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Today’s Politics of Confiscation

Aug 3

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Memo: As world food needs project up to an increase of 98% by 2050 the Biden-Harris administration is Hell-bent on acquiring (with tax funds) 30% of the US land-mass by 2030 and then 50% by 2050. The purpose stated for purchasing private lands and placing them into government ownership is for “protection.”  Protection means to remove these lands from oil production, farming, ranching and all private enterprise profitable uses. No more food can be produced on protected lands.

The following article from American Stewards of Liberty provides the history, funding and sinister motives of this, the largest land-grab in American history. Take a long cold look at what this removal of productive lands does to future food production. Many believe this is totally to force citizens to turn to government for all foods. D

Where is Kamala Harris on the 30×30 Agenda?

by ASL Admin | Aug 1, 2024 | 30×30, Issues, Liberty Matters

Kamala Harris

The new Democrat nominee for President, Kamala Harris was one of the earliest advocates of the 30×30 agenda, long before most Americans had been made aware of the international land grab.

When Kamala Harris was in the U.S. Senate, she, along with 12 other liberal senators filed S. Res. 372, “[a] resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the Federal Government should establish a national goal of conserving at least 30 percent of the land and ocean of the United States by 2030.”

Harris, along with liberal Senators Cory Booker, Dianne Feinstein, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders filed the resolution on October 22, 2019, two years prior to Biden’s Executive Order 14008 that launched the 30×30 land grab in America.

Section 5(E) of the resolution reads: “at the current rate of losses, less than 10 percent of the Earth will be free of substantial human impact by 2050,” reinforcing that a potential Harris Administration will continue Biden’s destruction of our nation’s private property and the livelihoods of millions of American landowners.

In addition, then U.S. Rep. Debra Haaland from New Mexico, now our current Department of Interior Secretary, sponsored and filed the companion resolution in the U.S. House, H. Res. 835, expressing the exact same desire of protecting 30 percent of our land and ocean by 2030.  She had 42 co-sponsors in the House.

If elected president, Kamala Harris will continue with Biden’s plan to carry out what Karl Marx first imagined in his “Communist Manifesto,” the “abolition of private property.”  They wish to destroy capitalism and as Barak Obama said “…fundamentally transform[ing] the United States of America.”

To implement socialism in America they must gain control of our land, and therefore our liberty — the clear intent of 30×30.

You can dig deeper into the 30×30 agenda and learn more about who is behind this agenda on our 30×30 webpage.

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Read Between the Lines

Jun 6

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Read between the lines. Government double-speak is a malarkey-mix of give and take, take and take. They tax productive American businesses $2.5 billion dollars, hire 20,000 new government employees and brag about the $2.5 going back into the economy as they purchase more private land to “protect” it. Every day there is a new move toward the 50×50 program for the government to own 50% of the US land mass by 2050. Obviously this is easy to understand as simple old “hard line communism.” The government wants control of all food producing land.

Ag and Interior Departments Invest $2.8 Billion to Protect Public Lands, Support Conservation Efforts

Historic investments from Great American Outdoors Act will support more than 20,000 jobs and contribute more than $2.5 billion to the economy

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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public domain)

“The Great American Outdoors Act has enabled the Forest Service to begin to address our $8.6 billion deferred maintenance backlog, and we’re motivated by the impact these funded projects are having across urban and rural communities near our national forests and grasslands,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “These investments in Forest Service infrastructure – including wildland firefighter and employee housing, recreation facilities, roads and trails – demonstrate the agency’s commitment to caring for the land and serving people.” (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public domain)

WASHINGTON — The Departments of Agriculture and the Interior announced a proposed investment of $2.8 billion in fiscal year 2025 through the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) to protect and sustain our public lands and Bureau of Indian Education (BIE)-funded schools. Proposed projects will occur in all 50 U.S. states, Washington D.C., and multiple U.S. territories.

In August 2020, GAOA established the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund (LRF), authorizing up to $1.9 billion per year from fiscal year 2021 through 2025. GAOA LRF funding addresses overdue maintenance needs for critical facilities and infrastructure in our national parks and forests, national wildlife refuges, recreation areas, and BIE-funded schools. GAOA also provides permanent, full funding of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) at $900 million annually to secure public access and improve recreation opportunities on public lands, protect watersheds and wildlife, and preserve ecosystem benefits for local communities.

Investments from GAOA work in concert with President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to strengthen our nation’s infrastructure and prepare it to meet future needs. These investments are an important part of enabling equitable access to the outdoors and meeting the commitments outlined in the America the Beautiful initiative, which is supporting locally led efforts to restore and conserve at least 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030.

“The Great American Outdoors Act has enabled the Forest Service to begin to address our $8.6 billion deferred maintenance backlog, and we’re motivated by the impact these funded projects are having across urban and rural communities near our national forests and grasslands,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “These investments in Forest Service infrastructure – including wildland firefighter and employee housing, recreation facilities, roads and trails – demonstrate the agency’s commitment to caring for the land and serving people.”

“Addressing the long-delayed maintenance needs of the nation’s aging infrastructure allows safe and equitable access to our outdoor spaces, creates new jobs, and preserves our natural heritage. I was a proud champion of this proposal when I served in Congress, and it has been my honor to see the value it has created through the law’s implementation,” said Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. “Working together with state, local and Tribal governments, we are committed to ensuring that every child, family and community has access to nature and its benefits.”

National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund (LRF)

For fiscal year 2025, the Department of the Interior has proposed 83 GAOA LRF projects and the Department of Agriculture has proposed 89 bundled GAOA LRF projects across all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and four U.S. territories to improve recreation facilities, water and utility infrastructure, BIE-funded schools, historic structures and other essential infrastructure. For the first time, the Interior Department will invest in all 50 states in a single funding year, helping ensure that the impact of GAOA LRF is felt across the country.

In total, these projects will support more than 20,000 jobs and contribute more than $2.5 billion to the economy. Economic contributions from GAOA LRF are far-reaching, as projects take place in urban, suburban, and rural areas across the U.S. and its territories.

GAOA LRF continues to serve as a critical funding source to make major investments that are normally out of reach with annual funding. GAOA’s LRF funding sunsets after fiscal year 2025 and would need to be reauthorized by Congress to continue the efforts underway to address significant infrastructure needs across public lands and BIE-funded schools.

Interior’s GAOA project page and Agriculture’s GAOA story map demonstrate the difference these projects are having on local communities by improving access and outdoor recreation opportunities across public lands.

Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF)

The fiscal year 2025 budget allocates $900 million for LWCF projects and programs managed by the Departments of the Interior and USDA Forest Service. This includes $437 million for federal land acquisition programs and projects, $455 million for state and local grants, and $8 million for a first-ever Tribal LWCF program.

The Department of the Interior will allocate $681.9 million for its mandatory funded LWCF programs, which includes $313 million for land acquisition. Land acquisition projects acquire critical lands or easements from willing sellers to protect at-risk natural, cultural, or historic resources including critical habitats and migration corridors, and increase access to outdoor recreation. The Interior Department will also invest more than $160 million to fund 48 projects in as many as 30 states across the country, in addition to smaller recreation access projects.

An additional $360.8 million for Interior’s LWCF grant programs will support locally driven state and local conservation and outdoor recreation, including through National Park Service formula grants and Outdoor Recreation Legacy Program (ORLP) grants. The ORLP enables urban communities to create new outdoor recreation spaces, reinvigorate existing parks, and form connections between people and the outdoors in disadvantaged communities.

In 2025, the Interior Department proposes $8 million to establish a new Tribal LWCF Land Acquisition program. The program will enable Tribes to directly participate in the LWCF for the first time to acquire lands for natural and cultural resource conservation and recreation access. The program will award funds for Tribal land acquisition projects consistent with the purposes of the LWCF and other program criteria.

In Fiscal Year 2025, the USDA Forest Service proposes $94.2 million to fund 13 Forest Legacy Program projects and $124 million to fund 16 Land Acquisition Program projects for recreation access and other needs.

These efforts advance President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative, which sets a goal that 40 percent of the overall benefits of certain federal climate, clean energy, affordable and sustainable housing, and other investments flow to disadvantaged communities that are marginalized by under investment and overburdened by pollution.

–USDA

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Rancher Sues Biden Over 1M Acre Claim, Contends Abuse of Presidential Authority

May 28

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“Ranching, mining, or logging—the government wants to control all of it or shut it down,” says Chris Heaton. “That’s why presidents in the past, and Biden now, are willing to ignore the law.”
“Ranching, mining, or logging—the government wants to control all of it or shut it down,” says Chris Heaton. “That’s why presidents in the past, and Biden now, are willing to ignore the law.”

By Chris Bennett April 30, 2024

How much acreage can a president take with the stroke of a pen? 10 million acres? 500 million acres? More?

The answer, says sixth-generation rancher Chris Heaton, is not a single acre beyond the law. Heaton’s livestock operation is at risk from the federal government’s latest land appropriation—a near million-acre claim by President Biden via the Antiquities Act through creation of the Ancestral Footprints National Monument.

Contending abuse of presidential authority, Heaton, in the crosshairs of potential fines and imprisonment for everyday activity on his ranch, has filed a federal lawsuit against Biden.

“My forefathers built this ranch and I’m not going to lose it on my watch,” Heaton says. “I’ll do this the proper way in the courts, and if Biden wants a fight, then he’s going to get one.”

A Weapon

In August 2023, Biden issued a proclamation turning 917,618 federal acres in northern Arizona into the Ancestral Footprints National Monument by wielding the power of the Antiquities Act, a law intended for the protection of archeological sites or landmarks and their immediate, surrounding acreage.

Biden dropped a blanket of government regulation on every inch of the Monument, an area 150,000 acres larger than Yosemite, and 75,000 acres bigger than the Grand Teton National Park and Great Smoky Mountains Park put together. Biden’s proclamation covers landscapes, species, and objects—named and unnamed—within all 917,618 acres, including plateaus, canyons, tributaries, remnants of homes, storage buildings, pottery, tools, other physical remnants of human habitation, 50 species of plants, groundwaters that flow into the Colorado River, geological features, cliffs, faults, deserts, grasslands, woodlands, forests, riparian vegetation, and a variety of endangered species.

CHRIS HEATON HORSE WATERING
“I’m suing because Biden assumes he has power to affect the livelihoods of so many people in agriculture and other industries with a baseless declaration,” says Chris Heaton. (Photo courtesy of Y-Cross Ranch)

“Normal ranching is now gone here, and that’s what my family has practiced for decades,” Heaton insists. “Overnight, we’re not allowed to disrupt or destroy objects, both known and unknown, on the Monument. We literally don’t know all the objects because some are listed and some are not, yet they have associated criminal penalties. This is like putting someone in a game and expecting them to play by the rules—without telling them the rules.”

On a mix of private land and acres leased from Arizona and the Bureau of Land Management, Heaton, 37, runs cattle on 48,603 acres now overlapped by the Monument. He has three federal grazing permits and 47 private water rights.

Every day of the year, Heaton’s 200 cow pairs are on land designated for the Monument. In daily rhythm, Heaton and his family tend livestock, clean water holes, cut overgrowth, remove silt, mend fences, drop minerals, chop ice, repair roads, and a host of other standard production practices—all now in jeopardy.

In February 2024, represented by Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), Heaton filed suit against Biden; Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack; Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland; and Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning.

(DOJ, USDA, DOI, and BLM all declined Farm Journal requests for comment on Chris Heaton’s suit.)

“We’re asking a federal court to check Biden’s executive overreach,” says PLF attorney Adam Griffin. “Biden has taken 1 million acres and said a ‘landscape’ is an object and everything on it is an object. Look at the absurdity: The entire landscape Chris Heaton is on is now a national monument. How does a landscape become an object? I’ve never heard anyone in my life look at a landscape and say, ‘That’s a beautiful object.’”

PLF attorney Frank Garrison says the Biden administration is making “law through proclamation.”

“Only Congress can pass such laws—not the president. Biden is using a work-around to pass regulations that could never get through Congress, and the impact hits people who rely on natural resources to make a living,” Garrison notes. “Chris Heaton is in compliance with all land use statutes, but suddenly the government can turn him into a criminal over his everyday ranching activities.”

“If anyone wants a clear picture of how government power expands to all-powerful levels,” Griffin echoes, “look no further than what has become a weapon in the hands of the president—the Antiquities Act.”

“Does The Law Not Matter?”

In 1906, at the urging of Theodore Roosevelt, Congress passed the Antiquities Act. Contained on a single page, a mere 441 words authorized the president to “declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments…”

CHRIS HEATON RANCHER ARIZONA UTAH
Will Chris Heaton’s federal lawsuit, or a similar case, eventually land before SCOTUS? (Photo courtesy of Y-Cross Ranch)

Congress approved the Antiquities Act to allow a president to protect specific locations in tight crosshairs, evidenced by congressional debate on whether monuments should be limited between 320 to 640 acres. (Congress kept the power to create big-acreage national parks to itself, having started with the establishment of Yellowstone in 1872.)

At passage of the Antiquities Act, the text allowed a president to “reserve as a part thereof parcels of land, the limits of which in all cases shall be confined to the smallest area compatible with proper care and management of the objects to be protected…”

Over the next 120 years, the “smallest area” ballooned to millions of acres, and “objects” expanded to ecosystems. Since 1906, successive presidents have used the Antiquities Act to cordon off staggering swathes of land—roughly 800 million acres in total.

Turns out, the race for land in U.S. history never ended, with Uncle Sam still leading the scramble—never mind the law or Constitution. In recent decades, multiple presidents have vastly increased acreage claims for national monuments. Jimmy Carter; 55 million acres. Bill Clinton; 5 million acres. George W. Bush; 215 million acres. Barak Obama; 554 million acres (mainly via two marine monuments).

“They act as if there is no limiting principle,” Garrison says, “but that’s not how our Constitution works. What next? If a president can designate species, landscapes, ecosystems, and amorphous concepts like objects, then how much land can a president rope off next? The entire West?”

Heaton, via his lawsuit, asks glaring questions: “Does the law not matter? Does the will of the people not matter? Do the reps, senators, state legislators, county boards, and resolutions not matter? One president gets total control and the people and elected officials mean nothing?”

Ranching, Mining, Logging?

Heaton’s Y-Cross Ranch is 40 miles north of the Grand Canyon. He has worked the land, once in the shadows of his father and grandfather, since the age of 8. “My family ranched here before BLM existed. We take care of the land, pay grazing fees, and get nothing for free. There are national monuments with millions of acres all around us in Arizona and Utah, but if you talk to people in coffee shops, grocery stores, or regular folks on the street, you find out that our local economies are strangled because the government forces our area to be dependent on tourism.”

“Ranching, mining, or logging—the government wants to control all of it or shut it down,” Heaton says. “That’s why presidents in the past, and Biden now, are willing to ignore the law. My ranch and many, many other producers are in the crosshairs of his control.”

(Northern Arizona is estimated to have at least 2.6 billion pounds of uranium. In 2022, 95% of uranium needed by U.S. nuclear power plants was imported from foreign countries, including Russia.)

“Special interest groups turned to the president to get this land under federal control because they knew it couldn’t be done legitimately through congress,” concurs PLF attorney Adam Griffin. “However, before this much federal land is locked up, the process should go to the people through their reps in Congress. It shouldn’t be, and wasn’t intended to be, up to a single individual.

Whose Wishes?

Will Heaton’s lawsuit, or a similar case, eventually land before the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)?

My forefathers built this ranch
“My forefathers built this ranch and I’m not going to lose it on my watch,” Heaton says. “I’ll do this the proper way in the courts, and if Biden wants a fight, then he’s going to get one.” (Photo courtesy of Y-Cross Ranch)

In 2021, SCOTUS declined to hear Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association v. Raimondo, an Antiquities Act-related case triggered when Obama declared 5,000 square miles of ocean to be a national monument and banned all fishing, but Chief Justice John Roberts expressed concern in a four-page statement:

While the Executive enjoys far greater flexibility in setting aside a monument under the Antiquities Act, that flexibility, as mentioned, carries with it a unique constraint: Any land reserved under the Act must be limited to the smallest area compatible with the care and management of the objects to be protected. Somewhere along the line, however, this restriction has ceased to pose any meaningful restraint. A statute permitting the President in his sole discretion to designate as monuments “land- marks,” “structures,” and “objects”—along with the smallest area of land compatible with their management—has been transformed into a power without any discernible limit to set aside vast and amorphous expanses of terrain above and below the sea.

The Antiquities Act began as a simple measure to protect the past: When the legislative branch via Congress put the ball in motion, the executive branch via the president took the ball and ran. Heaton contends the president has run beyond the Constitution.

“I’m suing because Biden assumes he has power to affect the livelihoods of so many people in agriculture and other industries with a baseless declaration,” Heaton concludes. “He wants to act according to his own wishes, but I’m demanding he act according to the law.”

For more articles from Chris Bennett (cbennett@farmjournal.com or 662-592-1106), see:

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Before He Died Henry Lamb WARNED AMERICA!

May 17

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Now you know! The 15 minute city makes perfect sense and boy its a doozy STAY VIGILANT and lets NOT BE 1992 lets stop it before the tree gets to big the goal looks like taking away your farm or homestead and forcing us into the 15 cities YOU DOWN WITH THAT?

The Rise of Global Governance

By Henry Lamb

The desire to rule the world has been a part of the human experience throughout recorded history. Alexander the Great led Greece to dominance of the known world, only to become the victim of Rome’s quest for world dominance. The Roman Empire, built on bloody battlefields across the land, was swallowed up by the Holy Roman Empire, built on the fear and hopes of helpless people. History is a record of the competition for global dominance. In every age, there has always been a force somewhere, conniving to conquer the world with ideas clothed in promises imposed by military might. The 20th century is no different from any other: Marx, Lenin, and Hitler reflect some of the ideas which competed for world dominance in the 1900s. The competition is still underway. The key players change from time to time, as do the words that describe the various battlefields, but the competing ideas remain the same.

One of the competitors is the idea that people are born free, “totally free and sovereign,” and choose to surrender specified freedoms to a limited government to achieve mutual benefits. The other competitor is the idea that government must be sovereign in order to distribute benefits equitably and to manage the activities of people to protect them from one another. The first idea, the idea of free people, is the idea that compelled the pilgrims to migrate to America. The U.S. Constitution represents humanity’s best effort to organize and codify the idea of free people sovereign over limited government. It is a relatively new idea in the historic competition for world dominance.

The other idea, the idea of sovereign government, is not new. Historically, the conqueror was the government. The Emperor, the King, the conqueror by whatever name, established his government by appointment and established laws by decree. Variations of this idea emerged over time to give the perception that the people had some say in the development of law. The Soviet Union, for example, held elections to choose its leaders; but the system assured the outcome of the elections as well as the ultimate sovereignty of the government. During the 1700s, the first idea was ascendant as evidenced by the creation of America. During the 1900s, the second idea has again become ascendant as evidenced by the emergence of global governance. This report identifies and traces some of the major forces, events, and personalities that are responsible for the rise of global governance in the 20th century.

Lecture presented by Henry Lamb at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness held in Colorado Springs, Colorado; July 2002

The documented history of Global Governance – Why, How, and When
https://www.iatp.org/sites/default/files/Global_Governance_Why_How_When.htm

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‘Climate Crisis’ is Just a Pretext to Steal Land, Implement Globalist Agenda: Eva Vlaardingerbroek

May 10

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April 3, 2024 Meeting Notes

Apr 4

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Memo: On April 3 a Town Hall meeting was held by the Egypt Valley Wildlife Refuge Committee with all area land-owners invited. Author and special speaker Tom Deweese spoke on government confiscation of lands and what recourse citizens have against this heavy-handed takings. The event was well
attended by elected representatives and filmed by Fox news 9. Photos of the event with a written presentation of losses caused by ODNR from their lack of management of the property were presented. Copy below. DD

Tom Deweese, American Policy Center, Warrenton, VA
Photos by Fox News 9

EGYPT VALLEY RECOVERY/ DEVELOPMENT

“As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene in government
and become involved – it’s the citizen who stops the bleeding.”

The day President Biden was sworn in he made mention of his 30×30 goal. Later he added a 50×50 goal to his list of future plans.

The 30×30 is a plan for the government to own 30% of the USA by 2030, then 50% by 2050. This is a flawed Agenda 21 plot that the people can not manage and should not own land—the government should be the owner of all land and all production.

This is their end game. The reason for the 30×30 land grab. The purpose for the climate crisis hysteria. We will own nothing. They will own everything.  ~Margaret Byfield

In three years the government has added 24,000,000 acres to government ownership, the most of any administration. This land is taken out of private enterprise and removed from the tax base. More land “takings” are planned and states are conspiring with the feds to help confiscate these private properties. Under words like “conservation,” “wildlife refuges,” “natural areas,” “parks,” “protected lands,”and “public lands” these acres are adding up by the millions with names that are designed to be palatable to tax payers.

“Governments are capable of absolutely anything because they consider their citizens
a national resource available for exploitation, almost like cattle.” ~Doug Casey

LOSS DAMAGE REPARATIONS FROM ODNR:

  • Back tax-base loss-recovery up to 28,000 acres
  • Development of lake and tourist park shelters as promised
  • Purchase of road maintenance equipment for Kirkwood TSP
  • Development of public water system for area use from 100 acre lake.
  • Open season year around on ODNA released predators, river otter, lions, bob cats, ferrets, etc., without licenses or fines.
  • Income from land use including oil leases payable for local use.

DEVELOPMENT FUNDING:

  • Immediate release of certain parcels for cash sales
  • Immediate release of all parcels where oil/gas leasing is possible
  • Release contracts for all select cut mature timber
  • Land liquidation will not be sold multi-parcel auction.
  • Funds acquired from Belmont County lands will be returned to Belmont County for public roads, tourist development, etc.

ASSET VALUES TAKEN FROM BELMONT COUNTY CITIZENS:

  • Loss from property tax 28 years at $11 per a 28,000 a = $8,932,000
  • Loss surface lease agriculture use or recreation 28,000 a x $30 per acre = $840,000 per year x 28 years = $24,360,000.
  • Oil/gas leases signing-deposits $5000 per acre = $140,000,000.
  • Future oil/gas royalties per year 35 years $__________________?
  • Liquidation surface 28,000 a $2000 per acre = $56,000,000
  • Private enterprise loss of collateral-investment-value (lending can be up to 75% of value.)
  • Loss to local citizens from private property taxes, income, food production, etc
  • Under full agriculture production, fee hunting plus oil and gas production can work together producing income from all sources at the same time with intelligent management. $_______________________________________________

ORDERLY LIQUIDATION:

  • Liquidation time estimate, 2 to 12 years
  • Sell all EVWR property except selected scenic areas for attractive maintained recreation of no more than 1000 acres.
  • Liquidation, research and management by an elected BOD from the area.
  • Restock useful wildlife introductions, after predator removal program, releasing turkey, quail, grouse, chukars, pheasants, etc.
  • Provide public water from 100 acre lake with taps in Fairview and Hendrysburg. (Land liquidation pays all installation main line costs)
  • No new acquisition lands will be removed from private property in the future.


Other considerations:

https://wtov9.com/news/local/egypt-valley-committee-debates-future-of-28000-acre-wildlife-area-at-community-meeting

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DEATH BY 1000 CUTS

Mar 22

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by: Darol Dickinson

During the Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907), the most dastardly enemies of Imperial China suffered a process of slow torture and eventual death. It was a punishment that shoots fear up the spine even today, more than a thousand years later.

In world history, few methods of execution were as gruesome as the “Lingchi”—better known as Death by 1000 Cuts. For those who have never been hanged, electrocuted, or shot by firing squad, the Lingchi should be your last choice of a way to die. Its details evolved into an art form that allowed the victim always to die eventually, but slowly. The worse the crime, the longer the torture. The Lingchi’s success in each case was evaluated by how long the punishment could be stretched out. This process was used by the government as a public spectacle to instill fear. It was famous worldwide as a show of power, extreme severity, and Imperial Chinese savagery.

Slightly different but like the methods of the Lingchi is President Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Address. It includes a proposed budget of $7.3 trillion for fiscal 2025, with a categorical 25% tax on billionaires. (Billionaires are the ones who own businesses and hire the most employees.) Like Lingchi, this budget proposal is not designed for a quick, bloody death, but rather a slow sucking away of private assets. Its unstated goal is to equalize outcomes across the entire US population. That is a mission that makes individuals’ prosperity less likely and their survival under government stabulation ever harder.

Overtly, this $7.3 trillion budget includes a plan to sequester millions of acres of productive land for “the greater good.” Buried in it, however, is a covert scheme to take land away from private enterprise and “protect”—that is, remove—it from farm/food production and oil and mineral exploration. This confiscatory plan is an open secret, because the public has already been forewarned.

When Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021, he immediately announced a 30×30 project to take 30% of US land from private enterprise by 2030 and retire it—i.e., make it dormant—ostensibly for “the greater good.” Soon after that, he announced his 50×50 plan, and then a grand, even-larger 70×70 plan.

To visualize the government plan. Consider the dwindling size of remaining land private-ownership with each increasing increment of government land-grab.

These proposals have ominous parallels to the Chinese Lingchi as well as to collectivist politics. Specifically, in the playbook of any communist or other authoritarian takeover, the first step is to control land, then to control production of all goods and services, and finally to control all the people. This method of long-term, covert acquisition is clearly defined in the Communist Manifesto. The strategy is clear to those who do their research.

The following table shows federal land ownership state-by-state in 2018. Today, six short years later, the total includes millions more acres. In January 2024, President Biden announced success in acquiring 24,000,000 acres for his 30×30 program, now renamed “America the Beautiful.” That new name for his initiative is a euphemism—a phrase that sounds more patriotic, sanitary, and benign than a heavy-handed government takeover of 30, 50 or 70% of private property in the USA.

Federal land ownership by state (as of 2018)

State

Federal land
acreage

Total state acreage

Percentage of
federal land

Alabama

880,188

32,678,400

2.7%

Alaska

222,666,580

365,481,600

60.9%

Arizona

28,077,992

72,688,000

38.6%

Arkansas

3,159,486

33,599,360

9.4%

California

45,493,133

100,206,720

45.4%

Colorado

24,100,247

66,485,760

36.2%

Connecticut

9,110

3,135,360

0.3%

Delaware

29,918

1,265,920

2.4%

District of Columbia

9,649

39,040

24.7%

Florida

4,491,200

34,721,280

12.9%

Georgia

1,946,492

37,295,360

12.9%

Hawaii

829,830

4,105,600

20.2%

Idaho

32,789,648

52,933,120

61.9%

Illinois

423,782

35,795,200

1.2%

Indiana

384,726

23,158,400

1.7%

Iowa

97,509

35,860,480

0.3%

Kansas

253,919

52,510,720

0.5%

Kentucky

1,100,160

25,512,320

4.3%

Louisiana

1,353,291

28,867,840

4.7%

Maine

301,481

19,847,680

1.5

Maryland

205,362

6,319,360

3.2%

Massachusetts

62,680

5,034,880

1.2%

Michigan

3,637,599

36,492,160

10.0%

Minnesota

3,503,977

51,205,760

6.8%

Mississippi

1,552,634

30,222,720

5.1%

Missouri

1,702,983

44,248,320

3.8%

Montana

27,082,401

93,271,040

29.0%

Nebraska

546,852

49,031,680

1.1%

Nevada

56,262,610

70,264,320

80.1%

New Hampshire

805,472

5,768,960

14.0%

New Jersey

171,956

4,813,440

3.6%

New Mexico

24,665,774

77,766,400

31.7%

New York

230,992

30,680,960

0.8%

North Carolina

2,434,801

31,402,880

7.8%

North Dakota

1,733,641

44,452,480

3.9%

Ohio

305,502

26,222,080

1.2%

Oklahoma

683,289

44,087,680

1.5%

Oregon

32,244,257

61,598,720

52.3%

Pennsylvania

622,160

28,804,480

2.2%

Rhode Island

4,513

677,120

0.7%

South Carolina

875,316

19,374,080

4.5%

South Dakota

2,640,005

48,881,920

5.4%

Tennessee

1,281,362

26,727,680

4.8%

Texas

3,231,198

168,217,600

1.9%

Utah

33,267,621

52,696,960

63.1%

Vermont

465,888

5,936,640

7.8%

Virginia

2,373,616

25,496,320

9.3%

Washington

12,192,855

42,693,760

28.6%

West Virginia

1,134,138

15,410,560

7.4%

Wisconsin

1,854,085

35,011,200

5.3%

Wyoming

29,137,722

62,343,040

46.7%

United States

615,311,596

2,271,343,360

27.1%

Source: U.S. Congressional Research Service, “Federal Land Ownership: Overview and Data”


Note that fourteen states have already lost more than 20% of their land to the Federal government. Collectively, the central U.S. government now owns 27.1%—more than a quarter and approaching a third—of the entire continental land mass of the United States:
Nevada80.1%
Utah63.1%
Idaho61.9%
Alaska60.9%
Oregon52.3%
Wyoming46.7%
California45.4%
Arizona38.6%
Colorado36.2%
New Mexico31.7%
Montana29.0%
Washington28.6%
District of Columbia24.7%
Hawaii20.2%
US total27.1%

Here are some methods by which national, state, and non-profit owners of US land legally execute Death by 1000 Cuts:

  1. Coveted land is normally located near or between other government-owned properties.
  2. Purchases are usually made by imminent domain or at market price. Some properties are even bought at prices inflated above appraised value to “persuade” owners who don’t want to sell.
  3. Regardless of price, taxes on citizens are typically increased enough to finance land purchases. Some properties are provisionally bought by NGO’s with contracts to hold them until enough tax revenue has been accumulated.
  4. With rare exceptions, “protected” land is usually off-limits to agriculture, food production, timber, mining, and oil exploration. “Protected” means that private enterprise is forbidden and thus cannot create jobs, goods, services, income, or profits on government land.
  5. Government land is immediately removed from tax rolls. It generates no income that would otherwise be collected from normal taxes on private property.
  6. Public services such as roads, law enforcement, and school revenues cannot be funded from tax-sheltered government land. Instead, private citizens’ taxes to pay for these services must be raised to compensate for untaxed government properties.
  7. Signs are typically posted to keep the public off government holdings even when they are labeled “public land.”
  8. Government-owned timber or grass land is rarely harvested properly. It becomes vulnerable to wildfires. Public dumping is frequently rampant near population centers. Secluded areas are often used for illegal drug deals.
  9. For quarterly and other inspections, federal inspectors drive government cars and trucks, which do not pay taxes for licenses or purchase.
  10. States cooperate with federal agencies and NGO’s to achieve the Biden administration’s goal of increased government ownership. Because all government assets are fungible, non-taxpaying entities often trade resources for bridge grants, city water systems, and land acreages. Properties can seldom be bought back from the government or non-profits that take land from private ownership.
  11. Death by 1000 Cuts engulfs historic private land “for the public good,” effectively killing it for all profitable and productive uses.

Protecting US land for profitable, sustainable use by private citizens is extremely important in a free society. Here are some tips for responsible voters:

  1. Elect representatives who pledge to never expand government land or who will vote to preserve land under only the most compelling conditions.
  2. Support representatives who pledge to sell government properties back to private owners in a systematic, orderly process for profitable use.
  3. Demand taxation of all government properties and vehicles.
  4. Explain to government officials how much public ownership actually costs private citizens for law enforcement, schools, roads—and why Death by 1000 Cuts is dead-wrong painful.
  5. Be alert to well-meaning bureaucrats who are actually scrambling to earn Biden’s approval by confiscating millions of acres of private property.
  6. Quit this tax-payer-torture! The bleeding must stop. Just say no to all new government land acquisitions and start an orderly liquidation of the government waste-land ownership.

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