Sawgrass Rebellion Launched

http://sawgrass.freedom.org/ ^ | Monday 22 July, 2002 | Sawgrass.Freedom.Org Staff

[brityank]

Sawgrass Rebellion Launched...

The Transformation of Florida

The Wildlands Project targeted Florida as a priority state to transform into its

vision of wilderness, more than ten years ago. The three maps show Florida in 1992 as 90-percent privately owned, and only 10-percent owned by government (represented in green). When the transformation is complete, 90-percent will be owned by the government, with only 10-percent remaining in private hands.

The center map shows what the Wildlands Project expected the government/private land distribution to be in 2002. They were pretty accurate in their projections. If the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan is imposed, South Florida will become the green area shown on the center map.

Other projects throughout the state, especially in the Jacksonville area, and the central part of the state, have acquired land for wilderness corridors and additional core wilderness (green) areas.

Private land owners are being forced off their land by a variety of coersive land-use policies, being imposed under the banner of "Everglades Restoration," endangered species protection, open space, Heritage areas, and a host of other programs, all designed to displace people, or severely restrict the use of private property.

While this initiative has been underway nationwide for more than a decade, the intrusion into South Florida is becoming the last straw - as far as the affected land owners are concerned.

Cries for help from the people in South Florida were heard by the Paragon Foundation in Alamogordo, New Mexico, which agreed to help organize a national campaign to help stop the transformation of Florida, and indeed, the transformation of the nation.

Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee on July 20, 2002, the third annual Freedom 21 Conference adopted the "Sawgrass Rebellion" as a priority project to launch its national plan of action to reverse the negative impacts of the Wildlands Project and and its counterpart - so-called "Smart Growth." Leaders from more than 50 grassroots organizatons in 34 states and two foreign countries were present, and adopted the project and the plan of action unanimously.

This web site reports the situation, and steps being taking to find alternatives that do not displace people, trample property rights, and destroy the dreams and lives of thousands of people.

Copyright (C) 2002 Freedom.org, All rights reserved

[brityank]

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[dead]

The government was responsible for screwing up The Everglades in the first place.

So now, we're supposed to kick people off their land so the government can fix it?

"We're from the government, and we're here to help..."

[brityank]

This is the page that is in process of being built by eco-logic on-line, and the link to the support page. Please consider adding your voice to this; thank you.

JohnHuang2 also published a Worldnet Daily article about this earlier, 'Sawgrass Rebellion' launched: Henry Lamb argues people come first in America. Check them both out, and thanks, John.

[blackie]

Thanks, I'm on Henery Lamb's mailing list...

Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!

Molon Labe !!

[Libertarianize the GOP]

fyi

[sauropod]

Been a proud member of eco-logic for a while. Probably the most bang for the buck on the net IMNSHO.

[farmfriend]

This is actually the third one but we need different points of view from different papers.

Cross-country Convoy Planned

[brityank]

Thanks for signing the link, farmfriend; I hope the Grange gets more exposure and support. And thanks for the link to Issaquahking's post. Cheers.

[max61]

How long have you lived in Florida?.

---max

[brityank]

I don't; upstate NY, Delaware, back to upstate, now in PA. 'Property Rights is not just a Western problem'; check my links.

By the time the feds get finished, you'll need floating balls. :^)

[farmfriend]

I e-mailed the petition link to those who will not be visiting FR.

[farmfriend]

Klamath list, please sign the petition linked above.

[hedgetrimmer]

Thank you for the PING, farmfriend. These are dark, dark times indeed, when OUR OWN GOVERNMENT attacks our farm community. If our government is "by the people", then indeed the PEOPLE MUST PUT A STOP TO THE DECIMATION of rural peoples, and promote the use of America’s natural resources by the AMERICAN PEOPLE, for the AMERICAN PEOPLE.

[11B3]

Signed up, and will support 100% - thanks for posting this.

[brat]

Sawgrass BTTT!

[Vidalia]

Hey, Government Assholes, leave our Everglades alone!

Let the State of Florida run its own damn business.

Same goes for every other F*cking State west and south of New England.

You little pricks want to micro-manage something, then go to your inbred New England families' estates and practice your arrogance there.

[nunya bidness]

Done.

[max61]

I don't; upstate NY, Delaware, back to upstate, now in PA. 'Property Rights is not just a Western problem'; check my links.

This figures. Only an idiot Yankee would stick his nose in where it don't belong. The voters of Florida overwhelmingly voted to have the government acquire land so that it would not be developed. The program is known as ELAPP.

You may try to make this a property rights issue, when in fact it is more the like the government doing what it's citizens have requested.

Do us all a favor, stay in Pennsylvania.

---max

[brityank]

If you think government is the solution, you're part of the problem.

Private property rights are the reason this country has had the success it has today. Show mw one country where the ownership of the common property in government hands has created the wealth the US system has. There isn't one. In fact, most governments despoil their holdings and their people, as evidenced by the late USSR and various African states.

Government has a place in regulating the uses and abuses of property, but is has no place in the ownership of that property in this country. My family came here because my late Father could see the encroaching socialism now holding sway in Britain; now we are headed in the same direction. Not with my acquiescence.