Rural Genocide

Do you have common sense or not?

This is the question of the decade. People everywhere are coming to terms with the reality of “Rural Cleansing” and the goals of Agenda 21.

If you have common sense then you are aware or are willing to learn that Government, Non Governmental Organizations, and the UN have joined forces in a plot so obvious, yet so subtle, so seemingly benevolent, in reality NGOs like Columbia Land Trust are fundamentally evil. Some call this movement rural cleansing, I call it Rural Genocide.

Ian Sinks of Columbia Land Trust based on Officers Row in Vancouver, Washington has been procuring the Genocide of Wahkiakum County since 2004. Public statements made by Sinks include “people who live in rural areas are wasting the land; no one should own rural land”. Columbia Land Trust has opened an office in Astoria, Oregon to promote the Genocide in Oregon, headed up by Nadia, a Sinks clone.

These statements are not made lightly; they come from five years of West Wahkiakum County under siege, terrorized by Columbia Land Trust in partnership with Ducks Unlimited and Funded by the Salmon Recovery Board. “Willing Sellers” are made by alterations of waterways, dredging and filling, removal of tide gates, breaching dikes, erection of structures channeling rivers into homes, impoundment of water, and destruction of farm land and homes. This is the effort made by CLT to enact Genocide in Rural Communities. It is not just the people who live here, it is the animals CLT has flooded grazing grounds of countless deer, elk, prairie critters, and has diverted salmon into hay fields where they die. On the CLT web site Ian Sinks notes salmon like to graze and lay eggs in grass, I suppose deer now eat salmon how far we have come in “evolution”, stupidity is more like it.

The efforts of Columbia Land Trust has caused State Infrastructure damage, State Highways have been shut down for up to five days due to CLT “projects”. County Roads have been washed out and gravel embedded in streams, fill dirt and materials placed in navigable waters decreasing depth from 21 feet to a mere 9 feet, that is a fill of 11 feet in navigable waters.

Rural Cleansing – Rural Genocide plain and simple with devastating results to farms, Eco-system, and people. Columbia Land Trust, Ian Sinks and other NGOs are not hesitant in the least to evoke the widespread rape and murder that defines “ethnic cleansing” getting rid of the rural population. Raven Webb an unfortunate neighbor to a Columbia Land Trust “project” states she is not about to dig her own grave and be shot into the grave quietly, she will continue to cause a thunderous movement to stop Rural Genocide.

People are so naive, living in the city, not experiencing the reality of what NGOs are doing to the earth and only hearing the talk of NGOs and how they are “saving the environment” is the lie of the century. If people refuse to wake up, ask questions, get facts, of the true meaning behind NGOs we are all doomed, animals and fish included. The evil perpetuated by Columbia Land Trust has been unstoppable, donations continue, and tax dollars flow into their pockets. Facts would shut them down, people are unwilling to see the truth or stand for what is right; being honest can be a lonely place, it is the only place to be, I know no other.

One could say Columbia Land Trust has not fired a shot or forcibly made Wahkiakum County Residence dig their graves but the result has been the same. Many Residences lives, finances, homes, and retirement benefits lay in ruin due to the efforts and “projects” of Columbia Land Trust. Wahkiakum County is under siege by extremely well financed NGOs. In this small Rural Community there are over 7 NGOs making “willing sellers” Columbia land Trust is the biggest land holder in Wahkiakum County they own 1/3 of the County bought and paid for with your tax dollars.

The Endangered Species Act is the process used to expunge humans from their homes. Using the ESA, Columbia Land Trust is flooding people out of their homes. Older farmers and rural dwellers are easy targets for CLT they are offered buyouts at elevated prices and these struggling farmers after a few years of being flooded by CLT’s alterations become “willing sellers”. The “willing sellers” are lied to and told their land will be preserved; this has never been the case the land has always been altered to cause flooding to more neighbors thus making more “willing sellers”.

It is not about saving the environment. It is about Greed, Power, and Rural Cleansing which is a nice term for what it really is Rural Genocide, which means; Murder of an entire ethnic group (Rural private property owners): the systematic killing (destruction) of all the people from a specific group, (people who love the country) national, ethnic, or religious group, or an attempt to do this.

The environmental vultures insist on gobbling up rural private land. At least real vultures allow their victims to die before they consume them. Our private lands are not near death, they were abundant in wildlife before CLT, however, NGO's are anxious to divest them. If willing buyers are not to be found, they will be made. Many environmental groups and governmental agencies are so anxious to acquire private rural land, the only plausible explanation is to increase their already massive power and control. They have the insatiable appetite to add to their kingdom and further oppress the people and have a fanatic need to exert their influence over everything that moves or does not, or whether or not a problem exists. They will however, manage to create many problems in the process. And, it must be borne in mind that history has shown big brother to very often be a lousy steward of the land. The populace must wake up and recognize the monster, Hitler (NGO's) for what it is Rural Genocide.

Rural Cleansing

Michael S. Coffman, Ph. D.

For American Land Foundation

Our view of reality and the role of government in our lives greatly influence how we view property rights. Americans no longer have the opportunity to learn the foundations of freedom and to understand what it really means to have the God-given right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” as penned by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independ­ence. Since the 1970s, we are increasingly following another system of governance that is systematically destroying the very principle that has made America the greatest nation in the history of the world.

America is in a war of world views between the principles of freedom laid down by John Locke (1632-1704) in his Two Treatises on Government (1689) and Jean Jacques Rousseau in his Social Contract (1762) and Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1754). Govern­ment’s purpose, accord­ing to Locke, is to join with others to “unite, for the mutual preservation of their lives, liberties and estate, which I call by the general name, property.” According to Locke, the primary reason for government “is the preservation of their property.” (Italics added) This fundamental principle became the cornerstone of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.

Rousseau attacked Locke’s model, arguing that individuality and property rights divide man by focusing on self-interest and greed rather than the good of society. He claims that property rights bind the poor thereby giving “new powers to the rich” that destroys “natural liberty” and equality and converts “usurpation into unalter­able right.” He argues for the creation of the common good as embod­ied through an abstract, public will he called the ‘general will’. In his model, the enlightened state deter­mines the general will of the people through the force of law, including how property will be used. Rousseau provided the foundational philosophy that spawned the bloody French Revolution and inspired the writings of Immanuel Kant, Georg W. F. Hegel and Karl Marx and many others, thereby planting the seeds for the European model of socialism and Russian communism.

Rousseau’s model of forced compliance has formed the basis of social and environmental laws in America since the 1970s. This is causing a hemorrhage in individ­ual liberties once taken for granted by all Americans, including property rights. Without private property, individuals are powerless to oppose any infringe­ment on their rights due to government control over the fruits of their labor. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the old Soviet Union, where all property belonged to the state. No one could speak out against the government for fear of their family being evicted, or their job taken away, by the local communist commissar.

Environmentalists claim that private property rights and greed are the root problem of pollution and environ­ment­al degradation. Yet, the worst pollution and environ­mental degradation has been on public land, water, or air – not private land. Since no one “owns” the land, water or air, pride of ownership or sense of responsibility to care for these entities is lost. It is called the Tragedy of the Commons. Again, the worst examp­les of this phen­omenon were the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe where there was no private property, yet they had the worst environmental record in the history of mankind.

Locke’s model recognizes and uses the human trait of self-interest to better oneself. Unencumbered private property provides the catalyst to stimulate individuals to be creative and take risk in finding a better way, product, or service to meet a human need – including protecting the environment. In Locke’s approach property owners would be restricted only by laws and regulations that keep them from activities that clearly cause harm to their neighbors or their property. If property is taken for the public good, the public pays just compen­sation.

Conversely, the Rousseau model places control in the hands of unaccountable, unelected government bureaucrats. Their primary incentive is to make their regulatory jobs easier and more efficient so they can build bigger empires at the people’s expense. Nothing is produced. Unless there is strong oversight of bureaucrats — something politicians rarely do — there is no account­ability to keep them from administering laws in a corrupt, arbitrary and capricious manner. While Rousseau social­ism does not destroy prop­erty rights as effectively as totalitarianism or communism, it nonetheless opens the door to corruption and dampens economic and personal freedom in proportion to the amount of regulation imposed.

In his compelling book The Mystery of Capital, Hernando de Soto accurately identifies private property rights as the key to reducing poverty and producing wealth. Legal title to use property represents equity. This equity can be used as collateral for a loan to create the capital needed to start, expand or buy into a business which then yields income and wealth. If strangling regulations encumber property rights there is little to no equity and therefore little to no capital with which to create wealth. Without wealth, the environment cannot be protected. A family whose primary focus is to put food on the table is not going to be interested in protect­ing the environment.

The most striking example of how socialism destroys the wealth-building capability of property is found in the developing nations of the world. In these nations the simple act of legally transferring the title to property can take years, even decades in a sea of corruption and regulations. Few people have the time or resources to legally own property and therefore the property has no legal asset value. Hernando de Soto has shown that the total value of property held, but not legally owned, by the poor of the developing nations and former communist countries is at least $9.3 trillion! This is ninety-three times as much as all development assistance to the developing nations from all advanced countries during the past thirty years. There would be no need for foreign aid if these poverty-stricken people could have access to the asset value of their presently dead capital.

The Endangered Species Act, wetlands regulations, the Clean Water Initiative and a host of other environ­mental laws have one thing in common. State control of property rights based on the Rousseau model which strips or plunders the value of property from rural landowners. It is harming, even destroying the economic foundation of rural communities and counties as tens of billions, perhaps hundreds of billions of dollars of property value has been transferred to the government via regulation.

The plundering of rural America has gotten so bad that a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) editorial on July 26, 2001, called it “rural cleansing.” The WSJ claimed that this is the intent of the environmentalists, “The goal of many environ­mental groups…is no longer to protect nature. It is to expunge humans from the countryside” by suing or lobby­ing the “government into declaring rural areas off-limits to people who live and work there.” This can be done outright or by having “restrictions placed on the land that either render it unusable or persuade owners to leave of their own accord.”

Contrary to the popular myth that environmentalists work on a shoe-string for the benefit of mankind, the October 20, 1997, Boston Globe estimated the total funding for environmental activism to be around four billion dollars annually! Using top-dollar Madison Avenue packaging, their Rousseau-oriented environ­mental message finds willing listeners in urban America. While we do need to protect the environment, these slick, but distorted or false messages have easily manipulated the largely uninformed urban voters and politicians into believing all kinds of terrible things are happening that can only be solved with big government control. In response, Con­gress has created an inter­locking web of Rousseau-based laws and regulat­ions that usurp local and state juris­dict­ions and bestow enorm­ous powers on federal bureau­crats who have little to no account­ability to those they gov­ern.

Anti-property rights activists use Rousseau’s “per­ceive­d good result” or the “public good” to attack the basis for constitutional property rights. Since the 1970s, activist courts have been systematically ruling that the use of private property and “the rights of the individual” endanger the rights of all the people. Yet, why should the last owners of wetlands, endangered species habitat, beautiful scenery or many other environmental and social benefits, have to shoulder the entire cost of protection or provision when the problem was created by the activities of thousands of other people? Most Americans would say that they shouldn’t. Yet, that is exactly what is happening to tens of thousands of Americans.

Government intrusion into the right to own and use property under the Trojan horse of the “public good” is beginning to cause great harm to American citizens, and is undermining the very foundation that has made America the greatest nation in human history. We can blindly continue to convert to the Jean Jacques Rousseau model of governance by the whim of bureaucrats, or we can return to the model of John Locke where private property is protected by govern­ment through law.

It is clear from a myriad of examples that the Rousseau model leads to corruption in government and a decline in the human condition while the Locke model yields freedom, prosperity and environmental protect­ion. Which one would you choose?

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Dr. Michael Coffman is president of Environmental Perspectives, Inc. and CEO of Sovereignty International Corporation in Bangor, Maine.

American Land Foundation

P.O. Box 1033

Taylor, Texas 76574

It is Official

It Is Official!

Wahkiakum County Is Lawless

Today is a Heartrending Day for All Americans Who Believed in Truth Justice and the American Way

It was determined that all elected officials are given discretionary privilege as to what laws to enforce, who to or not to protect against assault, and to protect private property or NOT!

It was well noted by several Wahkiakum County Residences who sought Justice Today Against well financed Columbia Land Trust and Ducks Unlimited who have caused personal injuries, trauma, and private property damage to several that the law does not apply to them! Nor do they have to be accountable.

RECKONING

Monday, 1:30pm December 8th, 2008 is a day of reckoning, the settlement of accountability.

Tomorrow is court in Wahkiakum County, Washington where it will be determined if in fact laws must be enforced and adhered to or if Wahkiakum County elected officials will continue to ignore their constituents.

Will Wahkiakum County continue to allow the lawlessness of Columbia Land Trust, Ducks Unlimited, and several other agencies that have caused physical and mental harm, private property damage, county property damage, and eco-system damage go unaccounted for?

This is the question of the day.

Columbia Land Trust and Ducks Unlimited were proven at fault in 2006 and again in 2008 by their own Model shown to Wahkiakum County Stakeholders. Several letters from these entities were presented as evidence to fault. Letters from several legislative branches, Department of Ecology, Department of the Insurance Commissioner, Governor Chris Gregorie, and several others stating these entities were working with their victims to make restitution (which was untrue) were also included as evidence, along with pictures, and a hydrologist report. 33 violations have occurred and are backed with evidence and case law.

Is the truth going to prevail or will the fancy side steps of the attorneys prevail?

This is a case for all, it is not just about Wahkiakum County, it is about how elected officials fail us, it is about how powerful organizations armed with your tax dollars through grants under the guise of “salmon recovery” and ESA can rob, destroy, and cause absolute devastation. Private property rights are what our country was founded on, it is becoming a thing of the past, and it is now shrouded in greed and deceit by entities posing as environmentalists.

Join with us as we demand JUSTICE for all!

The truth shall prevail. As justice, sanity, and common sense is a victory for all.

Raven Webb

Alert

Action Alert! Action Alert!

URGENT!!

Dean Takko long time Washington State Representative

Writing legislation to abolish local Flood Control Districts

Takko is prompted by Columbia Land Trust, Ducks Unlimited, and Fish and Wildlife who are the three biggest landowners these entities will be in control of Flood Control

Which is a oxymoron. These entities are known for dike breaching and tide gate removal causing adverse affects to neighboring properties. This is an in for them to remove people from rural areas by inverse condemnation.

THE GREAT NORTHWEST PHONE-IN

CALL to say "NO" to a TAKE OVER

Sick of Congress' supporting and sneaking by legislation that puts power in the hands of a few? Want to stop the ongoing formation of eminent domain and intentional flooding of private property under the guise of salmon recovery? Angry that your elected officials deny the existence of agenda 21? Tired of Congress' and local elected officials failure to protect our nation's independence and sovereignty, to serve the Constitution they were elected to protect? It's time we take more aggressive action.

Join thousands to send joint messages to All states legislators and Capitol Hill!

Mark December 15^th 2008

On that date, honest people of Washington state will call members of Congress to voice opposition to the millions of $s given to Special Interest Groups taking over private property under the guise of “Salmon Recovery”.


Our purpose is to flood Capitol Hill with enough phone calls to shut down the switchboards...

As we demand that our elected representatives:

• Stop efforts to replace people with manmade wetlands
• Stop granting millions to Non Governmental Organizations
• Protect our nation's independence and sovereignty
• Serve the Constitution they were elected to protect

Above all - send the message that the American People will not tolerate the abolishment of PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS!

ACTION TO TAKE

On December 15^th 2008 call as many of the Congressional offices - both locally and in Washington as you can
Tell them:

1. You oppose Funding Non Governmental Organizations which propose to take over local special Taxing districts.

2. You oppose Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board and Salmon Recovery Board funding projects in the Grays’ River Valley.

3. You oppose any legislation that gives power over private property rights to Non Governmental Organization

3. Say Thank You and hang up!

4. Make the next call.

Do not engage the congressional staffers in debate or conversation because that will slow you down in making multiple calls.

The key to jamming the phone lines on Capital Hill is to keep up a barrage of calls pouring into congressional offices. Call an office, say your message within 30 seconds, say Thank You and hang up. Then dial the next number. We need a constant influx of calls.

You can make two calls a minute - or 120 calls in an hour. If 10,000 people make the calls that amounts to 9.6 million calls in 8 hours.


Don't be fooled. Your Congressmen and Senators know all about the private property take over by Non Governmental Organizations which congress has been funding much to the demise of America. Demand they stop pandering to Non Governmental corporations and special interests which do not care about the ideals of freedom you and I hold so dear.

Land Rights

Land Rights Network
American Land Rights Association
PO Box 400 - Battle Ground, WA 98604
Phone: 360-687-3087 - Fax: 360-687-2973
E-mail: alra@pacifier.com
Web Address: http://www.landrights.org
Legislative Office: 507 Seward Square SE - Washington, DC 20003


Clinton, Gore, Babbitt Gang Taking Over Obama Natural Resources


Obama prepares to finish Babbitt’s “War on the West.”

Rural America in grave danger!!


Please forward this message as widely as possible—quickly!


-----Draft of Environmental Organization Transition Plan For Obama
Administration Can Be Found At www.landrights.org


Omnibus Bill Report below.


-----Special Note: This plan is the Environmental Group outline for the
next four to eight years of the Obama Administration for the Natural
Resources part of the Government. Interior, Agriculture, Corps of
Engineers, Environmental Protection Agency, Council on Environmental Quality
and others.

The change you've been waiting for is just about to arrive. And on Federal
lands and property rights issues, the change looks like a return to the bad
old days of Bill Clinton and Bruce Babbitt's War on the West.

Leading the Obama transition team for the Interior Department are David
Hayes and John Leshy. Hayes was Deputy Secretary of the Interior under
Secretary Babbitt in the Clinton Administration.

Hayes now works for the World Wildlife Fund. Leshy was Solicitor General of
the Interior Department under Babbitt. Leshy has spent his whole career
trying to get natural resource producers, especially small miners, off
Federal lands.

Both Hayes and Leshy have been mentioned as on the list to be Obama's choice
for Interior Secretary. Incredibly, some of the other names being mentioned
are even worse. Most of them served in the Clinton Administration and most
of them have worked for one of the radical preservationist groups.

Think back to what those years--1993 to 2001--were like when Clinton and
Babbitt were waging their War on the West.

Logging stopped in our National Forests.
Grazing permittees harassed and arrested.
Huge areas closed to entry under the General Mining Law.
Trails closed to off-roaders and snow-mobilers.

Thousands of miles of roads closed by the Roadless Rule.

Inholders denied access to their own property.

Hundreds of species listed as endangered under the ESA.

Now, the same people who gave us the Roadless Rule are getting ready to come
back. They didn't get everything locked up and closed down during the eight
Clinton years largely because the Republicans won control of the House and
Senate. But now Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of the House and Harry Reid is
Senate Majority Leader.

The radical preservationists that staffed Babbitt's Interior Department want
to finish what they started.

Lock it up.

Close it down.

No natural resource production allowed.

Recreation and hunting prohibited on millions of more acres.

Huge new Wilderness Areas.

Hundreds and hundreds more endangered species listings.

Even widespread condemnation of private inholdings is on their agenda.

The 26,000,000 acre National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) is a first
class example of what they are going to try to do nationally.


Here's what you need to do to stop the second War on the West.

Deluge your Senators office (For the New Congress) to urge them not to
approve John Leshy, David Hayes or any other Babbitt Interior Department
Alumni as Secretary of Interior. You do not want to have to fight for
survival in a new Obama War On The West.

Call any Senator at (202) 224-3121.

Ask for their e-mail and/or fax number. Send them a letter opposing the new
War On The West.

You must act quickly.


-----Urgent Action Required --

------You successfully defeated the giant Omnibus Federal Land Grab Bill.
But Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) Senate Majority Leader, promises that it will
be high if not first on his agenda in the new Congress.


-----You must be all over your Senators like a cheap suit by phone, fax and
e-mail to head of this terrible land grab. Call Any Senator at (202)
224-3121.


Chuck Cushman
Executive Director
ccushman@pacifier.com
(360)687-3087

Land Trusts - Defile the word "Conservation"

The lure of Columbia Land Trust
Beautiful rivers, tranquil scenery, babbling brooks, fish in abundance, and abounding wild life sounds wonderful thoughts of keeping the land in pristine condition away from development, smoke stacks, and pollution giving your property as a gift or just a conservation easement that will reap tax benefits and beauty forever more.

Dream time over WAKE UP!!!

A private land trust like Columbia Land Trust owning specific scenic or wildlife areas sounds appealing on the surface, but almost all land trusts today are highly political organizations run by ideological, anti-development environmentalist activists seeking to impose social controls in order to undermine the private economy and the civil rights of property owners. Columbia Land Trust has shown many property owners just how they are by their actions of “Do as they will and Harm all those who appose them”. If a private property owner refuse to sell Columbia Land Trust just floods and erodes private property year after year until the owner gives up and gives their dream away to Columbia Land Trust.

The land trusts are financially backed by a subclass of wealthy owners pursuing preservation in order to keep other people out of their sight. Wealthy people who want to hide money, get tax breaks, and abuse the system. Trusts use their politically privileged tax–exempt status and government subsidies to promote and lobby for government ownership and control of vast areas of land, and collaborate with government agencies behind the backs of property owners targeted for acquisition and land use prohibitions. The trusts act as real estate purchasing agents for government agencies, exploiting the mechanisms of the private free–market by buying up land and eventualy flipping it into government ownership.

When direct political and government action becomes too controversial the trusts use their vast wealth to gradually eliminate private property owners from a targeted area over time in a strategy of attrition, while land use controls over private property are relentlessly increased to drive out the remaining owners. Exempt from property taxes themselves, the trusts manipulate the tax code for their own political ends by inducing tax-strapped property owners to sell or donate land in exchange for discriminatory tax breaks available only to those giving up land rights to the ‘non–profit’ trusts. ‘Conservation easements’ ostensively intended to hold development rights typically also grants the trusts enormous privileges to interfere in the private management of the land.

The Lower Columbia River has been targeted by many of the wealthiest and most politically powerful land trusts in the Northwest, they fund and direct several satellite trusts claiming to represent local people such as the “Grays’ River Work Group. The agencies involved are Lower Columbia Fish recovery board, Lower Columbia Fish Enhancement Group. Columbia Land Trust, CREST, Fish and Wildlife, NOAA, funded by you and your tax dollars they boast of a war chest of $90 million to buy up land their backers do not want other people to use, and maintain close connections with government agencies where it influences government land acquisition priorities and regulatory controls. Columbia Land Trust, in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, and Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board are carnivorous monsters devouring private property, destroying the very foundation in which this Country was founded on. The new land use planning of projects on the river targets 65 private properties just in the Grays’ River Watershed. This strategic plan promises to take over most of the private property in West Wahkiakum County, which will result in mass condemnations to remove the people, it will provide millions of grant dollars for these agencies. At the same time, they have been collaborating with the Wahkiakum Community Foundation – Karen Bertroch to alert them to any properties such as territorial farm where an elderly widow or widower may reside to use their techniques to “persuade” the owners to donate the property. To solicit the County Assessor to designate, conservation lands behind the backs of the property owners. This area is the gate way to the Pacific Ocean miles of river coast runs through making it a sportsmans paradise, seen as a area rich in estuaries it is “nationally significant”, and being used as an excuse to seize control of people's private property.

We as a community have a voice we spoke loud and clear on Tuesday night making our position clear this is our land, it is not for the taking, and we will not tolerate injustice, lies, or propaganda. We care about our neighbors, our heritage, and our community. We as a community want clean rivers, fish abundance, and to keep our property rights.

Grays’ River Habitat Enhancement District works with landowners to help them protect their property rights. It is a group of community minded people dedicated to preserving the Grays’ River – Rosburg way of life. The commissioners are not paid and do NOT receive financial incentives or gains. There is no hidden agenda. This is the community’s place to bring concerns, suggestions, information and work as a community united to stop the take over of our waterways, private properties and homes there is power in numbers together we can take our property and homes back.

GRHED meets 2nd Wednesday of every month at 6pm at the Grays’ River Grange. Bring thoughts, questions, and concerns. If you need assistance in regards to river issues, private property take over, or just have questions - call GRHED - Delvin Fredrickson 360-465-2960

NGO's get millions for land acquistion

Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Group received funding under the guise of working with community members and calls themselves “the Grays RIVER Work Group”. Sounds like a good thing in reality the group consists of Columbia Land Trust, Fish and Wildlife, Lower Columbia Fish Enhancement Group, Karen Bertroch a greedy grant writer without concern for anyone or anything except her huge pockets, and CREST.

As a landowners and community members several of us tried to work with this group as things progressed we found the minutes did not reflect the meetings, concerns voiced by the honest landowners were ignored and when votes were taken on project funding the majority should rule no this was not the case it was stated in the minutes it was an unanimous decision to award CLT funds to purchase crazy Johnson area when the minutes were disputed another vote was taken and again the funding was shot down by the majority it was again ignored and stated it was unanimous.The honest landowners removed themselves from this work group over a year ago by sending letters. This too has been ignored our names are being used to promote this group as working with the community which they are not.

The Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Group is deceptive, I have sent letters to Governor Chris Gregoire giving documentation on illegal use of Government funds but she can not, will not grasp, or does she know she is providing funding for eminent domain? For the last four years I have written to every legislative body and person requesting an investigation into misappropriation of Government Funds and no one will respond.
We have received the Grays River Community Restoration Plan and Project design by this group and the community takes offence to being named in this plan because we do not support this plan.

The plan plans to dig channels through private property taking away our land in the entire Grays River Valley. The plan is not scientific or geologically sound. It is based on assumptions for fish recovery and restoration. It will provide funding for land acquisitions, removing people from ancestral homes that were homesteaded over 130 years ago. The plan is based on wording such as likely, there may have been, and could have been before settlement of people, there may have been a channel here or there when in fact these statements are geologically and scientifically false.

What is clear is that the projects designed will remove people from the area; it will destroy agriculture, farms, and lives. It will cause an imbalance to the ecosystem that will have far reaching adverse effects and it will destroy hunting and fishing grounds. The plan will provide the above Non Governmental Organizations over 20 million just to start provided by your tax dollars paid out in Government Grants. This is huge, it is eminent domain, and it is bad for the country.

Even if the country was not having a financial crisis this is a waste of money, a waste of resources, and an abomination to property rights and the principals on which America was founded on.

A public meeting will be held Tuesday October 28th, 2008 at the Gays River Grange hosted by LCFRB giving a propagandized spiel on the “wonderful” things they plan on doing to us. They will try and convince everyone this is for their own good, as Ian Sinks of CLT says “people who own rural land are wasting it”, and you will be told how this will help with flooding. All of what they say is geared to take away private property and to fill their pockets with your tax dollars under the guise of restoration and fish recovery.
NGO’s think we are stupid they come in with the warm and fuzzy talk of how they are here to help the only thing they are helping is their pocket books. Wake up, stand up for your rights, and your community. The honest community members are signing in under protest.

The meeting materials are posted on the LCFRB website if you would like to review them before the meeting:http://www.lcfrb.gen.wa.us/GRWG%20announcement.htm

Stealing land the guise of "Land Trusts"

U.S. Set to Take Coloradans Land Without Compensation
By Fred Kelly Grant
At this very hour, Colorado landowners are fighting to prevent the United States federal government from taking their land. Ignored by the mass media, hundreds of farmers and ranchers in southeastern Colorado are facing loss of their property at the hands of the IRS. They are victims of “conservation easements” promoted by federal and state governments, land trust companies, and conservation groups.
As landowners dedicated to preserving the open, agricultural use of their land, lured into the “easements” by both the U.S. and Colorado governments, they have been betrayed by those they trusted.
A “conservation easement” is an easement in name only. It is an agreement by a landowner to give up the right to develop his or her land for residential, commercial or industrial use. He/she agrees to keep the land in agricultural use FOREVER, and in return is rewarded either with cash payment for the development value, or income tax relief to the amount of the appraised value of the development rights.
The federal government and the state of Colorado offered inducements for execution of the “easements” by which the landowners donated their land to various land trusts to be held for agricultural use IN PERPETUITY. They accepted the following offers of income tax relief, conditioned upon execution of the easements: federal income tax deductions, and tax credits from Colorado income tax, or the right to sell such tax credits to third parties or the State itself.

In reliance on commitments from the two governments, the landowners donated their land to various land trusts, mainly for two reasons: they wanted to preserve their land as agricultural land forever, and they faced cash flow problems which could be helped by the tax relief. So, they gave away the value of development rights in exchange for tax relief. In most cases, the development rights were far more valuable, money wise, than the assessed land value. But, the landowners placed their desire for continued agricultural use above the interest in a future much higher profit.
The landowners followed the rules. They engaged consultants to help them put together the donation package. They hired appraisers certified by the state of Colorado as honest, ethical, and competent. They had certified public accountants review the appraisals and their financial situations. They hired lawyers to make sure the law was followed in the transactions.
They asked that all this professional help assure them that the Land Trust company, which would own the easement, was trustworthy.
But, after two to three years, one of the donee Land Trusts invited the IRS to review the easement appraisals. That invitation didn’t worry the landowners because they had obtained professional assistance and had been assured they were following the rules.
But, suddenly the IRS announced disqualifications of “easements,” claiming that the appraisals of development rights were highly over stated. The State of Colorado called into question the licenses of several appraisers (all appraisers who have sought full reinstatement have been successful), and the mass media began to talk of a “scandal,” and “sham” appraisals, and cast the landowners as greedy people looking for windfalls. The media reached its libelous conclusions without reviewing the files and determining the facts. But, what’s new? As Will Rogers said, “If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.”
In one case, for example, the appraisal of the development rights was challenged by an IRS employee who claimed that the appraiser did not use any comparable realty values in the vicinity. The statement is either an outright lie, or the grossest negligence in history. Within a quarter-mile of the appraised land is a subdivision of high scale homes, and within a half mile is a subdivision of even a higher scale homes situated on a finely groomed golf course.
The appraised land is within two miles of the city limits and a regional hospital. The landowner has water rights that accompany the appraised land, and the land has available water access, which would serve residential parcels very efficiently. Whether the IRS conclusion is a lie may rest on the fact that the federal employee judging the appraised value is not an appraiser, and has been exposed to land appraisal training for a solid two hours.
The IRS has demanded payment of back taxes, plus penalties and interest. In some cases, the demand is higher than the value of the landowners’ property, now that the “easements” have devalued the property. The third parties who bought state tax credits have demanded return of their money. The state of Colorado has turned its back on the landowners, which it lured into the conservation easements. The Governor’s office turns back requests for assistance with the spurious claim that the matter is a “federal” issue. The Secretary of Agriculture, who lives among the troubled landowners, ignores the problem.
The landowners cannot borrow money to satisfy the “return” demands. The banks will not lend money because of the conservation easements, which devalue the land.
The landowners cannot sell their land, or any portion of their land. Buyers are not willing to take on the restrictions and devaluation of the land resulting from the conservation easements. One of the ranchers had a sale in place for a portion of his property. The sale price would have allowed him to replace at least 75 percent of his imminent loss, but the buyer backed out because of the conservation easement.
As the federal and state governments pursue destruction of these landowners, they continue to promote conservation easements. Land Trust companies and conservation groups continue to promote conservation easements, and the Congress created tax incentives in the new Farm Bill that will lure other landowners into reliance on a government, which has proved unreliable.
Colorado at this moment faces a huge federal take-over of private land, which will remove thousands of acres from the tax rolls of the counties. And, the problem in southeastern Colorado is only the tip of the iceberg. There are over 1,800 of these conservation easements throughout Colorado. In the blink of an eye, Colorado can be victimized by massive federal take-overs.
The problem facing Coloradans and Colorado is the beginning of what can be, and will be, a national crisis resulting from transfer of private ownership of land to the United States Government. Counties will suffer from loss of tax revenue; the landscape will suffer from negligent management by federal agencies; the species in the ecosystems will suffer from negligent management; and the law will suffer from a blatant disregard for the constitutional limits on federal government ownership and requirements that property is not taken without just compensation.
All the horrible results from imposition of conservation easements, which private property organizations including Stewards of the Range and the American Land Foundation have emphasized, have come to fruition in southeastern Colorado. They lay ahead for unsuspecting landowners across the Nation.
What you can do to help:

As the governments and Land Trusts turn their backs on the landowners, all individuals in the nation can help. You can call, fax and email your Representatives and Senators who are seeking re-election. You can ask them what they are doing, or will do, to protect private landowners as they protected big business in the massive “bail out” of Wall Street. You can tell them that your vote depends on their willingness to help. You can demand of incumbents that there will be field hearings to determine the truth as to the inadequacy of the IRS reviews. You can demand that they hold field hearings to inquire into, and “fix”, the fraud that is evident on the part of the promoters of the conservation easements.
If you live in Colorado, you can call, fax and email the Secretary of Agriculture and the Governor, demanding that they “fix” the problem caused by fraud perpetrated on the landowners. And, you can write letters to the local and regional newspapers and television stations demanding that they determine the facts, rather than relying on press statements by leaders of the Land Trusts who are complicit in the threat to the landowners. The landowners are ready and willing to show the press the facts as they did to me.

Fred Kelly Grant serves as president of Stewards of the Range and has practiced law for over 50 years. He, along with Stewards of the Range and American Land Foundation are assisting landowners nationwide on property rights issues.

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Destroying our pivate property killing salmon w/ tax dollars

This is a reprint from an email I received. This is how Columbia Land Trust makes "willing seller" they destroy your property in the name of "salmon recovery" and force you out. Fish and Wildlife needs to keep killing salmon so the salmon will stay on the endangered species list thus generating more funds to Non governmental organizations that want your land. As Ian Sinks of CLT stated people who own land are wasting it. If they get their way there will be no crops to harvest, hunger will be the norm more then it is now, people will kill for an apple if they even remember what an apple is. We won't know the joy of a country walk Columbia Land Trust has already altered some of this once beautiful valley into an ugly rock monstrosity removing the joy of walking with nature. Wake up people salmon recovery is not for the salmon it is not for you, the rivers, or the environment it is for filling the pockets of these idiots who seek to destroy. There is a record Chinook salmon run and as Poul buts it their will be a record salmon kill by fish and wildlife and NGO's like CLT.

To all interested and concerned!
It's 3:30 am and I can't sleep because I am angry thinking about what the Columbia Land Trust and the Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife is doing to our rivers and farms. Between the two there is more damage being done to our way of life than I ever imagined possible. C.L.T. wants to save the salmon, the W.D.F.W. wants to kill the salmon.
Yesterday I was on our dock (in Seal River, off Grays River) trying to catch one of the many salmon jumping and rolling all over. Never in my 12 years here have I seen so many here. Seems that would be a good thing? Except the Seal river goes to two 13ft culverts and into a converted farm to where the fish may or may not get stranded at low tide. The other option for the fish is to find their way back to the Grays River where they belong, only finding their way blocked by the weir put in by WDFW and eager killers of the same name.
To add even more absurdity to this, WDFW agent Brightbill was at the weir checking to see if the boys fishing were getting too close to the State killing setup. Are they afraid they will not get enough fish to kill?
Now back to the Seal River and our dike: The current created by the CLT Kendoll farm project and their two 13ft culverts replacing the former tidegate, is creating so much current that it is scouring our dike. I have brought this up before when I discovered 3ft plus washed away under the dock. Now, because the base silt has been washed away, the dike bank is starting to break off into the river.
Considering the relative short time the CLT project has been in place, and the amount of washout already done, it seems to me it will not be many years before the dike will be washed away and collapse.
If the dike goes, so goes 7 of the 8 acres we own. It would make it so we could only make it to the road at low tide. It would have water over State Highway 4 at every high tide.
Once again I ask that all interested parties, officials and people consider what is going on here. There are other issues connected with this, not least Ravens, Amalas, Blaines and my own property.
I ask that all responsible for this and our keepers of land and laws hold up their responsibility to cause no harm to others.
Sincerely;
Poul K. Toftemark
Seal River

Government is drowing out the people's voice

To The Eagle;
This is an example of how our government work; There was a "hearing" to see what people thought of the plans to kill the salmon in the Grays River, our river.
We he public overwhelmingly disagreed with the plan to once again kill the salmon to reduce the river to chum, yet here they are, disregarding public voice and blatantly damaging the river against river law! How much insanity must we put up with from the people spending our tax money?
Instead o feeding the river with carcasses they will be otherwise disposed of. I strongly urge all to come and view and protest the kill at the Covered Bridge on the Grays River please and come and see it yourself, bring your voices and experience the power of our government over the people's voice. It is very demoralizing when you find out that this isn't as democratic as you think.

Poul K. Toftemark
Rosburg

Flood Laws and Private Property Rights

Wahkiakum County Eagle
September 25, 2008

Judge Hears Flood Law Pleas
By Rick Nelson

Wahkiakum County Superior Court Judge Michael Sullivan may rule next week on Rosburg resident Raven Webb’s suit to force Sheriff Dan Bardsley to enforce the county’s flood plain ordinance.
Webb claims non profit organizations have altered the Grays River flood plain, causing an increase in flood flow that has repeatedly flooded her residence. The county’s flood zone ordinance bars actions which increase the flood flow, she said in her pleadings, and she asked the court to order Bardsley to enforce the law.
Representing Bardsley, Prosecuting Attorney Dan Bigelow has responded that the ordinance does not specifically put enforcement duties on the office of the sheriff. He asked that the action be dismissed, and Sullivan held a hearing on Monday to consider arguments.
Sullivan said he had read the file and wondered why Webb hadn’t sued Columbia Land Trust, whom she blames for the flooding. He added that long established precedents in Washington, you can’t force elected officials to do something.
Webb responded that she has no other responded that she has no other remedy with out public officials upholding the ordinance, she and other residents in the area will be harmed, she said, she once hired an attorney, but negotiations went nowhere, she said.
Why don’t you take the extra step and include Columbia Land Trust” Sullivan asked. She could ask for an injunction to stop Columbia Land Trust activities until the case was settled.
The US. Constitution state constitution and Revised Code of Wahkiakum County spell out the duties of officials to enforce laws, she replied.
When asked for his comments, Bigelow replied they were contained in the file, but briefly the sheriff has neither the duty nor the authority to enforce the ordinance.
Who does? Sullivan asked, and Bigelow explained that the ordinance dealt with licensing and permitting issues that would be county departments, and that the prosecutor also could take action on violations. Bigelow added that he has toured the area as part of an investigation.
I’ll consider your argument that the sheriff has a mandatory duty to enforce an ordinance even if he’s not specifically listed,” Sullivan said to Webb.
“It’s an interesting point; I’ve never seen that argument before”. Sullivan said he would allow both parties to file additional arguments up till 3pm Friday. The court clerk would then send the files to him and he would rule after that.

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Interview with Michael Shaw

Michael Shaw, an attorney and accountant, is a founding member of Freedom Advocates (www.freedomadvocates.org and www.libertygarden.com), formerly known as Freedom 21 Santa Cruz, www.Freedom21SantaCruz.net). Freedom Advocates works to help local, grass-roots groups defend their unalienable rights, including private property rights, from federal and local programs associated with U.N. Agenda 21, Sustainable Development, and Smart Growth. Shaw has been dealing with these issues since the mid-1990’s, when he was active with the Santa Cruz County Planning Board. Santa Cruz County was one of the first counties in America to be targeted to implement Agenda 21 policies. Shaw’s recent articles include: “Sustainable Trouble: The Attempt to Transform the Vision of America”

(www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest66.htm) and “Liberty or Sustainable Development?” (www.newswithviews.com/Shaw/michael13.htm).
Agenda 21 is the United Nations’ Agenda for the 21st century that was unveiled at the 1992 U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro- the so-called “Rio Earth Summit.” 179 nations have agreed to implement Agenda 21 policies, so the policies are now being implemented worldwide. In America, it is being implemented by all federal agencies and in every county. Shaw asserts that Agenda 21 is a global/local program intended to wrest sovereignty from individuals and existing political structures and invest power and control in the United Nations.

Joan Veon (In Prince Charles: The “Sustainable Prince”), paraphrases Agenda 21/Sustainable Development as follows: “The world has too many people, and if we do not reduce the number of people on planet earth they will use up all of the earth’s resources so that future generations will be left without any resources. The United Nations is the best global body to monitor, manage, and preserve the resources of the planet.”

In practice, Agenda 21/Sustainable Development goals are advanced by “Public-Private Partnerships” – an alliance between government, big business, and non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) that are allied with big business. The common name for political systems controlled by corporate government, of course, is “fascism.” A current example of a state/region now completely under corporate rule is Queensland, Australia, which is now under the authority of the Brigalow Corporation (http://www.nickmaine.info/Documents/update_re_brigalow_corp.htm). Shaw refers to this corporate take-over of entire states and regions as “a thousand points of darkness.”

The sponsors of Agenda 21 utilize programs such the Wildlands Project, World Heritage Sites, National Heritage Areas, roadless programs, and wolf re-introduction programs, to move towards their stated goal of making at least 50% of America off-limits to the American people. They advocate re-apportioning the country into “core reserves” (which are completely off limits to people), corridors, and buffer zones (where only public-private partnerships could operate). People would be herded into “Smart Growth” zones or “human settlements,” where they would be confined to high-rise buildings. Individual rights, including private property rights, would be stripped away. Agenda 21/Sustainable Development documents call for reduction of the human population from the present 6.6 billion down to about 1 billion people, that is, by 85%.

Who would benefit from such a system? Shaw says we need to understand that “funny money” is made out of thin air by a small ruling elite- and that this tiny ruling elite is the driving force behind Agenda 21. Today, both Republicans and Democrats are completely committed to implementing Agenda 21. Whereas Republicans have joined forces with political parties from numerous other nations in the International Democratic Union (IDU), Democrats have signed on with another international coalition, the Democratic Leadership Council, which is the brainchild of Britain’s Tony Blair. Both of these internationalist groups advocate the adoption of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights.

What’s wrong with that? In contrast to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees that individual rights and civil liberties, including private property rights, are unalienable rights given to us by God, the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights (Article 29, Section 3) states that our “rights” are subject to U.N. policies and dictates. In other words, our rights are what the U.N. tells us they are. In this kind of system, all people can become serfs and slaves of the tiny ruling elite.

Shaw notes that Agenda 21 is an attempt to implement “fascist Communism” or “communist Fascism”- or a political system where “the social policies are communist and the economic policies are fascist.” The program is entirely Fabian socialist (or communism in slow motion). In order to obtain their New World Order by stealth and slow, imperceptible changes, Fabian socialists have adopted motto is “Two steps forward and one step back.” But once this kind of feudal “collectivism” is implemented, human life will be completely altered, much as in George Orwell’s 1984..

How are Agenda 21 policies being implemented in America today? When local governments accept the carrot of federal grant monies and begin to utilize the standard “consensus process” (manipulated by trained “change agents”), communities begin creating their own “visionary plans.” However, somehow each community’s “consensus process” typically leads to the implementation of identical “Local Agenda 21,” “Smart Growth,” and “Sustainable Development” initiatives. And invariably, these initiatives strip citizens of their private property rights, etc. Invariably, the changes also lead to “regionalization” of governments and weakening of democratic structures or eradication of democracy altogether.

Our “globalist manipulators” get people to buy into these programs with the innocuous-sounding phrases like the “Three E’s:” equity, economy, and environment.” However, if we look carefully, we see the meanings of these words have been distorted in Orwellian fashion, such that each term means something completely different from what we thought it did.

Today, federal and state governments are completely on board U.N. Agenda 21 and each federal agency submits an annual progress report demonstrating their progress toward implementing Agenda 21 programs. The Dept. of Interior, for instance, now defines humans as “biological resources.”

According to Sun Tzu, the Chinese expert on warfare, we need to understand our enemy and ourselves. Shaw observes that the American education system, which has been transformed by Dewey and others into a system for “robotizing” America’s youth. Another area of concern is that local groups are typically heavily infiltrated. Thus, we can expect to be lead down paths that are dead ends. Think tanks are particularly affected. The primary m.o. of our globalist manipulators is to “divide and conquer.” Another goal of our globalist manipulators is to create (artificial) resource shortages; which they can use to justify and implement population reductions. By re-designating large areas as wildlands, for example, government can create water, oil, or food shortages. And of course, another common practice is to sell off public assets to private companies in a process known as “privatization.”

Agenda 21 policies directly attack rural America in order to gain control of resources in rural areas. Thus, those who own a ranches or a farms are under intense economic pressure. Shaw believes that if America’s rural landowners lose this battle, all Americans lose.

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) should really be called “extra-governmental organizations” because they serve corporate interests rather than those of citizens. Shaw asserts that the Sierra Club, for example is an NGO that, like the other approximately 2000 NGO’s, has been accredited by the U.N. under the condition that they will help implement Agenda 21. He notes that the Sierra Club currently sits on many water boards throughout the West. Again, their goal is to control water resources in order to create artificial water shortages. Shaw notes that, whereas, Americans today use an average 140 gallons of water per day, the World Bank is calling for a reduction of global per capita water to only 10 gallons per day. So get used to not taking showers.

The good news? Our globalist manipulators are behind schedule in their drive to global tyranny. Their “consensus councils” are not working at the local level. Citizens are waking up and resisting intelligently. And there may be divisions within the ruling elite themselves. For example, the forces led by Prince Charles are not necessarily compatible with those lead by Gorbachev. And some of our politicians are waking up too. Representative Ron Paul, for example, has recently raised the issue of “honest money.”

Freedom 21 (Freedom Advocates) convened their 9th Annual Freedom21 National Conference in Dallas, Texas in July, 2008. The theme was connecting the dots between such policies as the Real ID Act, the Animal Registration Act, regional water policies, the Trans-Texas Corridor, and the North American Union.
We need to realize that the battle is in our counties, where Local Agenda 21 is being implemented. In order to fight more effectively at the local level, we need to understand the global dynamics of Agenda 21/Sustainable Development.

Co-host interviewer Dr. Eric Karlstrom recommended that those interested in learning more about Agenda 21 read his recent summary article: “Global Green Dictatorship: Regional Governance, U.N. Agenda 21, Sustainable Development, and the Wildlands Project” (http://waterwatchalliance.googlepages.com/agenda21).

Destroying Private and County Property

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This is a small showing of what we have endured over the past four years. Wahkiakum County refuses to up hold the laws of the United States, Washington State, and their own county ordinances protecting the residents of Wahkiakum County does not seem to be what they do. Without protection from the county, nor the state we will continue to be taken over and destroyed by Columbia Land Trust and their affiliates our lands will become breeding grounds for the West Nile Virus. After suffering through eleven intentional floods in four-years funds are depleted. We do not have funds to protect ourselves from Columbia Land Trust and their affiliates and we should not have to. Laws have been violated, this will repeat again. Without raising my home, I do not know if it will endure another on slot of flood waters directed at us by Columbia land trust. This is what they do to "unwilling" sellers.