Madness!
Will any of this push Texas to leave the union?
Texas is the next California. Our legislature, nominally GOP has just endorsed a redistricting plan benefiting the enemy and harming the conservatives. I thought it would be 2016 before Texas went blue, it appears to be going that way as early as 2012.
Texas isn't that great state of conservatism everyone pretends it is, its yet another microcosm of the District of Criminals - filled with politicians and other scoundrels who use government as a way to enrich themselves and their cronies.
Texas will never leave the union, we can't even stand up to the teacher's unions nor defend ourselves against Mexican drug cartels, and with each and every passing day we get the dregs from around the country who couldn't get a job at home or even have the intelligence to know who to finagle their own state's welfare system. They come here and vote free stuff for themselves, oblivious to how destructive that behavior is.
Texas doesn’t have teacher’s unions, just associations.
As for the redistricting plan, I was concerned when I first read the article posted here, but it appears the changes were necessary due to Hispanic population shifts, at least some of them.
No doubt some of it had to do with political posturing by the speaker’s cronies.
That’s bad, but it happens in every state. Coming from Kansas a couple years ago, Texas is a conservative bastion in comparison.
Texas doesn’t have teacher’s unions, just associations.
A difference without a distinction?
I have a friend who was a multi-sport coach in a small Texas school district. Some drama queen decided to make unsubstantiated and contradicting claims that got him suspended while under investigation within a month of the beginning of the school year. The investigation concluded that there was no wrong doing yet the parents didn't want him to return. The school district then pressured him to resign, his union's "association's" lawyers arranged to have him serve the remainder of the year anywhere he wanted. Texas taxpayers paid him for an entire year for less than one month's work while he got to go screw off and pursue sloth.
Earlier this year the teachers unions "associations" arranged protests down at the Capitol, and apparently these unions "associations" were able to exert enough pressure that TX is pissing away the money that could be used to put out the West Texas fires on keeping these shiftless bums employed and their Coliseum Shrines to Football equipped with Godzilla-trons and Rock Band tour buses "for the children".
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