Posted on 10/29/2011 12:39:29 PM PDT by bkopto
Sacramento is Government Central, a land of overly pensioned bureaucrats and restaurant discounts for state workers. But way up in the North State, one finds a small but hard-edged rural populace that views state and federal officials as the main obstacles to their quality of life.
These rural folks, living in the shadow of the majestic Mount Shasta, believe that they are being driven away so that their communities can essentially go back to the wild, to conform to a modern environmentalist ethos that puts wildlands above humanity.
As the locals told it during the Defend Rural America conference Oct. 22 at the Siskiyou Golden Fairgrounds, environmental officials are treading on their liberties, traipsing unannounced on their properties, confronting ranchers with guns drawn to enforce arcane regulatory rules and destroying their livelihoods in the process.
The evening's main event: a panel featuring eight county sheriffs (seven from California, one from Oregon) who billed themselves as "Constitution sheriffs."
They vowed to stand up for the residents of their communities against what they say is an unconstitutional onslaught from regulators in Sacramento and Washington, D.C. In particular, they took issue with the federal government's misnamed Travel Management Plan, which actually is designed to shut down public travel in the forests.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
I live in a county (and state) with more “public” land than private. There are warnings from the Forest Service in the newspaper this spring about avoiding MJ grows etc. Obviously the MJ growing illegals own the FS.
Beyond freaking sickening.
“As for medical marijuana in CA, its legal regardless of what the DEA thinks. Persecuting sick people isn’t the same league as going after major drug cartel criminals. The DEA needs to get its priorities in order.”
Throw every grower and user in prison!!!
Sick people my dying ass, they are nothing but hippy dopers!!!
Dear God help us. You are our only recourse at this time. We ask you to please take control of our Forest Service and all of our government and bureaucracies. Help our people wake up to you and begin ratifying only your will to be done so that our Constitution which you gave us can be preserved. Amen.
I agree that only God can help us - and He can use willing souls to do His work, as well.
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