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In what promises to be its biggest rally yet, The Sawgrass Rebellion convoy rolls into the Fort Worth area for an October 12 stop at the Saginaw, TX, Train & Grain Festival. Click on Source URL link for story and pictures.

Citizens Against Forced Annexation (CAFA) is fighting for residents of unincorporated areas bordering Fort Worth, as well as other cities in Texas. Forced annexation, increased taxes, and restrictive zoning and development restrictions are all being proposed for rural residents, without any committment to provide city services. But Fort Worth area citizens are not the only Americans being deprived of property rights by government organizations. In Klamath Falls, Oregon, a federal judge ordered irrigation water to be turned off for 1400 farm families, to protect a supposedly endangered sucker fish. In southeast Florida, the U.S. Corps of Engineers is systematically flooding...

CARA OVERVIEW......... o Conservation and Reinvestment Act o CARA funding is $3.1 billion per year for 15 years = $45 billion o CARA is a trust fund, not subject to yearly budget review, nor to conventional Congressional oversight o CARA is PORK - Alaska ($271.97 per capita), Louisiana ($71.65 per capita) are leading "beneficiaries". Therefore, it is no surprise that Alaska (Young & Murkowski) and Lousiana (Tauzin & Landrieu) legislators are primary sponsors - There are over 300 current co-sponsors in the House. Many of these are Conservatives who are sacrificing their principles for the PORK. This PORK legislation may ...

The following message is from the green side as I am sure you can tell. Hey, it is a toll free number. Let's do our part, change the message to our message and use their number and call in. When we have the line in use, they cannot. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- CALL SECRETARY VENEMAN THIS FRIDAY!! URGE HER TO STAND WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND IMPLEMENT THE ROADLESS RULE! On the 1-year anniversary of the roadless rule, we are working to flood the phone lines of Agriculture Secretary Veneman to urge her to keep her promise to uphold the rule. ...

LETTER TO THE EDITORS WASHINGTON TIMES December 20, 2001 WHEN ENDS JUSTIFY MEANS Your Dec. 17 story by Audrey Hudson, "Rare lynx hairs found in forests exposed as hoax," performed a genuine service to all Americans. For years, radical environmentalists, some in government employment, have skewed and falsified data in scientific studies to achieve political goals, and no one was the wiser. Your story certainly lifted the rock and let the sun shine on that subject. However, you could have served the public even better by digging further into the motives of those planting false environmental evidence. Listening to those ...

"Some people think we need a world government to deal with the many complex issues confronting human society." "Scriptural instruction to be good stewards of the Creation have thus far not moderated Christian ruthlessness towards our environment." "Some scholars believe that the spread of Democracy, which put land ownership and wealth in the hands of many, and the Industrial Revolution, which made mass production of goods possible and spread wealth throughout society, are the root of the environmental crisis." Are these passages from some Marxist doctrine, published in a third-world country, and used to indoctrinate its citizens to hate American ...

Each year at this time school children all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and fascinating. It is also very deceiving. This official story is nothing like what really happened. It is a fairy tale, a whitewashed and sanitized collection of half-truths which divert attention away from Thanksgiving's real meaning. Full story at Sierra Times link.

As I write, the NRA Board of Directors is meeting at the Key Bridge Marriott in Washington, D.C. On the agenda is a vote on whether the NRA Board supports the CARA government land grab legislation, support that was previously announced by the NRA's ILA organization. Here is the Marriott hotel PHONE where nearly all the Directors are staying: 703-524-6400. If you know a Director or there is one from your home state, CALL and speak to or leave a message for them. Tell them, NO CARA!, see the speaking points listed below. Here is the hotel FAX 703-524-8964. FAX ...

On October 9, the University of Texas Dallas hosted a “teach-in,” conducted by Robert Jensen, an associate professor from the University of Texas-Austin. Jensen’s commentary appeared on this page Sept. 27. He blames the United States for the terrorist attacks of September 11. Some 80 people partially filled a smallish room in UTD’s Student Center. A young woman with pierced eyebrows, wearing a rumpled Green Party T-shirt, sat barefoot on the floor. Her unkempt appearance was not conspicuous in this crowd. The underlying purpose for this gathering was a misguided protest of America’s plan to retaliate. Warmup speakers launched verbal ...

Citizens for a Sound Economy October 4, 2001 Truth or Consequence Science in the Classroom By Genny Hensz, Issues and Actions Chairman Texas Federation of Republican Women This publication was originally printed in the Texas Federation of Republican Women's Issues and Actions newsletter. During the last few months, a small group of people here in Texas has been fighting valiantly against a dangerous but very subtle, threat to our nation from within. These Texas heroes are trying to prevent science textbooks from being approved by the State Board of Education that are full of error, unsupported extremist environmental bias, and ...

House Leaders Oppose CARA Land Grab by Wes Vernon Friday, Aug. 24, 2001 WASHINGTON - NewsMax.com learns there are no plans to bring the divisive anti-private-property Conservation and Reinvestment Act (CARA) to the House floor. In fact, the House leadership regards it as a political disaster and will try to bottle it up. Full article at source URL link.

From C-SPAN daily email..... FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 2001 WASHINGTON JOURNAL LIVE on C-SPAN at 7am ET 7:00 -- Newspaper Articles & Open Phones 8:00 -- Michelle Malkin, Syndicated Columnist 9:00 -- Adam Clymer, The New York Times, Washington Correspondent Submit questions for Washington Journal guests at: http://www.c-span.org/community/submitwj.asp

We can't make the Klamath Convoy this time, but we will be taking the message to our Congress Critter's Town Hall meeting. Congress is on recess during August, and many Congressmen will be holding town meetings to get feedback from their constituents. I plan on taking the following to my Congressman's town hall meeting. I encourage others here to take a similarly worded message. ****************************************************** Congressman ________________, there are major environmental issues that require your attention. Those government agencies which deal with rural America are reeling out of control and are accountable to no one. The Bureau of Reclaimation, U. ...

June 7, 2001 TO: My Senators and Congressman Dear _______________: Recent events convince me that there is an irreversible cancer infecting my country. Our government is destroying individual freedom. Two personal experiences during May confirmed this conclusion. On May 7, my wife and I were in Klamath Falls, Oregon, supporting 1400 4th-generation farm families whose land is all but being confiscated by the government, in support of professional environmentalists. Why? To save a supposedly endangered, commercially worthless sucker fish which lives in the Upper Klamath Lake. Yet Congress procrastinates on ESA reform, and further endangers property rights by considering legislation ...

Who's Sorry Now? To every Vietnam soldier and veteran living and dead: I owe you this letter for nearly 27 years spent in regret due to a misguided '60s idealism. Who's sorry now? I am. I am sorry...... .....for parading in self-righteous smugness, unharmed while you marched tired and scared in fear for your life. ...for raising a sign against you when you were dodging bullets. ...for saying you didn't have to go when you had no choice other than that given to the rich or a draftdodger. ...for putting you between a government rock and a conscientious hard place ...

Dallas police have questioned two witnesses who reported in a 911 call that they saw a black youth sloshing white paint on a prominent black church earlier this month. Click on the link for full story....

(CNSNews.com) - Efforts to keep the customer satisfied have landed one national hotel chain in a double-barreled blast of hot water. On Tuesday, Westin Hotels and Resorts plans to formally introduce showers with dual heads in 32,000 hotel rooms nationwide. USA Today quotes one California water conservationist as calling it "the wrong idea at the worst time." Federal law limits each shower head to a maximum of 2.5 gallons a minutes, but critics say Congress didn't envision multiple shower heads, which in this case will deliver up to five gallons a minute, combined. Westin officials said the new showers have ...

This post at 1:45 a.m. Tuesday. The NRA Annual meeting is NOW being broadcast on CSPAN2. In a few moments Wayne LaPierre will give a wonderful, inspirational speech. Followed by Mr. Heston "From My Cold Dead Hands". Well worth the watch for insomniacs.....

IT'S DONE! "VANISHING FREEDOM 2: WHO OWNS AMERICA" WILL AIR THIS WEEKEND, MAY 19 & 20TH. SATURDAY 10 P.M. EST / 7 P.M. PACIFIC SUNDAY 8 P.M. EST / 5 P.M. PACIFIC THE FOX NEWS SPECIAL "VANISHING FREEDOM 2" EXPOSES HOW AN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA IS ROBBING AMERICANS OF THEIR RIGHTS, STOPPING ENERGY PRODUCTION, SHUTTING DOWN ENTIRE INDUSTRIES AND PUTTING THOUSANDS OUT OF WORK. IT BEGINS WITH A LOOK AT THE WILDLANDS PROJECT: A RADICAL VISION TO TURN BACK TIME, TO SEIZE UPTO HALF OF AMERICA AND RELOCATE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS TO MAKE ROOM FOR WOLVES AND GRIZZLY BEARS. FOX ...

Black "Leaders", Media Bias Mask Blacks' Real Problems ------------------------------------------------------ On Wednesday, April 18, two related stories appeared in the Dallas Morning News. The first article in the News reported that Mississippi voters decided to keep their current state flag, "rejecting suggestions from political and business leaders that a new flag would help the state escape its segregationist past". Not as biased, perhaps, as the Washington Post's "Mississippians rejected criticism of the Confederate battle cross as a hateful reminder of slavery and generations of racial oppresion...", but more divisive than the balanced Washington Times "The Confederate flag scored an overwhelming victory ...