"Putting A Face On Radical
Environmentalism"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron Ewart,
President
National Association of Rural
Landowners
and nationally recognized author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues.
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Copyright Sunday, March 23, 2014 - All Rights
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As published on
Newswithviews, March 19, 2013
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"Humans have the innate
propensity to take a moment in time and attempt to preserve that moment as a
sacred moment for all time and do so using propaganda, myths, distortions
and lies, or by forcing public policy and lobbying for new laws.
Such is the state of environmentalists and environmentalism today. They
think in terms of short spans of time, as in a generation, or a century.
They fail to realize that time is dynamic, ever-changing and ever-evolving over
tens of thousands and millions of years. In the process,
certain species survive by adapting and new species erupt to fill the changing
environment, including humans. Every day species go extinct as eco-systems
change in response to natural forces ..... or human
forces. That is the story of non-linear dynamic systems on planet
Earth. Neither the Earth, nor time, stand still. Man can't
freeze time. Man can only temporarily alter it for short
periods. What environmentalists also fail to realize is the disastrous
affects their policies and laws have on real Americans who must suffer the
consequences of environmentalists and government trying to "freeze" time with
draconian, unconstitutional environmental
laws." Ron
Ewart
Life on Earth offers many, what are
called non-linear dynamic systems. Eco-systems, oceans, the
weather, the stock market, commerce and trade, currency exchange, welfare
and the poor and the behavior of people, are just a few examples.
They are characterized by having many different variables that determine their
instantaneous conditions. Each can be altered dramatically with
small changes in one or more variables. Government, by far, is the
worst perpetrator of messing with non-linear dynamic systems that end up having
disastrous unintended consequences. These unintended consequences are
abundantly apparent by observing the Obama Care
disaster and the irreversible damage it is doing
to the American health care system. Radical environmental law is
doing the same thing to constitutional safeguards on property
rights.
Every week we get calls
or e-mails from landowners from all over America who have come up against
the consequences of environmental law, passed by governments who are lobbied by
radical environmentalists. The foundation of most environmental laws come
from the United Nations radical Agenda 21 accord adopted by over 170 nations,
including the United States, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in
1992. The flawed premise of Agenda 21 is that man is a
virus that must be rigorously controlled in all forms of behavior, in order
to save the planet. That control, defined by Agenda 21, takes no
account of American constitutional property rights. In fact, it tramples
all over those rights.
Here is a response from one
of those "faces" of radical environmentalism, a family that was destroyed
by the Army Corps of Engineers, who charged the family with filling in a
wetland, a federal offense, but the family wasn't filling in a
wetland. The family had all the permits to do what they were doing
but the Army Corps ran rough shod over them in court and their permits were
ruled inadmissible. The family lost a going business, their entire
savings and their farm to the fight with the Army Corps
of Engineers. They were literally left on the street with nothing but
the clothes on their backs. The following words from the
surviving spouse of this family are heart wrenching.
"Until America
becomes aware and fights justice for just "one individual family" being
destroyed, how we were and others, it's evident "the takings" will continue one
by one until all is gone and the American dream left desolate and completely
lost. After all, it wasn't their fight ..... it wasn't their property
taken ..... it wasn't their family destroyed to death!"
"It was corruption at the highest. We fought with truth
long and hard. Courts did not want to hear the truth, only the lies that
drove their agenda. That's how the system works. It is entwined with
a political agenda wrapped up in lies signed by high-powered attorneys and
politicians. Yes, all in the name of fighting against "Private Property Rights".
A twisted unbelievable story but the facts are clear! It's like how
Benghazi is being handled now!"
"You are right on when you say that most people do not realize how big this issue is, with Americans being taken down one by one. Those that believe that way have not lost like we have. It was 3 years on Feb 9th that my husband passed instantly from so much stress. His hard work and fight all those years in what he believed in, finally overcame him when he had to face his children and what they lost too from the loss of our farm and business. It was too much for him. The stress just sort of ate away at him. He passed in an instant and I know God took him as easy as he could because he worked so hard his whole life for the love of his family and then lost it all. Our sons lost all and he could hardly face it. His faith in God was much but his heart was broken. We tried to start over so we could financially take care of our selves and we couldn't even finish that when he went to rest. I am still trying to do little by little for myself, still hoping I can find a way to proceed, or get something together for some income."
"You are right on when you say that most people do not realize how big this issue is, with Americans being taken down one by one. Those that believe that way have not lost like we have. It was 3 years on Feb 9th that my husband passed instantly from so much stress. His hard work and fight all those years in what he believed in, finally overcame him when he had to face his children and what they lost too from the loss of our farm and business. It was too much for him. The stress just sort of ate away at him. He passed in an instant and I know God took him as easy as he could because he worked so hard his whole life for the love of his family and then lost it all. Our sons lost all and he could hardly face it. His faith in God was much but his heart was broken. We tried to start over so we could financially take care of our selves and we couldn't even finish that when he went to rest. I am still trying to do little by little for myself, still hoping I can find a way to proceed, or get something together for some income."
Ladies and gentlemen, we can assure
you that this is not an isolated story. Here is another.
"In
the middle of the night Raven heard clanging and banging near her hayfield, down
by the tide gates that kept the Grays River from flooding her property at high
tide. The tide gates were installed
many decades ago near the mouth of the Columbia River, where it empties into the
Pacific Ocean. These tide gates
were essential in protecting prime agricultural property from tide and river
flooding in the Grays River valley and other valleys feeding the Columbia
River."
"Raven bought her land in 1999, not knowing the horror she would endure
at the hands of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFW) and two
non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) known as the Columbia Land Trust (CLT)
and another NGO, Ducks Unlimited (DU).
Armed with millions of dollars of federal grant money, USFW and the two
NGO’s set about to restore the Grays River to its pre-human days, in the pursuit
of salmon habitat recovery."
In Raven’s own words she
writes: “CLT, in partnership with Ducks Unlimited and USFW, began
immediately. A 36-inch tide gate
was replaced with two 13-foot culverts.
Sloughs were filled in. In
2005 CLT asked me to give them my land.
I refused. More
sloughs were filled in, a county road made lower in some areas and higher across
my property. Trees with Eagles
nests were bulldozed. The only
thing left alive, were the mosquitoes.
The chum salmon get swooshed onto my fields where they flop around and
die. The rivers depth went from 21
feet to 9 feet due to the increased sediment and debris thrown into the river,
thus destroying fish spawning areas.
Much of their so-called restoration work was done in the dead of night so
that it would go unnoticed by the locals.”
“On December 31, 2005 my home,
property and barns were flooded. My
home and the out buildings stayed immersed in water until March 17 2006. My utility room flooded, destroying my
freezer, all the food, linen, and all supplies that were stored there. With each high tide, the water got
deeper and the property itself stayed flooded until late June. Almost everything was a total loss. No automobiles ran, classic cars
destroyed, a professional automotive shop and all the tools gone. My home had extensive damage. CLT requested I give them the
property. Again, I refused.”
“I repaired what I could. It took me two months to get enough
money to buy a used van. In the
meantime I had to hitchhike to work.
My minimal insurance would not cover anything because the insurance
company determined my loss was from third-party error. The ‘third-party’ refused my demand for
damages.”
“When my property flooded, I had
three-to-four foot waves crashing on to my house. It sounded as though I was at the
beach. I live 25 miles
inland. The water filled my
property, then headed east, flooding Altoona highway and the Scott’s Bed &
Breakfast. Since USFW and the NGO’s
started this salmon recovery project, my property has flooded eleven times. I am out of money and have nothing left
to fight with. The government
agency and the NGO’s don’t care. It
appears to me, that neither does anyone else.”
Raven eventually gave up, abandoned her land
and moved to Idaho to live with relatives.
This is just one more story out of the thousands of stories just like it,
as these kinds of government/private partnerships are terrorizing rural
landowners for the sake of fish, wildlife habitat restoration, endangered
species and other environmental projects, driven by the United Nations Agenda 21
accord. Each one of these two stories
is true because we have personally talked with both of them. Multiply
these two stories by tens of thousands and you just might get the size and scope
of the injustice being inflicted on rural landowners in the name of radical
environmentalism. We could tell you many more such stories. The fact
is, constitutional protected property rights under Agenda
21 have become meaningless, as the onslaught of environmental carnage
through law and bureaucratic rule making continue unabated and the hapless
American rural landowner, acting alone, is powerless to stop
it.
As a tribute to these forgotten faces of radical
environmentalism, we have prepared a 12-minute video based on
one of our last year's article with the same name. It is a must
viewing for any urban or rural landowner.
These same types of individual
injustices being inflicted on rural landowners are also being inflicted on
tens of thousands of American taxpayers who find themselves in the jaws of the
IRS. In the hopes we can provide some clarity to the IRS dilemma, be sure
to visit our IRS information website HERE.
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