"Sisters of the River" Victims of Heritage Area Land Grab

American Policy Center ^ | June 25, 2002 | Tom DeWeese/Mike Hardiman

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*** “Sisters of the River” Victims of Heritage Area Land Grab

This just in from Mike Hardiman and the American Land Rights Association:

Congress is gearing up to vote on a very dangerous bill next month. The National Heritage Areas Act (HR 2388), sponsored by liberal Republican Rep. Joel Hefley (CO) and liberal Democrat Rep. Nick Rahall (WV), would do for land grabs what the assembly line did for automobiles.

The Heritage Areas Act proposes to extend federal control over local land use in exchange for federal grant money going to local communities. Politicians see it as a pork barrel spending program to benefit their districts. However, with the federal money comes federal land use requirements, duplicity and land seizure, as is happening right now in several counties in West Virginia—Heritage Areas!

There is NO notification to landowners when their property comes within the boundaries of a Heritage Area - you just find out when you try to get a road fixed, install a swimming pool, re-gravel your driveway or repair your fences.

HR 2388 claims to be a program for local communities to encourage the promotion of economic development and tourism. However, communities are in for a rude surprise, because here is what is NOT in the Heritage Areas Act: the words “economic development” or “tourism.”

EXAMPLE: Here is an example of how the National Park Service hides its intentions from local landowners, uses them to gain funds and then dumps them when it no longer needs them. All in the name of a National Heritage Area, of course.

The people of Hinton, West Virginia wanted funds to repair a local road. They lobbied their legislators for several years, and finally gained funding.

AFTER they got the federal funds, the National Park Service announced that because it was a Heritage Area, the money would be used to create a Scenic Parkway, and dozens of people's properties would be condemned and they would be forced out of their homes! These are the very same innocent citizens who lobbied for the road repairs in the first place!!! Check it out at http://www.newriverfriends.org/

This bill creates a "Heritage Area" program that will be run by the National Park Service—this is the same agency that, among other things:

1. allows forest fires to run wild; 2. condemns private property whenever possible; 3. and claims huge areas as endangered species habitat so it can eliminate commercial and recreational use of public lands, from four wheel drive use to mining.

The National Park Service also has a five BILLION dollar maintenance backlog—everything from potholes in roads to overflowing sewer systems fouling the rivers. And yet this agency is constantly grabbing for new land and power, when it plainly cannot handle the empire it already controls.

Here are four reasons to oppose HR 2388: 1. it is federal land use zoning; 2. it is run by the anti-property owner National Park Service; 3. it will damage economic development; and 4. it doesn't let people know what is going on, until it is too late!

The Heritage Areas Act was passed by the House Resources Committee in May of 2002. It will likely come up for a vote before the entire House sometime in July. Therefore, we have no time to lose!

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1. Call your Congressman and tell him to vote NO on the Heritage Areas Act! House Switchboard: (202) 225-3121.

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[countrydummy]

Hoping this will help clear up any ideas that Heritage Areas are a good thing!

[countrydummy]

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[countrydummy]

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[metesky]

We are truly not represented in Washington and the sooner people tumble to this important fact, the sooner we can regain control of our government.

It's not just electing the right guys, it's about these slugs arbitrarily limiting their number to 435 House members. The very idea that a man or woman can effectivly represent over 600,000 people (280,000,000 people / 435 Reps= 643,678 average district; some more, some less) is ludicrous on its face.

No taxation without representation!
No takings without representation!
No laws without representation!

Come out of the ether, people!

[metesky]

Go here and read Article I of the Bill of Rights as submitted to the Congress:

Article the first [Not Ratified]

After the first enumeration required by the first article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred; after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons.

Because this was covered in the Constitution itself (Article I, paragraph 4) and because they had just fought a war over the issue of representation, the Founders thought this was an issue that the people would always be aware of.

They were wrong and if we have to wrestle our rights to representation back from these goobers, so be it.

[brityank]

The people of Hinton, West Virginia wanted funds to repair a local road. They lobbied their legislators for several years, and finally gained funding. AFTER they got the federal funds, the National Park Service announced that because it was a Heritage Area, the money would be used to create a Scenic Parkway, and dozens of people's properties would be condemned and they would be forced out of their homes! These are the very same innocent citizens who lobbied for the road repairs in the first place!!! Check it out at http://www.newriverfriends.org/

Ping.

[F-117A]

Bump for later reading!

[backhoe]

I always suspected this "Heritage" stuff was another clintonian poison pill that would have all sorts of unintended consequences. There was a big war of words in the Jacksonville paper a few years ago, and I thought then that the side favoring this had the "look & feel" of the usual band of enablers of the left.

I will mass email this a little later.

[countrydummy]

so well are you informed! Thanks to you and all of you! This is a fight to fight for all private property rights....thanks to you again is all I can say at this time! xoxoxooxooox's

[countrydummy]

thanks to you for picking up on this post! We are going to lose our homes, our heritages, our very way of life if this "scenic parkway" as promoted by the NPS has it's way! Yet we are not the only ones! There are so many thousands that are under the same "guns" all across America!!!....yet nobody is willing to tell their stories! The "Sisters of the River" are mothers, grandmothers, grandfathers, cousins and folks that own or lease land along the river that knows this is sssssssoooo wrong! We have been so fortunate to have reached out and been recieved that our story is sticking out,yet as we fight for ours and help others, see these other abuses!: as ....farmers in NC loosing their lands to expand a walking trail...,folks living along the "Old River" in California under threat for another "Park and a Heritage Area",NM, Utah, SD, Alabama, Georgia, Flordia, Maine, New York, etc....it does not stop! It is happening everywhere and we have to stop it!

Please call today and demand it gets "nipped in the bud"!!!!!!!!

[metesky]

Thanks, but I'm not all that well informed, I just hang around this forum with a group of people who are very well informed.

I have, however, been beating the drum about our lack of representation in Washington and that was the subject of my very first post here.

What we have in Washington is an oligarchy, not the Republic that was envisioned after the Revolution.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

oligarchy

SYLLABICATION: ol·i·gar·chy
PRONUNCIATION: l-gärk, l-
NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. ol·i·gar·chies
1a. Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families. b. Those making up such a government. 2. A state governed by a few persons.
OTHER FORMS: oli·garchic, oli·garchi·cal —ADJECTIVE

[Ditter]

There is an area along the Texas coastal plain that they have named the Columbia Hardwoods Project. They would like to own (or control it doesn't matter). They want these forest lands for the neo-tropical songbirds to rest in after the make their long flight across the gulf. They will stop development on thousands of acres if they can. The city of Lake Jackson has recently won the right to build a city golf course on a small piece of this land. I see it as a victory for our side that this golf course is going to be built after years of court battles.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting more of Tom's wisdom. Tom and Alan Caruba were our canaries who shouted warnings about the enviral Nazis years before most of us woke up.

Hopefully, we can wake up over 50% of the voting population to the dangers of the Enviral Nazis. It is an awesome task after decades of the Envirals, the fishwraps, Congress, local governors/legislators and of course CNNABCCBSNBCCNBCSPAN brain washing Americans that land owners are evil!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the ping!

[brityank]

I see it as a victory for our side that this golf course is going to be built after years of court battles.

A damn costly victory IMHO.
Besides the taxpayers taking it in the shorts just for the court costs, the agencies also lose as they end up allocating more and more funding to lawsuit adjudication and then going back to the taxpayers to increase their budgets to fund their primary objectives.

And this is not just a federal problem; courtesy of the boilerplate regulations being inserted across the boards of all governmental agencies by Agenda 21.

[sauropod]

Time to retool and be more proactive, activist, and in their face about this. It will not stop.

N. That damn match won't go out. HRP

[Ditter]

Costly, yes. When the city fights the federal gov. we pay for both sides.

[Grampa Dave]

Absolutely, it is time to get in their faces.

These out of control forest fires and there will be more as the real summer heat comes on, are a view to the damaging realities that these enviral nazis have been pushing for 2 decades.

It is will be a long battle. They have successfully brain washed a lot of Americans including many conservatives whose brains and eyes go blank whenever reality of the Enviral Nazis is posted.

It is time to drag these elite enviral Nazis out of their expensive ivory towers and drag them screaming and kicking to the reality of these fires now and later ones.

Hold their enviral elite feet to the heat from these fires. Don't let them off the hook!

Americans need to wake to the basic goal/reality of the enviral nazis. They hate all Americans who dare to live, dare to use energy, dare to have a home, dare to eat, dare to buy clothes and Druid Heaven forbid, live in and work in one of their Druid Cathedrals, we used to call them our forests. Oh yeah, they hate capitalism as much as they hate us as human beings.

[folklore]

Hey cd. I have not seen you around lately, I hope you are OK. I see that Gail Norton is in Charleston today. Why don't you invite her over for a spot of tea.

[KentuckyWoman]

I'm surprised that Tom DeWeese didn't link this together with the U.N.'s Agenda 21 or Wildlands Project. I KNOW that he knows how this Heritage Area nonsense and Agenda 21 are linked. I've got Mr. DeWeese's tape where he explains how Maurice Stong is tied up with this land-grab agenda and where it's ultimately designed to lead. We, as private citizens, are slowly being forced into 'Sustainable Developments' (the UN's words, not mine) where the government may more readily oversee how we live our lives. The "sustainable developments" are to be working, shopping, education and living environments all nestled near together and served by public transportation. Chattanooga, Tennessee was declared a Model City for Sustainable Development just two years ago and most people have NO idea of how it was linked to the UN!!

Why aren't we all feeling like sheep being corralled? That's exactly how the "nice" folks at the UN (and those calling the shots behind it) see us - sheep to be manipulated and controlled by the "we know what's best for you" crowd. Wake up and take the time to educate your neighbors and friends.