To rural landowners, government types,
interested parties and the news media:
In my attempts to enlighten
landowners about the issues facing them and the ownership of their land, I have
uncovered the following information which is directly relevant to anyone owning
land and indirectly relevant to the average citizen. I hope that some of
your "eyes" will be opened by what I have provided here.
The Founding Fathers went to great
lengths to balance political power in America by establishing the three branches
of government. Most everyone knows them as the executive (the chief executive), legislative (makes
the law) and judicial branches (adjudicates the
law). Unfortunately, the Found Fathers did not take into
account that the executive and legislative branches, in order to
discharge their full duties, abdicated their responsibilities to make law
and created a fourth branch of government, the "administrative
bureaucracy". We all know that the executive branch
has a cabinet and the cabinet is made up of "Czars" of those administrative
bureaucracies. These bureaucracies have little oversight from either the
executive or legislative branches and end up creating administrative law that is
not authorized by the legislative branch. (That is, on it
face, unconstitutional)
In the State of Washington we have
the Revised Code of Washington (RCW's) that are laws created by the
legislature. Then we have the Washington Administrative Code (WAC'S)
that are laws created by these administrative bureaucracies (DSHS, DOE, Fish and Wildlife, etc. etc.
etc). Bulging federal and state bureaucracies
promulgate and pump out these administrative codes by the thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) every year. The average
citizen has no knowledge of any of them until they run afoul of them.
Landowners are now running seriously afoul of them through ESA's, FCWA's, GMA's,
CAO'S, WRIA'S, etc and the list goes on and on. Most of this crap is
driven by radical environmental policies and agendas and most of that agenda
comes right out of the United Nations. It rarely gets filtered by our
legislators.
Dr. Robert Crittenden, in his work as
a fisheries biometrician (he explains what that is)
has researched and written an essay on what has happened in the State of
Washington with these administrative bureaucracies. These bureaucracies
have tremendous power and they wield it with disdain for our constitutions, such
as we are now seeing with the Water Resources Inventory Assessment (WRIA's)
districts. In the following essay, you will see just how arrogant these
folks are and who is calling the shots. The essay appears below and
is also attached as a WORD document. I hope you will take the time to read
it.
Ron Ewart
Fall City, WA
425 222-9482
SALMON POLITICS
By Dr. Robert
Crittenden
Introduction.
I am a PhD Fisheries Biometrician that is a fisheries biologist who
is, also, a mathematician/statistician. But, over the last decade, I have been
writing books on politics. In this
talk, I will tell you about my three books, and in the process will tell you
something about the salmon crisis and the programs it
leverages.
I. Salmon at Risk
During the early 1990's, while I was doing consulting, as a
biometrician, for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, I became aware
that they were deliberately depressing the salmon stocks. At that time, I was still naive about
the major environmental groups. I thought that they might do something about it.
So, I decided that I would tell one of them.
I spoke to the State Director of the Audubon Society. --- He listened
to me for about five minutes, then he said, "Yes, we are doing it, but you'll
never be able to prove it." The
next day, I went to the local environmental clearing house and newspaper, The
Green Pages. --- As I already knew about it, they told me the rest of the
story.
What they said was that the heads of the Washington Departments of
Fish and Wildlife, Ecology, and Natural Resources, the Tribal Fisheries
Commission, the Sierra Club, and the Audubon Society had been meeting on a
weekly basis to decide which fish stocks to depress in order to leverage
environmental programs. The Green Pages had been regularly attending those
meetings in order to be on top of developments.
After that, I quit working for the Department and wrote a book about
this. It contains quite a lot more about this than just this one incident. But,
I think that conveys the substance of what was going
on.
No one was talking about this, back in 1993. Today, most people in
the Northwest know this, but back then, no one did. I went on a speaking tour,
and sold approximately 1200 copies of Salmon at Risk in Western Washington. I
also had relatively good coverage on conservative talk radio. This book had an
impact.
II.
Elite Planners
Then, I began a second book.
I knew what policies they had been trying to leverage, so I looked into
the organizations who claimed those policies. These were The Nature Conservancy
of Washington, the Washington Roundtable, the Northwest Renewable Resources
Center, Discovery Institute, and a few others.
I did what is called "an analysis of interlocking directorates" to
determine who the decision makers behind them had been. --- The result was that
it appears that they were about two-dozen heads of big business in Washington
State. Most of them were old money, many of them are names, which will be
familiar to you, a significant number of them are from the "Seattle
Establishment." The book contains,
summaries of the organizations' programs, tables of their boards of directors,
and a brief biography for each of them.
It has been used as a reference manual by the Conservative Caucus in the
Washington State Legislature. --- When people came into their office, they could
look up who they were, what groups they were members of, and what programs those
group claimed.
I named that book, "Elite Planners" because it is about these
planning organizations, which represent the elite, here in Washington
State. I later combined it with my
first book, Salmon at Risk, as a combined book, under the title, "Two Studies of
Public Policy in Washington State".
III.
Politics of Change.
At about that time, I realized that although I knew what they had
done and who they were, I did not understand why they had done it. I spent the next four and a half years
researching that question. --- The final result was a history of Western
thought, tracing both the conservative and liberal agendas from their origins to
the present day.
The conservative agenda or, more exactly, the Western viewpoint, is
usually attributed to Aristotle. It reached virtually its modern form in the
works of Cicero, who led the group who assassinated Julius Caesar in the Senate
House. These Classical writings
were lost during the Dark Ages, but were rediscovered around 1200, during the
Golden Age of France. At that time, Thomas Aquinas, wrote, based on them, what
became essentially the "constitution" for all the governments of Western Europe
during the Medieval Period.
There were relatively few major changes from then to the present. ---
Richard Hooker made a few, at the end of the medieval period; John Locke made
some, around the time of the English Glorious Revolution, of 1688; and finally
some changes were made in writing the US Constitution. --- That document
represents essentially the finished form of Western political
thought.
It was only then, that the liberal or "Eastern" position really came
together. It is essentially counter-cultural, an antithesis to the Western
position. It began life in Prussian
under Frederick the Great. The major steps in its further development were as
follows: Kant, who shattered the Western paradigm; Fichte, was the philosopher
of jackbooted authoritarianism; and Hegel, was seminal to many ideas of modern
liberalism.
Karl Marx was Hegel's brightest student. His ideas bring us up to the
First World War. The "new world order," which was to follow it, was based, in
part, upon his ideas. But, the US and Britain did not sign the Treaty of
Versailles. So, that attempt failed.
Then, the Paretian Scholars at Harvard University set out to design a
new structure for society. And the University of Chicago was involved in this
effort, too. They invented the New Deal, which was how America was run from 1933
to approximately 1960. After that,
we began a transition to yet another form of government. That new form might be
called "Neo-Democracy". It was the brainchild of Elton Mayo, who was one of the
Paretian Scholars at Harvard.
J. Edwards Deming spent a Summer working in Mayo's project, while he
was a graduate student. He finished his doctorate at Yale, worked briefly for
the US Census, and then was invited to introduce this scheme into business in
Japan. You may know it by the name "Total Quality Management" or
"TQM."
Red China has also been run by this scheme from their very beginning.
But, it is not a form of Communism. Mao gave one of the best brief descriptions
of it, when he said: "We are no longer Communist in the Russian sense of the
word, we are a right wing socialist democracy."
I need to pause, here, briefly here to explain what "socialist
democracy" means in this context. ---
Aristotle said that the rights of man reside in the individual
because he or she has an intellect that is the left brained higher reasoning
process, which allows the individual to create new ideas. That is the basis of
the structure of Western society.
But, some people don't have an intellect. Aristotle said that they
are slaves by their nature. They don't like that idea. They invented a new
concept: "the mind as white paper," that is that society trains into people all
the ideas they will ever have. Thus, society is the source of ideas and,
therefore, the origin of all valid authority, instead of the individual. This is
what is meant by "socialism" in this context.
Also a totalitarian State, where the State systematically imposes its
ideas on the people is a better expression of the views of the people, a purer
democracy, than if this process of writing on their otherwise blank minds were
left to chance and individuals are allowed to express themselves in what we view
as "democracy" in the Western World.
Thus, when they say "socialist democracy", they probably mean
"totalitarian collectivism."
This may strike you as weird twisted abstract philosophy. Except for
one thing: This new form of government is in place, today, in Washington
State. You will find it in the
Watershed Councils and Water Resource Inventory
Areas.
These are appointed councils, run by the consensus process. You have
no voice on who sits on these councils. They are appointed by various means
except that none of them are not elected nor appointed by people you elect
acting through due process. This is
essentially the same structure of local government as Red China has, it is based
on the scheme invented by Elton Mayo.
The Watershed Councils and WRIA's are controlled through funding. The
funding stream leads up to the Salmon Recovery Board. Sitting at its head is
William Ruckelshaus. This year, he controls, largely at his sole discretion,
approximately 100 million dollars of Federal Salmon Recovery Funds, for
Washington State. With this kind of money behind him, he is effectively the Czar
of Washington.
And you will find him sitting on the boards of the various elite
planning organizations I examined in my second book, Elite Planners. They in turn connect to planning groups
on the national and international levels. This is our new governance
system. This is what
"globalization" means to us here at the grass roots level in Washington
State.