Posted on 01/27/2006 3:18:08 PM PST by Jeff Head
INTRODUCTION
This is the story of how rural western farmers and their supporters stood up against entrenched environmentalists, liberal politicians, appointed Federal judges, and agencies of the Federal Government…and prevailed.
It is the story of farmers in the Klamath Basin and those who supported them in their struggle to reclaim their water rights in the summer of 2001.
It is a story told through eye-witness accounts, narratives, and pictures. This author was humbled to stand with those patriotic, God-fearing Americans defending their God-given, unalienable rights against a Federal bureaucracy gone amok. It’s a story of how a rabid environmental lobby, federal judges, and politicians willfully perverted our system to deprive those citizens of their water and property rights. In so doing, those citizens were in danger of losing their livelihoods and their way of life.
It led to intolerable conditions that could not be allowed to stand…and those conditions did not stand.
May this inspiring story of American faith, courage, and determination serve as a beacon for all those who read it, may it also serve as a model for others to defend their own rights whenever this ugly specter rears its head.
…after five years, where much has occurred to overshadow those events…still, nothing can erase their importance or their impact, then, now, or in the future.
The time has come for this author to tell that story.
It was an honor to meet you at Klamath Falls
BEFORE 9/11 changed all our lives.
Let the Water Flow!
Your welcome, hope you don't think I'm nitpicking. And I like The Stand at Klamath Falls
See post 21 for the changes in the intro. Thanks again!
I'm eager to read this. And the finished product.
You are doing tremndous, patriotic work and fulfilling your duty in the Coast Guard Aux...thank you, from my entire family, for that service...in addition to all you do on FR.
Thank you my friend. I know you will enjoy it. Putting the book together put me right back there...and I found that the emotions and feelings were not far from the surface indeed.
And 30,000 salmon died in the Klamath river in water warm enough to bathe in.
68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
Eye AND Ear Witness account
of Klamath Falls Parade and Rally
Posted on 08/22/2001
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b848e723d9e.htm
Therefore, these other causes are much more likely to have been the root cause. Temperature of the water from other sources that year is one, and even more likely is the infectious disease known to have broken out amongst the salmon that year during spawning.
I'll buy it.
BTTT
I remeber that threead my friend. It was an excellent account of what transpired on "Freedom Day", particularly the eight items you mentioned that the farmers shred with you.
FYI.
FYI.
About 3 weeks later the world changed forever.
I remeber that thread my friend. It was an excellent account of what transpired on "Freedom Day", particularly the eight items you mentioned that the farmers shared with you.
That change is all the more compelling reason to let these farmers irrigate and farm and provide the food and resources we need in the face of these abject enemies to our nation.
You guys did a great job at Klamath Falls.
It would make a great movie.
Hollywood, of course, wouldn't touch it...
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