Land Grab Act (S. 975)- Senate MEETS IN SECRET!!

www.sixtysecondactivist.com ^ | 5/8/02 | American Land Rights Association

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Dear Subscriber,

Here is today's ACTION ITEM:

ISSUE: According to the American Land Rights Association (landrights.org), The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee met IN SECRET on April 25 and voted to approve S. 975, the "Community Character Act".

Because of growing public opposition to S. 975, the committee leadership decided to HIDE from the public and meet in a closed session.

This is the SAME committee that hid from the public last December and approved S. 990, the "Son of CARA" land acquisition bill. When the public doesn't like what they are doing, the EPW Committee shuts out the public and votes in secret.

However, this time around, information has leaked out about how it happened:

The general public and lobbyists start lining up outside the door of Room 406 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. This is where the EPW Committee gave public notice several days before that the "markup" -- the final debate and committee vote -- on S. 975 would be held, at 9:30am that morning.

A committee staff person announced to the people waiting in line that the committee "markup," due to start at 9:30, had been moved. He was asked WHERE and said, "I don't have room number." He was asked WHEN and said, "I don't know, sometime after 10 o'clock." He was asked WHY and said,

He finally admitted that the meeting was being moved to a small office in a part of the Capitol Building that was CLOSED to the general public. But he still insisted that it was a public meeting, it was just being held in a room that was closed to the public.

So the EPW Committee, at about 10:30am, met IN SECRET and voted to approve S. 975, the Community Character Act. The vote was twelve in favor to seven against; two RINOs (Republicans In Name Only), Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), joined turncoat Jim Jeffords (I-VT) and 9 Democrats to pass it out of committee.

ACTION ITEM: S. 975 is now ready to go to the Senate floor, to be voted on by the entire Senate. The Bush administration has gone on record as opposing S. 975 and House companion bill H.R. 1433, but all opponents of Big Government need to contact their Senators and Representatives and let them know that their constituents -- that's US -- oppose this attempt to have the Federal government take over local zoning. CLICK BELOW:

http://www.conservativehq.com/050602.htm

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NOTE: Please forward this email to everyone you know who wants to take a stand against even more Federal encroachment on the rights of citizens at the local level. Thank you!

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Anti Land Grab PINGs )))))))

[backhoe]

Follow the "links within the links" to find contact info for the Senate ( and many others ) here:

Ignorance Making You Ill? Cure It!

for links, tools, & instructions about how to contact a pile of different people, and how to send a link to this story right here ( or anywhere else ) to a "mass email" using Outlook Express.

[headsonpikes]

Stop Rural Cleansing!

[Brownie74]

Thanks for the ping and the link. I used one of these mass mailing things one time and it took me 6 months to clean Outlook up. I'll do it the old fashioned way. My way!!

[KentuckyWoman]

BTTT and emailed and snail-mailed...

[madfly]

ping

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[mafree]

BTTT

[Fish out of Water]

index bump

[countrydummy]

Please see all the posts concerning the New River Parkway Authority, Land Grabs, etc....I can't post fast enough! LOL

[galt-jw]

oh my, in secret...but where are the repubs, defenders of individual rights (at election time). figure it out, gang, both parties are the same in regards to agreeing the state has the authority to abrogate personal rights.

tired of it? maybe you should vote for someone else....nah, just keep your head in the sand.

[wita]

Despite the bad publicity third parties receive, I'm with you. Vote anything but dem and rep. Unless your conscience says otherwise.

[AuntB]

Bump!!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks for the flag.

[hedgetrimmer]

Aw, this kind of stunt by politicians makes me so darn mad!

[c-b 1]

These Tyrants are taking protecting the system from the people to new heights.

[galt-jw]

article did not mention WHAT the fedgov wants the land FOR. seize it, for the people, then close it, to the people. then patrol it. patrol empty land with vigor? leave the borders open? think. it dont add up. try to check out these lands...see what happens. something is there. and dont give me any jive about natl. sec. they say nothing is there. cant have it both ways.

[occam's chainsaw]

BTTT