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How Obama Is Locking Up Our Land

This is new?? The government owns/controls too much land already. This is to support all of the agencies like BLM/USPS etc. Look at Utah for a good example of bad land policy. Parks yes, all open lands NO!

As sung by the Obama White House:This land is MY land,your land is MY land,her land is MY Land,All land will be MY land.From the western acres to the sunshine bakers,NO land was made for you and you!

We have CZARs now, so of course our communist leaders weren't going to wait long to set up their own dachas. Just like Putin. Or are they really planning, as Hitler did, to set up several Dachaus to house us instead?

Well, let us see now. They're trying to stuff more and more people into cities by controlling our ability to move about the country via private transportation. (cap and trade). They're grabbing up land for their own little fiefdoms,(new ruling on Eminent Domain in Kelso decision), but with just enough serfs to work it for them; heaven forbid they get their hands dirty. And finally they're taking away our financial freedoms by basically destroying the economy and creating a dependent class. (stimulus bills and the woeful summer of recovery) Yep sounds like communism to me. "Five year plans and new deals wrapped in golden chains" - John Fogerty - CCR

It is difficult not to degenerate into a flood of expletives when thinking about our own governments destruction of our American way of life. With so many intolerable acts committed and proposed in such a short time, they've got us spinning around looking for the place to take a stand. Our tolerance for such usurpation of our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor has to stop AND NOW! Sometimes I feel there is many people with us, then I look at election turnout, SEIU jerks and those in Atlanta rioting for a sheet of worthless paper, and, I admit, I have to wonder................

08/14/10 While KING BARRACK and QUEEN MICHELE enjoy their Vacations transporting themselves and Friends in their LUXURIOUS TAXPAYER AIRCRAFT to STATES and COUNTRIES 5 STAR HOTELS and CLOSED BEACHES.While telling their subjects to tighten their BELTS and ride around in Economical sized AUTOS with correctly inflated tires for better mileage.

It's not just Obama who is locking up our natural resources on land. California is in full swing with locking up our oceans as well. Gov. Schwartznegger has given the green light to radical environmentalists to create marine parks and sanctuaries wherever they wish along the Pacific Coast. They are using the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) to turn our coastal waters into aquariums where no one can walk on the beach, surf, fish, sail or kayak. This is going to put thousands of commercial fishermen and tourist towns along the Pacific Coast out of business.This is a completely corrupt process which gives the environmentalists freedom to usurp our rights to access our natural resources however they want. Schwarznegger cut a deal with the environmentalists: they got the Pacific Ocean to do with as they please, and Schwartznegger gets to build the peripheral canal to increase water transfers to Southern California, without any objections or lawsuits from the environmentalists.

Well, our Founding Fathers would have been livid by now. In their day the government sold property, now they muscle it from the people so no one can have it. Oh, and you know there will be taxes so we can pay for this grand new government land. Ive had enough of this federal conquest of power. I am sick of them trampling on us and our Constitution. They descreetly yank our freedoms away from us from behind closed doors."The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. " Thomas Paine

They want it so no-one can use it- at all. How is that reconnecting Americans to nature?? The doublespeak is infuriating.Hunters and fishermen pay for conservation - they have a vested interest - yet they are vilified by the green leftists. I will spend next week on Colorado Mountain trails - that are maintained and preserved by off-road motorcycle and 4-wheel enthusiasts (riding muffled, spark and sound controlled vehicles in order to protect the wilderness and the solitude of others)November simply cannot come fast enough. These people are deceitful and corrupt, and they must be stopped by controlling congress, defunding their efforts and then by repeal of legislation. These Obama laws are some convoluted and intrusive that they cannot be addressed piecemeal. They must be repealed in entirety - and replaced.

Americans for Limited Government is right. This scheme does not make sense. Except as a salve to angry Leftists who see Obama as not radical ENOUGH for suit their agendas. As Ms Malkin observes, they're loading up the website with far-Left ideas like private property grabs, gun bans and human population reduction.Human population reduction.That's an old Progressive idea dating back to the early 20th century. It walks hand in hand with Eugenics, another Progressive idea. HPR is not simply government policy that encourages people to have fewer children. Its goal is actual reduction in population.The idea starts with the assumption that, of course, humans are bad. It's needful to remember that Leftists are consumed with self-loathing, and they often express this as hatred for their own species. Thus, anything and everything humans do on this planet is de facto BAD. So the best way to help the planet is to reduce the number of humans living on it. You can see this desire in documentaries and Hollywood films, wherein humans are the bad guys who cause the destruction of the planet, which immediately reverts to its post-human state of perfection without us nasty creatures mucking up the place.How do you achieve population reduction? Promote abortions among "undesirable" groups. Enact health care "reform" that denies services to people deemed to derive less benefit (the elderly, for example). Enact programs to screen couples for "undesirable" conditions, such as bad genetic makeup (a la "Gattaca"). The list goes on.Where does such a mindset end? Well, we need not speculate. We already have instructive examples of where this Leftist mentality is headed. The Soviet Union exterminated upwards of 20 million "undesirable" persons. The Chinese under Mao liquidated 60 million unwanted citizens, under myriad pretexts that started out much like these Progressive proposals.The radicals in the Obama administration have written extensively on their horrifying policies. We don't need to speculate on their motives or intentions; they have told us, boldly and at length. We need only listen. And put a stop to their power grabs while we still have an America to save.

Did anyone say secession? They are coming after Wyoming because of oil deposits in the southeast part of the state. One way to fight this, have any federal official that enters the state report to the county sheriff. He must then show a warrant that states what he is allowed to do. If he does not report to the sheriff a year and a day in jail and a $10,000 fine.

If the citizens, also known as taxpayers, don't support it, they go to the courts. If they can't get it through congress, they use backdoors such as this one. I hope the voters in this country soon realize that this administration is ruling, not governing. This is NOT the people's government, but is in the hands of radical leftwingers, socialists and marxists, who, if they are not stopped by THE VOTE, will have their way. What more do people need to see before they open their eyes?

A revolution now would be a lot less bloody than one AFTER they steal the very last personal freedoms we still have left.

"that are maintained and preserved by off-road motorcycle and 4-wheel enthusiasts (riding muffled, spark and sound controlled vehicles in order to protect the wilderness and the solitude of others)"From a group of people that screamed their fool heads off when the regulations to spark and sound control were proposed. Oh, and then they yelled about the tax imposed to pay for their footprint on the land. God forbid that they pay for their own wear and tear, I mean a tax? How horrible,

Just because a government program or plan is "incomprehensible" or "doesn't make sense," is no reason for the nuts in DC not to do it. In fact, that is generally the reason to do it; cases in point: Obamacare, spendulus, Government Motors, financial "reform," suing Arizona, tax hikes for "the wealthy," etc. ad infinitum.The bottom line for BO and his minions is complete government takeover of the entire nation. You and I are just chattel.

Seraphim72- The off-roaders I know have no problem protecting the land they use and the rights of hikers and cyclists that use the same areas. I will be with a group that has raised millions of dollars for Colorado communities, and has physically helped to clear and maintain the trails that all visitors to these areas are able to use. Sensible regulation and use fees are not a problem -- but expanding the limitations on access is.The Government Land grab will simply lead to more Restriction, limited access and Regulation that pushes the limit of "Sensible". Maybe they want to restrict motorized vehicles first - then hikers and cyclists. It all depends on whose rights we are wanting to limit - doesn't it? My point is that it is often the folks using the natural resources such as wilderness trails, and wildlife refuges that do the most to support their protection and maintenance, not the Federal government regulators and green advocates who would limit use and access according to their concept of "sensible".It is the public access to and responsible use of "park" lands by all outdoorsmen that make them such a valuable resource. The Feds will grab land, make rules and impose regulation according to an agenda, that likely does not reflect yours or mine, and will not enhance the resource in any significant way. When they prohibit the use of cameras with Motor-drives, it will be too late to complain.

Our Country is being stolen by polititions who stand and swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America when their every intention is to destroy everything it stands for. Use your vote at local, state, and federal elections to take America back.

Some excellent comments here. The environmental left does not want the public to use its public lands at all, they want the public locked out of it so as to "protect" the land from those evil human footprints. Heaven forbid the public should enjoy public lands! After all, they are sacred preserves for only the anointed elite leftists in government and environmental clubs. The great unwashed masses (who happen to live right next door to these lands) are not welcome. Here in CO I see more and more dirt road closures on BLM and National Forest lands. Not a good sign (literally)!

The question I have is this: are the Obamonites/Progressives/Marxists using those locked up lands as collateral on foreign debt? If our dollar falls to the point where no one wants it, you know what they would want: Land and other USA assets!

I went to the woods because I wished to livedeliberately, to front only the essentialfacts of life, and see if I could not learnwhat it had to teach, and not, when I came todie, discover that I had not lived.------Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

If these Left-wing wackos want to reduce the population because they "hate" mankind, why don't they show us the way and volunteer for the gas chambers?

I think Wyoming has the right idea. The states can use their nasty little precedent of eminent domain against them.

I recently mailed a courteous letter to the superintendent of Great Smokey Mountains National inquiring when the historical Mingus Mill water driven turbine will be repaired. It appeared to have been partially dismantled, but no repairs effected. If the U.S. cannot maintain historic landmarks competently, how will it manage all those lands it wants to acquire? P.S. No response in six weeks from Great Smokey Mountains N.P. headquarters on my inquiry.

"As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families." --John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1814

"As long as Divorce exists, half of a Gentleman's Property may disappear without cause or recourse, in exchange for acquired Knowledge and Experience". -- Rick Timms, letter to John Adams, 2010

You want to reduce the population? How about starting with Obama and his wife, Pelosi, Reid, Feinstein, Schumer, Kerry, Lautehberg, Dodd, Frank, Clinton, Rush, Waters, Conyers, Cummings, Jackson, Cardin, Mikulski, McCarthy, Boxer, etc, ad nausem!!!You want to confiscate land? How about starting with Pelosi's, Clinton's, and all the other socialist/communist commissars? Hey Obongo administration...TAKE A FREAKIN' HIKE!!! And don't come back!!!

Dr. Rick, I'm sorry you've had a bad experience, but we're going a bit off topic here--but i'd like to put in my 2c worth if i may--not to be too rude, but i'd like to point out that until just the last century, a man could marry a woman of means, then divorce her, and any property she brought into the marriage was entirely his, and so were the children, and she was left with NOTHING.In fact, up until the last century in this and a few other countries, women have been nothing more than the property of their men, and have been treated accordingly. A moslem woman can't even consider such a thing, and if she did her husband could beat her into submission or even kill her.As i have pointed out to my husband, if the pendulum hadn't swung so far one way for so long, it wouldn't be swinging so far back the other way.You guys have had almost 6000 years of having it all, and now you whine about less than a century of having half of it.Is it any wonder that the Sovereign Creator of the universe said "I HATE divorce!"?

Parody of This Land is Your Land(with apologies to Woody Guthrie)This land may be your landI say it's my landFrom the redwood forestsTo the New York islandsThis land was made for me and me