"The Makings of an American West
Rebellion!"
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 24
The following article
was published on Newswithviews, January 20, 2016
This article is also
available on our website at:
THE COWBOY’S PROMISE:
"If you push me once, I’ll ask you what your problem is. If
you push me again be prepared to defend your life!" Ron
Ewart
Well ladies and gentlemen the fact is, the
government has pushed the cowboy, the rancher, the farmer and the rural
landowner way more than once. What happened in Southeastern Nevada in 2014 at
the Bundy
Ranch
and what is now
happening at the Malheur Nature Preserve near the Hammond Ranch in Southeastern
Oregon is because government has been pushing and pushing and pushing until the
Western "Cowboy" had no other choice but to challenge government authority …..
again! The Sage Brush
Rebellion of the
1970’s is being reborn.
"Just a friendly warning from the
birding and wildlife photography community to the Oregon terrorists. We are
watching your every move, and we have been watching you for a long time. And yes
absolutely you are domestic terrorists of the worst kind, and the truth about
your decades of constant poaching of protected wildlife around Malheur and other
wildlife refuges, national parks, national forests and BLM lands has been
well-documented. For years those of us who are wildlife photographers,
birdwatchers and careers of wildlife, have been documenting the activities of
you poachers and criminals around many of our nation's wildlife refuges. With
our powerful cameras, and ability to move unseen in the wilderness, we have
found and documented your illegal hunts, your illegal traps and all sorts of
illicit activities, and are constantly feeding that information to law
enforcement, and we have finally got many of you poachers on the run and into
jails. And I for one am a westerner sick to death of you welfare queens and
cheats living off of BLM land, illegally gutting our wilderness and our
wildlife. Wildlife photographers and wildlife/bird watchers now number some 40
million people in the USA, and feed many rural western economies with our
tourism dollars, and we will not stand for your
sedition."
"As Oregon's Congressman Earl
Blumenauer just stated, "Armed insurrection is terrorism. The situation at the
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge shouldn't be allowed to fester but should be
dealt with firmly, swiftly and fairly. The continued disruption to the community
of Burns and occupation of a federal facility is unacceptable. Those involved
should be arrested and prosecuted."
"And for those of us who are also
lawyers (I for example just happen to have a law degree of U of Oregon), whether
the Feds prosecute you or not (and we will do all in our power to ensure they
do), we will put every civil suit against you and God knows you have given us
plenty to work with, so you will know once and for all that your odious actions
have real consequences"
"We stand now and forever with wildlife, and you seditionists and terrorists are about to find out that's there is a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out and poach innocent animals, will never be able to outrun or hide from."
Peggy is hardly alone in her beliefs as she so states. But Peggy has a law degree, so watch out! Note that she stands rabid-like with wildlife but she makes no mention of constitutionally protected property rights, or legal allotment rights that run with deeds to the land. Environmentally-saturated government agencies (BLM, USFW, Forest Service) have overturned, ignored, or illegally rolled over these allotments.
Peggy won’t be happy until the entire West is
gobbled up by the federal government and turned into her own personal wildlife
refuge so she can watch birds and take pictures. It makes no difference to her
that well over half the protein Americans and a good portion of non-Americans
consume, is raised in the Western United States that she would like to see
locked up.
And it’s not just birds these radical
environmentalists want to protect. We have to have carnivores, (people
eaters) like wolves and grizzly bears, re-entered into the wilderness as
well. It doesn’t make any difference that wolves and grizzly bears decimate
cattle, sheep and wild deer and elk herds, kill domestic animals and sometimes
little kids. Oh, and let’s not forget that these wolves and grizzly bears have
to have protected habitat, millions of acres of protected habitat that infringe
on private property with insanely wide buffers and no public access. If you
shoot one of these meat eaters to protect yourself, you go to jail.
Then we have to save every river, stream, creek,
lake, dry wash and riverbed for salmon that the Indians harvest 50% of the catch
each year because of the 1974 Federal Judge Boldt decision. The government has
spent and is spending billions of your tax dollars restoring fish habitat and in
so doing they have violated constitutionally protected property rights with
reckless abandon.
Just ask Raven Webb of Southwestern
Washington State on what salmon habitat restoration of the Grays River did to
her property. They flooded her land and her home and literally drove her off of
it. But after they flooded her land, the offending environmental NGO’s offered
her 10 cents on the dollar for it. There was no eminent domain, no legal
condemnation and no just compensation for her. There was just inundation and
confiscation. Confiscation, by any other name, is stealing. Read her story
HERE.
In addition, private landowners and other
taxpayers get to pay for brand new, very expensive habitat culverts under every
road in the Western States so the little fishies and furry creatures can travel
up or downstream, unimpeded by the White man’s arrogance and his damnable roads.
Can you imagine how many streams and rivers our public roads cross? The number
of crossings is in the tens of thousands. Can you then imagine how much it is
going to cost to replace every stream crossing with expensive habitat culverts?
Nevertheless, the "law" demands it and the taxpayer gets to pay for
it.
It doesn’t end there. Because of a supposedly
endangered two-inch fish in Southern Oregon and Northern California Rivers, the
Indians, environmentalists and the government have shut off irrigation waters to
one of the most fertile agricultural areas in America and put over 40,000
farmers and field hands out of work, not to mention the loss of crops and
millions of dollars in lost revenue.
Now, the Indians, environmentalists and the
government want to destroy dams on rivers for fish habitat and in so doing
remove electricity production, flood control and irrigation that farmers,
ranchers and even city folk have benefited from for over 100 years. That’s not
just nuts, it’s criminal. Had California been building more dams for electricity
production, flood control and irrigation they wouldn’t be having a water
shortage right now. But environmentalists won’t let them build
dams.
When there is no food to eat or meat to
consume, or the price is so high only the rich can eat, blame the Indians, the
environmentalists and the government.
But you see ladies and gentlemen, long before we
run out of food and rangeland to grow protein for our very survival, or the
prices get too high, there will be a rebellion in the West, as "Cowboys"
punctuate their promise of "push me again and prepare to defend your
life." These non-city-bred souls are rugged, trained
to the forces of nature and prepared to give their lives to protect their rights
if you push them too far. They have already been pushed too far and their
patience wears very thin. The itching to push back is becoming irresistible. The
occupation at the Malheur Nature Preserve in Oregon is a manifestation of the
itch to push back.
Several times we have written that major changes
to a nation, a culture, a financial system, or commerce are triggered by a
"Flash Point." Wars, revolutions, rising government tyranny, cultural, financial
and political upheaval and major national disasters are examples of those flash
points. Starve the people and they will rise up because they have nothing to
lose. Take away rights the masses perceive to be theirs by nature or by God and
the people will rise up. Over-regulate or strangle the people’s lifestyle, as
government is doing to rural landowners across America and the people will rise
up as they are doing in Oregon. The Oregon standoff could be one of those flash
points that trigger’s a Western land war between landowners, the government, the
Indians and radical environmentalists.
Lie to the people about important events and the
people will rise up when they discover the lie. Today’s government lie is
radical environmentalism that includes millions of locked-up acreage, purposely
manipulated climate change science and endangered species laws.
But America is wholly different than any other
country. In America when the people rise up against government they have weapons
ala the Second Amendment. Most in the West take the Second Amendment very
seriously and are heavily armed.
Already another armed group from Idaho has told
the FBI that they are going to take up armed positions around the Malheur Nature
Preserve compound. Although the Bundy militia occupiers don’t want them there,
the fact that more armed citizens are coming to Oregon is an indication of the
"brush fire" about to erupt in the West. The previous standoffs at the Jarbidge
River in Northern Nevada and the Klamath Bucket Brigade event in Southern Oregon
against federal government agencies are further examples of a growing "brush
fire."
Besides the organized militias in America, there
are the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters that have their eyes and ears wide
open to what government is doing. They are following the Bundy and Hammond
events very closely.
Here are some updates and new information on the
Bundy-Hammond standoff in Oregon:
http://ireader.olivesoftware.
"Warning from Oath Keepers"
We warn those who would light that "brush fire",
be it government, environmentalists, Indians, bird watchers, carnivore lovers,
or socialists alike, you are literally playing with fire. Push too hard and you
will set off a land war that will sweep across the West like a wind-driven grass
fire. People must understand that when a forest fire is lit, there is no telling
which way it will go. The question is, what (or who) will set it
off? Could it be the takeover of Western private and public lands by the
government the Indians and the environmentalists? Could it be Obama
Care, illegal aliens getting amnesty, Syrian refugees, Cap and Trade, gun
control, foreign terrorism, the one-world-order, radical environmentalism,
endangered species law, the fraud that is climate change, the brainwashing of
our kids in our public schools, or trashing the Constitution by politicians?
Was Jefferson right? Does a society need a revolution every hundred years?
Messy, but could it be necessary if freedom is to be defended, maintained and
preserved?
Because Americans have lived under the umbrella
of freedom for over 230 years, the pilot light of liberty burns in the hearts of
most of us. Although slow to ignite after years of in-attention, freedom's
flame is rising out of the ashes of neglect and apathy. Spot fires of freedom
are erupting all over the nation. Obama has lit many of those spot fires. After
years of neglect, America is coming alive like never before. Trump is playing
into those spot fires with great success.
It would be wise for the forces of evil who
would attempt to drag us where we don't want to go, to take a step back before
the raw fury of armed American power is unleashed on those without honor, who
have betrayed our trust, ripped up our blue print of liberty, attempted to
destroy our American heritage and are working to tear our institutions of
freedom asunder. We do not advocate or condone violence but there comes a point,
as Winston Churchill so aptly stated and so often repeated:
"If you will not fight
for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when
your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you
will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of
survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no
hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as
slaves."
The cowboys, ranchers, farmers and
landowners of America, whether West or East, are right in their fight to
preserve constitutional property rights. Because without property rights, no
other rights are possible. The National Association of Rural
Landowners
(NARLO) are staunch advocates for the American rural landowner. We are
celebrating our 10th year.
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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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