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ACTION ALERTS ! ! ! ---Key Bills in Congress
By Dr. Laurie Roth
Eminent Domain: Government Stealing Family Farm
Sunday, June 8, 2008By Joyce Morrison
USDA: Shame on you
for using our kids
Friday, February 29, 2008By Melinda Pillsbury-Foster By Doreen Hannes
National Animal Identification
System: Update
Wednesday, February 6, 2008By Dr. Walter E. Williams
Subprime bailout:
Violation of 5th Amendment
Wednesday January 23, 2008By Liberty Ark Coalition By Tom DeWeese By Henry Lamb
Big Brother controls
even the cows!
Saturday, November 24, 2007
The Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution limits the federal power of eminent domain solely to the purchase of private property with just compensation for public use, such as military reservations and government office buildings - not for public ownership, such as urban renewal, environmental protection, or historic preservation. Under no circumstances may the federal government take private property, by means of rules and regulations which preclude or substantially reduce the productive use of the property, even with just compensation.
Our Founding Fathers knew that to preserve this land of liberty, the individual citizen had to have rights even the government could not take away. Most precious of those rights is the ability to own and use private property. From that right, all others are secured.
Citizens for a Constitutional Republic call for a return to the states and to the people all lands which are held by the federal government without authorization by the Constitution.
We also call for repeal of federal wetlands legislation and the federal Endangered Species Act. Moreover, we oppose any attempt to designate private or public property as United Nations World Heritage sites or Biosphere reserves. We call for an end to United States participation in UN programs such as UNESCO, Man and the Biosphere, and the UN Council on Sustainable Development. We oppose environmental treaties and conventions such as the Biodiversity Treaty, the Convention on Climate Control, and Agenda 21, which destroy our sovereignty and right to private property.
Protect Your Home, Church, and Business – Stop Eminent Domain Abuse Now!
Victory in Hage v. United States After seventeen long years in the US Court of Claims, Wayne and Jean Hage's taking case has finally been decided ... and it is a great victory for private property rights in America!
The Hages claimed that the federal government (US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management) had taken their western ranch, a combination of private base property and federal grazing allotments, through physical and regulatory takings. It is a landmark case because it was the first of its kind to pursue clarity on the property rights owned by ranchers in the west and to seek a precedent that if these rights are taken through grazing and environmental regulations, then the government must pay just compensation.
The court has decided that the Hages owned the water rights and the 1866 ditch rights of ways on the federal grazing allotments, and the range improvements the Hage's constructed on the federal lands. The court has ruled that although the government has the right to authorize grazing and cancel grazing permits, it does not have the right to prevent the ranchers from accessing their water rights on federal lands. It has ruled that regulatory and physical takings occurred, and therefore the government owes the estates of Wayne and Jean Hage just compensation and attorney's fees.
The members of Stewards of the Range, especially those who have been supporting this effort for the past 17 years, are directly responsible for ensuring this case endured the long battle. Without the Stewards members, this landmark decision would not be written in case law. The critical precedent and deterrent is now set that when land management agencies attempt to regulate away private property, they risk invoking a taking for which they must pay just compensation under the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution.
Congratulations to the members of Stewards of the Range!
Click Here to read the Hage Final Decision
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By Mark Anderson By Larry Pratt By Tom DeWeese By Dennis Behreandt By Ronald A. Zumbrun
Henry David Thoreau and 'Civil Disobedience'
Saturday, July 30, 2005By Wendy McElroy By Charlie Morasch, staff writer States object to federal driver’s license database
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
charlie_morasch@landlinemag.comBy The Virginian-Pilot By Declan McCullagh By Jason Szep Maine revolts against digital U.S. ID card
Thursday, Jan 25, 2007By Henry Lamb By Devvy Kidd National ID: Target the state houses
Thursday, January 11, 2007By K.C. Jones Invisible RFID Ink Safe For Cattle And People, Company Says
Wednesday, January 10, 2007By Mary Zanoni, Ph.D. The National Animal Identification System: A New Threat to Rural Freedom National Animal ID System (NAIS)
By Randy Givens The USDA Shell Game on"Voluntary" versus "Mandatory"Participation in NAIS
Thursday, November 16, 2006By Judith McGeary Your Life Under the National Animal Identification System The Truth about NAIS and BSE:
Why NAIS Will Not Prevent “Mad Cow Burgers” Top 10 Myths About NAIS The Truth About NAIS and RFID TagsBy Lynn M. Stuter The National Animal Identification System
Tuesday, June 6, 2006By Julie Kay Smithson As Christmas Fast Approaches, a Gift for America: Freedom to Earn Freedom
Tuesday, December 20, 2005By Michael Shaw What is Private Property?
Monday, October 30, 2005 The Nature Conservancy - a Major Threat to Liberty
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 What is a Soviet?
Wednesday, June 29, 2005The Claremont Institute Institute Appeals to U.S. Supreme Court in Nevada Taxpayer Case
"Eminent domain for private development is…legalized theft."
-- Dana Berliner, lawyer for the Institute for Justice
December 8, 2006
Journey Through Hallowed Ground Land Grab Alert
The Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Act is believed to be set for a floor vote in the Senate sometime during this "lame duck" session, perhaps as early as this week or next. The bill will allow the National Park Service and certain non-government organizations to dictate how millions of acres of private property, from Gettysburg, PA to Charlottesville, Virginia, shall be used by their owners. S. 2645, has twenty sponsors, including ousted Virginia Republican Sen. George Allen. The bill will place land-use control in the hands of self-serving federal bureaucrats and their wealthy elitist partners. Contrary to its promoters' claims of wide-spread local enthusiasm, S.2645 is viewed with suspicion. "One of the big reasons I'm opposed to the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Heritage Area is the inability to get the true facts about the project from the people who are promoting it," said Jim Clem, a member of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. "While this project may be well intended, it's my opinion that it's just another means of stopping development in this area." Time is of the essence if this federal land grab is to be stopped. Help stop this bill by contacting those on the attached material. Tell them to oppose or withdraw support for S. 2645.
Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Alert
Granny Warriors Against Nais
Action Alert
ON THE ROAD AGAINST NAIS!
NAIS KILLS SMALL FARMERS AND RANCHERS
The Warrior Grannys are throwing a monkey wrench in the propaganda the Animal Rights Activists including the USDA, are feeding the public we are fighting MAD and are taking on the job of letting the public know the facts.
Protect Your Home, Church, and Business – Stop Eminent Domain Abuse Now!
Liberty Matters Action Alert ! Please Sign ESA Letter to Senate By now you should have received a package in the mail asking you to sign a letter we are sending to key leaders in the Senate working on Endangered Species Act legislation. If you have already signed and returned the letter, thank you.
If you have not, would you please read the letter below and consider signing it and returning it to us immediately. We anticipate several bills to be introduced in the Senate in the very near future. We want to have as many signatures as soon as possible to ensure Senate leaders have an opportunity to consider the position of those most affected by this devastating law.
The message in this letter is straightforward. Property Rights, not the Endangered Species Act, should be considered first. It calls for repeal of the ESA. It is a message that those inside the beltway are not willing to say, although most agree repeal is the right thing to do. It is the same message we sent to the House early this year, which helped change the debate in favor of landowners.
In just a few short weeks since this package was mailed, we have already gathered over 700 signatures, with more coming in each day. Several people are sending the letter out to other individuals and organization's membership encouraging them to sign with us. The more signers we have, the more of an impact this message will have on the Senate. Any help you can give to accomplish this is appreciated.
Also attached is an analysis of HR 3824 that every landowner needs to read, and a copy of the press release we have sent to key media contacts on this issue.
If you have not already signed this letter and agree with the position stated, please let us know by clicking the signature link at the end of the letter and we will add your name to the list that will be delivered to specific members of the U.S. Senate.
We appreciate your help and support.
Dan Byfield, President American Land Foundation and Liberty Matters
Margaret Byfield, Executive Director Stewards of the Range and VP Liberty Matters
Marty McElhaney, Editor McElhaney Report and Director Liberty Matters.
Letter to Senate Leaders
The Honorable James Inhofe, Chairman
U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Dear Senator Inhofe,
The Endangered Species Act is a fundamentally flawed law that because of its power makes landowners the enemy of the environment. Why do you continue to support the ESA?
The ESA was never intended to protect species. It was specifically created so government could regulate private property. It's that simple. Any other excuse for this law is nothing more than smoke and mirrors. The Endangered Species Act does not save species; it regulates individual landowners.
Currently, over 80 percent of all listed species are on private land, yet in more than 30 years fewer than six percent of the 1,800-plus species listed as endangered or threatened have been removed from the list. Most of those were removed because they were already extinct or wrongly listed. The only accomplishments of the ESA have been wasting billions of taxpayer dollars and wiping out the livelihoods of thousands of hard working Americans.
If you truly believe species need to be recovered, then you would throw this law out. No amount of incremental changes, pubic/private partnerships, or sound science rhetoric can fix this law.
Congress needs to revisit the wisdom of our Founding Fathers who believed the ownership of property must be secured from government intervention for liberty to exist. Take that security away through environmental laws like the ESA, and not only is liberty not secure, it no longer exists. You only have to look at the past 30 years since the enactment of the ESA to see what it has produced - the dramatic destruction of property rights and the failure to recover species.
Private property rights must come first. Private property sets us apart from every nation in the world by creating wealth, inspiring pride, feeding the nation, and even providing habitat for all species. Reauthorizing a law that destroys wealth, creates disincentives, punishes honest, hard working individuals, and doesn't even accomplish what it purports to do, is beyond belief.
By regulating through command and control you create antagonism with landowners with no desire or incentive to protect species. Do the right thing. Eliminate the current ESA and private property will then save endangered species.
Property rights, not the Endangered Species Act, should be protected first.
Sincerely,
cc: U.S. Senator Mike Crapo
U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee
U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton
Who We are Fighting Environmentalism is not about saving the Earth for people, but from them. Environmentalists, the self-proclaimed variety, are merely using "saving the environment" as a stalking horse to destroy modern civilization … but you don't have to take our word for it … "I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an ecologically sound society under socialism. I don't think it's possible under capitalism." Judi Bari, Earth First! "No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits ... [C]limate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world." Christine Stewart, Canadian Environment Minister. "We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists, and their projects…[W]e must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land." Dave Foreman, "Confessions of an Eco Warrior," 1991. Dave Foreman's 1991 vision of a world, known as The Wildlands Project, is reality today. Since 1991, millions of acres of the United States have been placed out of reach of ordinary Americans. If the pace continues unabated, where will our children and grandchildren live in 2056?
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