To Ken Shock
Brinnon, WA
Dear Ken:
In response to your e-mail, the
"tipping point" for a revolt (see below) has come
and gone many years ago. The "people", except for a very few, have no
stomach for a fight. It would appear that "things" are going to have to
get far worse before enough people (that's hundreds of
thousands, perhaps millions of people) say "enough
is enough" and put action where all their rhetoric
is. King County's CAO issue is only alive because of the hard
work of Rod and Laurel McFarland (CAPR), who with
dogged determination, kept the Referenda moving through the courts. Even
if the High Court does rule in the Referenda's favor, that will only
be half the battle. The rest of the battle will be getting the wimps of
rural King County to VOTE to repeal the CAO. If they do, now that will be
real win. But the rest of this exercise is just so much smoke with no
fire. Most of the people are either ignorant of the threat, or are just
too lazy to get involved and government just increases their power every day
while the people sleep.
The people of Jefferson county were
catalyzed into action against DOE and WRIA in-stream flow rules because of the
diligence and perseverance of one man, Norm MacLeod. Only one or two lead,
the rest follow. Unfortunately, "the rest" is
way too few.
The legislatures and the courts
constantly rule against us. City folk constantly put politicians in power
that refuse to abide by, or ignore, our Constitutions. Unelected
bureaucrats rule the roost in direct violation of our constitutions.
Change will only come when enough people rise up in force, in angered protest
against their government and tell them that they are MAD AS HELL and THEY AREN'T GOING TO TAKE IT ANY
MORE. Only a wholesale peaceful revolt where THE
PEOPLE say and mean, "we aren't going to abide
by your laws any more because they are unconstitutional and we are under no duty
to abide by them." But people are just too busy with
their own lives to be interested in freedom, liberty, property rights and the
pursuit of happiness. Their apathy and lack of interest will be at their
own peril.
Now if all this had happened 100
years ago, the guns would have come out, or some politicians or bureaucrats
would have been tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail. Those
days are long gone. We've been bought, sold and conquered without a
shot being fired and hardly anyone lifted a finger while the deed was being
done. For over 30 years I tried to warn people that this time was coming,
but they wouldn't listen.
Nevertheless, I'm trying to
"light the fire" and I am making some headway.
But the unknown is, will I make enough headway before the government
decides to stop me, or Rod McFarland or Norm MacLeod, or others who decide to
poke their head up above the noise level? One thing is for sure. If
others don't support the leaders with their time and their money, nothing will
change, except the leaders will be shot down in flames by the government they
resist.
Ron Ewart
Fall City, WA
425 222-9482
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:49
PM
Subject: Lacey council will meet tomorrow to
discuss Olympia's water grab
Norm
This is shocking thievery.....Salmon be damned, people have
to live
somewhere!
Are we approaching the trigger point for a
revolt...Ahhhh, the sacking of
the DOE offices
by hoards of disposessed
rural (and urban) savages :-) ( can you see that
headline?)
ken
shock
www.brinnonprosperity.org
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Amazing how these
municipalities are so eager to pile on in a condemnation
effort aimed at a
private entity that purchased a disused brewery in
Tumwater, isn't it?
All because the owner wasn't interested in selling the
parcel's water rights
to the cities . . .
Market value for the water rights? These
outfits aren't interested in
paying market value. They want to find a
court that will help them get it
for a pittance of what it's worth. If
you are denied access to additional
water, any water that's already
appropriated rapidly escalates in value . .
. and price.
So . .
. if you have any sizeable water right on your property, are
you
ever
going to be safe from eminent domain condemnation if Ecology
persists in
refusing to grant new water rights so that municipalities can
develop to
their GMA-induced build-out levels of population? Not
likely.
Remember how proud our government officials were when they
told us that
Kelo
can't happen here . . . because the Washington
Constitution has stronger
property rights protections than the U.S.
Constitution does? Wonder what
they are thinking
now?
Norm
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Lacey council will meet tomorrow to discuss Olympia's water
grab
THE OLYMPIAN
Lacey City Council has announced a special
meeting to discuss the
acquisition of water rights from All American Bottling
Company, the owner
of
the former brewery in Tumwater. The special council
meeting will begin at
3:30 p.m. Wednesday in council chambers, 420 College
St. S.E.
The meeting has been spurred by the city of Olympia's Feb. 13
decision to
begin condemnation proceedings at the site, establish the market
value for
the water rights and give them access to the property to assess
the
locations of wells.
All-American Bottled Water wasn't interested
in selling the water and city
officials, concerned about the city's high
growth rate, feared losing
access
to the brewery water
entirely.
Olympia Mayor Mark Foutch said the city will talk with Lacey
and Tumwater
about possibly sharing the
resource.<