David Harsanyi's column "Hide the decline . . . and more," prompted me to write the following:
The minute an American Citizen's paycheck goes to the government, its journey should be tracked to identify where it goes and if we approve.
If our paycheck heads off in a direction we disapprove, we should have the power to stop it!
Any thievery along the line would be exposed and dealt with before it brought harm to anyone.
Trace back would most likely reveal a lion's share of our paychecks go to a private corporation known as Federal Reserve.
Someone needs to develop the illustration that will clearly show how eco-activist groups can be traced back to Hank Paulson, Goldman Sachs, Al Gore and President Obama. Those of us in domestic resource production know they partner on birthing policies out of climate change, clean water and restoration act, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea Treaty, health care, stimulus bills, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of the Interior (and more), in order to get land and water assets (For the Federal Reserve?). The general public deserves the right to see this picture too!
Some "on the ground techniques" these partners use to get land and water: Stop logging (Gave us some horrific forest fires and pine bark beetle.); shut off water (Klamath Falls, irrigation ditches everywhere USA, San Joaquin Valley); prostitute the Endangered Species Act to stop resource production; threats of condemnation and eminent domain (See South Eastern CO. It isn't the US Army.); conservation easements and land trusts.
Most of these takings are made possible by government grants and litigations, as verified by Wyoming attorney Karen Budd-Falen, in her work: "Tracking your taxes, Americans spend millions for environmental groups to sue the government."
Even the Western Governors Association talks about "green hubs," telling you they can't use "public land" to install wind power transmission lines (but can't provide one single solitary valid reason as to why), and therefore "have to look into getting access on private property." Trojan horses sent in to take away private property is my observation!
As Lord Christopher Monckton said to Greenpeace activist at Copenhagen (and I paraphrase): " Why wouldn't I tell you the truth? It's easy to check out what I'm saying. Don't believe me...check this out for yourself."
12/15/09, I faxed Senator Barrasso: "The American Wildlife Federation's - a.k.a. eco-activist community - push for the Clean Water Restoration Act follows exactly - Saddam Hussein's execution of Weapons of Mass Destruction - via his building causeways and draining of valuable waters away from aquatic and other agriculture in Iraq."
When the AWF presented itself as The Clean Water Restoration Act spokesperson, that was a red flag.
We didn't elect the AWF, EPA, Obama's czars or any eco-activist group to represent us. Therefore they should be forced to either get the hell off the stage, or run for public office and place themselves in front of the American Republic for thorough scrutiny and subsequent accountability for their actions!
Or - as Harsanyi better stated (Article posted following.) in "Hide the decline...": "At the very least, taxpayers should be able to hold government-funded scientific institutions to the same level of accountability as they do the local dog pound."
Another observation? Senator Reid is America's Saddam Hussein, by his stealings of Idaho/Utah (and more) water. His health care bill is also symbolic of how his actions avoid our Constitution to seek to seize power and control over Americans.
What we haven't been able to figure out is: "What does mainstream media have to gain by supporting policies designed to destroy America?" Are they too...invested in the Federal Reserve?
America is in an emergency domestic crisis. Wish I was the President, for I see clearly how to solve this crisis in a peaceful, workable way.
How? I'd use my Executive Order powers to: Abolish the practices of Federal Reserve, income tax and government grants; put in place the American Consumer Tax (ACT); initiate a "trace forward" of each American Citizen's paycheck; end law or policy making by any entity not defined as Congress under our Constitution; trace back each law or policy already made by entities not defined as congress and rescind it; trace back and abolish each practice within the federal government that is un-constitutional, and return states rights.
Thank you,
Roni Bell Sylvester
P.O. Box 155
La Salle, CO 80645
970-284-6874
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Harsanyi: Hide the decline . . . and more
By David Harsanyi
Posted: 12/16/2009 01:00:00 AM MST
In this country, even a global warming denialist with a carbon fetish and bad intentions has the right to see the inner workings of government.
Or at least he should.
When leaked e-mails recently exposed talk of manipulating scientific evidence on global warming, Kevin Trenberth, head of the climate analysis section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, argued that skeptics, and other evil-doers, had cherry-picked and presented his comments out of context.
To rectify this injustice, I sent Trenberth (and NCAR) a Freedom of Information request asking for his e-mail correspondences with other renowned climate scientists in an effort to help contextualize what they've been talking about.
Surely the tragically uninformed among us could use some perspective on innocuous Trenberth comments like "we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't" or "we are [nowhere] close to knowing where energy is going or whether clouds are changing to make the planet brighter."
Trenberth, lead author of the 1995, 2001 and 2007 IPCC Scientific Assessment of Climate Change, obtains approximately 95 percent of his funding through the federal government via the National Science Foundation.
Well, soon after the request was fired off, I was informed by NCAR's counsel that the organization was, in fact, not a federal agency - since its budget is laundered through the National Science Foundation
- thus it is under no obligation to provide information to the public.
"Why don't you put all your emails online for everyone to see," Trenberth helpfully suggested to me. "My email is none of your business."
Now, generally, I would agree. It's every American citizen's hallowed duty to mind his or her own freaking business - except in those rare instances when one of those citizens happens to be a taxpayer-funded eco-crusader, utilizing his appointed station in life to promote policy that sticks its nose into the lives of every American.
I'm afraid snarky columnizing, on the other hand, is not federally funded - at least not yet.
In fact, Trenberth's work is one reason the nation is moving toward rationed energy use via cap-and-trade legislation. His work is one reason the Environmental Protection Agency, through its endangerment findings on carbon emissions, can regulate industry by decree. It is Trenberth's government-financed science that drives public policy across this country. Yet Trenberth has less accountability to the public than the local parks department.
He is not alone. The Competitive Enterprise Institute - one of those troglodyte-funded, big- screen-television-loving outfits - was forced to file three Notices of Intent to File Suit against NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, demanding the organization provide documents and raw data that was requested under the Freedom of Information Act three years ago.
Chris Horner, an attorney and senior fellow at CEI working on the NASA case, says of NCAR: "Without government these jobs would not exist, that is a reasonable threshold test to determine whether documents should be available to the taxpayer."
Public confidence continues to fall on the global warming alarmism front. There are many reasons for this. But if the evidence of coming tragedy is as incontrovertible as we're told, taxpayers certainly should not have to beg those they pay to hand it over.
At the very least, taxpayers should be able to hold government-funded scientific institutions to the same level of accountability as they do the local dog pound.
E-mail David Harsanyi at dharsanyi@denverpost.com.