"Secession or War -
American West Against the East"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron
Ewart, President
National Association of Rural
Landowners (www.narlo.org)
and
nationally recognized author and speaker on freedom and property rights
issues for over 10 years
© Copyright Sunday, December
6, 2015 - All Rights Reserved
The following article
was published on Newswithviews, December 2, 2015
This article is also
available on our website at:
When is the Western half of the United States
going to get tired of being aggressively bullied by Washington DC and the
corrupt, one-world government United Nations, openly supported by DC politicians
and reluctantly financed by the oppressed taxpayer?
Most, if not all, of the Thirteen Colonies have
turned socialist. Most of the big cities in the Eastern half of the U. S. are
socialist cities. Most of the legislation coming out of Washington DC is driven
by socialist policies, or by radical environmentalism. Federal socialist and
radical environmental legislation drive local and state laws. Those local, state
and federal laws have so badly eroded freedom in America, that America is
unrecognizable from the vision of the Founding Fathers. But a good deal of that
loss of freedom has affected landowners and lawful citizens in the Western
United States.
Once again America is divided, not between North
and South, but between West and East. Much of that division comes from the
dictatorial control by the Federal Government over the millions of acres the
government owns in the 18 Western states, that includes Alaska.
Out of the 2.27 billion acres of landmass in the
U. S., the government owns 28%. Look at the map. Over 90% of that 28% is in the
18 Western States. The ownership of Western State lands by the government
severely restricts tax revenues for those Western States. Intrusion by the
Bureau of Land Management, the Department of Fish and Wild Life, the National
Park Service and the Forest Service into private lands adjoining federal lands
has precipitated dangerous confrontations between private landowners and the
federal government.
Some of those confrontations have come close to
all-out warfare, as in the Bundy Ranch standoff in Nevada last year. A similar
event could erupt in Eastern Oregon over the Hammond Ranch where the Hammonds
were railroaded into a five-year prison sentence by the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) under terrorist minimum sentencing guidelines, for wholly
fabricated arson charges. (See http://www.narlo.org/hammond.
Some people are muttering "civil war" under
their breath. It is only a matter of time in the West before the guns start
blazing and people start dying.
Here is the reality for the Western States. The
Eastern banks control all money in the Western half. The Eastern liberal news
media controls the news we see and hear in the Western States. Socialist and
radical environmental legislation, concocted by Eastern U. S. liberal federal
politicians, have had a draconian impact on the private lands in Western
America.
Washington DC controls international trade which
directly affects the Western States. The hopelessly flawed Transpacific
Partnership Trade Agreement is a prime example of this international corporate
control of so-called free trade that is riddled with environmental regulations,
crony capitalism and protectionist regulations.
(See: http://www.americanthinker.
Ivy League liberal colleges are mostly in the
Eastern States that produce liberal lawyers, doctors, educators and politicians.
Washington DC now controls all of public education, or should we say,
indoctrination. That liberal-socialist mindset infiltrates the Western States
through the courts, education and socialist and environmental
legislation.
The federal government controls all of the
resources that are produced on federal lands in the U. S. Most of those
mineral-rich federal lands are in the Western States. Billions of dollars in
surface and subsurface minerals, or crude oil, go un-used, regulated out of
reach by radical environmental legislation, or sucked into the federal treasury.
Those mineral revenues should be pouring into Western States, not Washington
DC.
But it doesn’t end there. The federal government
is taking control of more land by extending buffers or buying conservation
easements around government holdings, thereby severely impacting private land.
Or the FEDS are buying up more land for animal habitat and wildlife corridors
and declaring new heritage sites and scenic areas. Most of what they are trying
to regulate, control, or buy up using millions of taxpayer dollars, exists in
the Western States. The fact is, the Western States are under a vicious assault
by the federal government.
To further illustrate how the Eastern states and
Washington DC stick it to the Western states, you only have to look at the
number of environmental regulations that Obama has "driven" into law with the
help of his cabinet and the Democrats in Congress. Since Obama took office in
January of 2009 it has been reported that he has pushed through by executive
order, cabinet directive, or Democrat sponsored legislation, over 3,500 separate
regulations. It has been estimated that these new regulations are costing the
American economy around $80,000,000,000 per year. These are direct costs. The
indirect costs of compliance with the new regulations are
incalculable.
Just recently Obama has said he wants to push
through another 2,200 new regulations in his last year in office. Most of those
regulations have an environmental component and most of these regulations will
fall disproportionately on Western states.
It is high time that the Western States, under
the power of the 9th and 10th Amendments start fighting back. The very
survival and sovereignty of the Western States is
at stake.
We strongly suggest that the 18 Western States
form a strong alliance and warn the federal government in Washington DC that
they are on thin ground and that the only solutions to this unwarranted and
unconstitutional federal power grab are capitulation by the FEDS to Western
State demands which include release of all federal lands to private ownership
except National Parks and national forests, and if capitulation is not
forthcoming, constitutional secession from the United States could result, or an
all-out war between the West and the East. Anything less than this declaration
and mandamus will not stop the FEDS from literally, by regulation, conquering a
once-free and sovereign nation of 18 free states that still maintain, preserve
and promote the principles of freedom and liberty under a Constitutional
Republic. These 18 Western states are the last bastion of freedom in
America.
This isn’t the United States any more. It has
become a dictatorial power emanating from a wholly corrupt city, in hopelessly
corrupt states and big cities in the Eastern half. The Eastern States are too
far-gone to save. (How can an avowed socialist, Bernie
Sanders, be a viable candidate for president in a free America? It is
unfathomable)
In contrast, the Western States have the
landmass, seaports, vast mineral resources and a strong tax base to create a new
nation under the terms of the Original Declaration of Independence where, "We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these
rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, (and the U. S. Federal Government has
become destructive of these ends) it is the Right of
the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying
its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to
them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and
Happiness.
This new nation of Western States could be
called "The United 18 Free States of America."
A new capitol could be established, but not in an existing city. It must be a
new city, centrally located and staffed with people who hold the principles of
freedom in their hearts and in their minds. A three-branch national government
would be preserved.
The U. S. Constitution would return to being the
Supreme Law of the Land. Courts would return to be common law courts, not the
admiralty courts they have become. Precedent law would be abolished and replaced
with constitutional and statute law. Lawyers would not register with the State
BAR. They would be licensed by the individual states and swear allegiance to the
National and State Constitutions. Their loyalty would be to their client, not
the court, or some foreign association based in England.
Only constitutional laws would be codified into
new national legislation. State laws would be revised to include only
constitutional law. The 17th Amendment would be
repealed and Senators would be elected in accordance with Article I, Section 3,
Clause 1 of the U. S. Constitution.
The anchor baby provision of the 14th Amendment
would be repealed. Illegal aliens would be forced to come out of the shadows and
register with the national government as foreign agents, or be deported, adults
and children. There would be no social benefits, education, or medical services
for anyone who could not prove citizenship. This would encourage
self-deportation. Employment of non-registered illegal aliens would be a felony,
punishable by fines and imprisonment. Work and education visas would be strictly
enforced. Amnesty or U. S. Citizenship for illegal entry into the new United 18
Free States of America would never be granted. Rewarding illegal behavior with
the benefit of citizenship is contrary to common sense, equal justice and
fairness.
The original definition of property rights under
allodial title, as envisioned by the Founding Fathers, would be restored into
law. Any TAKING by government would be strictly controlled by the full intent of
the Fifth Amendment and just compensation would be paid by the government for
such TAKINGS at fair market value. Any land use or environmental regulation that
created a TAKING of the use, or violate the four pillars of land ownership,
would be compensated. A "public purpose" will not include a governmental entity
condemning land under eminent domain to increase their tax base.
Current government benefits would be continued
with at least a 10-year phase out period. The national and state governments
would be required under law to balance their budgets.
State banks would be established in each state
to conduct banking business under fairly strict minimum reserve regulations, in
keeping with the level of loan risk. The loan risk would be evaluated every
calendar year and reserves adjusted accordingly. An insurance program would be
established in each state to protect depositors from bank failures. There would
be no federal regulation of state banks. Any central bank would be fully
regulated and audited annually by Congress. And monetary policy would return to
the gold standard.
Health insurance would be returned to private
insurance carriers with full competition across state lines. Medical malpractice
lawsuits would have maximum caps on settlements for pain and suffering and
punitive damages. Legal fees would also be capped.
The socialist "hot bed" cities on the West Coast
or in major cities in the 18 Western States (Seattle, Portland,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, etc.) would be forced to adhere
to the constitutional principles of the United 18 Free States of America and
reverse their socialist ways.
Public education would be returned to local
control. No unions would be allowed in local, state, or national government
employees, including education.
Voting would return to computer-readable paper
ballots at voting precincts and legal photographic identification would be
required to vote in all cases. Electronic voting machines would not be allowed.
Registration to vote would cease 30 days prior to ANY election. Early voting
would not be allowed. Absentee ballots would only be allowed for special cases.
Proof of national citizenship would be an absolute requirement. Violation of
voting regulations would be a felony, punishable by severe fines and
imprisonment.
We could go on with our list of revisions to the
current corrupt system of the American government as a platform for a new
Western government, but the point has been made.
Nevertheless, we are not so naïve as to believe
that any of what we describe here could actually happen. The Western states are
so addicted to Washington DC money, any separation or secession, much less war,
is improbable. Our intent was to illuminate the vast differences between the
West and the East and the many reasons why this nation is so divided in not only
principle, but in ideology and geography.
We are well aware that there are millions of
Americans in the Eastern states that are vehemently opposed to what government
is doing and has done and the corruption that exists in local, state and
national government. Consequently, America cannot be divided by states. It must
be restored as a Constitutional Republic in 50 united states. We should not have
to divide the nation into a new country of 18 free states to restore the
Republic in only one part. All states and the nation should be free under the
Supreme Law of the land as intended by those who founded America.
Let us know what you think:
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NOTE:
The foregoing article represents the opinion of the author and is not
necessarily shared by the owners, representatives, employees, or agents of the
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Ron Ewart, a nationally
known author and speaker on freedom and property rights issues and author of
this weekly column, "In Defense of Rural America", is the president of
the National Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org) an advocate
and consultant for urban and rural landowners and a non-profit corporation
headquartered in Washington State. He can be reached for comment
at: info@narlo.org.
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