Posted on 11/16/2002 9:07:15 AM PST by Justanumba
**CRISIS** Midnight Land Grab!!!
EXTREME CRISIS !!!!!!! ***** EXTREME CRISIS !!!!!!!
*** YOUR HELP NEEDED !!!!! ***
**** WE CAN WIN WITH YOUR HELP !!!!! ****
S. 990 - The "Son of CARA" - a version of CARA - the Condemnation and elocation Act - is on the fast track and moving through Congress! This discredited land grab bill had not moved for eleven months, until the dark of nite in the wee hours of Friday morning.
ONCE AGAIN, selected members of Congress have moved legislation - S. 990 - in the dead of night that will
1) make the Endangered Species Act EVEN WORSE,
2) permit SEIZURE of private property, and
3) hand out cash to environmental extremists and animal rights outfits!!!
Oh yes, and 4) it hands out up to $25 million to foreign countries for land acquisition. We couldn't make this up, folks!
You may recall at the end of 2001, just four days before Christmas, the Senate approved S. 990 - the "Son of CARA" land grab bill. It was 11:45pm, with only three Senators present, NO debate, NO hearings, NO vote - just "unanimous consent" on their last night in session for the year, after nearly all Senators had left the Capitol.
THEY DID IT AGAIN !!!
This time it was the House of Representatives. It was the last day the House was in session for the year, November 15, 2:35am!!!! That's right, two thirty-five in the morning!!!!!!!
Nearly all congressmen had gone home, NO debate, NO hearings, NO vote, just "unanimous consent" and a BILLION dollar enviro pork barrel land grabbing disaster - S. 990, the "Son of CARA" - was approved.
HOWEVER - the Senate last year, and the House this year, approved DIFFERENT versions of S. 990.
The House is now out of session for the rest of 2002. However, the Senate is in session for one more week, from November 18 to 21.
*** The Senate must vote on what the House just passed in order to give final congressional approval to S. 990. ***
******* ACTION ITEM BELOW !!! *******
******* TELL YOUR SENATOR ******* NO on S. 990 *******
WHY?? WHY?? WHY??
WHY are REPUBLICAN Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire and REPUBLICAN Congressman Jim Hansen of Utah joining together and attempting to push this disaster through at the last minute??
ANSWER: BOTH are leaving Congress this year, and BOTH are in "Legacy Mode." BOTH have buried provisions in S. 990 to give a name for themselves, at the expense of private property and fiscal responsibility.
####### HERE is the item snuck in for New Hampshire by Senator Bob Smith. Page 19, "Grants to the State of New Hampshire." A NINE million dollar payoff handed over to the Trust for Public Land, to buy property that will only cost SEVEN million dollars!!! A two million dollar profit for a "non-profit" land trust!!!!!!!
####### UTAH: Jim Hansen is attempting to blow a total of THIRTEEN million dollars of taxpayer funds to glorify himself! On page 49 is two million dollars for the James V. Hansen Shoshone Trail. On page 52 is eleven million dollars for the Bear River Visitor Center to be named after you guessed it - James V. Hansen!!!!!!!!
This self glorification is bad enough. But here are the FOUR problems for everyone in the entire country with S. 990:
FIRST: It will make the Endangered Species Act EVEN WORSE by adding a new category called "species at risk" in addition to the current "threatened species" and "endangered species." It hands out up to $150 million per year to "environmental organizations," with no prohibition on animal rights outfits receiving funds, to enforce this new category.
SECOND: It hands out $50 million per year to states for "cooperative conservation" plans that include "property acquisition" with no prohibition on condemnation power.
THIRD: hands out up to $50 million per year for "shrubland and grassland" conservation, with "environmental organizations" again eligible to feed at the taxpayer trough. EVEN WORSE - grass and shrubs are defined as, well, grass and shrubs - AND - areas "historically dominated" by grass and shrubs - AND - areas that "if restored to natural grassland or shrubland, would have the potential to serve as habitat for endangered species, threatened species, or species at risk." In other words, just about every inch of America outside the Mojave Desert!!!!!!!!!!!
*** ACTION ITEM *** ACTION ITEM *** ACTION ITEM ***
You must call AND Fax both your Senators so their offices are deluged with messages beginning Monday morning. This is not a time you can depend on someone else. YOU must do it.
Tell your Senator to put a hold on S 990. Ask his staff person for a commitment that his or her boss will do it. Follow up to make sure they did it. Then you must keep up the pressure to make sure the hold is not taken off.
Any Senator can stop S 990 by simply putting a hold on the bill. That will delay it until next year. But you must make sure the hold gets put on and stays on. Don't assume that because the staff person tells you the hold is on, that it is on. Keep calling.
The Senate is an old boys club and they try to get along by going along. Also, its very late. It is a lame duck session. Many Senators are not paying attention. They just want to get out of town.
-----1. Write a fax immediately and fax it to your Senator. If you don't have his or her fax, call Monday morning early and get it. Insist that he or she put a hold on S 990.
-----2. Early Monday morning call both your Senators. Every Senator may be called at (202) 224-3121 or the temporary FREE NUMBER: (800) 648-3516. Don't take your Senator for granted.
-----3. Call at least three times on Monday. A vote is likely late in the day. It could be delayed until Tuesday so keep calling Tuesday.
-----4. Call your friends, neighbors, associations and anyone else you can to get them to call and fax. This is a big deal. And you can win.
CALL YOUR FRIENDS. CALL YOUR NEIGHBORS. PULL OUT THE STOPS.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE.
American Land Rights Association - Land Rights Network PO Box 400 - Battle Ground WA 98604 Phone: 360-687-3087 - Fax: 360-687-2973 - Email: - http://www.landrights.org Legislative Office: 507 Seward Square SE - Washington DC 20003 Phone: 202-210-2357 - Fax: 202-543-7126 - Email: landrightsnet@aol.com
IT WILL DO NO GOOD.
They are blatantly stealing American's land and Freedoms. And You have as much chance of talking a thief out of taking your wallet as You do asking these bastards to respect the Rights You mistakingly believe You have.
I think Patrick Henry said it best :
" Gentlemen may cry , Peace , Peace - but there is no peace.
The war is actually begun !
The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms !
Our brethren are already in the fields !
Why stand we here idle ?
What is it that gentlemen wish ?
What would they have ?
Is life so dear , or peace so sweet , as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ?
Forbid it , Almighty God !
I KNOW WHAT OTHERS MAY TAKE , BUT AS FOR ME , GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH !!!
Well look around " American's " it appears that FREEDOM has become too inconveinent for "American's " to fight for.
They would rather whine about it to the ones that would ( will ) enslave them , and run off to murder innocent people for their jailers PROFIT.
I guess as long as we're killing someone , it makes us feel like "American's " , even if it's the wrong people.
You are accepting your childrens slavery , because You are afraid to face the enemy...............
Title 1 of S990 is $350 mil per year that goes into the Pittman-Robertson Act fund(1930s) and the Dingell-Johnson Act fund(1950s) which go to the states.
Title 2 is $150 mil per year in grants to private landowners. Yes, enviro groups, tribes, and hunting groups will benefit from this; but so will many, many small landowners. See Bush's Landowner Incentive Program that was put in place while governer of Texas and taken nationally after elected Prez.
Title 3 is $50 mil per year for projects among states. Examples would be OK and AR for the Ouachita Mtns or TX and NM for the Pecos River.
Title 4 is $50 mil per year for those states with lands between the 100th and 105th meridians, aka the Great American Desert.
Once again let me say, this bill is not about buying land. That would be the Land and Water Conservation Fund(1960s) which would have been rolled into CARA as Title 2. Meanwhile, LWCA and all the other pre-existing funding acts that were to be rolled into CARA are being appropriated at 100%
The girl I spoke with at Specters office didn't seem to have a clue. She told me he hadn't made his mind up yet, but I don't believe her. I asked her to request that he put a hold on the bill. We should probably call Lott also.
I called the 800-648-3615 number to the Capitol. I'm going to send faxes shortly.
Q---What's just compensation for condemned property? What's just compensation for property publicly targeted for preservation status?
A---quite a bit less than fair market value.
EBUCK
And farmers are losing in Florida.
Others have lost in Colorado.
And still others in "buffer zones" and along rivers that the federal government has claimed through " Heritage Site " programs.
I've been trying to get American's to use the "levers" for change.
But most " American's " still believe there is a two " Party " system , when it's really a single minded world government institution.
The first depression in 1929 after the privately owned central bank known as the federal reserve took over our economy , claimed 30% of the farmland in the Mississippi Valley.
Taking over the farm land along with ending property rights is all part of the ten planks of communism.
You can color it any way You want but when everything belongs to the State ( elites ) it's bad for a ( used to be ) Free people.
Our Freedoms are illusions , but " American's " accept less and less , claiming it's better than other nations around the world.
With all the lever pulling that's happened over the last 60 years we've been moving closer and closer to world government.
For now we have a " Republican " government , and it wouldn't matter if it was " Democratic " the same policies would be followed.
Check out a book named " Hope of the Wicked " by Ted Flynn. It's packed.
I've read a lot more and could go on and on , this one book would do a lot for Your optimism.
Believe me , I don't want You to lose your fire , "We" need it.
Our politicians see us as fools and have no respect for us or our lives.
This definitely needs to change ...................
I see different enemies.
Not ones across the oceans , I don't know , but the OVERrated carsalesmen that "We" call politicians.
Ask Yourself WHY , do American's have to give up their LIBERTY'S when the rest of the WORLD would LOVE to have them ?
There are more than enough laws to deal with the " situation " but that doesn't enslave us enough.......
So " American's " HAVE TO MAKE SACRIFICES , not the "Terrorists" .
If "They" are our enemy , let's make them pay , but NOT "Us".
That's how easy their LIE is to see through.
American's DON'T need THIER Churches spied on.
"We" don't NEED our telephones tapped.
But " They " want to " condition " YOU to believe that , that is necessary in order to KEEP the FREEDOMS , that THEY want to steal from YOU.
WE DO HAVE ENEMIES , WE JUST HAVE TO BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO FACE THEM.
FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC.
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