Posted on 04/29/2017 7:39:17 AM PDT by rktman
Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order requiring a review of the large national monuments that have been created over the last 21 years. The president ran on a platform of reducing regulations to promote jobs and economic growth, but he inherited vast areas -- nearly a billion acres in total -- that have been shut off from productive use under the Antiquities Act.
His predecessor, Barack Obama, was the king of Antiquities Act abuse, designating more monuments covering more area than any prior president. He tripled the total area restricted, adding more than 500 million acres in new and expanded monuments. Most of this area was locked up during the last year of Obama's presidency, once he was no longer accountable to voters.
There's a reason presidents designate "midnight" monuments at the end of their terms: they can be extremely controversial when people depend on the use of areas being closed off to support their families.
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I don’t care if they’re “controversial” or not. He needs to unwind 30 years of Federal land grabs
All this Fed Gummint behavior is aimed at increasing their control over BLM land out west. They won’t admit it but one has to realize it is the only asset that is underwriting our $20 TRILLION debt. This is going to turn into an epic struggle.
The British newspaper The Daily Telegraph is having a cow over this because Brits just love our national parks (although pretty much loathe everything else about the USA). A couple of Americans are straightening out the idiot who wrote the piece.
There are several recoverable isolated coal beds in southern Utah in which plans were to build mine-mouth power plants in the area. Slick Willie put the kabosh on that in the 1990s when he declared the area to be a new national monument.
National parks or monuments are an unconstitutional federal land-grab from the states, regardless of how benign or benevolent such act may seem at the time. The only valid federal ownership of state land is described in the Constitution.
“[Congress shall have Power…] to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;-- .”
U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 17.
National parks were not purchased upon consent by state legislatures for the use of “Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings”, so national parks are unconstitutional federal acts. The states can make state parks according to the consent of the people and legislature of that state.
Because national parks constitute unconstitutional federal commandeering of state land, the Executive Branch, currently President Trump, should declare all such federal laws and acts going back to the early 1900’s unconstitutional, give Congress a chance to repeal such laws, and give the states back their land. Short of that and/or in conjunction with that, the relevant state should exercise its constitutional sovereignty, reject and nullify such acts, and begin reclaiming its constitutional right to its land.
Unconstitutional federal acts are by definition acts of tyranny – these are just acts of federal tyranny that start with a happy face. Tyranny almost always starts with a happy face but always ends in oppression and misery. All three federal branches and each sovereign state has the constitutional right and the moral duty to move against such acts.
The feds under the dem-rinos not only stole citizens lands, they also stole cattle and sheep and peoples lives. They are evil, remember Ted Bundy and the murder of one of his supporters for protesting against the communist democrats and how the BLM stole his cattle and many other citizens lands.
Duya recall a fella named CHARLIE TRIE? Chinese fella I think and a limo ride with Clinton back in Arkansas AND a briefcase of honey/money from another far easterner who owned property with a certain kind of COAL back there? Clintoon declared an area containing same kind of coal here in USA a national monument so as to ‘take out the competition?
Yeh, I know..some will say the coal here was not close to a railway....but I think we know how to build those too....
It would seem every act Trump makes requires the implicit unanimous consent of all Federal judges and can be vetoed by just one dissenter. Doesn’t seem right but that’s how it seems to have worked so far.
Really? I had not heard this before. All I have heard from the media since day one of the Trump Era was that no president had the power to eliminate or shrink a national monument.
I suggest that Trump should reduce some national monuments down to 10 acres, just enough for a parking lot, signage and a picnic area.
And a target range.
Mr. Riady of Indonesia.
The abuses of the jOkeass regime, means, the Antiquities Act must be repealed. And, the “monuments” turned over to the private sector.
Yes, and a target range. Or, in the case of the marine “monuments”, a marina.
Ted Bundy?
I’m glad I looked to see if someone had an answer to a vision that popped into my head. A tyrant declaring ALL state land federal.
Yup. If we don’t reinstate the Constitution as the Supreme law of the Land against the feds, that kind of tyranny is EXACTLY where we’re headed.
People need to get that it is CRITICAL to reinstate the Constitution if we are to regain our Free Constitutional Republic.
Uh, Ted was from a “different” branch of the family...
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