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if I have ever read one. That is a global tablish their own 75'-100' buffer zones total loss to themselves, and yet still pay
governance ideal, and not an American around water areas and sub-irrigated full taxes on it as well.
reflection. Nowhere in the U.S. Constitu- areas on private property where live- In history, the only time I have seen
tion does it say that we are to comply and stock might be present. This single move anybody demand land for free is when
submit to the sustainable development will wipe out most livestock owners and a country invades and conquers another
eco-governance regulations system of crush our local economies, as the land country in a war.
the United Nations—nowhere. they seek to regulate around these water- So I ask you, when did an agency
That is called "foreign governance" ways is the best grazing land that people that was first established to serve the
and requires a ratified treaty at the U.S. have available to feed their animals. It people and handle huge issues like
Senate level. If you might recall, we re- will wipe out many cattlemen because industrial pollution on a mega scale
jected the idea of "foreign governance" a the cattle─that you and I eat—the best slither into their current position of be-
few years back when we ran the British and healthiest meat in the world—re- ing our private property rights master,
right out of our country! We didn't want quire grass. The best grass and grazing telling us to give them our private land
it then and we don't want it now. When is exactly where the DoE wants to stop without even having to go through both
the governor or anybody else suggests all grazing. Do you agree that livestock state and U.S. constitutional guidelines
that we need to be in compliance with owners should not be allowed to feed of due process?
"sustainable development," that is what their animals? Do you agree that we “Due process” is guaranteed in
they are referring to: the global eco- don’t need a local healthy food supply? both constitutions and simply cannot
governance regulations system called Nobody in his right mind would ever be trumped with the Revised Code of
sustainable development. So July 1st is agree to either of those things. Washington—it’s not even legally pos-
fast approaching. The Washington land- “Seventy-five to one hundred feet sible. Typically those kinds of practices
owners and livestock owners have tried beyond the highest watermarks” means are left to dictatorships and communist
unsuccessfully for the past eight years that a farmer could have his entire land countries, and they have absolutely no
to pass bills in the legislature that would boundaries within that watermark— place in our nation. So we must refuse
benefit the landowners and protect their some people have several thousand acres to submit to anything that opposes our
private property rights and livestock that exist within these watermarks, all of “due process of law” guarantee, which
ownership. which they have bought and paid for at is repeated many times throughout both
Almost every single attempt has full asking price, and all of which they the state and U.S. constitutions.
failed, as we have been fighting against pay taxes on. Yet they are being told to René Holaday
federal grants that are used to sway our give it up without due process of the law, Chewelah, Washington
politicians in the opposite direction. which is a repeated requirement in both
Now is the year we have been dreading the state and U.S. constitutions, and they This sounds like a good case for the
and fighting to prevent—the year that are also being told they must give it up Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense
the servant (government agencies) has without any form of a buyout transac- Fund.
become the tyrant and has morphed into tion either. The DoE will offer a person
some unruly agency that is now master a couple dollars per acre per year, even
and commander of the people, attempt- though the farmer had to pay full price.
ing to take people's private property They are never presented with a legiti-
through unconstitutional regulations mate buyout offer reflecting the current
and foreign dictates, and acting outside land values, and loss of revenue from Gifts and bequests to the
its legal boundaries provided for by the legitimate livestock business transac- Weston A. Price Foundation
state and U.S. constitutions. tions. Instead they honestly think people will help ensure the gift
On July 1st, the Washington state should just more or less give their land of good health
Department of Ecology (DoE) can es- and their businesses to the agency at a to future generations.
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