L E T T E R S

December 2, 2007

Subject: Kudos to Wadhams
 
Raeana Wadhams should be vociferously congratulated for her stand in the face of those with anti-property agendas to fulfill or so easily influenced by what must have been intimidation. I either left voice messages on each of the commissioners' cell phones or spoke with them directly on Thursday, the day before the meeting and vote -- and sent my latest letter, pasted below the article, to all of them. They had in their possession, i.e., knowledge, the facts, which pointed out all the reasons why they should drop all plans to implement the "National Animal Identification System," or "NAIS." Eight of them still voted to coerce and bully the youth of Colorado, their parents and other property owners, including the voices of concern emanating from a few savvy state legislators. Eight appointed fair commissioners, unelected by the voters of Colorado, have run roughshod over the people and property rights of Colorado.
 
Well, Colorado folks: Now the ball's in your court. This is your chance to show both the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Colorado State Fair and all its "partners," and the rest of America, what you intend to do to make your own concerns regarding the "NAIS" heard. It's clear that eight members of the State Fair Board think they have infinite power over all private property in Colorado and that the Colorado State Fair can steal the legal clout of property and replace it with the mere tenant pabulum of "premises." May the Custer County Livestock Club see a statewide version, including a Livestock Club at the statewide level that spurns any such ties with the "NAIS" or the current policy of the Colorado State Fair!
 
"The three great rights are so bound together as to be essentially one right. To give a man his life, but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty, but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave." - George Sutherland, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1921.
 
Julie Kay Smithson, property rights researcher
213 Thorn Locust Lane
London, Ohio 43140
propertyrights@earthlink.net
740-857-1239 (voice; no fax)