Fight ‘settlement,’ or lose rights

April 4, 2008

Klamath Falls Herald and News

Letter to the Editor  

Would that PacifiCorp and its customers would all stand on their hind legs and STSSTTS: Send The Settlement Straight To The Shredder.

 If the draft “settlement” were about “saving,” “restoring,” or otherwise “helping” any specie of fish, “endangered” or otherwise, it would neither utilize questionable science and computer modeling nor present itself as “the only real solution.”

Various entities with an insatiable addiction, lust after control of the Basin. Never satisfied, they will always seek more. To their way of thinking, nothing is sacred — not Indians, farmers, fishermen (commercial, recreational and subsistence), ranchers, loggers, miners, or ranchers.

Yanking four dams to ostensibly “restore the ecosystem” does not help any species. When “ecosystem restoration” is complete, your area will be reminiscent of  England ’s feudal system.

The Endangered Species Act is being used in order to gain control over the Klamath Basin through frivolous litigation to stop all use of resources, from logging to any fishing and from farming/irrigating to ranching. Things will magically start back up after total control is taken, but for people who have invested generations of blood, sweat and tears equity will have been exterminated as property owners.

 If that’s what you want for the Klamath Basin area of America , stay mum or support the “settlement.” Either of those two actions means you will be driving the nails into your own coffin, where you will reside with your property rights and freedom.

Fight this or your property rights and way of life will go extinct. Your victory will benefit everyone but those pushing this scheme. Picking a “restoration point” from thin air is junk science, period.

 Julie Kay Smithson
  London , Ohio 

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