MSLF: Warriors For The West Released in Washington, D.C.

WARRIORS FOR THE WEST RELEASED IN

WASHINGTON, D.C.

January 23, 2006 - For Immediate Release
Contact: William Perry Pendley

DENVER, CO. Former United States Attorney General Edwin Meese III today assisted in the launching of William Perry Pendley’s latest book, Warriors for the West: Fighting Bureaucrats, Radical Groups, and Liberal Judges on America’s Frontier (Regnery 2006), at a speech and book signing hosted by The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. The event was the first in the national release of Warriors for the West, which documents nationally significant litigation by Mountain States Legal Foundation over the last decade and a half. Warriors puts a human face on westerners’ historic and often precedent-setting fights against environmental laws, “lying and cheating” bureaucrats and their ethically challenged lawyers, Clinton’s attacks on logging, mining, and energy exploration, government as a bullying bad neighbor, seizure of “private property” for “public use” without “just compensation,” and more.

“These tales are not about victories and defeats but about men and women who, knowing that defeat was likely, undertook the fight anyway because if victory came it would have been worth it, not just for them but for all the others like them,” said William Perry Pendley. “They may not be heroes to everyone, but they are heroes to me.”

Warriors for the West argues that Congress enacts ambiguous statutes demanded by radical groups; federal bureaucrats implement those laws as the groups demand; then, activist judges, in lawsuits brought by the groups, interpret the laws as the groups insist. All the while, others in Congress, the Executive, and the Judiciary do nothing! The results:

• John Shuler of Montana killed a grizzly bear in self-defense, then feds prosecuted him for 8 years using the Endangered Species Act;

• Bobby Unser nearly died in a blizzard on a snowmobile trip, then feds charged him with the crime of accidentally entering a wilderness;

• Clinton officials demanded western counties gerrymander voting districts to ensure election of minorities, then Bush lawyers joined in;

• Clinton closed millions of acres as monuments in violation of federal law, then Bush lawyers defended Clinton’s actions;

• Officials barred the public from federal lands American Indians call “sacred” while all signs of Judeo-Christian religion are forbidden;

• With energy prices soaring, bureaucrats and judges close gas-rich lands after some say they will suffer “psychological harm.”

Warriors for the West follows It Takes A Hero, The Grassroots Battle Against Environmental Oppression (Free Enterprise Press, 1994) and War on the West: Government Tyranny on America’s Great Frontier (Regnery, 1995).

Mountain States Legal Foundation is a nonprofit, public interest law firm dedicated to individual liberty, the right to own and use property, limited and ethical government, and the free enterprise system. Its offices are in the Denver, Colorado, metropolitan area.