Thursday, September 27, 2007
Dots Coalesce to form an Ugly Mass
serious threat
Please email your congress “representatives” to VOTE NO ON S. 1870 and H.R.2421
Here’s why:
By now you have all read the IBD articles on Soros which I referenced below. [you haven’t? no more *spankin’s* 4 U !!! git!]
As we have learned in the shakeout from that bill, The “Campaign Finance Reform” aka McCain/Feingold was crafted for the convenience of Soros and his 527’s. Which means Mr Feingold is, at best, seriously compromised by, or, at most likely, a wholly owned subsidiary of Soros.
Here’s his latest offering to his Master.
Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007 (Introduced in Senate)
[if linky is expired go to thomas.gov and put in S. 1870 and H.R.2421]
I’ll excerpt a few things just to getcha started:
(1) Water is a unique and precious resource that is necessary to sustain human life and the life of animals and plants.
Yeah, ok: “water = good.” I geddit.
What I also get is that any and all land is completely useless without it. Useless, valueless, unsalable, dead. Which is why, historically, Water Law has held that the rights to the water under the land go with the land itself. The rights to what falls outta the sky onto the land are treated similarly. The big fights come when the water that falls onto the land collects and runs into major streams and rivers and the downstream folks want a piece of it.
Usually, the first person to claim water rights from a stream/river has the first claim on the water. Those rights can be and are sold independent of land.
This stuff doesn’t mean much so far to those living in the ‘burbs. Deeds in incorporated cities usually specifically exclude the right to dig your own well and commit the owner to using the municipal water source.
Don’t wander off yet, ‘k?
(7) Small and intermittent streams, including ephemeral and seasonal streams, comprise the majority of all stream miles in the United States and serve critical biological and hydrological functions that affect entire watersheds. These waters reduce the introduction of pollutants to large streams and rivers, provide and purify drinking water supplies, and are especially important to the life cycles of aquatic organisms and the flow of higher order streams during floods.
“Intermittent and ephemeral” streams—which every danged agency I can find refuses to officially define—include that gopher hole that water runs out of after a big storm and every low spot that does or could possibly hold water at any time for any length of time.
Yeah—that little low spot in the back of your garden. Hold that in mind.
EC. 4. DEFINITION OF WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES.
...
(24) WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES- The term `waters of the United States’ means all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing, to the fullest extent that these waters, or activities affecting these waters, are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution.’.
SEC. 5. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) is amended--
(1) by striking `navigable waters of the United States’ each place it appears and inserting `waters of the United States’;
(2) in section 304(l)(1) by striking `NAVIGABLE WATERS’ in the heading and inserting `WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES’; and
(3) by striking `navigable waters’ each place it appears and inserting `waters of the United States’.
So. From “protecting” and “preventing pollution in” the “navigable waters” of the US, this bill is proposing to change the focus to placing every drop of surface water under its control.
Swell.
And not just “these waters,” but “activities affecting these waters.” Which means each and every one of us is subject to, among dozens of others, the kind ministrations of the Army Corps of Engineers.
This overrides every local county permit bureau, every state licensing and permission process, every everything.
But wait—there’s more.
The Clean Water Restoration Act would codify the regulations the federal agencies have used to enforce the Clean Water Act for over 30 years. This is necessary to prevent the judicial branch from re-defining “navigable waters’’ as something other than the “waters of the United States.’’
This country was based on the idea that the Law would be written by those directly answerable to the Voters. To the Citizen. The People.
The advent of Agencies and Agency Regulations has taken that concept out and had it summarily shot. Federal, State and Local Agencies create “regulations” which have the force of Law but which are created, enforced and adjudicated by Agency personnel without any citizen recourse to “Throwing the Bums Out” at the ballot box. Even elected legislators are helpless in the face of Agencies.
They created these monsters but failed to install an “off” button to pull the plug. And that, Virginia, is what is meant by the term “shadow government.”
With these Bills [S. 1870 and H.R.2421] they’re going to do it again.
Only this time what is at stake is the lifeblood of the country: Water.
Why this had my alarm bells clanging
The wording in these Bills is eerily similar to the wording in General Plan 2020 —for all counties I have studied. Santa Cruz had similar wording in their GP2020 and allowed monitoring of wells “for the collection of groundwater table data.” Within a year the wells were metered for usage and within 2 years the government was telling folks how much water they could take from their own wells. In Monterey the story is the same—they’re down to being allowed 85% of their previous usage.
Meanwhile the cities are pumping twice and more of their historic usage, creating water table droppage and land subsidence. Cities are being allowed to annex areas for pave-over housing developments which are directly on top of “recharge areas.” [areas where the geology allows the rainfall to filter down and recharge the groundwater aquifers.]
[For Reference: A regular old rural household with hobby animals uses about an acre/foot of well water per year. (Agriculture uses more, depending on the kind. Lots of ag is what is known as ‘dry farming’ which relies on rainfall) One smallish city around here is currently pumping 4 acre/feet per day over and above its legally allowed amount from the same aquifer used by rural residents and farmers. Who’s using up the water?]
This is not about pollution or protection: this is about “He who controls the Water controls the people.”
Please email your congress “representatives” to VOTE NO ON S. 1870 and H.R.2421
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