Please read the following account of recent
testimony by the National
Cattlemen's Beef regarding Federal claims to authority over all manner of
wetlands from sheetwater to riparian areas and marshes. A question for us
all follows.
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=56662
NCBA: Oklahoma Cattleman Defends Property Rights to Senate
Subcommittee
"Washington, D.C. (August 1, 2006) - The government should not be
regulating
wetlands or ditches on farmers' and ranchers' private property under the
Clean Water Act, according to Keith Kisling, a cattle rancher and wheat
farmer from Burlington, Oklahoma. Kisling says recent decisions issued by
the U.S. Supreme Court limit the waters subject to regulation under the Act,
and the government needs to act accordingly."
"The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's Subcommittee on
Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water called the hearing to discuss the impact of
the Supreme Court's decisions in the joint cases of Rapanos v. United States
and Carabell v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on "The Waters of the United
States." Kisling testified today on behalf of the National
Cattlemen's Beef
Association (NCBA) and National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG)."
QUESTION: If the Federal bureaucrats and politicians and some courts
maintain Federal authority over all manner of wetlands, how come they have
been BUYING wetlands from private property owners since the 1920's and
paying property owners for EASEMENTS on private property to not drain, burn,
or fill wetlands since the 1950's? How can they claim jurisdiction over
something they have been spending BILLIONS to purchase or ease for years?
If they already had jurisdiction, the Federal money was misspent and the
landowners hoodwinked into "selling" something that was not theirs.
If the
money was properly spent to buy something OWNED by a private citizen, how
then can the government claim to now own and control all such things anyway?
If the government claims jurisdiction over wetlands of all stripes on
"PRIVATE PROPERTY", how can The Nature Conservancy and government pay
a
private owner for something already under the control of the Federal
government.
Answer: They can't have it both ways but they are having it both ways.
Like so many things like the lies by bureaucrats (I could write books about
them) about the environment and wildlife and "Endangered"
"Species" et al
that are either rewarded by Congress or ignored by the Courts there is a
total absence of common sense, Constitutional justice, and/or
accountability.
The stench of corruption and duplicity clogs the senses.
Jim Beers
3 August 2006
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