"Enviros Won't Be
Happy
Until the Bundy Militia is
Dead!"
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, January
17 2016 - All Rights Reserved
The following article
was published on Newswithviews, January 13, 2016
This article is also
available on our website at:
"If you own rural land, the
government and the environmentalists want it and intend to take it, regardless
of your property rights engraved in the U. S.
Constitution." Ron
Ewart
Since the passage of the National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) in 1969, the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 (EPA) and
finally the Endangered Species Act in 1973 (ESA), a radical environmental
mindset has invaded America like a rapidly metastasizing disease. This
environmental disease has become so pervasive you can find it in all of
government, in our public schools, our colleges, the courts, the news media and
even corporate America has become a victim. Elements of this environmental
disease are woven subtly into commercial advertising. The EPA, the BLM, the U.
S. Fish and Wildlife, the U. S. National Forest and the U. S. Interior agencies
became the unrelenting, Gestapo-like enforcement arm for NEPA and the ESA.
In reality, Agenda 21 was and is
nothing more than an outright, open declaration of war on American
constitutionally protected private property rights, driven by radical
environmentalism and social justice.
Then in 1976 the United Nations held a
"Declaration of Human Settlements" conference in Vancouver, Canada where
international environmental, land use and socialist policies where laid out and
established as permanent guidelines. The following paragraph was taken directly
from the policy paper coming out of the Vancouver conference. (http://habitat.igc.org/
Preamble:
"Land, because of its unique nature
and the crucial role it plays in human settlements, cannot be treated as an
ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and
inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal
instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes
to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the
planning and implementation of development schemes. Social justice, urban
renewal and development, the provision of decent dwellings-and healthy
conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interests
of society as a whole."
The UN preamble flies in the face of American
property rights and the U. S. Constitution. The UN is not America’s friend but
it maybe too late to do anything about it. The U. S. Government and all state
and local governments have adopted this preamble and Agenda 21 either in part or
in whole and they have passed laws to implement them. States, counties and
cities have even adopted international building, utility and environmental
codes. The one-world-order was institutionalized into American law years ago,
right under our collective noses.
President Clinton established the Council on
Sustainable Development in June of 1993 to further integrate Agenda 21 policies
into American law. The American Planning Association has adopted many of the
tenets of Agenda 21. Those tenets end up in city and county land use
comprehensive plans all over America. This disease of radical environmentalism
has propagated rapidly and is now completely institutionalized into the American
system of law. Were you ever asked to offer an opinion on these environmental
changes to law, or attend a public hearing? Hardly! Your "representatives" just
did it, unilaterally. Only environmentalists and government employees came to
the public hearings.
What is the result of all this
environmental national and international gerrymandering? Powerful and very
wealthy environmental groups have sprouted up all over America. NEPA, ESA and
the EPA rules have given these environmental groups a feeding ground of federal
law allowing them to sue the government every time the government violates its
own laws. The government violates its own laws all the time. The
environmentalists win most of the time and with each win they reap multi-million
dollar awards of your tax dollars and become even wealthier. In addition,
wealthy philanthropists donate millions to environmental groups. Meanwhile,
freedom and property rights groups like NARLO are starved of the funds necessary to keep up their fight
to preserve the Republic.
One such radical environmental group is the
Center for Biological Diversity (CFBD). They have become filthy rich suing the
government over the Endangered Species Act (ESA). First, they research species
to find if any species are threatened or endangered according to "their"
science. Then they send a list of what species they think that may be threatened
or endangered to the ESA and demand they be listed. If the government doesn’t
list the species within the ESA regulations, CFBD sues the government. CFBD wins
all the time because the courts have an environmental bias.
We have seen this bias first hand in a court
case against a private property owner near Tacoma. WA. The judge openly
displayed his environmental bias in the court transcripts. The man was sent to
jail for 6 months and fined $20,000 for cleaning out a ditch on his own
property. When he cleaned out the ditch the ditch wasn’t in a wetland. The land
use authorities declared it a wetland after the fact and charged him with a
crime that did not exist. The judge was intent upon making an environmental
example out of this hapless landowner who had done nothing wrong.
But let’s get back to the Center for Biological Diversity and
the armed stand off by the Bundy militia at the Hammond Ranch in Southeastern
Oregon. Shortly after the Bundy standoff commenced, the CFBD issued the
following statement in their newsletter.
"The armed men who took over a federal
building in southeastern Oregon are part of a long-running campaign of violence,
intimidation and extremist paranoia that has festered for decades in the West
over the issue of public lands -- the previous standoff made in 2014 by Cliven
Bundy in Nevada. Among the demands at the latest standoff is to shut down
Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, which provides crucial protections
for wildlife -- especially birds that migrate through the
area.
Members of the men's group have said they're willing to kill and be killed if necessary.
"This is the latest in a long string of armed, right-wing thugs attempting to seize America's public lands and enact their paranoid, anti-government dream bought by guns and intimidation," said the Center for Biological Diversity's Kierán Suckling. "What's happening in Oregon is a logical outgrowth of right-wing rhetoric that demonizes even the concept of federal land -- places like national parks and forests -- and villainizes those who believe that publicly owned land should be more than just a source of profit for ranchers and corporations."
Examining these statements by CFBD reflects an
extreme environmental bias and total ignorance of private property rights. Their
use of "campaign of violence, intimidation and extremist
paranoia" and "thugs" rhetoric subverts the principles upon which these armed patriots stand.
They are constitutional principles, not some fly-by-night trivia.
Since the mid 1960’s national and international
(UN) radical environmental policies have come in direct conflict with American
constitutional principles. Environmental policies have won. The EPA, BLM and
the US Fish and Wildlife are owned and operated, lock, stock and barrel, by
environmental zealots. Local and state governments are staffed by
environmentally brainwashed educated idiots from liberal colleges.
The Bundy Ranch armed standoff in 2014 and the
current Hammond Ranch standoff in Oregon have been triggered by the
freedom-robbing disease of radical environmentalism. Contrary to what the news
is reporting, the current Bundy militia in Oregon DO NOT want to overthrow the
government. They want constitutional justice for all rural landowners. Listen to
what the Bundy standoff is really all about from KrisAnne Hall, a constitutional
attorney, at this link:
These men and women and millions of rural
Americans have seen the steady, unconscionable and unconstitutional erosion of
the basic rights of property ownership in America and they have had enough.
There is no alternative left for them but to draw a line in the
sand.
We ask all of our readers to say what they would
do if the government reached in without legal authority and took your home and
your livelihood away from you, or burned your home down? What if they charged
you with a trumped up crime and threw you in jail for five years? Would you just
stand by and do nothing? It is way past time for rural landowners to stand up
and lay it on the line. The Bundy militia has done just that. They are the
catalyst to light one big giant "brush fire" across the West. We hope they
do.
The Bundy Ranch militia in Nevada in 2014 and
now the armed standoff in Oregon is a direct threat to radical environmentalists
and they know that if the rural landowner movement catches on, the "cat is out
of the bag" and their political and financial power will start drying up,
literally at the point of a gun. The Founding Fathers did
not insert the Second Amendment into the Bill of Rights for
hunting.
Although we do not support lawless acts,
nevertheless, as a national advocate for rural
landowners
(NARLO) for the last 10 years, we applaud and support the Bundy militia standoff
because they and we speak for rural landowners everywhere. We urge all Americans
who believe in the principle causes of these brave men to send them well wishes.
They need to know the people are behind them so that they can endure what is
certain to come their way at the hands of the federal government, egged on by
environmentalists like the CFBD. Send your well wishes addressed to Ammon Bundy,
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, 36391 Sodhouse Lane, Princeton, OR 97721. Do
it today.
But the longer the Bundy militia occupy the
federal building on the nature preserve in Oregon, the urgency rises for an
armed engagement by an overwhelming federal military force against a puny
militia. They may be "hit" before this article is in print. There are
indications of a Special Ops Force headed to Oregon. Who will win is already
pre-ordained. The potential for another Ruby Ridge or Waco to take place on
American soil is possible, where the people, standing up for constitutional
principles, are taken down by the government that is criminally, morally and
constitutionally in the wrong.
If you really want to know the truth
about the BLM vs. Hammond Ranch story, we strongly recommend that you listen to
Greg Walden's impassioned testimony on the floor of the U. S. House of
Representatives. Walden is an Oregon Republican U. S. Congressman that
represents the district where the Hammond’s live and he personally knows the
Hammond's. Watch the video HERE.
Now the reader might get the idea that we are
anti-environment. Just the opposite is true. The National Association of Rural
Landowners’ (NARLO) motto is:
"Protecting the environment is
laudable.
Trashing the Constitution to do it, is
treasonous!"
The truth is, rural landowners are far better
stewards of the land than ineffective, hopelessly corrupt government agencies
that collude with national and international radical environmentalists to steal
constitutionally protected property rights. The stories of government
mis-management of federal lands are legendary and have caused billions of
dollars in property and environmental damage. Need we mention EPA’s release of
toxic substances into a Utah river from a mine they were managing? That release
polluted an entire river drainage area all the way to the Colorado River. Did
anyone get fired or go to jail? Of course not. It’s government.
Ladies and gentlemen, the brutal reality is that
only a ground swell of national rural outrage, like the Bundy militia, will
reverse the course of socialism and environmental extremism in America and
return us to a Constitutional Republic. Farmers, ranchers and rural landowners
can and should be the catalyst to incite that outrage because they are being
required to bear the entire burden of environmental protection, while city folk
get off scot-free. Rural landowners own the 'land' and the 'land' is their
power, if they will use that power ……. before they lose it.
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The NARLO
website is a treasure trove of
information for rural landowners. If you are a rural landowner, you owe it to
yourself to investigate the hundreds of articles, valuable information and tools
that exist there. Tell us your story and we will devote our weekly column to it.
We even have developed a sample petition to help citizens in counties and cities
to demand their city or county cancel the contracts with the United Nations
International Council on Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI). The petition
is contained in Section "A", Chapter A3 of NARLO’S Rural Landowner
Handbook.
ICLEI consults with American cities and
counties on how to plan for sustainable development and smart growth under the
guidelines of Agenda 21 (1972 &
2012) and the
Conference on Human Settlements, established in Vancouver in 1976. ICLEI is a
Trojan Horse for international environmentalism and is an enemy of freedom and
American constitutional property rights. Either fight this radical environmental
monster or watch America slide into third world status where freedom and
property rights are dictated by a King, or an Absolute Democrat
Monarchy.
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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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