Sorry guy, I don't buy it. This means nothing for property rights. It means that you made enough noise to get them to go back to the drawing board to come back later or put the screws to somebody else.
It's not over.
It's not over.
I concurr.
The moment that I read this, the first thing that came to mind was that they were hoping to put us to sleep so they could sneak the next phase in.
So true! This is just the begining!
I'll bump to that. I'm plenty happy for the farmers that they're getting a reprieve, I really am. But this should not be seen as a step towards any goal. I'm reminded of an anecdote from WWII, during the Nazi occupation of France. Hitler initially seized all the paintings from the Louvre, leaving the walls completely bare. But then it occurred to him that he could send a stronger message of domination by "loaning" the paintings back from time to time.
This is what our government is doing. They're trying to make it clear to the farmers that they view the water as being theirs to give or withhold.
I'm happy to see that most, if not all, of the good people on this thread understand that the battle is far from over. But I want to say further that no one should feel any amount of gratitude of any kind towards the Bush administration for letting people use their own water. No one must allow himself to fall into that kind of trap.
Sadly......I'm going to have to agree with you.
It's not over yet........the farmers have only won round 2.
redrock