The Most Heinous Power Grab of All - The Nation's Waterways, Water, and Oceans; The Government’s Latest Attempt at Absolute Control

Water is the single most important resource that is essential to sustain life … a necessity to every living organism. Throughout history, water shortages have proved to be historically significant in the rise, and ultimate demise, of all great cultures and empires. How important is it?

“Researchers say the overcrowded cities, water shortages and electricity brownouts in 21st century California, India and Brazil are ominous reminders of the fate of ancient Rome, Babylon and the Maya empire.

‘Overpopulation was a major factor in making the Maya vulnerable to failure," Scarborough told a conference on "The Collapse of Complex Societies" in San Francisco last month. "The trigger event of the collapse appears to have been a long drought beginning about 840 A.D.’”[1]

And more significant, is that “[T]he movement of peoples into big cities such as Rome and Tikal, the Maya capital, created great wealth, rich cultures and complex bureaucracies that ultimately proved to be unsustainable.”[2]

"Today, more than a billion people still cannot get enough safe drinking water to keep them healthy. That kind of water scarcity isn't just about too little rain—it's a problem of politics, infrastructure and sustainable use."[3]

“A 2006 United Nations report focuses on issues of governance as the core of the water crisis, saying ‘There is enough water for everyone’ and ‘Water insufficiency is often due to mismanagement, corruption, lack of appropriate institutions, bureaucratic inertia…”[4]

In the Congressional Quarterly, Inc.’s article, “Global water shortages: will the Earth run out of freshwater? Water supply is becoming a worldwide political issue because it is necessary to survival and economic development. Water rights may present a stumbling block to peace in the Middle East. The range of the Palestinians' rights to West Bank water is being contested by Israel, and the issue has become more important than the status of Jerusalem. Other major disputes involve the distribution of water from the Colorado River, the Ganges River, and the Danube River.”[5]

“Water Shortage: Mexico and the United States .’Mexico and the United States have clashed over water shortages on either side of the Rio Grande River in South Texas. Mexico's failure to abide by a 1944 water treaty since 1992 has severely damaged U.S. agriculture.’”[6]

I think we can all agree that water may be the most valuable resource. With life and civilizations completely dependent on it, water gives anyone that controls the water, the ability to control a population.

Many of you are familiar with the San Joaquin Valley water “plight” instigated and caused by the federal government and tree-hugging environmental groups. First, some history:

The San Joaquin River … is used to irrigate 1,500 square miles (3,900 km2) of highly productive farmland on the east side of the Central Valley where 200 kinds of produce are raised from oranges to cotton.”[7] Perhaps the claim that “…prior to the completion of Friant Dam in 1942, the San Joaquin River had the southern most habitat for salmon in the United States”[8] is valid; however, “the diversion of water from the upper reaches of the San Joaquin River and its tributaries significantly reduced the number of Chinook Salmon native to the river.”[9]

“Since the mid-19th century, the waters of the San Joaquin have been developed and diverted for human use. It produces hydroelectricity for export to the San Francisco Bay Area, provides water for irrigation for some of California's most productive farmlands, and provides the sole source of drinking water supply to a number of rural towns in California's Central Valley.”[10]

So, why are talking about it? The delta smelt, an endangered species of fish no bigger than an index finger, began disappearing as the massive pumps sucked up fish along with the water” and consequently,"[L]awsuits over the fish filed by environmental groups … multiplied, and court-imposed … regulations”[12] resulted.

Most people in the valley blame their water woes on those lawsuits and the fish. Since 1992, when Congress established new federal ecosystem standards, increasing amounts of water have been set aside for wildlife restoration. Since then, Westlands has received on average about half as much water as the 1.2 million acre-feet per year it ordered up in its contract, forcing farmers to rely on expensive pumps …” and “… only after a furious lobbying campaign did they succeed in bumping it up to 10 percent of the water deliveries …” with the “University of California, Berkeley … claims that the economic impact on valley's agricultural production tops $48 million. That figure will likely get worse once the water agencies begin implementing new rules this summer designed to protect other fish such as sturgeon, salmon, and steelhead trout.” Even sicker, is the use by this administration, quid pro quo; water for CA Frankenstein Hellcare votes. The water was turned on one-quarter of turn, and only for a short period of time. What was once a productive agriculture community is now a dust bowl, “an ecological and human disaster caused by misuse of land and years of sustained drought … when topsoil …with no natural anchors to keep the soil in place … dried, turned to dust, and blew away.”  John Steinbeck documented the story about the dust bowl of the 1930s that lasted a decade and about the people affected by it in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "The Grapes of Wrath."

Because of “Federal legislation water has been turned off … creating what farmers are calling the Congress Created Dust Bowl of 2009 …causing higher food prices.”  A new regulation announced by the Obama Administration on June 5, 2009 will reduce valley water supplies … enlarging the ongoing devastation.”[21]  "Studies estimate that as of May, the lack of water in the San Joaquin Valley, California's Central Valley has cost 35,000 jobs and $830 million in farm revenue."[22]  "Hundreds of thousands of acres are fallow, while almond and plum trees are being left to die in the scorching sun. Tens of thousands of people have been tossed out of work—the town of Mendota alone has an unemployment rate of about 40%—and the lines for food donations stretch down streets. The reason? There isn't enough water to go around this year, and the Obama administration is drawing up new reasons to divert more of it from farms and people and into the San Francisco Bay."[23] "[t]he San Joaquin Delta is as precious a natural resource as Florida's Everglades."[24] 

“Meanwhile, the Obama government's decision to divert hundreds of billions of gallons of water has led to massive unemployment in excess of 40%, fallowing on an unprecedented scale, imported food supplies from China to [feed] what used to be the 'Breadbasket of America.' SAVE THESE COMMUNITIES FROM ECONOMIC EXTINCTION!” What government places a 2-inch smelt ahead of the well-being of its citizens? “ The time for Congress to act was many months ago … with CA experiencing 40% unemployment due to Federal water cut-offs under an endangered species regulation cover.”[25]

It is unfathomable to me... beyond comprehension that a government that sends hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Haiti and other countries around the world, will not turn on the water for its own citizens. There is a special place in hell for the people in this administration that would deny hard-working Americans the water necessary to grow produce in the USA. Turn on the damned water!  Would you really trust them to control all our water?
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[1] Ancient History Threatens to Repeat Itself, The San Diego Union - Tribune; San Diego, CA. Mar 21, 2001, by Robert S. Boyd
[2]  Id.
[3]  http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/water/?section=noranydrop
[4]  Water crisis, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_crisis
[5]  Congressional Quarterly, Inc., 1995, http://www.faqs.org/abstracts/News-opinion-and-commentary/Global-water-shortages-will-the-Earth-run-out-of-freshwater.html
[6]  Water Shortage: Mexico and the United States, http://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/201495.html
[7]  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Joaquin_River
[8]  Id.
[9]  Id.
[10] Id.
[11] http://www.newsweek.com/id/211381
[12] Id.
[13] Id.
[14] Id.
[15] Id.
[16] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
[17] http://www.povertyandhunger.org/CongressCreatedDustBowl.html
[18] http://nunes.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Issues.View&Issue_id=350eb49e-b0d0-fc95-f8bb-37ee86400e38
[19] http://usa-wethepeople.com/2009/09/california-delta-smelt-and-the-san-joaquin-valley-dust-bowl/
[20] http://knowledgecreatespower.blogspot.com/2010/01/san-joaquin-valley-ca-federally-created.html
[21] http://www.povertyandhunger.org/CongressCreatedDustBowl.html
[22] http://knowledgecreatespower.blogspot.com/2010/01/san-joaquin-valley-ca-federally-created.html
[23] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204619004574318621482123090.html
[24] Id.
[25] http://knowledgecreatespower.blogspot.com/2010/01/san-joaquin-valley-ca-federally-created.html

Unfortunately for the the citizens of the United States, now enter Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN) who served as chief staff assistant to 8th District Congressman John Blatnik for 12 years. When Blatnik didn't run for a 15th term in 1974, he endorsed Oberstar as his successor. He’s been in office since 1975, and I think it’s time for him to go. Despite his claims that it won't change anything ... if not, then why change it? We must not be duped by Oberstar or anyone else in this administration.

"In 2007, Oberstar tried to rewrite the water bill;" however, “Supreme Court rulings … defined the limits Washington has over bodies of water that have no nexus to navigable waters.” He didn’t take no for an answer. He is now making a second attempt to remove the word “navigable” from the law with potentially absolutely devastating consequences. I will provide you with articles, links, and all the information you need to educate yourselves, your family, and your friends. This is without a doubt the single most Machiavellian and Most Heinous Power Grab of All….

Troubled Waters
Posted 04/23/2010 07:07 PM ET

Regulation: Rep. James Oberstar wants to rewrite the Clean Water Act. If the Minnesota Democrat gets his way, the federal government will have even greater authority to take private property.

This isn't Oberstar's first attempt. In 2007 he also tried to rewrite the water bill. He and others weren't happy with Supreme Court rulings that defined the limits Washington has over bodies of water that have no nexus to navigable waters.

They want full federal control over all waters.

Consequently, changing the law has become an obsession for Oberstar, and not a harmless one. Should his rewrite become law, property owners will pay.

Oberstar, who represents the 8th District in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, wants to strike from the Clean Water Act the word "navigable," a restriction in the original bill based on constitutional principles that limit Washington's regulatory reach.

Without that check, the federal apparatus will have dominion over all waters in America. Rainstorm puddles, mud holes, drainage and irrigation ditches, ponds, intermittent streams and prairie potholes on private lands. These have nothing to do with interstate commerce, but would suddenly be subject to federal rules — as would adjacent property — if the word is removed from the law.

This would be a[n] historic expansion of federal authority and has the potential to be a gross violation of Americans' liberty.

Farmers should be particularly concerned. The Oberstar bill gives federal regulators the power to police farming practices and to take their land through regulatory restrictions if those practices are deemed to be in violation of the law.

With the federal government already hobbling California farmers by denying them water, in large part due to the Endangered Species Act, Oberstar's ambition is an existential threat to farms.

When Oberstar tried to enlarge Washington's reach in 2007, Richard Baker, then a Republican congressman from Louisiana, a state filled with waterways, called the bill "the largest-ever expansion of federal powers over private property."

There's no reason to believe his current bill would be any kinder to farmers, ranchers, developers, average homeowners or the Constitution, which forbids the government from taking private property by whim.

Like almost everyone else in his party in Washington, Oberstar has gone too far. This assault on the private sector has left Americans in need of protection until they can get to the ballot box in November. We hope the minority party is up to the task.

Source: http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=531329

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In October 2009, I posted and article: "CONGRESS MOVES TO CONTROL ALL U.S. WATER" It makes ALL water under the jurisdiction of the federal government. People said... "He can't do that. It won't happen." While we stay focused on Frankenstein Hellcare, this is moving forward, just as amnesty is. This is a long discussion, but it's important to read the article in its entirety. We must do something. We cannot continue to stand by while this government continues to grab power of everything leading us more and more into a slavery of unimaginable proportion. We must tell them, in no uncertain terms, to STOP, that we will not tolerate this any longer.

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Conservatives are warning Americans about the ambitions of federal lawmakers to control all waters within the United States including those on private property, in the latest power grab by progressive politicians.

According to the American Land Rights Association, the Obama Administration and Congress are attempting to pass the Clean Water Restoration Act of 2009 (S787) that would amend the 1972 Clean Water Act and replace the words "navigable waters" with "waters of the United States."

"The US Constitution's Tenth Amendment automatically reserves power for controlling waters to the states, not to the Oval Office and US Congress," said political strategist Mike Baker.

"This is just one more power grab by out-of-control politicians who only adhere to constitutional law when it suits them," he added.

Section 3, Paragraph 8 stipulates that "this Act will treat, as ‘waters of the United States’, those features that were treated as such pursuant to the regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Corps of Engineers in existence before the dates of the decisions referred to in paragraph (10), including--

    (A) all waters which are subject to the ebb and flow of the tide;

    (B) all interstate waters, including interstate wetlands;

    (C) all other waters, such as intrastate lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, or natural ponds;

    (D) all impoundments of waters of the United States;

    (E) tributaries of the aforementioned waters;

    (F) the territorial seas; [and]

    (G) wetlands adjacent to the aforementioned waters."

After being overruled by the U. S. Supreme Court in two recent decisions that the words "navigable waters" in the Clean Water Act limited federal agencies to regulation of navigable waters only, Democrats and liberal Republicans in Congress are striking back.

They are attempting to pass the Clean Water Restoration Act of 2009 (S 787) that would amend the 1972 Clean Water Act and replace the words "navigable waters" with "waters of the United States."

"The bill also defines "waters of the United States" with such breathtaking scope that federal agencies would be required to regulate use of every square inch of the U.S., both public and private," according to the American Land Rights Association.

"Obviously, those behind this legislation have only contempt for the Constitution, limited government and private property rights. To understand what the framers of the Constitution intended, one need only look to their writings and the writings of those from whom they took wisdom and direction," said officials at ALRA.

"This is a terrible bill that would give the Federal government jurisdiction over anything that is wet including seasonal mud flats. This means that the Feds could enter your property and dictate what you can do with bodies of water on your land," said political strategist Mike Baker.

"It also means that the Great Lake States and Provinces could not protect the Great Lakes from being pumped dry to feed the growth of California and the Southwest. In that area, Democrat Senator Russ Feingold has sold out his own state: Wisconsin."

"Senate Bill 787 will change federal jurisdiction over “navigable” water, to give the federal government control over all water everywhere, in municipal reservoirs, and on private lands, and in private wells. This bill ignores state water law authority and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution," stated Barbara H. Peterson, a farm lands protection activist.

"If the Feds own the water, then they can do anything they want to with it, and I have to ask permission to get a drink or water my animals," she stated.

Source: http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=108747

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Then came discussion by barf's administration to amend Executive Order 11988 (Jimmy Carter in 1977):

Executive Order 11988
http://www.waterways.org/
October 2009 info@waterways.org

Proposed Changes to Executive Order on Floodplain Management

Executive Order 11988, originally issued in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter, established protections for the nation’s floodplains, and in application, recognized the need for and allowed consideration of net-beneficial effects. Efforts are underway within the Obama Administration to amend Executive Order 11988. In crafting its revisions, we urge the Administration to ensure that its new policy recognize the important economic and human uses of lands within the floodplain, along with the environmental considerations.

    • The Federally regulated and managed floodplain should continue to be the 100-year floodplain. Creation of a 500-year standard would significantly expand limitations on state and local land use choices and restrict economic uses of the floodplain. The ramifications extend far beyond new land use choices, potentially impacting such things as mortgage applications for existing residences and commercial developments, limiting established agricultural practices and devaluing existing property values.

    • Promotion of non-structural measures, such as permanent evacuation of the floodplain, must not force communities to accept non-structural measures against their will, especially where economic hardships would result. Where a competent planning study identifies a structural plan with net beneficial effects, the affected community must be guaranteed the opportunity to select such a plan without Federal opposition.

    • In evaluating ecological goals, due consideration must be given to water supply, navigation, hydropower and structural flood control projects, to ensure that they, along with certain agricultural practices and communities located in floodplains, are not severely disadvantaged.

    • Additional compliance requirements through federal agency actions and limitations must be avoided. Floodplain regulation related to Federal undertakings should never impose environmental compliance requirements, mitigation or restoration standards over and above those determined to satisfy the requirements of existing statutes such as Water Resources Development acts, the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.

Action: We support a balanced approach to floodplain management, giving due consideration to the economic and human uses, as well as environmental and ecological considerations, to ensure the wise use of our floodplains for the safety, security and well-being of all Americans and their families.

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The National Waterways Conference, established in 1960, is the leading national organization to advocate for the enactment of common-sense water resource policies that maximize the economic and environmental value of our inland, coastal and Great Lakes waterways. Conference membership is comprised of the full spectrum of water resources stakeholders, including waterways shippers and carriers, industry and regional associations, port authorities, shipyards, dredging contractors, flood control associations, levee boards, engineering consultants, and state and local governments.

Source: http://www.waterways.org/Fact%20Sheet%20EO%2011988.pdf

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And finally, as America was in a frenzy about healthcare, unemployment, and all the other fires this administration is setting to distract us... we are now seeing the water grab... the ultimate grab, and the ultimate prize. There is no more heinous way for dictators to control their people.

Obama to Use Executive Order to Seize Waterways and Prevent Fishing
On 03.10.10, In , By Sam

The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.

This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is “fluid” and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn’t issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters.

That’s a disappointment, but not really a surprise for fishing industry insiders who have negotiated for months with officials at the Council on Environmental Quality and bureaucrats on the task force. These angling advocates have come to suspect that public input into the process was a charade from the beginning.

ESPN

Of course it was a charade. Obama doesn’t give a damn about what the public thinks about anything. He’s demonstrated that pretty consistently throughout the past year.

So what is the point of this? The states have been managing the use of their waterways with little to no problem for over 200 years. Well, it turns out that this whole unconstitutional power grab is being orchestrated by the radical left environmental movement.

As ESPN previously reported, WWF, Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife, Pew Environment Group and others produced a document entitled “Transition Green” shortly after Obama was elected in 2008. What has happened since suggests that the task force has been in lockstep with that position paper.

Then in late summer, just after he created the task force, these groups produced “Recommendations for the Adoption and Implementation of an Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes National Policy.” This document makes repeated references to “overfishing,” but doesn’t once reference recreational angling, its importance, and its benefits, both to participants and the resource.

Additionally, some of these same organizations have revealed their anti-fishing bias by playing fast and loose with “facts,” in attempts to ban tackle containing lead in the United States and Canada.

That same tunnel vision, in which recreational angling and commercial fishing are indiscriminately lumped together as harmful to the resource, has persisted with the task force, despite protests by the angling industry.

As more evidence of collusion, the green groups began clamoring for an Executive Order to implement the task force’s recommendations even before the public comment period ended in February. Fishing advocates had no idea that this was coming.

The commercial and recreational fishing industry in this country employs millions of Americans and it will be the coastal and Great Lakes states that rely heavily on the industry which will suffer the most under these new provisions: Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, California, mostly states that all voted for the Big O, ironically.

Morlock fears that “what we’re seeing coming at us is an attempted dismantling of the science-based fish and wildlife model that has served us so well. There’s no basis in science for the agendas of these groups who are trying to push the public out of being able to fish and recreate.

“Conflicts (user) are overstated and problems are manufactured. It’s all just an excuse to put us off the water.”

In the wake of the task force’s framework document, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF) and its partners in the U.S. Recreational Fishing & Boating Coalition against voiced their concerns to the administration.

“Some of the potential policy implications of this interim framework have the potential to be a real threat to recreational anglers who not only contribute billions of dollars to the economy and millions of dollars in tax revenues to support fisheries conservation, but who are also the backbone of the American fish and wildlife conservation ethic,” said CSF President Jeff Crane.

Morlock, a member of the CSF board, added, “There are over one million jobs in America supported coast-to- coast by recreational fishing. The task force has not included any accountability requirements in their reports for evaluating or mitigating how the new policies they are drafting will impact the fishing industry or related economies.

“Given that the scope of this process appears to include a new set of policies for all coastal and inland waters of the United States, the omission of economic considerations is inexcusable.”

This is not the only access issue threatening the public’s right to fish, but it definitely is the most serious, according to Chris Horton, national conservation director for BASS.

“With what’s being created, the same principles could apply inland as apply to the oceans,” he said. “Under the guise of ‘marine spatial planning’ entire watersheds could be shut down, even 2,000 miles up a river drainage from the ocean.

“Every angler needs to be aware because if it’s not happening in your backyard today or tomorrow, it will be eventually.

This is what happens when you put an out of touch ideologue beholden to radical special interests in the highest office in the land. The fact that Obama intends to implement this with an Executive Order completely bypassing Congress gives credence to the accusation that he is becoming an elected dictator, much like Hugo Chavez.

This won’t be used to just regulate fishing either. Rest assured that the bureaucratic entities created to manage all of this will also be used to thwart any oil or natural gas exploration off our coastal waters, thus effectively reinstating the Federal drilling ban that just expired less than two years ago.

Over one million jobs can potentially be effected by this at a time when America is experiencing double digit unemployment rates. That aside, there is also the element of this being yet another chipping away at the block of individual freedom and liberty that Americans have enjoyed for over two centuries and that the President and this Congress spit on daily.

If this is put into place it seems like El Presidente will get to decide when and where you go fishing. With the industry being so large I am hoping this will end up in the Supreme Court with a Constitutional challenge if barfo makes good on this move.

So the government controls the land in the oil-, gas-, and shale-rich states in the West and Alaska under National Parks, and what they haven't seized already, they are trying to grab for "monuments!!?" They control the banks, the car industry, and healthcare and adding student loans in the same bill. Our CIA is emasculated, and barfo and Holder have rendered the US a toothless tiger. What part of this DOESN'T sound like Hitler in Nazi Germany? And you don't think they can take your guns? If you and your family are dying of thirst, you might be willing to trade that gun for a gallon of potable water. Look what this government has been able to accomplish with the help of these freaking Czars.. The San Joaquin Valley is a “dust bowl,” food to feed the farmers is being imported from China, Mexico, Chile, Guatemala, etc. etc. etc. Sunstein in his Machiavellian plot to control the population, will shut off the water to the farmers with crops and animals. Then what happens? I think the government will pay you to raise soy. Some choice! No one had the guts to go in and turn on the water in the California desert. We march, we protest, we send faxes, emails, and make telephone calls. THIS ADMINISTRATION DOESN'T GIVE A FLYING F*CK. Now it is just a matter of time....

Source: http://www.savethegop.com/?p=9951&cpage=1

This bastard has only been in office for 1 year and 3 month into his term. How do we survive another 2 years, 8 months, and 21 days (or so)?

And to view all barfo's Executive Orders: http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/obama-subjects.html

And finally, contained in these EOs, one may not "hoard," whatever and however many that includes: http://corditecountryshownotes.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/executive-orders-and-food-hoarding/

Proposition 21 – Alive and well in Greensboro, SC
From the journal of a friend.
"Today I'm going to Greenville to help our friends in their fight against UN Agenda 21 Sustainable Development known locally as Upstate Forever. It operates in the name of protecting the environment but it is about controlling city government and property rights. We in NC are going to be faced with meters on private wells again. We all need to hang together on this. Go to Tea For Liberty on Facebook to get details. Rally will be in Greenville SC, today at 5."

"The post I sent on "Notes on Dec 1, 2009 Trip to Greenville," were written by our Tea for Liberty pres. The "comment" window was out of room for that info. [Just wanted to give him credit for the info and not me."]

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Notes on December 1, 2009 Trip to Greenville

"Our mission to Greenville, to support our Brothers and Sisters who were meeting with their County Commissioners to protest Land Use Reform that was seriously eroding the use and rights of Private Property. A great turnout of about 300-350 people showed up with signs, etc. As an example of what they were fighting is that a violation would include horses, cattle or other livestock getting within 25 ft. of waterway.

One Commissioner who had to leave the meeting early was booed when she expressed her support for the restrictions as she left. The Chairman noted that this was the third reading on the topic, and because of the large group, they were going to go into Executive Session to discuss Legal Issues with their Legal Counsel. When the Commissioners returned, the Land Use Plan was passed with a minor change addressing protection of some private rights. While focusing on Federal Issues we must remain aware of the rights being lost in the Courthouse.

We have a number of recent examples in our own back yard. Ask any rental property owner in Lake Lure, about the new inspection and certification requirement; or Buncombe people about their new zoning restrictions; or our State still talking about metering private wells, declaring that water are a common resource?

The point is that if we truly want to regain and maintain our freedoms, we in TEA for Liberty need to lead in monitoring, County, and State as well as Federal arrogance.

Volunteers staying current for all of us will help us prevent being blindsided as the Greenville Group was Tuesday. The busiest people seem to be the only ones with time to help. Let’s protect our children and grandchildren. Volunteer 3 hours a week and be a part of history. We are going to win. Stand up and be counted with the working Patriots."

In conclusion, one need not be a genius to recognize the significance of removing the word “navigable” from a Clean Water bill. The power and control is incomprehensible and limitless, as is the loss of liberties for the citizens of America. Not only does control of the water fall under federal jurisdiction, but the adjacent land will be subject to federal control, as well. Property owners’ privacy will be a thing of the past. This bill, if passed, will give the federal government the authority to trespass “at will" on “private property,” to control the water, and/or to seize the any land adjacent to any water source (i.e., waterhole, cow pond, spring, bubbling brook, river, or any other body of water, etc.) regardless of size or volume. Water will be considered a “common resource” and private wells will be capped and/or metered, and theoretically, the property owner can be charged for the water on his own land. This is so far removed from what our Founding Fathers envisioned. We must be hyper-vigilant in monitoring what laws, executive orders, bills, and treaties are being passed and signed until the time comes when this Republic will be restored to her former glory representing a beacon of freedom and hope to all her citizens and to people around the world.

Watch for my next blog:  "I baptize you in the name of Obarfo!"