You Say You Don't Know Who to Blame?  Come on!

By Ron Ewart, President

National Association of Rural Landowners

September 2, 2007

Los Angeles may run out of power in a day or so and have to go to rolling brownouts or blackouts because the summer temperature is too high and it's not the first time.  Why?  Because they don't have a sufficient reserve of electric power to handle peaks in demand.  Why?  Because environmentalists have stopped or regulated to death, with the help of our government, the construction of any new power generating capacity.  Where do most environmentalists live?  In big cities where the peak demand comes from.  You say you don't know who to blame?  It's easy!  Blame the wild-eyed, radical, city-born environmentalists and the government that aides and abets them.

Did we hear you say that the cost of gasoline is seriously eating into your budgets?  Do tell!  You say, why is it we, the most powerful nation on earth, have to buy 60% of our crude oil from foreign countries, leaving us open to the blackmail of oil cartels?  Again, why you say?  Why doesn't the government do something?  Oh, but the government already did something.  They caved into the wild-eyed, radical, city-born environmentalists and have stopped, or regulated to death, the construction of any new refineries.  And they have stopped or regulated to death the exploration and extraction of any new sources of crude oil.  You say you don't know who to blame?  It's easy!  Blame the wild-eyed, radical, city-born environmentalists and the government that aides and abets them.

Did we hear you say that your land is being "stolen" by government due to all the rules, regulations, acts, laws, ordinances and restrictions they pass on your private property and you say you don't know who to blame?  Come on!  Blame the wild-eyed, radical, city-born environmentalists and the government that aides and abets them.

Now the wild-eyed, radical, city-born environmentalists want to reduce our economic engine even further by foisting on us the debilitating myth of man-caused global warming.  They make us feel guilty about our life style, our owning SUV's, and driving too far.  But wait!  The car is about the only freedom of movement we have left.  They want us to ride bicycles to work.  They want us to build costly "green" houses and buildings.  They want us to subsidize so-called alternative energy sources, like wind and solar power, that have no chance whatsoever of replacing the much more efficient energy sources of crude oil, coal, natural gas or nuclear power.  They want us to grow mega volumes of corn and refine it into methanol that ends up driving food prices higher and uses up more energy to produce it than methanol saves.  In fact, if they could, these wild-eyed, radical, city-born environmentalists would drive us back into the dark ages if they could.  If you let them, they will.

What was that again?  Did we hear you say that your taxes or too high and they keep rising every year.  Now how could that be?  Why doesn't the government do something.  Oh, but the government already has done something.  They are in "bed" with the socialists, the communists and the wild-eyed, radical, city-born environmentalists and boy have they done something.  They have created a multi-headed monster of government politicians and bureaucrats that are drunk with power and out of control.  They have an insatiable need to feed on your tax dollars to please all the wild-eyed, radical, city-born environmentalists, socialists and communists with those dollars and the wild-eyed, radical, city-born environmentalists, socialists and communists continue to vote for these politicians to make sure they continue to receive their largess and meet their special-interest demands.

So you say, who do we blame for all the power blackouts, high gas prices, high taxes and the loss of freedom, liberty and property rights?  Oh, now you say you have seen the light.  We should blame the government and the wild-eyed, radical, city-born environmentalists, socialists and the communists.   But what if you are a wild-eyed, radical, city-born environmentalists, socialists, or a communists?  Then who do you blame?  Yourself?  Hardly!  You'll blame the government for not doing something.  Then you'll blame all the conservatives for trying to hold government within its constitutional limits so that it doesn't do something stupid.

But is the government and these special interest groups really the culprit, or are you the culprit for allowing them this much power over you?  We have a constitution that limits their power, but the constitution and those limits are only as good as those that are willing to risk all to defend and enforce them.  Otherwise, you can go on blaming the government and the wild-eyed, radical, city-born environmentalists, socialists and the communists, but you'd be directing your anger and frustration at the wrong enemy.   For the right enemy to blame, look in the mirror.  Maybe then you will come to the conclusion that you may eventually have to choose to reform the man you see looking back at you and the disturbing realization that that reformation might cost you a bunch.

Unfortunately, given the timid, if not non-existent response to our continuous efforts to defend your freedom, liberty and property rights, we have to ask if any of you are actually looking in the mirror these days, or even care.  We do know that at least a few of you care, but nowhere near enough.

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"Words, in and of themselves, will change nothing.  Only dedicated action by a very large group of righteous individuals, motivated by the principled ideals of freedom and liberty, will produce meaningful change."     Ron Ewart

Ron Ewart, President

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RURAL LANDOWNERS

P. O. Box 1031 , Issaquah , WA   98027

425 222-4742 or 1 800 682-7848

(Fax No. 425 222-4743)

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