Dear Consumer,
Do you know that the so called "Farm Bill" is in truth, The CONSUMER Farm Bill. Why? 51% of the total budget goes towards School Lunch Programs and Food Stamps. The former leads you to believe farmers are welfare recipients. This is not true. So tell your public servant they must stop this misleading perception, and correctly call said bill "The Consumer Farm Bill."
All food products grown solely in the United States of America should labeled as such. America's Agriculture Producers unfailingly provide you-the consumer, with safe, succulent food. You have the right to know which products are grown in America, and which are not.
Although Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) was passed into law in 2002, implementation has been deliberately aborted by a congress that caves to importers whose drive to make money overrides your health and safety.
Do you know that America's Resource Producers are under siege by non-government organizations (NGO) and your Federal Government? This is true. Your federal government partnered with NGO' s and embraced European ideals, to bring ingenious methods of stealing (STEALING) land and water from a resource provider near you.
Although county commissioners have the power to stop the stealing, most won't because they're scared, bought off, or stupid. They are leaving you to be controlled by people not of your vote or invitation.
The growth rate of Federal NGO control is trouncing any gain of independence by our Republic.
If you don't want your Farmers Markets replaced by an NGO who rations you a cup of milk, then get smart. Learn who's who, and what's what.
Attacks on your local resource providers are so unrelenting, unreasonable, unjust, illegal and harsh, that some have expressed giving up to suicide. Others have vowed that if ever diagnosed with a terminal disease, they'll take those they consider their enemy with them.
Your friend,
Roni
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Greetings,
I am forwarding this information from the Burkharts. They live in the North end of the Super Slab corridor, adding injury to insult, they were notified of plans to for a uranium mining operation in Northern Weld County.
I have no first hand knowledge about this plan, but the attached letter below has contact information, if you wish more firsthand information.
Water issues in Colorado have come to a critical point. As short as we are on water, it seems unreasonable to use it to mine uranium.
I understand this is one more thing to fight and impose on our already limited time, but if we are to remain a free people we must continue to fight the wrongs which rich, powerful people seem to think they can impose
on us just because they can.
Sharon
Hello all.
We are ramping up for an interesting battle. Please see the letter below and pass it on to as many people as you can. I'm really concerned about the safety of our 4-H club, our livestock, and our own health as well as all the groundwater along the Front Range and beyond. If this mining does truly go through, we have already decided we will move. Where is unknown. But we do know it will not be somewhere that is on the same aquifer as this mining operation.
Will you join us in this effort?
Daryl and Cynthia
Ft.Collins
Now enjoys the distinction of being nationally recognized for it's quality of life, featured as one of the top 15 healthiest cities in October of 2003 in the Organic Style Magazine and also named the 2006 Number One place to live in America by Money Magazine.
Soon, unless immediate action is taken, the less than honorable mention of Fort Collins' proximity to toxic uranium mining and contaminated underground water supplies will be added to those kudos. This dismal forecast will be a result of Powertech Uranium Corporation's recent mineral rights purchases in Weld County. The Canadian firm informed local residents via certified letter last October that it intends to mine uranium U308 utilizing in-situ (in place) mining technology to extract the radioactive component. This process is and will be occurring in a number of other states (Texas, South Dakota and New Mexico) and will be depending on our most precious and limited water supply for this process.
The in-situ leaching process is a cheap and claimed environmentally benign method of extracting uranium from low grade ore deposits. This method works by injecting chemically charged native ground water into the element bearing porous sandstone aquifer causing the uranium to dissolve in the ground water. This solution is then pumped to a centralized facility to extract the uranium from the solution, stripped of uranium, the groundwater is then recharged and reinjected starting the process over.
The known dangers of the in-situ leaching technology are:
a) The risk that deadly, radioactive leaching compounds will spread outside of the uranium deposit and contaminate Front Range water supplies, (as has been the case in other areas where uranium is mined);
b) The unpredictable impact of the leaching solution on the rock formations; 1) Releases considerable amounts of radon. 2) The bonus of extracting other toxic heavy metals needing disposal. 3) The impossibility of restoring natural groundwater conditions. 4) Disposal of radioactive waste water and slurries.
Right now, Weld County residents need technical, political, legal and environmentalist support. We also need courageous elected officials to invest themselves candidly, bravely and immediately in the defense of the physical and emotional health and fiscal welfare of their constituents. That the limited, imperlied natural resources that remain in Colorado need their unequivocal support, has been obvious for a long time.
Were you asked if you'd like to take the risk of having deadly uranium mined in your area? Contact your representatives and ask them if they will help us to defend what is left of our precious natural resources and the outstanding reputation of quality of life. Mining in Nunn is moving forward.
Robin Davis
Nunn, Colorado
970-481-6539
robin@mustanghollow.com
March 28, 2007
What about the Children?
As I watched the democratic house pass the bill to put a deadline on the Iraq war, several thoughts surfaced amongst others. The main overriding thought was that those that voted to impose this arbitrary and capricious political deadline have turned their backs on the very principles they have allegedly stood behind in years past.
Not once during this entire debate has any of their past liberal soapbox orations surfaced. How many times has the American population been told not one child must be left behind? How many times have we been told we must support and lift up women from decades of oppression at the hands of a “male dominated” society? We didn’t hear that once from any of the NOW gang that have succeeded in “breaking the glass ceiling” on the backs of other ”oppressed” women. NOW women like Nancy Pelosi and Hilary Clinton that are in public office.
Why does that matter? Well, if I wasn’t aware of the women and children that have spent decades in brutal oppression in Iraq, I guess I could go about my day. If I never saw that picture of a blue finger of a first time free voting woman, I guess I could be a mindless minion of the liberal ilk. If I never saw images of the Iraqi children our soldiers are helping and sending back home for badly needed surgery, I guess I could sleep better at night. If I never knew of the women that are finally allowed to enter higher education for the betterment of their families, I guess none of this would matter. If I’ve never seen or known any of the heroes that have given their lives and limbs for these same Iraqi women and children, my heart would not ache and my tears would not fall in silence.
Yet I have to remind myself it was the liberal media that “enlightened” me and brought us those images as they clamored about all of the brutal rapes and savaging of these same women and children at the hands of Saddam’s regime.
We are there for a reason that is bigger than any of these small minded, myopically focused opportunistic career politicians. We are there to free a people long term and give them a chance at building a far better civilization than they have ever known.
If there was an overwhelming democratic majority in the senate and house voted in by the voters last fall, as democrat Pelosi claims “a mandate”, then I guess it would ring true, but it doesn’t It was a razor thin 50/50 split in both the house and senate, not a mandate by any standard.
IF this “mandate” was true, then that means the “Pelosi ilk” voters “mandated” we stop supporting those Iraqi women, children and elderly that need our military muscle to pave their future stability. This also means those same voters “mandated” we give up on our men and women of the military service that have volunteered to be there. That means these same voters “mandated” we give up supporting the mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, wives and children of these same military volunteers. That means these “Pelosi ilk” gave up on me and my family as my first born son, also a volunteer,who is proudly serving in the Navy aboard the USS Ronald Reagan.
Where would this country be if it were not for the support and efforts of the other volunteer men, women and countries with vision that aided us in our time of need over 200 years ago? We would have lost and would still be subjects of the English crown to this day!
We are at a historically defining moment in humanity and playing small minded political games just to garner a vote for reelection and grandstanding against President Bush’s administration is political narcissism at its finest.
Sincerely,
Richard Frost
POB 4145
Las Cruces, NM 88003
March 27, 2007
Governor Bill Ritter
To: The Honorable Governor Bill Ritter
From: Rightful Water Users of Colorado
Our Honorable Governor Bill Ritter,
We, the rightful water users of Colorado, are having our water usage seized from us by ways that are grossly unjust and most likely illegal.
These water takings are encumbering our agricultural production to such extent our beloved state of Colorado is on the cusp of crashing.
There is a reasonable solution though, that you, Governor Ritter, have authority to implement. Please consider this our honest plead that you consider this an extraordinary occasion to justify your convene of the General Assembly by proclamation, stating therein the purpose of - “Reinstatement of Water Authorities- State Engineers.”
Following is a bit of history, which compels our request.
In 1997, the Governors of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado – with then Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt, signed a “Cooperative Agreement for Platte River Research and Other Efforts Relating to Endangered Species Habitat Along the Central Platte River, Nebraska, “ aka “The Platte River Program” (PRP)
We have reason to believe this was the first step towards a direct assault on the Constitution of the State of Colorado.
Subsequently, former Governor Bill Owens signed PRP implementation agreement in October 2006, thereby committing land, money and water that weren’t his to commit.
Instead of going into the finite details of this program, some known assaults on our state’s Constitution include:
Through the PRP, ESA claims they can now mandate that the three states relinquish their water rights over to their allegedly endangered species in Nebraska. ESA also decided that having these allegedly endangered species blessed them with all the water they demand for their species, and that they, instead of the states, would thereon manage certain land and water resources within the states.
Aside from ESA’s actions being ugly for all three states, neither Colorado nor Wyoming has knowledge of claimants - the interior least tern, whopping crane, pallid sturgeon and piping plover - having habitats in either state. Additionally, neither state has far enough reach to intentionally or unintentionally bring harm to these allegedly endangered species.
There’s an outstanding claim that “All water users in the Platte River basin contribute to the problem for which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service required a solution.” Colorado’s Attorney General should identify, investigate, and deal appropriately with any entity that would make such a grave, frivolous, without merit, slanderous claim against, “All water users in the Platte River.”
Platte River Program violates Article XI – and in particular Sec’s 1 and 3, through it’s commitment of “monetary” ($187 million with no time or dollar ceiling could balloon into untold amounts of dollars.), and “water and land contributions.”
Section 1 clearly states “Neither the State, nor any county, city, town, township or school district, shall lend or pledge the credit or faith thereof, directly or indirectly, in any manner to, or in aid of, any person, company or corporation, public or private, for any amount or for any purpose whatever, or become responsible for any debt, contract or liability of any person, company or corporation, public or private, in or out of the state.”
And Section 3 includes, “The State shall not contract any debt by loan…”
We argue that in addition to exceeding the authority of the state in their non-compliance to Section 1, the PRP compounds the legality of their program, by arbitrarily making a commitment of years, which could be construed as “loan.”
1) PRP violates Article XVI, Sec 5, “The water of every natural stream, not heretofore appropriated, within the State of Colorado:” and Sec 6, “The right to divert the un-appropriated waters of any natural stream to beneficial uses shall never be denied,” by their arbitrary inclusion of un-appropriated – or pre 1876 water rights in said program. And in consideration of the fact that the “right to use” this water holds historically as “property,” PRP also tramples over Article II, Sec.’s 14 and 15.
2) PRP violates Article XVI, Sec 7, by virtue of ignoring the word “upon” – as in no action can be taken until “payment of just compensation.”
3) PRP violates Article XVI, Sec 8, by virtue of waiving states rights to full and open public debate, and the power of the “Board of County Commissioners, in their respective counties.”
Platte River Program gave raise to non-government organizations, which pose authority to “secure” monies to “meet some of these obligations,” and to “ensure compliance.” These groups claim their programs to be voluntary, but – if “you elect to not participate,” they extort you to “pay assessments for prior years.”
Platte River Program in their conveyance that said program is deemed as “contributions” (One may choose whether or not to “contribute” land, water or money.), does in fact tell those who have land, water or money they may or may not “contribute.” This is good, for most agriculture producers are law-abiding citizens, and therefore would certainly exercise their right to “not contribute,” and furthermore “opt out,” so as not to defile Colorado’s State Constitution.
Given the many violations of the Platte River Program, we recommend Governor Bill Ritter remove the State of Colorado (We the people of Colorado) from any obligation or connection with the Platte River Program and any ESA expectation therein.
This water issue has reached such emergency level that necessitates the proclamation of reinstatement of Water Authorities - State Engineers, whereby they can immediately re-claim their duty of scientifically administering our water rights.
Governor Bill Ritter, as the final authority on every matter, you have the power to take our water out of the courts and politics, and place it back on the fields Let those who have the real and scientific knowledge as to practical application of water, and who will scrupulously honor Colorado State Constitution “First in Time, First in Right,” take care of the water matters.
Bringing agricultural water usage whole again, will be the saving grace for our state.
We, the undersigned implore you, our Honorable Governor Bill Ritter, to please convene the General Assembly by proclamation, for the purpose of: Removing water rights administration from the courts and politics, and reinstating administration of water rights to Water Authorities - State Engineers.