Dear PacifiCorp and Customers -- STSSTTS!

March 27, 2008

The Klamath Basin of  Oregon/California - Would that PacifiCorp and its customers would all stand on their hind legs and STSSTTS: Send The Settlement Straight To The Shredder!

If -- and that is a massive "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."

The Klamath Basin of Oregon and California is a wonderful place: for people to own property, responsibly utilize resources, raise families, crops, livestock, and live what was coined as the American Dream.

Always waiting in the wings for a chance to shatter that dream, have been various entities with an insatiable addiction. No matter how much they control, they want more. Place whatever name you wish on them, I've dubbed them GangGreed. To their way of thinking, nothing is sacred. Indians, farmers, fishermen (commercial, recreational and subsistence), ranchers, timberers, miners, ranchers.

Yanking the four dams -- J.C. Boyle, Copco 1, Copco 2, and Iron Gate -- to ostensibly "restore the ecosystem" does not help any species. It, in tact, destroys property rights and property values, puts a greater strain on irrigators, energy customers (can you say Higher Rates?), incorporates speciesism (favoring one species over another), and takes a fertile, human-enhanced basin from thriving for all to controlled by a few. How many farms, ranches, homes, businesses, towns, schools, etc., will be left when "ecosystem restoration" is complete? The real answer should make your stomach turn and your heart sick. What's planned for this entire area is for a few very powerful entities to take it over, control and own all the natural resources and then "allow" whatever happens in the basin to be done by tenants. Think of the feudal systems in England and you'll have a far clearer picture.

The "Endangered Species Act" is being used/abused in order to gain control over the Klamath Basin -- and the rest of rural America . The ESA is being used/abused through frivolous and unneeded litigation to stop all use of resources, from logging and timbering to fishing by anyone and from farming and irrigating to ranching. All that depends on these vital factors is set to grind to a halt -- but only until control is taken. At that time, things will magically start back up: But the private property rights of those being squeezed out now will be gone and the people that 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 mean you will be driving the nails into your own coffin, where you will reside with your property rights and freedom.

Your choice is to fight this and any attempts to make you, your property rights and your way of life, go extinct. Fight as though your lives depended on it -- because they do!

An added benefit, though the federal agencies and their partners -- the ones pushing this Trojan horse through the gates -- will never admit it, is the colossal benefit your victory in keeping the dams will bring to fish and wildlife, the Indians, tourists, farmers, timberers, fishermen of all persuasions, ranchers, and yes, "the ecosystem," which is far better and healthier NOW, thanks to you, than it ever was or would be if "restored." Restoration is a hoax. Picking a time out of thin air as though that time was nirvana for everything, is junk science, period.

Julie Kay Smithson has -- through a successful years-long fight to keep her Ohio neighborhood safe from the plans of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife "Service" -- become a property rights researcher with an intimate understanding of language deception. Her conclusions are steeped in years of hundred-hour weeks, distilled in the understanding that knowledge is vital to property rights and freedom, and born of the realization that people and their responsible utilization of resources are good for the world!

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