Thursday July 22, 2004

Sessions 3 Through 6

Notes from the

Freedom 21 National Conference

July 21 – 24, 2004

Reno , Nevada

 

Thursday, July 22, 2004

   Session 3 – The Big Picture – Reorganizing Society  

           Dr. Michael Coffman reviewed the programs and projects being used to achieve the goals of the Wildlands Project.  

“IUCN Treaties trump US laws.”  “Nature is God” concept has been forced into our colleges since the 1980s.

The 18-page outline of the Biological Diversity Treaty, Agenda 21, and the Wildlands Project is available on the UN website.  Also available are the full documents of the three different agendas and if you read it carefully, you’ll find the ‘smoking gun’ on page 993 where it says that these three programs are “to protect and recover bio-regions” by “eliminating two-thirds of the worlds population in the next 100 years.”  This is why we don’t need to preserve farmland.   

Dr. Coffman went on to describe several of the bio-regions listed in the Wildlands Project agenda.  

  1. Spine of the Continent – Rockies
    1. Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y)
    2. Heart of the West
    3. Southwestern Wildlands (NM & AZ)
  1. Pacific Corridor
    1. Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument – a core area
    2. Sierra Nevada Eco-System Project
  1. Atlantic Corridor – in process since the 1990s
    1. Florida Everglades
    2. Mid-Atlantic
    3. Central Atlantic
    4. Northern Forest Maine , NH, VT

(Going after whole watersheds using Atlantic salmon, and since 1992 using conservation easements to get control of the land.  Conservation easements are not easements at all.  They are a conveyance of rights.  A whole bundle of rights that used to belong to the property owner now belong to the easement owner.  This is stripping the land from the landowner for a cheaper price then the actual value of the land.)  

    1. Highlands Conservation Act – NY, NJ, CT, PA, and all the way down to West Virginia

Within the next 100 years, they will continue to do this all over the U.S. with “no treaty authorization, but are doing it anyway with the cooperation of state governments.”  

  Henry Lamb reviewed the programs and projects that are being used to achieve the goals of Agenda 21, which proposes “sustainable communities” as the alternative to people living where they choose.     

Democracy versus a republic.  The U.S. is a Republic.  

“Every state in this Union is in trouble.”  “[They] are trying to remove the people from their land.  Where are these people going to go?  Into sustainable communities, which is the other side of the Agenda 21 coin.”

“Most elected officials have no clue on what’s really going on; and they are the only ones who can change this ‘crap.’”  “Environmental groups contribute to elected officials coffers and then expect these officials to support their policies.”  

“Smart growth and comprehensive planning strips elected officials of their power to protect private property rights.”  

Our Federal Government has supported and pushed Agenda 21 ever since the presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush.  

How does sustainable development get started in a community?  

Visionary Councils (call them whatever) in small to large communities start meeting six months to a year before the rest of the community even knows about it.  Members of these councils are pre-screened to agree to the agenda consensus.  They start meeting to reach an agreement that was pre-ordained and dictated by Agenda 21.  This includes Comprehensive Land Use Plans.  

“An environmental idiot is one who worships the creation and not the Creator.”  “The Bible doesn’t give government wisdom.”  

Where will we live?  In low-rise, high-density housing developments.  Housing will be located above shops so owners don’t have to travel to work.  “Only government servants will be able to travel freely and own/operate private vehicles.”  The rest of us will be confined in our small sustainable neighborhoods relying totally on the food produced in our near by the “buffer zones.”  

There will be 47 different Bio-reserves for all non-human life who will have more freedoms then humans.  

“As bad as it is, people are starting to wake up and realizing what sustainable development and smart growth really is.”  We know the problem, now we “have to have a good defense and a good offense too.”  

IDEA:  To disrupt a meeting, as one man did; he took a trailerload of first-year  heifers and another trailerload of their calves and hauled them to the meeting place.  He parked one trailer on one side of the building and the other trailer on the other.  The noise from the two trailers was so loud that the meeting adjourned not long after.  “Use your imagination!!”  

“If you are honoring the principal of private property rights as dictated by the Constitution, sustainable development, and smart growth will not happen in our local communities.  Recommended book to read:  “Facts not Fear”.   

“One-world mentality has been taught in our schools since the 1950s.”    

Session 4 – The Impacts of Societal Transformation  

            G.B. Oliver, III is the Executive Director of the Paragon Foundation who in very short order discussed how the ranching industry is affected by domestic and international policies.  Spent approximately three minutes at the podium.  This man is not a great talker; he’s a great doer!    

“Wars are lost in the mind, long before the battle.”  “This battle is 20% physical and 80% mental.”  

           Larry Pratt, the Executive Director of Gun Owners of America discussed disarming Americans, which is one of the major goals of the sustainable development movement for years.  

“Unless we are armed, we will be slaves.”  

“Bureaucrats think they are Gods.  The work they do is so important to them that they can’t take the time to leave Washington and go out among the ‘uneducated masses’.”  

“Crime rates go down when communities follow the Constitution and allow citizens to carry concealed weapons.”  Criminals don’t follow the rules and laws, that’s why they’re criminals.  

“I love animals.  They’re delicious!”  

“Shut up and listen to us or we’ll shoot you – the attitude of most Feds and Bureaucrats.”  

“[The] private sector can protect land and animals better than agencies and bureaucrats.”  

“[There will be] no progress using sweet reason.”  Be troublesome, let them lose their tempers – you keep your cool.  

Federal Border Patrol is not working.  Local militias are, especially in Texas .  There are border walls outside San Diego and El Paso and they are helping but the rest of the border is wide open.  Scores of Arabs are being apprehended in NM and AZ.  

In a Collier County, Florida EIS, is a section on non-gun use.  What is gun control doing in an EIS?  

Vermont is the only state that has a true right to carry law.  Last year, Alaska passed a true right to carry law.  Other states have a “permit” system to carry concealed weapons; and this is not a true and free right to carry.  New Hampshire tried to pass a law but time ran out on the Legislature even though the Governor stated that he would have signed it.  

Session 5 – Developing an Appropriate Response:  Securing your property

  Wayne Hage shared his years of experience battling for his property rights through the courts.    

Wayne only hit the top points of his private property seminar and recommended people to purchase his “Securing Your Property” workbook.  

Where does the Hage Case stand today?  

There has been a full-force attack against ranchers west of the 100th meridian since 1872.  In both of the Hage trials, the courts have found that Hage has property rights in “fee lands” not public lands.  His property has been traced back to an 1866 Act with Mexico , where his property rights originate and he has proven his exhaustive chain of inheritable rights.  

1.   What is property?  Quote from Thomas Sowell, Hoover Institute:  “Neither property nor the value of property is a physical thing.  Property is a set of defined options.  It is that set of options which has economic value.  It is the options, not the physical things, which are the “property”, economically as well as legally.  Because the public tends to think of property as tangible, physical things, this opens the way politically for government confiscation of property by forcible taking away options while leaving the physical objects untouched.”

2.  “By taking away the use of property, the physical land, water, etc., is still there.  You’ve just lost the options to use it.  That is a real property right.”  Land has no more value, no economic return for your land, no profit, zero value, no net return – this is what they’ve taken.

3.  If you file a lawsuit in Federal District Court , you’ve just lost!  Federal District Court has no jurisdiction over property issues worth over $10,000.  This court only covers rules and regulations; example:  Did a federal agency employee follow the rules and regulations?

State Courts handle property claims.  Make sure you file your lawsuit in the right court with the correct jurisdiction.  Some cases have to go all the way to the Federal Court of Claims, then to the Supreme Court.  

Property law and Common law are the same.  

Rules and Regulations belong in Federal District Court .  No tort issues belong in the Federal Court of Claims.  

            George Worden is the Gerry Spence of property lawyers and he

discussed the true rule of law and pleadings.  

There are several traps to watch out for if you are ever arrested.  

The judge will ask you how you plead, guilty or not guilty.  It is not his job to explain to you that you actually have 7 different options in pleading.  Your first huge job after being arrested is to hire the right attorney. 

The deck is stacked against you in any court.  Think about it.  The government owns the building, the government pays the salaries of the judge, the DA, the court staff, and the court appointed attorney if you can’t afford to hire your own.  Whose side do you think everybody is on?  Not Yours!  

There are several rules you must remember:  

Number one:  SHUT UP!  Don’t even admit your name.  Don’t say anything; don’t even admit who you are.  

Number two:  In order to break any law, you have to have acted with intent or broken a contract.  

Number three:  Get a good lawyer who wants to win!  The minute you win, the money stops.  Some lawyers intentionally lose cases so the money won’t stop – especially if you have deep pockets.  “Don’t worry, we’ll appeal” keeps the money flowing from your pocket to his.  Most cases can be won at the preliminary hearing.

 You can’t beat City Hall?  Yes, you can; everything runs on money.  

Number Four:  How to answer a complaint, breech of contract – civil or criminal?  Plead or demur, saying, “Yes I did it, so what.”  

              Helen Chenoweth-Hage continued the discussion on the Hage case.    

“Why do we need government permission for anything?”  The Hage case was first filed in 1991. The first court decision was handed down in 1996; the second decision in 1999, and the best decision came in 2002 – the ruling that Hage had title to “fee” lands.  

“A findable fact is more important then a verdict.”  “A vested right is property which the law protects.”  

Session 6 – Congressman Ron Paul  

            Congressman Ron Paul, Champion of all who cherish the U.S. Constitution, will tell us about the important issues he is working to advance.    

I was unable to attend this session; Tim Findley of Range Magazine was interviewing me.  I understand it was a wonderful session and I’ll have to wait to see the video of his presentation.  

 

To learn more about Freedom 21:   Freedom 21 National Conferences, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

Barbara Hall

The Klamath Bucket Brigade, Inc.

July 31, 2004 

 

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