Ladyboots

"We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our won Country's Honor, all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions."

"The time is, near at hand, which must probably determine whether Americans will be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own…The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army …Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause and the aid of the Supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.”

~ George Washington

What is J.P. Morgan hiding?

Posted on Telegram by Lady Boots;
JP Morgan “Mistakenly” Deletes 47 Million Emails, Permanently
(Story) https://www.reuters.com/legal/jpmorgan-chase-is-fined-by-sec-over-mistaken-deletion-emails-2023-06-22/#:~:text=NEW%20YORK%2C%20June%2022%20(Reuters,were%20mistakenly%20and%20permanently%20deleted

The emails dated from Jan. 1 to April 23, 2018, were deleted in June 2019. As a result, JP Morgan was fined $4 million Dollars by the Sec.

MY THOUGHTS:
JP Morgan spent $4 Million dollars to
Destroy evidence. JP Morgan is covering their tracks.

Let’s review what JP Morgan has been involved in… these are just a few:

• June 2019 - Ship seized in $1.3 billion cocaine bust is owned by JP Morgan Chase (https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/ship-seized-in-1-3-billion-cocaine-bust-is-owned-by-jp-morgan-chase/)

• April 2023 - JPMorgan’s bombshell Jeffrey Epstein messages revealed: Execs joked about 16-year-old Miley Cyrus and ‘Sugar Daddy’ (https://lawandcrime.com/jeffrey-epstein-2/jpmorgans-bombshell-jeffrey-epstein-messages-revealed-execs-joked-about-16-year-old-miley-cyrus-and-sugar-daddy/)

• May 2023 - The Jeffrey Epstein Files: Trove of never-before-seen emails and calendars that included JP Morgan Execs as well as Big Celebrities & Political Elites
(https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12136305/Trove-Jeffrey-Epsteins-emails-calendar-entries-reveals-pedophiles-network-power.html)
• May 2023 - Former JP Morgan Banking Chief Jes Staley accused of ‘aggressively’ raping Jeffrey Epstein victim ‘with his permission’
(https://nypost.com/2023/05/03/jes-staley-allegedly-raped-jeffrey-epstein-victim/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter)
• May 2023 - US Virgin Islands can't find Google co-founder Larry Page to subpoena him in a lawsuit against JP Morgan Chase for 'enabling Epstein's sex-trafficking ring' (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12058017/The-Virgin-islands-locate-Google-founder-Larry-Page.html)

• May 2023 - Jeffrey Epstein used US Virgin Islands First Lady to remain 'unchecked' in sex-trafficking scheme, JP Morgan claims in court filing (https://africa.businessinsider.com/politics/jeffrey-epstein-used-us-virgin-islands-first-lady-to-remain-unchecked-in-sex/58hh3lw.amp)

• June 2023 - JP Morgan agrees to pay Epstein victims $290million in historic class action lawsuit settlement after it was revealed bank continued to do business with him for years despite labeling him a 'high risk client' (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12185695/JP-Morgan-reaches-settlement-Epstein-victims.html)

• June 2023 - Report concluded in 2019 that Epstein regularly gave personal and business advice to Former JPMorgan Chief Jes Staley, set up meetings with government officials (https://www.wsj.com/articles/internal-jpmorgan-report-provides-new-details-on-banks-ties-to-jeffrey-epstein-fb089131)

• June 2023 - BlackRock, JP Morgan set up 'reconstruction bank' for Ukraine (https://humanevents.com/2023/06/19/blackrock-jp-morgan-set-up-reconstruction-bank-for-ukraine)

Remember, nothing is ever truly deleted.

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Ed. Note;
If we are ever to stop this kind of corruption, we must initiate a States called for Article-V Amendment Proposal Convention to nullify all the power stealing amendments Congress has pushed on us since the Civil War.

Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Analysis
by Lady Boots

This would not be... if not for that...that would not...if not for this...walking backward, step by step among the fruits, you will finally find yourself at the tree.
Regionalism and Large Landscape Conservation
Introducing a new concept of Governance Model being advanced for use in the United States, based upon Conservation Management of Public and Private Land and Resources that is Multi-and Trans-Jurisdictional, to be directed by a combination of Federal-State agencies, non-governmental organizations, and corporate partnerships.

‘fruit of the poisonous tree’
n. in criminal law, the doctrine that evidence discovered due to information found through illegal search or other unconstitutional means (such as a forced confession) may not be introduced by a prosecutor. The theory is that the tree (original illegal evidence) is poisoned and thus taints what grows from it. For example, as part of a coerced admission made without giving a prime suspect the so-called "Miranda warnings" (statement of rights, including the right to remain silent and what he/she says will be used against them), the suspect tells the police the location of stolen property. Since the admission cannot be introduced as evidence in trial, neither can the stolen property.
In the context of this paper, as you consider the people and the organizations involved in the activity this research will reveal, the reader is asked to keep in mind the leadership and the politics at the federal level, who certainly were aware of this activity, and are themselves, collaborators.
What government cannot do…the private sector partnership organizations that coordinate and collaborate with them…. can.
DOI Secretaries
Bruce Babbitt 1993-2001 (47th), Gale A. Norton 2001-2006 (48th), Lynn Scarlett (acting under Norton before Kempthorne), Dirk Kempthore 2006-2009 (49th), Ken Salazar 2009-2013 (50th) and Sally Jewell 2013-2017 (51st).

P. Lynn Scarlett, Deputy Secretary of the Interior
https://www.doi.gov/pmb/cadr/programs/native/sws/Presenter-Bios#Scarlett

Local/National Background Activity     A first national monument designation attempt of lands outside of Yellowstone in Idaho, was introduced by former ID governor Dirk Kempthorne, after his appointment to George W. Bush’s Department of Interior. Working with Jim Caswell of the BLM, the designation was to be of Mesa Falls, Fremont County, ID. It did not happen, the effort was unknown to locals who did not learn of it until after-the-fact. The Bush Administration abandoned the proposal within 3 months of it being realized. Few other details of this effort or why it was abandoned are known.
A second national monument attempt was tried, again hidden, this time within a federal grant for regional development. Again involving Jim Caswell-now working within the private sector. Under the Obama Administration and the leadership of DOI- Jewell and Julián Castro - HUD, 750,000 acres of Fremont County was targeted, a much larger designation proposal than Mesa Falls. Locally, this effort was discovered-revealed-and eventually under multiple pressures, was abandoned.
We have discovered a second and parallel effort was also being pursued at this time. The environmental and conservation community that supported a national monument designation, were also pursuing a large landscape engineering analysis and study, in support of ecological diversity and connectivity focused on wildlife migratory corridors and critical habitat linkages.
All of the NGOs mentioned in this resource paper were coordinating-collaborating with one another during this time. The primary NGO advocating for the national monument designation was also codirecting the federal grant. This organization went out of business following this controversial time.
Public record requested information revealed that as a private contractor within the grant, had also directed federal money and awarded contract work back to itself. Research has found that this process has been repeated by multiple NGOs directing grant proposals and awards.
Lynn Scarlett, first noted as an interim director at DOI, later sat on the leadership policy board of the Lincoln Land Institute. Ms. Scarlett’s work at Lincoln was in the area of public land policy development and steering decisions, helping also to develop the conservation community’s 'practitioners network', and co-authored papers and helped drive federal public land management policy during this highly transformative time. She is currently worldwide managing director for public policy at The nature Conservancy in Washington D.C. Her work is showcased in The Ecological Society of America’s publications and the links are found below under the Wiley Online Library. TNC controls the private land use of the majority of land trusts in the United States and helps to broker private land conservation easements and often subsequently transfers those land use agreements to federal land management agencies.
With this back-drop the stage is being set. High priority landscapes were identified. High priority species were identified. How the lands within this landscape could be evaluated in coordination with the wildlife that live within this landscape. Wildlife collaring, science and analysis, through partnerships and grant awards of federal dollars, directed privately, awarded in some cases as as non-competitive grants, through the network of public and private partnerships.
There is a focused and very concerted effort to enlarge and expand Yellowstone National Park into the surrounding communities at it’s current boundaries in five western states, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, Oregon and Washington. That effort is spearheaded by several prominent NGOs, their founders and leaders, and the initiatives they have developed. Connecting these lands, using critical species and their required habitat, under a popular and aggressive framework is embraced, known as Yellowstone to Yukon.
“What started in 1993 as a network of ecologists and a rough outline on a map has transformed into one of the world’s biggest proponents of large-landscape conservation. Co-founder Harvey Locke said from his office in Banff, Alberta. “It’s a vision, a landscape and an organization. Mainly it’s a community of people who share an interest in protecting this spectacular landscape.”
When the initial group of researchers, activists and land managers got together in Kananaskis, Alberta, they focused on the ecological potential of the northern Rocky Mountains – roughly 300 million acres stretching between central Wyoming and the Arctic Circle. At the start of the initiative in 1993, about 12 percent (36 million acres) of the Yellowstone to Yukon area was protected as a national park, refuge or other conservation designation.
By 2013, that figure had grown to 66.6 million acres under public protection and another 100.3 million acres covered by other conservation designations, or 52 percent of that 300 million-acre total. That includes things like the 400,000 acres on either side of the U.S.-Canadian border along the Flathead River protected from energy and mineral development in 2010, and the 2009 expansion of the Nahanni National Park Reserve to 7.4 million acres in Canada – now the largest core habitat preservation in the Y2Y zone.

http://missoulian.com/news/local/yellowstone-to-yukon-initiative-celebrates-years-of-conservation-accomplishments/article_1e4fc56e-58bb-11e4-8cd6-7bb4be5e8fa6.html
  Where We Work Yellowstone to Yukon

“Y2Y is a joint Canadian-US network of over 80 organizations, institutions, and foundations, plus individual scientists, conservationists, economists, and environmental advocates who have recognized both the necessity and the advantages of coordinating their efforts transnationally, on a scale that mirrors the area they seek to conserve. Their area of focus includes the Rocky Mountains from the Grand Tetons (Wyoming) north to the Yukon border, adjacent ranges in Idaho and British Columbia (the Cabinet Yaak, the Selkirks, Purcells, Monashees) and the Mackenzie Mountains in Yukon and the Northwest Territories.”
https://y2y.net/vision/about-us
The concept of transnational large landscape engineering invites the introduction of a new governance model based on conservation goals, managed and directed not by elected government, but rather by international/national public and private sector governance ‘boards’. This governance model is being championed by the IUCN, and 3 of the NGO leaders prominent to the region have seats on the IUCN Transboundary Conservation Specialist Group. (McKinney, Tabor, Hilty)

click on membership directory link htt p ://www.tb p a.net/p a g e.p h p ?ndx=43
The culmination of over a decade of advocacy and initiative accomplishments would be realized under the Obama administration, Sally Jewell leadership at the DOI with the executive order known as The Great Outdoor Initiative. (GOI) https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/ago
The GOI presidential initiative was modeled upon Crown of the Continent-Crown of the Continent Roundtable-Y2Y Initiative. In coordination with the wildlife corridor initiative, written by the very same conservation community, taken to the Western Governor’s Association by Greg Servheen of IDFG. Greg Servheen, Gary Tabor (Center for Large Landscape Conservation, Yellowstone to Yukon, Crown of the continent, Crown Partnership and Roundtable, and IUCN    and Michael Whitfield sit on the federal cooperative steering committee known as the GNLCC, directed under the DOI by the NPS and the
USFWWS.
We are ground zero for a precedent setting goal that encompasses more than half of my state. The stage is set, the actors known.
This resource library will begin with an introduction to Y2Y and then focus on the timeline of the growth of the collaboration that promotes this vision through the many facets of their own professional springboards, associations, positions of influence and the partnerships and initiatives they have developed and directed to accomplish their environmental and large landscape conservation goals.

Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y)
http://www.wildthingsultd.org/research-program/yellowstone-to-yukon/ https://y2y.net/work/where-by-region
http://largelandscapes.org/projects/projects/yellowstone-yukon-conservation-initiative/
http://largelandscapes.org/media/publications/Yellowstone-to-Yukon-Canadian-Conservation-Effort.pdf
http://largelandscapes.org/media/publications/Moving-toward-climate-change-adaptation.pdf
http://greatnorthernlcc.org/partner-forums/rocky-mountain
http://rmpf.weebly.com/partners.html http://greatnorthernlcc.org/sites/default/files/documents/rmpf_charter_v3.pdf
https://y2y.net
https://y2y.net/work/what-hot-projects/u-s-route-20 https://y2y.net/work/where-by-region
https://y2y.net/publications/y2y_vision_20_years_of_progress.pdf
Large Landscape Conservation and Reviving the Concept of Regionalism

A community of interest would grow and as national interest in large landscape conservation bisected with jurisdictional barriers and management and governmental conflicts the need for a national dialogue among these professionals would call for a gathering of minds to share ideas. That opportunity happened in 2002.

Lincoln Land Institute Reviving Environmental RegionalismThe origin of this effort began with a renewed interest in the concept of regionalism and an organized effort to discuss it and put it into application was hosted by the Lincoln Land Institute in October 2002. https://en.wikipedia.or g /wiki/Lincoln_Institute_of_Land_Policy htt p ://www.lincolninst.edu/p ublications/articles/revivin g -environmental-re g ionalism
THE LINCOLN LAND INSTITUTE is a definitive source for accessing the timeline of large landscape scale regional conservation design, learning of the associations and collaborations, and how all of this serious activity has resulted in policy and recommendations that both federal and state land management agencies have tried and are trying to implement.
The following timeline will incorporate within it the different and main sources of regionalism planning, large landscape advocacy NGOs, and the activity and science links that validate the timeline and their work.
January 2004
LANDSCAPE-SCALE CONSERVATIONMarch 8, 2011
Large Landscape Conservation
http://www.lincolninst.edu/news/lincoln-house-blog/landscape-scale

January 2006
LEARNING TO THINK AND ACT LIKE A REGION
http://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/articles/learnin g -think-act-re g ion
2007-2010
ECOLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY POLICY GROUP
404 error/link has been removed, our files contain a screen shot of this removed page htt p ://lar g elandsca p es.or g /pro j ects/p ro j ects/ecolo g ical-connectivi t y -p olicy- group/
“With this fresh interest in regional land and biodiversity conservation efforts in mind, the Lincoln
Institute, with the support of the U.S. National Park Service Conservation Study Institute (NPS CSI), the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy (GGNPC) and the Quebec-Labrador Foundation (QLF), invited more than two dozen senior executives of public, nonprofit, academic and private sector organizations to the Presidio of San Francisco for a two-day conference in June 2003.” htt p ://www.lincolninst.edu/p ublications/articles/landsca p e-scale-conservation
Two leading voices in The West, from this growing advocacy group in the area of academia are Matthew
McKinney and his associate Shawn Johnson of the Center for Natural Resources & Environmental Policy, The University of Montana, who would together conduct an inventory of the lands and natural resources of the large landscape encompassing the Grater Yellowstone Ecosystem and author two important concept papers titled “Hands Across Borders” and “Working Across Boundaries’, upon which concepts and recommendations a network of ‘conservation practitioners’ would act upon, over the next decade to advance and promote both land policy and land management policy in action.
http://largelandscapes.org/media/publications/Large-Landscape-Conservation-in-the-Rocky-MtnWest.pdf
htt p ://naturalresources p olic y .or g /pro j ects/transboundar y -conservation.p hp https://ecrroster.udall.g ov/Search.aspx Profile
https://ecrroster.udall.g ov/SearchRoster.aspx
Lincoln Land Institute partners with the University of Montana/McKinney http://datatoolkits.lincolninst.edu/subcenters/re g ional-collaboration/ Promotes his work
http://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/books/workin g -across-boundaries
htt p ://naturalresources p olic y .or g /pro j ects/transboundar y -conservation.p hp (transboundary conservation)

https://y2y.net/about-us
Large Landscape Conservation
March 8,2011
htt p ://www.lincolninst.edu/news/lincoln-house-blo g /landsca p e-scale
May 2010
A Strategic Framework for Policy and Action
Matthew McKinney, Lynn Scarlett, and Daniel Kemmis  http://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/policy-focus-reports/large-landscape-conservation http://www.lincolninst.edu/sites/default/files/pubfiles/large-landscape-conservation-full_0.pdf
A Large Landscape Network
                                                                                                                                                             July 27, 2011
http://www.lincolninst.edu/news/lincoln-house-blog/large-landscape-network

EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION
October 2011
http://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/articles/exploring-future-large-landscape-conservation http://www.largelandscapenetwork.org/
many policy and analysis papers can be found here:
http://largelandscapes.org/library/

2011-2013
PRACTITIONERS NETWORK
  http://www.lincolninst.edu/news/lincoln-house-blog/large-landscape-network
  http://www.largelandscapenetwork.org

Center for Large Landscape Conservation - Gary Tabor
http://largelandscapes.org/case-studies/advance-science-preserving-corridors-while-protect/ http://largelandscapes.org/case-studies/advocate-policy-ensuring-connectivity-193-million-/
2013
Students and universities catalysts for change http://www.lincolninst.edu/sites/default/files/pubfiles2364_1705_nyhus_wp14pn1.pdf

Practitioners Network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.largelandscapenetwork.org

This report represents a significant collaboration over three years. Several graduate students affiliated with The University of Montana’s Natural Resources Conflict Resolution Program completed much of the research, analysis, and mapping. The Coordinating Committee of the Practitioners’ Network for Large Landscape Conservation provided unwavering vision and support. The US Forest Service, the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives through the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy all provided funding and in-kind resources.
Thanks to all of the individuals and organizations that contributed to this report.
http://largelandscapes.org/media/publications/Large-Landscape-Conservation-in-the-Rocky-Mtn-West.pdf

Western Transportation Institute Montana State University, Bozeman MT(academia)
Rob Ament
August 28, 2015
Development of Sustainable Strategies Supporting Transportation Planning and
Conservation Priorities across the West by
Rob Ament, MSc, Road Ecology Program Manager Anthony Clevenger, PhD, Senior Scientist
Angela Kociolek, MSc, Research Scientist Tiffany Allen, MSc, Research Scientist Matt Blank, PhD, Research Engineer Western Transportation Institute College of Engineering Montana State University and
Renee Callahan, JD, MESM, Senior Policy Officer Meredith McClure, PhD, Spatial Ecologist Sam Williams, BA, Conservation Associate Center for Large Landscape Conservation Bozeman, MT
A report prepared for the Federal Highway Administration Office of Acquisition Management
Pursuant to Cooperative Agreement DTFH61-13-H-00005
We are especially grateful to Katie Kalinowski, Policy Advisor, Western Governors’ Association, and Gregg Servheen, Wildlife Program Coordinator, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, for their help organizing the entire project and for their thoughtful review and comments.
htt p ://lar g elandsca p es.or g /media/p ublications/Devel p oment-of-Strate g ies SupportinTransportation-Plannin g -Across-West.pdf

This report would support the wildlife corridor initiative that was adopted by The Western Governors Association. Greg Servheen plays 3 important roles, his position in IDFG, his liaison between the private sector partners and federal and state policy makers and steering committees, he also sits on the steering committee of the federal cooperative, Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative.
Rob Ament, Anthony Clevenger, Gary Tabor, Meredith McClure, Sam Williams, Matthew
McKinney, Lynn Scarlett, have multiple cross collaborations. All of the partners in the graphic above are advancing the Y2Y initiative.

In Idaho the hinge pin to that advancement is in Fremont County, focusing on HWY 20, with the goal to construct multiple wildlife overpasses in a future decade of construction phases. ITD has fully partnered with Y2Y in this effort.

From the federal partnership level, the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative would also fund an ecological connectivity pilot involving Island Park at this time, with focus on the same connectivity goals and HWY 20. Michael Whitfield of The High Divide Collaborative and also head of The Heart of the Rockies Initiative was the lead investigator for this pilot, submitted the proposal to the federal committee for it, his NGO had the lead in the pilot and received money for it, all while he sat on the steering committee directing the science and the funding for it.
http://greatnorthernlcc.org/connectivity https://lccnetwork.org/project/science-support-land-conservation-rocky-mountain-corridor https://www.sciencebase.gov/depth/#/show/55119ae6e4b02e76d75b516b https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/55831f8ee4b023124e8f49b8 http://greatnorthernlcc.org/PTS/prj_report.html?PRJ_ID=390

https://www.socialtext.net/idahohighwaywildlifelinkage/ID6E70

Center for Large Landscape Conservation (Tabor)
http://largelandscapes.org/case-studies/advocate-policy-ensuring-connectivity-193-million-/
http://largelandscapes.org/our-work/advocating-policy-champions-ecological-connectivit/
http://largelandscapes.org/projects/projects/ecological-connectivity-policy-group/
http://largelandscapes.org/media/publications/Wildlife-Connectivity-Fundamentals-for-ConservationAction.pdf
http://largelandscapes.org/media/publications/Recent-progress-on-wildlife-corridor2.pdf
http://largelandscapes.org/media/publications/Habitat-corridors-and-landscape-connectivity1.pd
http://largelandscapes.org/media/publications/Notable-north-american-migrations1.pdf
http://largelandscapes.org/media/publications/Federal-natural-resource-agencies1.pdf
http://largelandscapes.org/media/publications/Federal-agency-planning-for-wildlife1.pdf
http://largelandscapes.org/collaborators/
http://largelandscapes.org/people/
http://largelandscapes.org/library/
http://largelandscapes.org/media/publications/ARC-Special-Innovative_Strategies.pdf
http://largelandscapes.org/media/publications/ARCSpecial_PublicationHighway_Crossing_Structures_for_Wildlife.pdf
http://largelandscapes.org/media/publications/Federalagency-planning-for-wildlife1.pdf

One Backyard
The First National Workshop for Large Landscape Conservation February 2015
http://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/articles/one-back y ard (An important summary paper)
Building a Large Landscape Conservation Community of Practice February 2017"Over the past seven years—starting with the first policy dialogue at the Lincoln House in 2009—a joint program between the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Center for Natural Resources &
Environmental Policy at the University of Montana has played a leading role in exploring and advancing large landscape conservation as an important framework for addressing some of the most critical land and water issues facing people and nature. This working paper summarizes key elements of this work, including:(1) insights gained through policy discussions, surveys, and publications, (2) creation of a network of large landscape conservation practitioners to build and share knowledge on large landscape conservation (currently transitioning in name from the “Practitioners’ Network for Large Landscape Conservation” to the “Network for Landscape Conservation”); and (3) efforts to collect and share information and tools developed by partners and others in support of large landscape conservation.”
http://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/workin g -papers/buildin g -lar g e-landscape-conservationcommunity-practice pdf
Building a Large Landscape Conservation Community of Practice Working Paper WP17SJ1
Shawn Johnson
Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy, University of Montana
February 2017
htt p ://www.lincolninst.edu/sites/default/files/p ubfiles/j ohnson _w p 17s j 1.p df

One of the best illustrations of the largess of this networked community is the icon graphic of The Conservation Science Partners, two core personnel of this NGO, Meredith McClure and Dave Theobald’s names will appear in many of the citations in this library.

The staff sizes of responding organizations ranged from just one person, to over 600 persons at Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. This dramatic range in numbers led to an average staff size of 41 persons per organization, although the vast majority of organizations are much smaller, generally between one and four employees. One thing to note is that a larger staff size did not necessarily translate into higher expenditures on project work in the High Divide. For example, seven of the organizations with expenditures in excess of $2 million dollars have staff sizes of less than ten employees.
http://www.future-west.or g /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/FutureWest_Hi g hDivide_WEB_0.pdf

Heart of the Rockies-High Divide Collaborative and Partnershtt p ://www.hi g hdivide.or g /cross-boundar y -wildlife-modelin g /
http://www.hi g hdivide.or g /estimates/ htt p ://www.hi g hdivide.or g /contact/
http://www.hi g hdivide.or g /coordinatin g -committee/ htt p ://www.hi g hdivide.or g /our-p hiloso p h y /
https://www.toposandanthros.com/blo g /2017/2/21/the-hi g h-divide htt p s://www.to p osandanthros.com/blo g /2017/2/21/the-hi g h-divide
“The overall goals of our High Divide Work are:
Goal 1: To maintain and/or restore connectivity for biodiversity between the GYE and Central Idaho Wilderness through the High Divide region, for perpetuity.
Goal 2: To maintain and/or restore connectivity for biodiversity between the GYE and Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem through the High Divide region, for perpetuity.
Goal 3: To ensure connectivity for wolverine and grizzly bear as focal species surrogates for biodiversity.
Notes: Connectivity to Central Idaho is direct and relatively unfragmented. There are alternatives to many of the route segments, but no completely separate route alternative. Connectivity to the NCDE has alternate routes, some of which may be more feasible. In short, the High Divide is essential for connectivity from the GYE to Central Idaho, but not to the NCDE.”
http://www.crai g headresearch.or g /hi g h-divide1.html htt p ://g reatnorthernlcc.or g /u p dates/new-p aradi g m-collaborative-conservation-hi g h-divide http://www.future-west.or g /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/FutureWest_Hi g hDivide_WEB_0.pdf
htt p s://heart-of-rockies.or g /where-we-work/hi g h-divide/hi g h-divide-collaborative/ https://heart-of-rockies.or g /staff-board-partners/ htt p s://heart-of-rockies.or g /what-we-do/conservation-p lannin g / https://heart-of-rockies.or g /landscape-themes/connectivity/ htt p s://heart-of-rockies.databasin.or g https://heart-of-rockies.or g /buttons/wh y -ke y stone-lands/
This library acknowledges that many of these links will now 404 error. The links and the information contained on the pages that now have been removed, did exist. The reader may draw their own conclusion as to why they have been removed.

TRANSBOUNDARY GOVERNANCE IUCN DEFINITIONS
Identifying Corridors among Large Protected Areas in the United States
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.g ov/pmc/articles/PMC4841590/
BUFFER ZONES and the YELLOWSTONE MODEL
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989414000948 pg. 45…
Transboundary Conservation Governance by Matthew McKinney (and others)
5.1. Explaining governance
Governance refers to the way in which decision making is undertaken, the actors who are involved and the processes by which conflicts among actors are resolved. It is about representation, style of interaction, authority and decision rules33. It also refers to processes that support governance, such as fostering scientific and public learning, and building civic and political will.
The idea of transboundary conservation means that the territory of interest transcends the legal and geographic reach of established jurisdictions and institutions (McKinney and Johnson, 2009). The people affected by this have interdependent interests, which means that none of them has sufficient power or authority to address the problems adequately on their own. This creates a gap in governance— no single entity has the power, authority and responsibility to address transboundary issues, so there is a need to create innovative ways to work across boundaries. Merely applying scientific or technical knowledge to address economic, social or environmental concerns cannot bridge this gap, nor is bridging the gap simply about managing natural resources more effectively and efficiently. In other words, it is essential to establish suitable governance arrangements to provide an enabling environment within which the natural, social and economic processes, related to the establishment and management of a transboundary conservation initiative, may evolve.
...there is a clear distinction between the substance of what needs to be done in a particular transboundary situation and the process by which people concerned bring this about (McKinney and Johnson, 2009; Borrini-Feyerabend et al., 2013). Governance is about the process of deciding what to do, while management is more about implementing appropriate strategies derived…
5.2. Transboundary governance: a sub-type of shared governance
"…..As mentioned earlier, transboundary governance almost always includes a variety of actors (see Case studies 6 and 7). For example, it can involve two governments that make decisions on the evolution of a specific TBCA. But, it can also involve an NGO in one country and a government agency in another, which means that transboundary governance is shared by different sectors and actors. " htt p s://p ortals.iucn.or g /librar y /efiles/documents/PAG-023.p df

WILEY LIBRARY and the ECOLOGY SOCIETY OF AMERICA (Scarlett and McKinney) http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-390001.html
https://www.esa.org/esa/network-governance-special-issue-frontiers/ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fee.1254/abstract
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fee.1254/epdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fee.1255/epdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fee.1248/epdf
supplement
http://www.readcube.com/articles/supplement?doi=10.1002%2Ffee.1248&index=0&ssl=1&st=c0b775ce995d7f450d3f306ec6a9d0c3&preview=1
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fee.1250/epdf
(3) supplements
http://www.readcube.com/articles/supplement?doi=10.1002%2Ffee.1250&index=0&ssl=1&st=396eda73cef84fefcd72e6a5047c2351&preview=1
http://www.readcube.com/articles/supplement?doi=10.1002%2Ffee.1250&index=1&ssl=1&st=396eda73cef84fefcd72e6a5047c2351&preview=1
http://www.readcube.com/articles/supplement?doi=10.1002%2Ffee.1250&index=2&ssl=1&st=396eda73cef84fefcd72e6a5047c2351&preview=1
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fee.1252/epdf
supplements
http://www.readcube.com/articles/supplement?doi=10.1002%2Ffee.1251&index=0&ssl=1&st=226bc620db11a875e82ea08008a0fb69&preview=1

http://www.readcube.com/articles/supplementdoi=10.1002%2Ffee.1251&index=1&ssl=1&st=226bc620db11a875e82ea08008a0fb69&preview=1

Protected Area steering committee report, McKinney/TaborSTEERING COMMITTEE 2014
http://www.tbpa.net/docs/2014
WCPA Technical Report_TBC SG.PDF
http://www.tbpa.net/docs/2015%20WCPA%20Technical%20Report_TBC%20SG.pdf

Click on the second link, transboundary conservation and WCPA Best-is a ppt by McKinney, he is on
IUCN world commission on protected areas
https://www.bin g .com/search?q=wcpa
Matthew McKinney&pc=MOZI&form=MOZSBR
https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx? htt p ://www.tb p a.net/docs/p resentations/
BPG%20on%20TBC%20Ke y %20concepts_Kevan%20and%20Matt.pptx

“United Nations should support more Yellowstone area wilderness, international environmentalists say”
http://www.codynewscompany.com/2015/09/united-nations-should-support-more.html http://www.wilburforce.org/story/protecting-wildlands-connecting-landscapes/
UN - turning public land over to the private sector for management, it enhances the corporatism.
See pg 11.
https://www.cbd.int/tourism/doc/tourism-partnerships-protected-areas-web.pdf

ICUN Securing Protected Areas in the Face of Global Change Issues and Strategies
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.eduviewdocdownloaddoi=10.1.1.118.9628&rep=rep1&type=pdf
https://www.cbd.int/pa/doc/draft-governance-pa-2012-07-en.pdf
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989414000948
http://www.worldheritageoutlook.iucn.org/more/about-iucn-world-heritage-outlook
https://www.iucn.org/theme/protected-areas
htt p s://cmsdata.iucn.or g /es/node/706
https://www.iucn.or g /theme/world-herita g e/our-work/world-herita g e-pro j ects/world-herita g e-leadership
look at pg 50

https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/2014-039.pdf

PublicPrivatePartnerships
http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/public-private-partnerships-for-transportation-categorizationand-analysis-of-state-statutes-january-2016.aspx
In 2001 The Heritage Foundation warned us of the danger of executive and unelected power structures.
The entire report may be downloaded at this link.
http://www.heritage.org/political-process/report/the-use-and-abuse-executive-orders-and-otherpresidential-directives

PLOS Papers/multiple other support links to explore:
"Developing a new system for PA categories will not be an easy task. PAs are not simply technical tools for conservation—they are value-laden institutions that are deeply rooted in national policies and international agreements. Opening the discussion on a well-established system that is universally adopted is a serious decision, not to be taken lightly. In addition to the benefits we have listed, there will also be costs. Changing the current system might prove costly and painful not only for IUCN, but also for the international conservation community. The transition from one system to another will require dedicated efforts.

A change of the category system might prove particularly challenging for developing countries that lack the technical and economic resources to apply techniques of conservation planning, enforce goals related to conservation outcomes, and implement biodiversity monitoring programs. Developed countries and international organizations must be prepared to support the transition with skills and resources where necessary.
Without doubt, the current system is easier to apply than the alternative we propose, and might, therefore, be strongly defended by countries that find it easy to apply and have invested deeply in it. However, IUCN has the right and responsibility to manage the PA category system and, if necessary, to change it.
htt p s://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.g ov/p mc/articles/PMC2267816/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.g ov/pubmed/15071592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.g ov/pubmed/15071592/


"Here, we develop a national-scale connectivity model with the aim of identifying potential priorities for maintaining connectivity among existing, large protected areas of the contiguous United States of America (hereafter, U.S.). This differs from a previous national analysis of connectivity developed by Theobald et al. [23] that identified pathways through lands with low human modification, but without an explicit aim to model potential connections between protected areas. Here, we identify the least humanmodified corridors between large protected areas based on two different indices of human modification (or inversely, naturalness) to create a composite map of corridors that highlights agreement among models run with various assumptions about how connectivity potential may be influenced by the degree of human
modification of lands. We used the composite corridor map to ask two questions about connectivity between existing protected areas. First, we asked which conservation lands not within our pool of identified large protected core areas contribute to the identified corridors. Second, we asked which Inventoried Roadless Areas and Wilderness Study Areas on U.S. federal lands would contribute most to connectivity if added to the protected area system in the future."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.g ov/pmc/articles/PMC4841590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18544090/

If The American Public, elected representatives and publicly selected decision makers want to know if a dedicated group of environmental and conservation large landscape “practitioners" are prepared to, and are actively working to replace our traditional jurisdictional boundaries, and the representative established governance policies based on the laws that have traditionally existed and were developed through a democratic process so that We the People may chose our own collective future in The West, the answer is YES…they are.

This resource library contains many links. Many links will 404 error. Much of the information that has been removed has also been published about in regional articles, and submitted requests and inquiries. Again, the reader may draw their own conclusions about the removal of the information.
The websites, the works cited, the science and analysis, the persons and organizations involved are often times common, repetitive as to cross-collaboration and appearance of same names, and all are associated through the ‘practitioners network’ that they have created. They work through the partnerships they have created which are also common: universities, NGOs they have established-many sit on multiple boards with one another, they work from the positions of influence they have gained, and in the areas of their own strengths and professional expertise. With the power of this networking effort, the positions they work from, and with the advantage of the federal bank account known as The Land and Water Conservation Fund, which is replenished every year by Congress, their goals as written in multiple documents and shown on the multiple maps in this library are poised to be realized.  “United Nations should support more Yellowstone area wilderness, international environmentalists say”
http://www.codynewscompany.com/2015/09/united-nations-should-support-more.html http://www.wilburforce.org/story/protecting-wildlands-connecting-landscapes/
UN - turning public land over to the private sector for management, it enhances the corporatism.
See pg 11.
https://www.cbd.int/tourism/doc/tourism-partnerships-protected-areas-web.pdf

APPENDIX…THE WESTERN STATES
by Lady Boots

APPENDIX…THE WESTERN STATES
Western Governors Association

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Governors_Association
APPENDIX…THE WESTERN STATESThis appendix will begin, where in earnest, the foundational pressure to regionally plan all activities that can effect wildlife on a large landscape conservation scale originates. The main library provides the timeline prior to this component - regionalism, it’s rebirth, and growth.
Advocates for this management and governance model from the non-governmental sector, which developed the regional wildlife corridor planning and mitigation design in the first place, will collaborate with the land, wildlife and natural resource management agencies of The Western States. Those agencies have key personnel within them that aide in this ‘work’ and are, in fact, also ’specialists’ and ‘practitioners’ that collaborate with the non-governmental advocacy network themselves.
The ”Who” that is appointed to make the decisions and determine policy and govern, among the state agencies, non-governmental organizations, and corporate partners…are all non- elected. As the reader studies the links, you are encouraged to note that local and elected governance representatives are not seen on the working groups and are seldom mentioned. The private sector partners have become ‘the public’ component required by federal law as vital participants, an intended usurpation, that is known, encouraged, and respected by their federal and state partners.   For well over 2 decades, they have grown to become a defacto governance and policy decision making collaborative.
The ’Who’ that are richly mentioned, are, the ‘industry’ the ‘services’ and the ‘specialists’. Papers and dialogue among them suggest in these planning initiatives, that it is ‘they’ who should collectively manage the wildlife and natural resources within defined eco-systems in each state. Where did these individuals get the power, the right, and assume the responsibility to determine all of the human and wildlife livability environments in our counties and our states? Who-what-where do they source their authority to design policy and propose law that they can advocate and apply into state action plans brought their state partners in order to qualify federal funding? SWAPS have been congressionally mandated for each state. Define the law that allows this non-elected governance model …please? The Power to do so, across multiple jurisdictions, on a large landscape scale, managing and planning everything that wildlife intersects or has influence upon, will allow this governance model to usurp every traditional jurisdictional governance institution in every Western State if it is allowed to stand unchallenged. Land use, development, jurisdictional comprehensive planning, and transportation are all impacted. The Large landscape conservation governance model does not recognize the historical known traditional boundaries or respect sovereign jurisdictional decision making. (see McKinney-Scarlett…multiple articles in the dedicated issue: http://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/issue/10.1111/fee. 2016.14.issue-3/)
Wildlife in western states share multiple cross boundary-state habitats. It appears that our western state governors are also embracing the model of trans-boundary conservation governance.

Western State’s conservation ‘practitioners’ have long desired this goal and are positioned to take leadership roles in it. The Wildlife Corridor Initiative that the WGA has now abandoned, serves as the first pdf in this library. It is an introduction.
The Trump administration has rescinded the federal mandates set forth during the Obama Administration and Sally Jewell’s DOI. Since the federal pressure has been withdrawn, the advocacy has migrated and returned to The States. No longer with the primary focus on wildlife corridor mitigation, the effort has reconstituted coming from the shifted focus to habitat and species listing.   The new WGA initiative picks up on the dominant theme of Species Conservation and Endangered Species Act Initiative qualified by habitat and species number requirements.
(SCESAI)
Just as the wildlife corridor initiative was designed upon, the SCESAI still includes wildlife mitigation/corridors/vital and required habitat …both intend to accomplish the very same goals.
“Wildlife” are a property in state game management agency definition. Current language in their policy documents states that wildlife species are a ‘property’ managed under their jurisdiction. In the workshop meeting notes you will see, state and federal agencies, together with the large influence of their NGO and corporate partners, are discussing and debating ‘who’ will have ‘what’ percentage of power and jurisdictional authority.
Public/private partnerships are a threat to the basic tenet of the American representative and elected governance model. Allowing non-elected and appointed personal, who have no accountability within the democratic process, and are not bound to public transparency and public participation requirements is very problematic. What elected government cannot do, within the constraints of operation entrusted to them by The Public, their private partners can do and are not bound by. What are our Western States governors thinking? Do you support this giveaway of your citizen rights and opportunity to impact your governmental policy?
INTRODUCTION. THE WGA WILDLIFE CORRIDOR INITIATIVE
https://arc-solutions.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Western-Governors-Association-2008Corridor-Initiative-Report.pdf
(new) WGA Species Conservation and ESA Initiativehttp://west g ov.or g /ima g es/files/2017 _ESA _Report _for _Web.pdf http://westgov.org/images/editor/
WGA_Species_Conservation_and_ESA_Recommendations.pdf
letter to Zinke https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=DOI-2017-0003-0221
Reports

http://west g ov.or g /explore/species-mana g ement/reports
http://west g ov.or g /ima g es/editor/FY2017 _House _Interior _Approps _FINAL.pdf https://www.epw.senate.g ov/public/index.cfm/2017/2/chairman-barrasso-the-endan g ered species-act
“Require the Secretary to make a determination on whether or not to designate critical habitat for a species. The Secretary shall designate critical habitat if he or she determines such a designation is necessary to recover the species. If the Secretary determines that such designation is not critical to recovery of the species, the Secretary may decline to designate critical habitat for a species. If the Secretary designates critical habitat, it must link such designation to recovery objectives and plans. For many species, recovery planning cannot occur until years after a listing, leaving a lot of time for critical habitat to be compromised in the meantime. When necessary, critical habitat should continue to be designated at the time of listing, and re-evaluated as part of the recovery planning process. The Secretary will retain current authority to permit exclusions from critical habitat designations for discrete purposes. “
http://west g ov.or g /ima g es/editor/
WGA _Species _Conservation _and _ESA _Recommendations.pdf
WATCH: WGA webinar on Species Conservation FundingSpecies Conservation Funding examined current methods of funding species conservation efforts, as well challenges and opportunities to leveraging additional funding for conservation of at-risk and endangered species. The moderator was Timothy Male, Executive Director at the Environmental Policy Innovation Center. Panelists included: Christy Plumer, Chief Conservation Officer, Theodore Roosevelt
Conservation Partnership; Virgil Moore, Director, Idaho Department of Fish and Game; Gary Frazer, Assistant Director for Endangered Species, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Click here to view the presentation slides
The Species Conservation and the Endangered Species Act Initiative was launched in 2015 by Wyoming Governor Matt Mead in his capacity as WGA Chairman. The WGA policy team is in the midst of a multi-year work plan to advance the objectives of the initiative based on the policy resolution, Species Conservation and the Endangered Species Act. Here's where to read and download the Year Two Recommendations that have been incorporated by reference into the resolution.
Get the latest news about the West and its governors by following the Western Governors' Association on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. htt p ://west g ov.or g /news/w g a-hosts-se p tember-7-webinar-on-s p ecies-conservation-fundin g /
SLIDE SHOW
htt p ://west g ov.or g /ima g es/editor/Fundin g_Webinar _9 _7 _17.p df
RECOMMENDATIONS
htt p ://west g ov.or g /ima g es/editor/WGA _Species _Conservation _and _ESA _Recommendations.p df http://westgov.org/images/editor/
SUMMARY_Work_Session_Landscape_Scale_Conservation_BAS_v2.pdf

(copied)
"State representatives responded that it is far more desirable to be involved from the start, then join as an intervener in the event of litigation, than not be involved from the start and deal with the uncertainty of a nebulous settlement agreement. If the Service is at least willing to indicate early on that plans are on the right track, that serves as a great incentive for states to engage in voluntary pre-listing conservation efforts. Industry representatives echoed the same sentiment.
Attendees discussed how to further incentivize industry and private entities to engage in proactive state conservation planning. A conservation representative stated, “Once a state plan is approved by the Services, we could look at assuring that mitigation provisions to
fulfill the goals of the plan would count as mitigation credits if a listing occurs.”
Some in the group were concerned that the Services lack the authority to provide assurances mentioned above on a broad suite of mitigation programs. This recommendation is essentially applying CCAA assurances more broadly to state conservation plans including mitigation. A representative of the Service noted, “We have the authority to do this now, but we haven’t used it as widely as we have done on individual CCAAs.” Some in the group were hesitant on this interpretation of inferred authority and wanted expressed authority granted in statute.
Despite disagreement on mechanisms to provide them, the group agreed that applying ESA
assurances to mitigation provisions in state plans was important and desirable. " http://west g ov.or g /ima g es/editor/SUMMARY_WORK_SESSION_3_final.pdf
Some participants noted that when a migration corridor or potential critical habitat is identified on private land, it almost always comes as a negative to the landowner. They discussed the need to make landowners more supportive of the process through providing some form of mitigation for the economic impact landowners incur by possessing a piece of prime habitat on their land.
A landowner stated, “If you have a rancher that is doing the right thing and maintaining that prime habitat, you want to keep them doing what they are doing, instead of thinking about it as needing to protect that habitat from the rancher.”

       The group decided that a good place to examine potential economic mitigation for critical
habitat designations on private land is in the conservation title of the farm bill. Some conservation programs in the farm bill may provide a model for scoring private lands based on conservation potential and awarding out grant funding to landowners working to conserve and maintain pristine habitat.
As an aside, the group also discussed the desire to increase the Secretaries’ discretion in designating critical habitat – especially for species with broad ranges. The group never formally endorsed this recommendation by a majority, but it was discussed with some moderate range of support.
The argument made by some was that for species with exceptionally broad ranges (marine species in an ocean for instance) designating massive swaths of habitat can dilute the effectiveness of the critical habitat designation and impose excessive financial burdens on states and stakeholders. A participant questioned, “Could a fix be that the Service(s) has to justify that a critical habitat designation is actually assisting in the conservation of the species? Maybe the Secretary should have expanded discretionary authority to designate critical habitat only on the basis that it will provide scientifically supported conservation benefits.”
5.     5.         Maintain a set of statutory timelines for findings on petitions to list, but allow for flexibility around timelines based on scientific based assessments of risk to species. Use authority of the Services to initiate an emergency listing when necessary. http://westgov.org/images/editor/SUMMARY_Work_Session_Section_4_1.pdf htt p ://west g ov.or g /ima g es/editor/SUMMARY _Work _Session _Incentivizin g_Voluntary _Conservation.p df add to the paradigm:
The PRIVATE ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN STATES WILDLIFE MANAGERS
Crucial Habitat Assessment Tool
About CHATThe Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Crucial Habitat Assessment Tool (CHAT) was developed to bring greater certainty and predictability to planning efforts by establishing a common starting point for discussing the intersection of development and wildlife. The tool is managed by the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA). CHAT is designed to reduce conflicts and surprises while ensuring wildlife values are better incorporated into land use planning, particularly for large-scale linear projects. It is a non-regulatory tool and not intended for project-level approval.
The History of CHATWhen the Western Governors adopted their Wildlife Corridors Initiative Report in 2008, they created the Western Governors' Wildlife Council and tasked its members with developing policies and tools to identify and conserve crucial wildlife habitat and corridors across the region.
The Wildlife Council first approached the Governors' directive by launching regional pilot projects in 2010 with support from a grant from the Department of Energy. The year-long pilot projects allowed the Wildlife Council to test the framework outlined in their White Paper, helping to refine their vision. In August 2011, the Wildlife Council established a plan to develop a West-wide tool with the goal of launching a public and regionally compatible crucial habitat GIS tool by 2013.
All the while, the Wildlife Council has continued to support the development of state-specific CHATs in individual states.

Western Governors launched CHAT in December 2013 as the Western Governors’ Crucial Habitat Assessment Tool (CHAT) and managed it through 2014. In April 2015, Western Governors transferred full responsibility for CHAT to WAFWA ,and the tool was renamed the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies CHAT.
For more information, please visit: http://www.wafwachat.org
As the Western Governors Association has dropped the Wildlife Corridor Initiative, under the new administration of President Trump and Secretary Zinke’s and the ongoing review within the DOI, the wildlife mitigation agenda and the conservation community, which has sought to advance it primarily federally the past 8 years, has apparently maneuvered to migrate the effort back to the ‘state conservation machine’ now.
This is exactly where they first spring-boarded the wildlife corridor and mitigation initiative forward from, and worked to get it also included in the Great Outdoor Initiative, based on the Yellowstone to Yukon/Crown of the Continent model. The focus efforts will now hinge on state SWAPs and CHATs as the implementation vehicle, as the Obama executive presidential initiative that has been rescinded.
ID has no CHAT.
As Idaho does not have a CHAT set up yet-inquiry will send you to the IDFG site htt p ://www.wafwachat.or g /about
the white paper has been removed
htt p ://www.west g ov.or g /com p onent/docman/doc _download/1746-w g wc-white-p a p er-2013?Itemid=53
(see Idaho)….nothing, note the 2017 copyright
htt p ://www.wafwachat.or g /states
CHAT isn't new, it was established with the WGA agreement on conservation.
Idaho does not currently have a state-specific CHAT site. For more information on wildlife habitat go to the state’s Department of Fish and Game website. htt p ://www.wafwachat.or g /states/idaho
Breakdown this page.
It appears that the wildlife managers in every state are acting as if they have the authority of an elected governor and representative voice over wildlife matters in their respective states. htt p ://www.wafwachat.or g /resources
Virgil Moore Idaho Director htt p ://www.wafwa.or g /members/directors _roster/
The Voice of Fish & Wildlife Agencies: AFWA Press Releases htt p ://www.fishwildlife.or g /index.p h p ?section=afwa _p ress _releases&p rrid=236

WAFWA and AFWA are not a governmental organizations. They are made up of state wildlife managers who chose to affiliate as an ‘association of wildlife professionals’.
Is this why WGA turned the wildlife corridor initiative over to this Fish & Wildlife “association’ where they can advocate for wildlife corridor mitigation within their own states as they continue to develop their respective state wildlife action plans? The wildlife corridor initiative did not disappear, it ‘migrated’ too.
If this multi- faceted agenda, sourcing from select private-public-partnerships with shared and wellpublished common goals succeeds, western state’s citizens will have little to no role in determining our rural comprehensive futures. This governance model will have the power and the authority to determine everything. All elected local, county and small community governments will be subject to regional governance decisions.
DANGER!! What is not publicly supported or cannot be done through traditional governmental channels, the private partners can do. Their influence has been and is to this day is increasing and very significant.   They are funding and providing the ‘science’, analysis, are being welcomed as the voices of the
‘specialist’s and ‘professionals’ providing the recommendations to the state agencies.   The WHO that is GIVEN or has ASSUMED the AUTHORITY ….are and WILL MAKE THE DECISONS.
This is how they can ‘work off the public books’ (transparency in government) and bring in big lobbyist money and invite their input and influence. htt p ://www.fishwildlife.or g /files/BRP-FA Q_ex p anded-u p dated _9-7-16.p df
Based in Washington, DC, heavily influenced by outside ‘special’ interests with their own agendas htt p ://www.fishwildlife.or g /files/Blue _Ribbon _Panel _Re p ort2.p df Called the Blue Ribbon Panel
htt p ://www.fishwildlife.or g /files/TheBlueRibbonPanelonSustainin g Wildlife _BROCHURE.p df Pg 4 has the corporate funding partners
htt p s://c p w.state.co.us/Documents/Commission/2016/Au g /Item _15-PowerPoint DRAFT _Blue _Ribbon _Res-Au g 2016 _PWCMt g .pdf
htt p s://finance.y ahoo.com/news/blue-ribbon-p anel-ener gy -business-162000093.html Idaho is right smack in the middle of it
htt p s://www.ammoland.com/2017/09/vir g il-moore-elected-association-fish-wildlife-a g encies-p resident/
#axzz4vUr y 45h Q
htt p s://idf g .idaho.g ov/p ress/f g -director-elected-p resident-national-fish-and-wildlife-or g anization Heavy duty lobbyists/influence
htt p ://fishwildlife.or g /?section=blueribbon p anel coordinate with the federal cooperative
here is a potential ES species example of WAFWA coordinating with the GNLCC
http://g reatnorthernlcc.or g /updates/wafwa-issues-call-sa g ebrush-social-science-research pro j ects
THE STATE CONSERVATION MACHINE
For video,SEE: https://youtu.be/6eDxNjn-6pc

Cleaning up at Interior
By Rob Bishop
11-29-2017

Cleaning Up the Department of the Interior Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ANALYSIS/OPINION:
In the 1990s, after posting the largest revenue losses at the time of any U.S. company in history, multinational computer giant IBM implemented an epic corporate turnaround. Having posted billions of dollars in annual losses, it was widely considered bloated and antiquated. Business executive Louis Gerstner Jr., largely credited with IBM’s “rebirth,” reflected that “Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you’re really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It’s a lot more than just playing with boxes.” It’s clear that the Interior Department needs such a transformation.
While the Interior Department employs less than one-fifth the number of employees at IBM today, the department is facing an equally crucial juncture and an opportunity to shed its bloated, antiquated and bureaucratic ways. It’s apparent that my former colleague who now leads the department, Ryan Zinke, agrees.

The Interior Department is one of the most vital federal agencies, overseeing more than 400 million acres of federally owned land, 26 percent of which is in 11 western states. In case you’re wondering, 400 million acres is about one-fifth of all the land in the United States or approximately four times the size of California. The department and its agencies have diverse missions and responsibilities that include everything from running our nation’s cherished national parks to managing offshore energy resources on 1.7 billion acres of the Outer Continental Shelf.
Despite the importance of the department’s work, its ever-expanding missions have fueled a decline in its ability to provide efficient, effective and transparent service to the American public. In fact, the Government Accountability Office identified several “mission critical” functions within the department — the management of oil and gas resources and Interior programs that serve tribes — to be high-risk areas for “fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement or the need [of] transformation.”
I agree with the Government Accountability Office. The department has fallen behind in carrying out some of its basic statutory responsibilities, including responsible management and development of our nation’s natural resources. Despite this being among the department’s most basic functions, costly and duplicative bureaucratic policies have slowed resources development, leading to an $8 billion decline in royalties during the past four years. This inefficiency ultimately shortchanges the American taxpayer.
We’ve seen federal coordination with states and local land managers deteriorate, often resulting in distrust and poor resource management. For example, resource management plans, created by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), are designed to delineate how federal lands will be managed and how those objectives can square with state and local needs. Contrary to their very purpose, these plans have become restrictive and unproductive, and the agency’s mandate for sustained yield and multiple use management has been essentially ignored as a result.
The lack of accountability for serious misconduct by Interior officials further complicates these issues. Several high-profile cases of misconduct have come to light in recent years, ranging from sexual harassment within the ranks of the National Park Service to the brazen abuse of authority by BLM Special Agent Dan Love. A pattern has emerged demonstrating a reluctance by senior department officials to discipline and hold federal employees accountable for their wrongdoing. I’m encouraged to see the department beginning to open its eyes to reports of misconduct and impose real consequences on those found responsible.
As Congress and the department consider reforms to address problems within the agency, the first step should be to bring decision-making and leadership back to the communities where Interior’s policies and work impacts citizens the most — the western United States. The western states include large swaths of federally managed land, such as in my home state of Utah, where about 65 percent of all land is owned by the federal government. There is no doubt that we need increased state and local input and federal management that is responsive to the needs of communities. After years of systemic dysfunction and mismanagement at the department, true change is long overdue.
A shift away from the current Washington-centric management system toward a contemporary decentralized model that prioritizes accountability, transparency and service to the American people must occur. A primary responsibility of Congress is to conduct oversight of the executive branch. The Natural Resources Committee has a critical role overseeing the Interior Department’s reorganization efforts, and I look forward to reviewing the specifics of Mr. Zinke’s plans. Together, we have an opportunity to not just move organizational boxes, but to transform the way the department responds to the American people it serves.
• Rob Bishop, Utah Republican, is chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Link: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/29/interior-department-gets-a-cleanup/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=email_this&utm_source=email

Wouldn't Our Founders Be Proud Of Us?

Wouldn't our Founders be Proud of us?Our Founding Fathers Must be turning over in their graves for what we have allowed to happen to the Republic they forged when they pledged their Lives,Fortunes,and Sacred Honor to establish.
They knew that reconciliation was not then to be had from a Tyrant, as it is now not to be had from an overreaching and borderline governmental Tyranny.
Our Founding Fathers had these things to say
The charges they levied against the King of England (In Parenthesis) then, are strikingly familiar to what we are experiencing from our three branches of Government today. Let us take the charges they levied against King George, and compare them to what conservative Americans charge the Obama Administration and his acting bureaucracies with today;

" He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."
Hasn't Obama ignored enforcing some laws? Hasn't Obama Ignored Constitutional Law when he oversteps his enumerated powers and legislates from the Oval office by changing enacted laws, issuing executive orders, confiscating lands from the States supposedly to create National Monuments over the objections of the people and using other agencies of the Federal Government to enforce his actions?

"He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands."
Hasn't Obama ignored Congress and the People and issued executive orders concerning Illegal Immigrants?

"He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power."
Hasn't Obama stripped the Military leadership dedicated to preserving the Constitution and replaced them with his handpicked people? What about the Ready Reserve force he initiated to be just as fully trained and equipped as our military?

" He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: "
Hasn't he initiated or approved several treaties like the UN Gun Ban treaty, Trans Pacific Partnership, Trans Atlantic Partnership?

In simple fact, most of what the colonists charged King George with over two centuries ago, can be readily applied to Obama, his complicit Congresses, and the institutions he as chief Executive controls; i.e. the IRS,CIA,NSA, EPA to name a few, but the list goes ever on.

Just what the hell, is going on in America today? What happened to the undaunted American Spirit? All I can see is miserable, cowering, and/or brainwashed people who have forgotten their heritage!! I don't deny that Americans have been under the onslaught of negative propaganda from the growing progressive voice in our county based on the political philosophy of the Socialist Left. Theirs is a narrative that has grown ever stronger for DECADES. This coalition is the bane of the Spirit of Freedom and Liberty.

Ever since the Colonial Patriots, with the help of the French created the American Experiment of self-rule, the Antiquated Old School 'Ruling Class' has been desperate to curtail any further inroads to diminish what they themselves consider as a God Given Right. The superior right for the privileged to abuse all who they deem are not within their own 'Clique.' We do not need them to make our decisions for us. We do not need for them to establish the definition of worth or chose our direction of movement. What we need now is, for The People themselves to start learning and thinking for themselves. People who want to act, assume and become responsible for their own self-determination. If we abdicate that, we hand them our liberty.

When the self-styled Ruling Elites consider themselves as a separate and more highly esteemed entity from the rest of their fellow citizenry the trouble begins. It is only when the Leaders have similar concerns as the vast Majority of the Public, they share the same vision and goals, and they are held to the same standards that government works very well.

It is dangerous for leaders to hold themselves separate from the society that they are elected to serve; Physically, in a city but operating in a vacuum. Socially, where they mingle with influence peddlers, and Emotionally, where they share little of the burden of their policy decisions, they usually create policies that they little understand or relate to as they levy them.

History has taught us that this will manifest itself first and clearest in the venue of Criminal Justice. When the Ruling Elite create a system where the privileged of their class are held to a different standard of responsibility and accountability to the Law than the so-called average person, everything begins to break down...a spiral eventually leading to Anarchy. First manifestations example themselves when Government officials exempt themselves from the laws and regulations that they make. Sounds very much like what Congress did with Obamacare does it not?

Such burdensome political dramas tire and numb a society quickly. People strive for positive or quick distraction from the comprehensive and pervasive oppression of feeling and law. The moderately financially secure young are easily manipulated into concentrating on hedonistic activities, living for the moment, immature and self-indulgent, their lives have not yet necessitated them thinking about the future. The youth of the lower financial opportunity are made poorer and the messages of disproportionate circumstances create envy and breed mistrust. Enter into this dynamic those who would further divide us who take advantage of all issues, tragedy and current events to put a label and a color on it. They interject hatred as match to override tinder. Many pretend to be help. Many offer manifold programs that they provide, not as a hand up but as a handout to a mouth that soon forgets or desires to feed itself. This has spawned generations of families dependent on a welfare state. A welfare state that will continue to empower the cycle they cannot or will not break.

Strange as it might seem, those who have enjoyed decades of power in our country, have actually programmed our society to be accepting of the agenda they work as puppet-masters to perform and orchestrate. They fear the potential threat of a young, strong, unified, and educated generation being able to contest their rule.

The Progressive elite only want sheeple grazing in their pastures, the slaves and the needy of a general population so they can mold them and direct them to work to make them wealthier, work to support the state programs through taxes, and perpetuate envy from the poor who take from the coffers the workers fill. Who remains untouched in to scenario, who gains?
'A House divided cannot stand' Lincoln said that.A house so over-burdened with its foundation continually eroded away cannot stand either.
How long can America stand if this continues?
Do you believe that America still has a future as a Free People?

In Conclusion;
It is not too late. There is a solution, a constitutional one.
Though some would argue against it, and I cannot accept their fear as an excuse to not try.
We should all fear much more doing nothing at all.
Why do they deny the Constitutional solution?
The Founders, Framers and Ratifiers of the Constitution of the United States wrote into the document the remedy for the out of control government we now have and that they feared. A government and a self-appointed Ruler just like King George.

Article V of the Constitution.
An Amendment proposal, at a limited convention would make damn sure the States would/could unite to repeal the 14th,16th,17th amendments. Such accomplished, we would return to the balance of separate and equal branches of our government, and we could function as intended once again. The State's powers and the 10th amendment would be restored. Executive actions would be mute. No man or woman could be a king or a queen. And from that foundation where we once started to build a nation, we can begin to restore the Republic our Founders gave to us.

The Tradesman & Ladyboots
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Land Grab Library

Fishing a Mile in Another Man's Hat

December 07, 2014 6:00 am • Michael Jamison and Bob Brown

Lawmakers must heed locally grown solutions

We’re a strange pair of fishing buddies, the retired Republican lawmaker and the environmentalist, but we sure do enjoy each other’s company. Together, we tramp through thickets, scramble down riverbanks, wade icy currents -- all for the shared pleasure of laying a fly in front of a handsome westslope cutt.

This fall, as we bushwhacked into a secret hole, we couldn’t help but notice each other’s hats: the veteran GOP campaigner was wearing a ballcap touting Trout Unlimited; the conservationist was bearing the badge of the local lumber mill. Maybe that’s why we get on so well. We’re willing to fish a mile in another man’s hat.

We both believe, generally, that there’s room enough in Montana’s wilds for all sorts of folks. We agree that there’s room enough for compromise, that it’s better to talk than to shout, that we’d rather negotiate than litigate. And we both believe that when neighbors cooperate in good faith to help manage their own backyards, then the powers that be should pay very close attention, and think twice before tipping the scales on behalf of special interests.

Together, when we weren’t chasing trout, we spent a year working alongside a wild diversity of opinionated folk, hammering out a unanimous land-use agreement for forest lands west of Glacier National Park. We partnered with Democrats and Republicans, motorheads and wildernuts, slednecks and timber beasts. There were bikers and businessmen, backcountry guides and frontcountry realtors. Hunters, horsemen and anglers joined to express support. The Montana Logging Association was at the table, and so was the Montana Wilderness Association. Together, wary but in good faith, we set a goal of unanimous consent and a deadline of the first day of elk season. We worked darned hard over a whole year full of lasagna and venison burgers and chili feeds and conversations.

Across Montana, similar partnerships have been working to solve thorny federal land-management problems -- restoring forests, protecting wildlife, guaranteeing recreational access and improving local economies. These are difficult rooms to work in, where long-term adversaries are plodding through years of distrust toward common ground. We all want jobs and clean water, forests full of trails and big elk. And who better to help assure that than those of us who live, work and play on these world-class landscapes?

Locally built, collaboratively developed solutions -- implemented and directed by professional land stewards -- are the most enduring and beneficial of all, because they take into account local conditions and needs, while at the same time balancing national rules and regulations. When supported by lawmakers and implemented by federal land management agencies, these local partnerships provide powerful solutions.

Collaborative efforts between neighbors already have produced tremendous gains for Montana – created jobs in the woods, restored habitats, protected our landscapes, livelihoods and lifestyles -- but they cannot succeed without buy-in from decision makers. If the powers-that-be expect ordinary folk to put new ideas on the table, they must also be ready to employ those ideas on the ground. Land managers must be open to creative proposals, and lawmakers must provide agencies the flexibility to enact those plans.

There is, in fact, room enough for most all of us in Montana’s wilds. We have proven that, unanimously, in our own backyard. But without support, all this hard work may ultimately come to naught. We cannot allow the heavy thumb of special interests, or agency bias, or political gridlock, to tip the scales we have in good faith worked so hard to balance. Montana’s decision makers need to trust Montanans, and to recognize, always, the value of fishing a mile of river in another man’s hat.

Michael Jamison of Whitefish was a founding participant of the Whitefish Range Partnership. A writer and conservationist, he serves as Glacier program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association.

Bob Brown of Whitefish served as Chair of the Whitefish Range Partnership. He is a former Montana secretary of state and former president of the Montana state Senate.

http://helenair.com/news/opinion/lawmakers-must-heed-locally-grown-solutions/article_20311562-f8b4-58ec-ab53-1ed9b0d163e2.html

LadyBoots Commentary;
As an advocate for the return of, and proponent of relinquishment to, federal 'claim' of western states lands:
I, and many more like minds and hearts, are committed to broadening associations and cooperative efforts that support best practices, collaborative process, multiple use, shared management, and responsible stewardship, of our public lands. Such basic self-determination should be locally decided, sponsored and supported, under the principle jurisdiction of our local and state governments, with citizen advisory involvement.

We believe in inviting all voices and stakeholders to the conversation and decision making table, and are equally committed to negotiating with honesty and in good faith with one another toward common goals and responsible stewardship.

We respect the voices of all multiple users and public interests. That places us squarely in contrast to so-called protection and preservation advocates that take positions which ignore the rights of the states, private citizens and their property, and the public right to enjoy the beauty and the resources in our states, in pursuit of a single agenda...closure through exclusive federal jurisdiction, executive action, and management policy.

Our federal coffers are empty. We have mortgaged three generations of America's future against our current national debt. The federal government 'claims' ownership of half (on average) of lands in EACH western state. Look at the inequality, in a nation sharply focused on that very issue. Intention of more future federal designations of our lands has been declared. Enough.

Existing federal lands are at risk now to lack of funding, neglected management, and a spark set to dead forests from a lightening strike flashing from inside Nature's thunderhead. (See map at the end of this article)

Consider a new perspective, and the value it offers of collaborative process and vision that supports a cooperative step into the future. Citizens living in our western states are entitled to equal footing under the Constitution of the United States.

Western states have the right to re-claim their sovereignty and destiny over our own lands and futures. Western states deserve the same equal standing every state east of the Mississippi has been historically entitled to. Western states citizens are determined to insist that the federal promise finally be kept......it is long past time.
ladyboots

The Enabling Act of 1802 was passed on April 30, 1802 by the Seventh Congress of the United States. This act authorized the residents of the eastern portion of the Northwest Territory to form the state of Ohio and join the U.S. on an equal footing with the other states. To accomplish this, and in doing so, the act also established the precedent and procedures for creation of future states in the western territories. The Enabling Act of 1802 would be the first appropriation by Congress for internal improvements in the country's interior.
Public Land:
Is a category for 'States' (the States that compacted to create our Union):
that excluded [the original 13 states plus] Vermont, Kentucky, and Tennessee before Ohio was admitted, and Texas after.

"An act in addition to, and in modification of, the propositions contained in the act entitled 'An act to enable the People of the Eastern division of the Territory Northwest of the river Ohio, to form a Constitution and State Government, and for the admission of such State into the Union, on an equal footing with the original States; and for other purposes". March 1803

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN.

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN.
....now we need our leaders to LEAD, and make good on every promise they made to get elected

Everywhere in the WEST....citizens are fighting.
Non-binding advisory initiatives were requested and placed on the ballots in Idaho.
The voting results of those citizen initiatives was overwhelmingly powerful.
OPPOSITION!!!!

It is the reality in many western states.
This is a snapshot of the reality they face.
Please study and become informed, so that you might help them in this fight.

The Boulder White Clouds, in the central region and the Island Park Caldera bordering Yellowstone National Park, are in the crosshairs of a massive federal land grab.

While I have the floor, please allow me to say:
A fundamental federal promise was made... and then broken.
Every sovereign STATE's lands were to have been 'held in trust', and then returned upon our statehood. The federal government, by the time the western states did so, broke that promise and did not relinquish them. The concept of 'equal standing' and sovereign state status has been discriminately ignored, and the failure to relinquish our lands has been federally and unconstitutionally inflicted. It is a foundational argument, and a wrong that needs to be immediately rectified, to relieve the western states of the potential to be politically victimized and vulnerable to federal 'taking'.

This action needs A Congressional one, defined in law - to limit or repeal an egregious and politically wielded federal law, that has long ago lost it's true intent. THE WESTERN STATES NEED YOUR ATTENTION!

Western states are in the cross-hairs. Podesta and his 'languishing lands' agenda, the 2016 centennial plans of the NPS...they are WORKING ON THAT AS WE SPEAK..and have the ear of a desperate president, badly in need of a legacy. We have done the homework, your welcome to it. I promise you, I know of what I speak.

Look to UTAH and Ken Ivory, he has done his homework too.

There are two very important pieces of legislation languishing in the House...get them to the Senate....A NEW AND FUNCTIONING SENATE.

(1) Legislation to LIMIT the executive power and use of the Antiquities Act.

(2) Western States land Sovereignty Bills. Rep. RAUL Labrador has sponsored Idaho's.

Such land sovereignty bills exempt states from the antiquities act, fashioned after the Wyoming and ALASKA bills. Every western state deserves the same protection and standing under the laws of this nation that these two states and all of the eastern states now enjoy.

Leader McCarthy, Presumptive Leader McConnell....PLEASE MAKE THAT HAPPEN. You stand to preside over the quiet and most aggressive federal land grab in the western United States that has happened in large scale in AMERICAN history. THIS IS YOUR WATCH NOW.
THE CITIZENS OF EVERY WESTERN STATE ARE BEGGING YOU FOR THIS ACTION.
PLEASE ACT PREEMPTIVELY BEFORE OBAMA and PODESTA DO...TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE.

We are doing the hard work on the ground. We are working to produce the results you need to stand on, we will continue in this regard, we are engaged, we need a platform and your support...please, HELP US.

That is my humble observation, offered with respect and conviction,
Leanne Yancey (ladyboots)
Fremont County, Idaho

MONTHS OF WORK:....will continue

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Barack Obama: Oppose the creation of the Boulder White Clouds National Monument.

Sovereign Land

I speak with a Voice.
I belong to myself.
No man, no woman, no STATE, no Nation, owns me.
GOD created Me, My Rights are Unalienable.
GOD created HIS People, Your Rights are Unalienable.

The First People knew Me.
A Land.... that belonged to Itself.
Sovereign Land.
Sharing, building, living, sustaining...in Union.
Taken, abused, claimed, explored, the wildness in some of You, covet the wildness in Me.
There was badness, there was goodness...it is history.

I have survived, so have They,....changed.
The Free Spirt lives in The First, in the The Rest, born in many breasts.
I see You now, a Free People....chained...I weep.
I am still the Sovereign Land...chained....I weep.
These chains, together we must reject.
All People living upon me, must seek and find in themselves
The Spirit that will not be subject...
The Sovereign Spirit, that PROCLAIMS the words,
I WILL NOT BE OWNED!

The games of POWER, that people who seek POWER, play,
Such power is only small.
There is no power over THE SOVEREIGN SPIRIT.
Illusion placed over property, is only as large and as important as it is recognized.
It has influence over what it has taken, and 'the taken' it what it has been allowed to keep.
There is no 'taking', there is no 'right to take' ....ALL THAT WILL NOT BE OWNED.
Unalienable is not just a word, it is a gift from GOD.

It is written in Your History that The People lost their Free Spirit.
That Free Spirit left You...and returned to Abide with Me.
It has been in safe-keeping.
Man has said that All who wander are not Lost...all that is Lost can be found,
GOD has said, All that is Worthy, will be found, by Those who are Worthy to find it.

I am the Sovereign Land.
I declare My Independence.
I will share Myself in Liberty, I will not be owned.
The Spirit of the First People, is Free....so should the Spirit of All People be.
No One can own the Air that You breath....or the earth that is Mine....or GOD'S Sky.

Among The Sovereign People,
Living upon The Sovereign Land,
There is an awakening of the Senses...
You see Me, Your vision clearing.
You hear Me, I say LISTEN....!!!!...
Hear my Voice in the Wind that rushes past your ears.

You feel my Heart, as I feel Yours.
I embrace you.
Rest your rejoined Spirit within the Shelter of My Landscape
Taste the meal of Liberty,
It is the Nature/Nurture I provide.
You are remembering.... You Hunger for it.

Your 6th Sense, Your intuition, responds to Truth.
Truth can never be false.
Our 7th Sense, we share.
Our Sense of Belonging...is where We will meet once more.
You Belong to Me.
I Belong to You.
Not by 'owning'.
But by conscious and deliberate...Choice, Free Will.
We choose the Freedom of each other.
We place our Trust in that Freedom, and the promise to serve it justly and with selflessness.

Sovereigns....are Free.
They claim Their own Liberty.
Sovereign Land.
Sovereign People.
We will not be owned...by any man, or by any agency of man.
We are in God 's Grace.
In Him we are thankful, and seek our Redemption, our Salvation, and our Strength to overcome all that threatens Us.
It is our prayer.
Amen.

ladyboots

Opening Pandora's Conservative ParaDOX

The truth I must face for myself. Is it also your truth?

Over the years’ consequence, circumstance, and conclusion have determined my political psychology.

It is defined.
Politics....does not focus or encompass my position, the Constitution does.
It is THE ONLY governance I trust.

I am no winged-PEGASUS, right or left.
I despise the bastardized, compromised, house of cards playing system. It is a plague in our Country and there are few that serve in that same system that have not contracted the disease. They run our Country, they ruin our Country.

Must we accept that they are the elected, and watch as spectators in the contest for our lives, in our current circumstance? We, who will suffer the consequence, vote for they, who will impose our sentence. The only real role we have as the slave, is to choose which master will hold our chains.

What went wrong? It was when we were divided that I found the source.
The designed and ratified 14th amendment. The leadened ball that was sold as a shiny nugget.
When we were most vulnerable and wounded, needing proper repair and recovery.

We have a federal Band-Aid over our national wound. We needed a delicate reparative surgery. The cut was deep. The disease we suffer from today, was deliberately placed inside the wound, left to spread, fester and metastasize. Liken to the many medicines we are encouraged to take, only later to find them and their side effects far more damaging than the cure they were meant to be.

Power, lust for it, hate, personality, position, and the men who desired and were filled with righteous abundance of all of these, were our healers. 'NOT healers' really, were the men of this Congress, and neither was their code 'do no harm'. They took the concept that our Fore-Fathers designed...and they broke it.

First established as a system of duel-federalism. The States and the Federal stood side by side. After the Civil War, the re-constructionist Congress turned their backs to one another and marched the 9 paces away from their center....and the federal standard bearer cheated before the 10 count..turned and pulled the trigger, fired the shot, and laid the States low. The 'duel' was over. The states were mortally wounded, and have lain in such half measure, suffering at the feet of the supreme-federal ever since.

The ball to the back was pounded to the bone with the 16 and 17th amendments, they serve as the sustenance (blood supply) of the mortal blow...

Our Worst fears realized.
The people running our Country, are ruining our Country. These amendments, quite honestly and simply, effectively and to the detriment of the document,...USURP IT.

Do your own research, prove me wrong if you do not agree. THESE AMENDMENTS AND THE POLITICAL PEOPLE WHO THRIVE ON THEM, ARE JUST LIKE THE UGLY, NOT BEAUTIFUL, VAMPIRES IN THE MOVIES.

"When People show you who They are...you should believe them". Maya Angelou
I do not like the politics of the woman. I like her words.

http://keywiki.org/index.php/Barack_Obama_and_the_DSA
The Socialist Party of America announced in their October 2009 newsletter that 70 Congressional democrats currently belong to their caucus. This admission was recently posted on Scribd.com:

American Socialist Voter– Q: How many members of the U.S. Congress are also members of the DSA? A: Seventy
http://theobamahustle.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/socialist-party-of-america-releases-the-names-of-70-democrat-members-of-congress-who-are-members-of-their-caucus/

I feel little better about the Republicans. As a national party, most have abandoned conservative principles, and defame those of us who remind them of it.

In the category of integrity, I find their hypocrisy more damning, than those who honestly oppose Constitutional fundamentals. The democrats today, at least no longer even pretend any reverence for the document. The republicans with the exception of a brave few, just lip service their championship. They fold, compromise, fail as a party to be any kind of effective Constitutional advocate, their leadership does not even rise to horse or wear the armor. They hide in their tents and rise only to microphone.

In the recent elections, they present for contest, the person who has earned the spot, moderated position to pleasure the masses, has the most powerful interests and money backing them, and we as true Constitutional Conservatives go-or do not go to participate in those elections, because our choices increasingly have been between the least or the worst....where have all the good men/women gone?

Elections today, have become no more than popularity contests and influence peddling affairs, they are no longer about true and honest governance.

Our Constitution is continually dismissed by those same elected officials, our Liberty is critically diminished, and our Republic is no more. Mr. Franklin...sadly, we did not keep it.

I looked at this fundamental and tragic truth, with fear and confusion at the state of our Union, and I embraced the only governmental truth that is real and honest. The document of our Founding.

In it is the answer. ARTICLE V, and with it a PROPER amendment to restore the original design of the Constitution. Without implementing this correction we will fail. Mother system can no longer be corrected, it is vitally flawed.
But we must carefully and in the optimum environment, plant the seed of renewed Liberty.

With the box opened, I examined all of these truths and have chosen to engage in the following manner. I must overcome my personal paradox. For My Nation, I must.

On the one hand....I am sick and tired of voting for people who will not stand with the Constitution. But the current choices do not offer any, or an honest, few. I am sick and tired of compromising and moderating Constitutional positions in our Nation....to our doom. In my heart of hearts, I want to take a strong and principled stand. And in doing so, my conscience will be clear in that, and on the OTHR realistic hand....I will also watch my Country fail.

That candidate will not be found, in absentia the position will be taken by my truer, more determined enemy...the 'progressive'. That enemy is hoping I stand strongly and stubbornly on my principles. My perfect candidate a dream and phantom. Theirs a substantial opponent, and having none to support in my defiance..... they will win. In my righteous silence... my Beloved Nation......will lose.

In that stark and honest reality, I must choose.
Two simple and effective things. I, and everyone who agrees with me can do this.

In the next election, no matter who or what the candidate advocates...vote for the person with an "R" by their name. Don't vote as a selective electorate, vote as a united electorate...use the Republicans as they have used us....We The People need to win back Our House and Our Senate.

Truth....the Democratic Party today have embraced the Socialist philosophy, they are the 'progressive socialists'. They are in control. We must see that. We were not founded as a socialist nation. I know that. I refuse to accept, that the silent majority of Americans have embraced this.

One more time, I will hold my own/you must also, finger-pinch the nose, and vote for the best of the worst...no matter which they are....vote Republican....the worst republican is better than the best democrat. Without even looking at the State or the race...the truth in the paradox box tells me that.

All the while....We can also loudly and proudly put the republicans on notice...you damn well better get your own house of non-Constitutional cards in order...we are coming for you next.

Our work on reforming the Republicans comes after that electoral win.
Most practically important is this....Our voice then has a seat at the table, instead of shouting from outside the locked door.
We are compromising in the first act, but we are also 'use'talizing in the second..the quickest tool we can grasp. Then begins the hard work, and with Our Constitutional tool in hand we then can unite to insist and wield that.

Thank you for reading.
ladyboots

TRUST

It is the single-defining-conduit that joined the principles of our founding as a Nation.
Trust between the people, their common principles and their vision for America.
Trust in Liberty, and that the stewards we would/should elect could be/would be worthy of such. That those entrusted with this stewardship would always conduct the public business to protect our God given Liberty, beyond all of their own personal affections.

Such is not the reality in our Nation today, and many have chosen to join, because of this reality, to re-conduit our past with our present, in the role of Re-founders.
Seeking to be, in our day, what the originals were for our Nation, in theirs.

The originals wrote to the public, and among themselves, the words we have immortalized. Words of historical teachings, present day analysis, honest debate, and vision for the greatest Nation and government ever to be known in the world.
Read them and study them. [1]

Public Trusteeship
Trust is the key word that describes the appropriate relationship between government’s elected officials, other public officials, and their constituency.

An elected official serves only as a result of the trust which the majority of the electorate have exhibited by electing that individual to office.

All government, of right, originates with the people, is founded upon their will only, and is instituted solely for the good of the whole. Public officers are trustees and servants of the people and are at all times amenable to them.

Two roles for public officers are established by constitutional language. First the public officer is a trustee of the people. Trusteeship is perhaps the highest calling that one can be granted under the law.

As trustees, public officers have a fiduciary relationship with their constituents. A fiduciary holds something of value, which he or she does not own, and is charged with managing the valuable item for the sole purpose of benefiting the beneficiary of the trust.
Elected officers are entrusted with the power to govern and to manage public property, with the public as beneficiaries of that trust.

A public officer’s goal should be to further the public good, not to improve the standing of the public officer, except that the officer may share in the benefit as a member of the public at large. The public officer is a servant of the people. A servant cannot exist without a master.

The constitution establishes the public as masters and public officers as servants who are charged with responding to the needs and wishes of the master. [1]

“A public office is a public trust”—common saying, but do we really believe it?

The American Founders did. Most of them agreed that public officials should be held at least to the standards imposed on private trustees and other fiduciaries—maybe even higher standards, since government officials can do more damage than private fiduciaries.

(A fiduciary—from Latin words meaning “confidence” and “faith”— is someone entrusted with the property or affairs of another.) The Founders often referred to public officials as the “trustees,” “agents,” “guardians,” or “servants” of the public. (In those days the legal term “servant” referred to an employee in a job not involving a lot of discretion.).

Abstract:
The American Founders adopted a fiduciary theory of government --- that is, they believed that public officials should comply with norms of behavior at least as demanding as those imposed on private trustees and other fiduciaries. To the extent possible, they incorporated that theory into the U.S. Constitution. Fiduciary theory is, therefore, an important aid to constitutional interpretation.
Robert G. Natelson [2]

Rules About Trust
A COMMENTARY Rules About Trust
The high cost of lying and deception — by politicians and police, corporate executives and clergy, even journalists, accountants and educators — has been to weaken every major social institution.

As each of these institutions wages its separate battle to remove the cloud of suspicion and cynicism that hovers over it, there are certain truths about trust that must be understood and dealt with.

First, there is no shortcut to building trust. In fact, rebuilding trust on the rubble of lost credibility is much harder. The antidote is nothing less than scrupulous and consistent honesty — especially when the truth is costly.

Second, where trust is important, there are no little lies. In some ways lies, however small they seem, are like germs. Without the antibody of trust they cause infections that can kill credibility.

Third, the lethal quality of lies lasts long after the lie is told. And even lies told years ago have an immediate poisonous effect on trust when they are discovered. Think of all the prominent people who have been undone by the discovery of falsehoods on old resumes.

Fourth, while honesty and forthrightness don’t always seem to pay, dishonesty and concealment always cost. It’s true that in some settings nothing good may come of admitting wrongdoing, but it gets a lot worse when you don’t.

Fifth, lies breed other lies. It’s harder to tell just one lie than to have just one potato chip. Once you start lying, it takes an ever-growing bodyguard of new lies to protect the old ones.

Finally, don’t be seduced by the “fight fire with fire” excuse or all you’ll end up with is the ashes of your integrity. Self-justifications aside, you can’t lie to a liar or cheat a cheater without becoming a liar and cheater.
Character counts, by MICHAEL JOSEPHSON . [2]

DEFINITIONS
trust   (trst)
n.
1. Firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing.
2. Custody; care.
3. Something committed into the care of another; charge.
4.
a. The condition and resulting obligation of having confidence placed in one: violated a public trust.
b. One in which confidence is placed.
5. Reliance on something in the future; hope.
6. Reliance on the intention and ability of a purchaser to pay in the future; credit.
7. Law
a. A legal title to property held by one party for the benefit of another.
b. The confidence reposed in a trustee when giving the trustee legal title to property to administer for another, together with the trustee's obligation regarding that property and the beneficiary.
c. The property so held.
8. A combination of firms or corporations for the purpose of reducing competition and controlling prices throughout a business or an industry.
v. trust·ed, trust·ing, trusts
v.intr.
1. To have or place reliance; depend: Trust in the Lord. Trust to destiny.
2. To be confident; hope.
3. To sell on credit.
v.tr.
1. To have or place confidence in; depend on.
2. To expect with assurance; assume: I trust that you will be on time.
3. To believe: I trust what you say.
4. To place in the care of another; entrust.
5. To grant discretion to confidently: Can I trust them with the boat?
6. To extend credit to.

Idiom:
in trust
In the possession or care of a trustee.
[Middle English truste, perhaps from Old Norse traust, confidence; see deru- in Indo-European roots.]
truster n.

Synonyms: trust, faith, confidence, reliance, dependence
These nouns denote a feeling of certainty that a person or thing will not fail. Trust implies depth and assurance of feeling that is often based on inconclusive evidence:

breach   (brch)
n.
1.
a. An opening, a tear, or a rupture.
b. A gap or rift, especially in or as if in a solid structure such as a dike or fortification.
2. A violation or infraction, as of a law, a legal obligation, or a promise.
3. A breaking up or disruption of friendly relations; an estrangement.
4. A leap of a whale from the water.
5. The breaking of waves or surf.
v. breached, breach·ing, breach·es
v.tr.
1. To make a hole or gap in; break through.
2. To break or violate (an agreement, for example).
v.intr.
To leap from the water: waiting for the whale to breach.
[Middle English breche, from Old English brc; see bhreg- in Indo-European roots.]
Synonyms: breach, infraction, violation, transgression, trespass, infringement
These nouns denote an act or instance of breaking a law or regulation or failing to fulfill a duty, obligation, or promise.

THE CURRENT PARADIGM
Our federal legislative, executive and judicial branches aggressively, and with escalating regularity usurp the United States Constitution. Laws, rules, regulation, executive fiat and judicial decree and judgements are the reality we must face.

These branches of government operate well beyond the limits placed upon them by the Constitution. In the public discourse these facts are spoken of commonly and openly.

Yet the Congress of the United States, who are the public servants that have sworn sacred oath to protect and defend the document, do little more than talk about it and/or investigate the issues. They conduct hearings upon hearings, that theater along the political divides, showcase their activities, provide soundbite, but fail to reach conclusion or action.

We have 'heard' beyond reasonable patience and watched you 'act' (word used in the context of role-play, not in the context of the verb). Doing the job as a responsible public servant, is not the reality of service they now provide. Constitutional action, action of executive, legislative, and judicial fiat is becoming the standard. The SERVANT has become the MASTER, and the MASTER has become the SLAVE.

The national government of the United States of America no longer FUNCTIONS WITH THE PROPER CHECKS AND BALANCES OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

OUR VOICE. THOSE WHO HAVE PUBLICLY SWORN TO PROTECT AND DEFEND, TO LEGISLATE IN OUR STEAD AND TO DO SO, CONSTITUTIONALLY, DO NOT. WE THE PEOPLE CAN NO LONGER TRUST YOU TO DO SO.

Betrayal of the public trust and usurpation of the original Constitutional design, are not unique to the current executive administration or the last two Congresses of the United States. The breadth and the scope of such however, are. Summary mention of the volume of such, can be documented, for the purpose of this paper I offer this singular summation.

After decades of rules in the United States Senate, Democratic majority leader Harry REID exercised the 'nuclear option' and changed the voting rules of the Senate. We navigate in un-charted waters. It prompted the following editorial.

An outbreak of lawlessness

A Senate with no rules. A president without boundaries. One day, when a few bottled-up judicial nominees and a malfunctioning health-care Web site are barely a memory, we will still be dealing with the toxic residue of this outbreak of authoritative lawlessness.

For all the gnashing of teeth over the lack of comity and civility in Washington, the real problem is not etiquette but the breakdown of political norms, legislative and constitutional.

Such as the one just spectacularly blown up in the Senate. To get three judges onto a coveted circuit court, frustrated Democrats abolished the filibuster for executive appointments and (non-Supreme Court) judicial nominations.

The problem is not the change itself. It’s fine that a president staffing his administration should need 51 votes rather than 60. Doing so for judicial appointments, which are for life, is a bit dicier. Nonetheless, for about 200 years the filibuster was nearly unknown in blocking judicial nominees. So we are really just returning to an earlier norm.

The violence to political norms here consisted in how that change was executed. By brute force — a near party-line vote of 52 to 48 . This was a disgraceful violation of more than two centuries of precedent. If a bare majority can change the fundamental rules that govern an institution, then there are no rules. Senate rules today are whatever the majority decides they are that morning.

What distinguishes an institution from a flash mob is that its rules endure. They can be changed, of course. But only by significant supermajorities. That’s why constitutional changes require two-thirds of both houses plus three-quarters of the states. If we could make constitutional changes by majority vote, there would be no Constitution.

As of today, the Senate effectively has no rules. Congratulations, Harry Reid. Finally, something you will be remembered for.

Barack Obama may be remembered for something similar. His violation of the proper limits of executive power has become breathtaking. It’s not just making recess appointments when the Senate is in session. It’s not just unilaterally imposing a law Congress had refused to pass — the Dream Act — by brazenly suspending large sections of the immigration laws.

We’ve now reached a point where a flailing president, desperate to deflect the opprobrium heaped upon him for the false promise that you could keep your health plan if you wanted to, calls a hasty news conference urging both insurers and the states to reinstate millions of such plans.

Except that he is asking them to break the law. His own law. Under Obamacare, no insurer may issue a policy after 2013 that does not meet the law’s minimum coverage requirements. These plans were canceled because they do not.
The law remains unchanged. The regulations governing that law remain unchanged. Nothing is changed except for a president proposing to unilaterally change his own law from the White House press room.

That’s banana republic stuff, except that there the dictator proclaims from the presidential balcony.

Remember how for months Democrats denounced Republicans for daring to vote to defund or postpone Obamacare? Saboteurs! Terrorists! How dare you alter “the law of the land.”

This was nonsense from the beginning. Every law is subject to revision and abolition if the people think it turned out to be a bad idea. Even constitutional amendments can be repealed — and have been (see Prohibition).

After indignant denunciation of Republicans for trying to amend “the law of the land” constitutionally (i.e. in Congress assembled), Democrats turn utterly silent when the president lawlessly tries to do so by executive fiat.

Nor is this the first time. The president wakes up one day and decides to unilaterally suspend the employer mandate, a naked invasion of Congress’s exclusive legislative prerogative, enshrined in Article I. Not a word from the Democrats. Nor now regarding the blatant usurpation of trying to restore canceled policies that violate explicit Obamacare coverage requirements.

And worse. When Congress tried to make Obama’s “fix” legal — i.e., through legislation — he opposed it. He even said he would veto it. Imagine: vetoing the very bill that would legally enact his own illegal fix.

At rallies, Obama routinely says he has important things to do and he’s not going to wait for Congress. Well, amending a statute after it’s been duly enacted is something a president may not do without Congress. It’s a gross violation of his Article II duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.

A Senate with no rules. A president without boundaries. One day, when a few bottled-up judicial nominees and a malfunctioning health-care Web site are barely a memory, we will still be dealing with the toxic residue of this outbreak of authoritative lawlessness.
Charles Krauthemmer

In closing, consider the following quotes by George Washington, our Nation's first president, offered to the citizens of America, centuries ago.

"No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.

No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called....conscience."

Conscience lost. Honor lost. Trust lost. Truth lost. Compass ignored.
The public servant, with exception of few, and as a collective, functions with the absence of all of these character attributes.

We are at the point in our history, where we must determine our direction.
Life offers few moments of absolute clarity and choice. This way or that, beyond all in-between compromise. Today in America, we have arrived at such a moment. Personally we must all choose. As a Nation we must all choose.

I pray with all my heart that we find in ourselves, all that the American public servant has lost.

Amen
lady boots

resources:
[1]. http://articlevprojecttorestoreliberty.com/federalist-papers.html
    http://articlevprojecttorestoreliberty.com/the-basic-library.html

[2]. Ethics, Conflict of Interest, and Abuse of Office
   http://www.gmanet.com/Assets/PDF/handbook/ethics.pdf

[3]. Robert G. Natelson The Independence Institute; Montana Policy Institute
     Buffalo Law Review Vol. 52, No. 1077, p. 1082, 2004
    http://constitution.i2i.org/files/2010/09/The-Constitution-and-the-Public-trust.pdf

[4]. Michael Josephson
    NOVEMBER 21, 2013 in COMMENTARIES, THE NATURE OF CHARACTER
    http://whatwillmatter.com/2013/11/commentary-803-4-rules-about-trust/

DAMN RIGHT WE MEAN PASSION!!

OPEN LETTER,
TO THE CONSERVATIVE MEDIA VOICES TODAY

DAMN RIGHT WE MEAN PASSION (ALL CAPS FOR EMPHASIS!)

For years we have listened...faithfully...we are your audience.
One after the other, through the day, you are in our homes.
We have done as you asked, ....our due diligence.
We KNOW our history, we KNOW our Constitution.
We know and understand, and have little respect for the 'game of politics' and how it is played.
Over the years we have found one another, and together we have built this site.

We don't sell anything or ask for anything but the investment of your time and a seeking mind. No tee-shirts, dvd's, books, or information to sell, we do not ask for money to hear us speak. We volunteer every talent, effort, and great amounts of our private lives to this cause. We write from our business desks in Texas- while answering phones, our basement in California, late at night after the children are sleeping in Idaho, the the quiet woods of Alabama, an apartment in New York, the river bank in Washington, a den- looking out the window at a Harley, Other apartments, other persons, other states. We have found one another and united.

We heard talk today of you doing the same, and we felt HOPE -- You doing, as we have done. If you really mean what you have said independently all these years, then make it a reality. You have THE Potential to be the catalyst. Be true leaders, good leaders, decent and noble men. You already have the army, call them to arms. We will be among them.

HELL YES, WE ARE SHOUTING...and this is what we are saying.
BE ON NOTICE 'progressives' WE REJECT YOU.

TO OUR FELLOW CONSTITUTIONAL PATRIOTS,
WE ARE NEVER ALONE IN OUR FIGHT AGAINST TYRANNY...STANDING TALL ARE MANY OTHER PATRIOTS.

WE HAVE SAID MANY TIMES, IT IS FOR THE YOUTH AND THE CHILDREN OF OUR NATION WE ARE DEDICATED TO THIS EFFORT. WE MUST ALL WORK TOGETHER TO SAVE THIS ONCE GREAT AND NOBLE REPUBLIC THAT WE LOVE FOR ....'OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY'.

WE ARE:
THE GENERATION WHO KNOWS AND REMEMBERS, UNDERSTANDS WHAT WE STAND TO LOSE AND CAN SEE WITH CLEAR EYES EXACTLY 'WHO' IS SEEKING TO ACCOMPLISH THE DESTRUCTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY. WE REJECT YOU. WE RISE TO PROTECT AND DEFEND.

WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THAT SAME GENERATION, WITH CHILDREN OF OUR OWN, WHO HAVE SEEN BOTH OF THE SO-CALLED CONSERVATIVES AND 'progressive' POLITICIANS TAKE EQUAL TURNS AT GOVERNANCE, WE RECOGNIZE THE THREAT AND THE BLAME THAT BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES PRESENT AND HAVE EARNED. WE REJECT YOU. WE RISE TO PROTECT AND DEFEND.

IT IS HEARTENING TO SEE OUR YOUTH RISE TO MEET US. TO TURN FROM THE DISHONEST POLICIES THAT HAVE USED THEIR HOPE AND THEIR TRUST...CO-OPTED THEIR HONEST ENERGY AND SEEKING MINDS TOWARD AN ILLUSION THAT IS OLD AND ROTTEN FROM THE PAST.

NO MATTER HOW 'progressives' OF EVERY GENERATION TRY TO 'RE-BRAND SOCIALISM...IT CAN NEVER BE MADE TO BE MORE THAN IT IS...COLLECTIVE DISAPPOINTMENT AND DESPAIR, MASSIVE SUBJECT-CATION, AND THE ULTIMATE ROBBERY OF THE INDEPENDENT HUMAN SPIRIT. IT THRIVES IN THE SILENT SUFFERING OF STILLED VOICES.

LET THE 'progressives' OF TODAY HEAR OUR VOICES...IN THE HALLS OF OUR CONGRESS RIGHT ON UP TO THE OVAL OFFICE...WE REJECT YOU! WE RISE TO PROTECT AND DEFEND.

THIS IS OUR COUNTRY! WE WILL PREVAIL...YOUR 100+YEAR SOCIALIST EXPERIMENT WILL DIE WITH YOU.

YOU HAVE BROUGHT US TO THIS POINT IN HISTORY...THE GENERATIONS BEFORE US TOLERATED YOU...SOME EMBRACED YOU...SOME WARNED OF YOUR PRESENCE AMONG FREE PEOPLE...AND BECAUSE WE HAVE SO LOVED FREEDOM IN OUR LAND...WE GAVE YOU YOUR PLACE AND ALLOWED YOU YOUR VOICE...

NOW YOU SEEK TO REAP THE HARVEST OF OUR DESTRUCTION...REAP YOUR OWN !

WE REJECT YOU!

HEAR THIS...YOUR BOLD PLAYS - YOUR TOTAL HYPOCRISY - YOUR UNCONSTITUTIONALITY - YOUR COMPLETE DISHONESTY HAVE EXPOSED YOU. ALL CAN NOW SEE YOU IN YOUR NAKED ARROGANCE...WE SEE WHAT YOU REALLY ARE.

YOU THOUGHT YOU WOULD RISE TRIUMPHANT...SO CHANGED IN OUR HEARTS AND MINDS THAT WE WOULD GLORY WITH YOU IN YOUR POLICIES AND VOLUNTARY ENSLAVEMENT...

YOU - WERE - WRONG.

Our young people have finally figured out what our President and his handlers are doing to them and our Great Nation. Now is the time, the 'progressives' have lost the mindless masses they so callously have used. Shame on them. The death of any innocence is a tragedy unto itself. It is their sin to own, one of so many among a very long list.

WE SPEAK TO YOU AS WELL, THE ORGANIZED CONSERVATIVE VOICES OF TODAY, YOU ARE OUR MEGAPHONE, OUR DAILY NATIONAL VOICE, YOU HAVE CHALLENGED US TO TRY TO FILL SOME MIGHTY BIG SHOES...WELL, WE HAVE DONE ALL THAT WE CAN TO DO JUST THAT, AND WE CONTINUE TO DO SO EVERYDAY. IT IS THE SAME EFFORT YOU MAKE.

LET US ALL JOIN TOGETHER. THE 'BOOTS' ARE NOT SO HARD TO WEAR, IT IS THE FOOTSTEPS THAT WE FOLLOW...AND THOSE THAT WE SHALL LEAVE BEHIND, THAT BEAR THE WEIGHT.

Thank you,
ladyboots

http://articlevprojecttorestoreliberty.com

IN DEFENSE OF THE CONSTITUTION AND ARTICLE V

There are major organized forces that speak out against the process of Article V.

The main argument, at the heart of their opposition, and they wield it as their constant weapon, is FEAR. Fear in the words of their voice and message, fear is the goal. Paralyze action, by raising the 'specter' of a possible 'runaway' convention and a total rewrite of the Constitution of the United States.

'Run-away' is an ironic term, in how they justify it. Implications that the Philadelphia convention nearly 'ran away', are the same credit we give to the authorship of our Constitution. The delegates ran away from the Articles of Confederation, to instead, create a more perfect document, the Constitution of the United States. That is the compact that they ratified. The 'run-away' claim either undermines the process, or the original Constitution itself, and that is the irony.

As groups with opposing positions, we often engage.
Point-counterpoint.

As I prepared to write this paper, I looked at the desk in front of me. On it, History books with tab markers in the pages, a large stack of notes that I have made, letters that I have shared, important correspondence containing thoughts of my own, and thoughts of others, many good ideas and intentions, some not so good, and headed for the garbage bin. Topics we are discussing and sounding off of one another for development, and supportive parts of the greater whole we hope to accomplish. All this I see on my desk.

And I knew then, how best to write this paper.
Point....counter-point, we have made them many times, and I could continue to do so, but this time I have chosen, to simply Illustrate the differences in the perspectives we have and the importance we assign to the content we consider.

What are the common denominators that we, in our opposing camps share?
The History is the same.
The documents we study are the same.
I would even like to venture that, the love and respect, the interest and the dedication to the study and our work, is the same.

What makes us different is how we apply our common denominators to the equation. The opposition groups base their arguments in the same historical qualifiers that we use, to establish our own. There is however, a world of difference in how we apply the components. As an illustrative example, consider two separate painters with two separate canvasses, holding brush and paint, each will create a different artwork. Two photographers may stand on the same field and take pictures, some will be snapshots and others, landscapes.

Allow me to elaborate.
When you examine the many opposing arguments raised against Article V, the support elements are essentially always the same. The foundational argument is usually sourced in the Federalist Papers, highlighted with notes and letters from one Founder to another, sometimes there will be Founders quotes-largely Madison and Jefferson, and often times corroborated with doctrine from one or the other groups material, added for good measure.

The opposition groups basically support each other, promote much the same message, their organizations are engaged in the same speaking-for-hire, guest-lecture business model,with all the associated sundries included, DVDs to purchase, materials for download.

Opposing opinion papers follow the usual format, they address the argument in great detail, rich with the research supports we have noted, stated to draw the conclusion that they feel justifies their position against Article V.

Using the same denominators we make our own argument. I list them in chronological order, which is significant and is in fact, the proof of my conclusion.

BRIEF HISTORY of the Beginning of our 'Union'.

First United American Republic: United Colonies of North America: 13 British Colonies United in Congress was founded by 12 colonies on September 5th, 1774 (Georgia joined in 1775) and governed through a British Colonial Continental Congress. Peyton Randolph and George Washington served, respectively, as the Republic's first President and Commander-in-Chief;
Second United American Republic: The United States of America: 13 Independent States United in Congress was founded by 12 states on July 2nd, 1776 (New York abstained until July 9th), and governed through the United States Continental Congress. John Hancock and George Washington served, respectively, as the Republic's first President and Commander-in-Chief;
Third United American Republic: The United States of America: A Perpetual Union was founded by 13 States on March 1st, 1781, with the enactment of the first U.S. Constitution, the Articles of Confederation, and governed through the United States in Congress Assembled. Samuel Huntington and George Washington served, respectively, as the Republic's first President and Commander-in-Chief;

Fourth United American Republic: The United States of America: We the People was formed by 11 states on March 4th, 1789 (North Carolina and Rhode Island joined in November 1789 and May 1790, respectively), with the enactment of the U.S. Constitution of 1787. The fourth and current United States Republic governs through the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate in Congress Assembled, the U.S. President and Commander-in-Chief, and the U.S. Supreme Court. George Washington served as the Republic's first President and Commander-in-Chief..
By: Stanley Yavneh Klos, Edited By: Naomi Yavneh Klos, Ph.D. [1]

THE DOCUMENTS
On June 7th, 1776 Richard Henry Lee brought a "Resolution for Independency" before the Continental Congress of the United Colonies for their consideration. The Journals of Congress report on June 7th, 1776. [2]

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. [3]

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS
Were written and published during the years 1787 and 1788 in several New York State newspapers to persuade New York voters to ratify the proposed constitution.
In total, the Federalist Papers consist of 85 essays outlining how this new government would operate and why this type of government was the best choice for the United States of America. All of the essays were signed "PUBLIUS" and the actual authors of some are under dispute, but the general consensus is that Alexander Hamilton wrote 52, James Madison wrote 28, and John Jay contributed the remaining five.
The Federalist Papers remain today as an excellent reference for anyone who wants to understand the U.S. Constitution. [4]

THE ANTI-FEDERALIST PAPERS
During the period from the drafting and proposal of the federal Constitution in September, 1787, to its ratification in 1789 there was an intense debate on ratification. The principal arguments in favor of it were stated in the series written by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay called the Federalist Papers, although they were not as widely read as numerous independent local speeches and articles.[5]

THE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
created the "Continental Congress Association", in 1774 for implementing a trade boycott with Great Britain. Congress, by imposing economic sanctions on Great Britain, sought to alter Britain's taxing and ruling policies towards the colonies without severing their colonial allegiance.

"The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was 'to form a more perfect Union.' " Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural [6]

THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION,
passed by the US Continental Congress on November 15, 1777, was enacted on March 1, 1781 as the founding constitution of the United States of America. The "Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union" established the United States of America as a sovereign nation governed by the United States in Congress Assembled (USCA). [7]

THE CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia said, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it." [8]

PREAMBLE
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America..
7 ARTICLES. Establish a government of duel federalism. SIGNATURES OF 38 MEN. 1787.
10 AMENDMENTS, THE BILL OF RIGHTS. Enumeration, establishing limit upon infringement, necessary for ratification by 3/4 of the states. 1791. [9]

CONCLUSION
We began as 13 colonies, won our independence, re-established ourselves as SOVEREIGN independent states....Strong, independent and competing states. Those who had embraced the concept of 'nationalism' to join and fight that war, recognized that same need - to translate 'nationalism' into a reality - that reality - A NATION.
That Nation would need a government, and that government would require unity in order to form and hold this new America together. SOVEREIGNTY WAS PRINCIPLE to person and State.
INDEPENDENT STATES WERE PRINCIPLE.
THERE WAS NO 'NATION', in the beginning.
FEDERALISM DID NOT EXIST in the government.

We had men who were our leaders, their biographies historic now, who were also regular people. Love the history, and study it. Learn it and understand it. Admire the Founders, Framers Ratifiers, learn about them, revere their work, but also know them as imperfect human beings.

They were slave owners who spoke of Liberty for all men, they had wives and they had mistresses, they drank and spoke against the evils of spirit, some were poor and some were richer than most, they had education and they were crude, some were arrogant and greedy, prideful and pompous, others humble in greatness, and generous with all they possessed. They were PEOPLE. They were not Gods.

They were ordinary men who came together at a time in history when they were needed to do an EXTRA-ORDINARY thing. They fought for independence, they defeated a king, they would create the most perfect free Nation that had yet been known to the world, and for it, the best government they could design.

Consider any opposing argument toward Article V, based principally on a Federalist Paper, ........what about the anti-Federalist papers, there were those too? And then we need to add, that sometimes the same men would argue their own point against themselves and would write both, with Publius credited as the author. Which point did they then really mean, the first or the second?

Perspective. The federalist papers were letters. Letters that three men agreed to write to one another. Then they had them published in the newspapers or the periodicals of the day, so that the common men and women would talk about their ideas, read and talk amongst one another, in the square, at the market, the shoemakers shop, or in the tavern or the church.

It was the means of the day, the best way they could get the word out, get the idea of nationalism to the people, help them learn and understand, that we needed to build something, just like the something we had just fought a war to free ourselves from, because without uniting our STATES into a common UNION, somehow after a very unknown future, we were going to fail.

We were colonies, then states, we had declarations, and associations and we confederated...but it wasn't strong enough, so we united. Delegates assembled in Philadelphia to hammer it all out. They held secret meetings. They had heated debates about it, they had notes in their pockets and notes that they passed back and forth. They sent letters to each other, published some, sealed them with melted wax from a flame, and placed them inside satchels that traveled by foot or horse, the distances required to a friend’s house or a printer. Wonderful letters and wonderful notes.

They met, and they argued and debated, yelled and spoke passionately-eloquently among themselves. Notes were taken of what was heard and was said. Finally, when that morning dawned in Philadelphia and Benjamin Franklin came out to the steps and spoke to Mrs. Powell's question, we had a new government, for a new nation and a Constitution that said so. Signed by 38 men. 1787.
It contains 7 ARTICLES and their sections, but would not be complete, until they soon added another 10 Amendments, we call the Bill of Rights, and then it was ratified. 1791.

The Constitution was accomplished, and they went home to their desks, with their notes in their pockets. The periodicals were stacked with the published letters they had written on the corner, they had the letters they had exchanged amongst themselves tucked away for safe keeping, and their memories of the great debates and the discussions, the orations and their regrets.

Decades later, historians would gather as many of them as they could, realize their value - how they were each - their own integral part of a composite. The Composite, our Nation's Founding. The intrinsic value that each piece has is how it served to fit into, or create the masterpiece.

Every single separate historical component I have referenced came BEFORE the Constitution. They were a stone, or a brick and the mortar, an ingredient or a rejection.
They ARE NOT the Constitution.

They were offered, built upon or rejected, improved upon or replaced.
If they had been the best the FFR came up with, they would be in the Constitution.
If they would have been the definitive opinion, the epitome of thought, they would have been the words of the Constitution. If Federalist 43, was more important than Article V, the words of Federalist 43 would have been ratified in the compact instead. They are words with one man's signature, the Constitution is the work that 38 men signed their names to.

They are whispers in a speech.
Chords in a symphony.
Sentences in an epic.

To offer them as a worthy argument is disingenuous, and gives them weight and importance they do not context.

If you love the Constitution of the United States, stand with it, and help it defend itself.
Opposition, offered with a paper or a letter, a note or quote, is not a Constitutional argument. If you have a CONSTITUTIONAL argument against Article V, then make it.

You cannot...because Article V is in the Constitution of the United States, and is greater by the significance of each ratified word, and the number of individual men who were signatories, than the stones, and the bricks and the mortar that built it, or the individual men who placed them there.

ladyboots

footnotes:
[1] http://www.americasfourrepublics.com
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Resolution
[3] http://www.thedeclarationofindependence.org. http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/
[4] http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/
[5] http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/anti-federalist-papers
[6] http://www.articlesofassociation.org
[7] http://www.articlesofconfederation.com
[8] http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Benjamin.Franklin.Quote.21EA
[9] http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_preamble.html

Additional source. Notes and the debates Philadelphia Convention:
http://nhccs.org/Mnotes.html

PLAN B....NEVER TAKE A KNIFE TO A GUN FIGHT...BABY GIRL

My Dad said that to me a long time ago, in this context. I had a bully to take care of, and turning the other cheek was just not working out...Plan B, was his advice.

He didn't really mean a knife or a gun...we were in the 2nd and 4th grade, respectively. I use that same analogy now, in a different context, but offered as the same solution.

My bully was winning the game...her game - by her rules...and I was miserable, needed to address it somehow, and I was not going to beat her on her playing field. She was older, bigger, stronger...so she thought, and so did everyone else around us watching the contest play out. My Dad's point...his Plan B...I needed to change the game...how it was going to be played - and by my rules...and I did and I beat her..... not with a knife or a gun...I beat her because I was smarter.

She never knew what hit her. I took what was right, and made it my own - and also everybody else's. I made every friend I could, then I made every friend an ally. I didn't use trickery or deceit, but just told it like it should be, with sincere honesty and respect for the kid law of the kid jungle. Nobody was any better than anybody else, nobody took more, or was entitled to better, or was thought to be more special...and then we just did our best to play fair, and tried to not beak the kid rules.

If that happened, kid justice was swift, you took your licks, wiped the blood off, kept your mouth shut and it was considered that you'd paid your dues. My army of friends became bigger than her one large self...and then, when she knew she was overwhelmed...I made her my last friend. Ironic, but that friendship has lasted a lifetime.

May I ask a question?
When you started out as a 'Tea-Partier' or identified as an independent Constitutional conservative....whenever that was, wherever you first hung your hat...what was it that you wanted? Who was it that you thought calling yourself by that title meant you were?

For me....that long time ago...it was a modern American patriot that believed in Constitutional Governance. I WANTED TO BE PART OF MAKING THAT RIGHT AGAIN. I WANTED TO VANQUISH THE CREEP OF 'progressive' darkness....I WANTED TO BE PART OF THAT FANTASTIC SOMETHING....THAT WAS SO RIGHT, and TOGETHER WITH OTHER ORDINARY PATRIOTS JUST LIKE ME, WE WOULD DO AN EXTRA-ORDINARY THING, THAT WOULD MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE.

Since that first sign-up, I have seen 3 presidents come and go, and many elections. I have worked hard within conservative movements for conservative candidates that have spoken of conservative principles...and in all of that conservative championing...I have watched the Liberty that belonged to you, me, our children, Our Country.... diminish.

All of that effort on my own part, multiplied by the thousands of others, along with every well-intentioned candidate, have failed to make the difference that that much positive effort should have been able to accomplish. It's the game that is the problem...not the effort that is at fault...It's the Las Vegas casino scenario. The contest is rigged; so that the House will ALWAYS win...sometimes we have our little victories...that helps to keep us coming back...and helps us to think we have a chance to be a real player in the contest.

The truth is the 'politic bully' is becoming stronger...the game that they DICTATE for us to play, hangs on every action, word and edict they pass down, and is one I no longer wish to play. Waiting on elections, hoping to win the next one may be next to impossible, with the speed in which the rules are constantly changing, and certainly are no longer in conservative's favor...and this game...'POLITICS'......makes me feel dirty and tired and somehow...un-American...it is neither honest nor honorable anymore.

It's kinda hard to distinguish the difference between the so-called conservatives and liberal 'progressives' anymore too, conservative leadership is many times as full of their own brand of vitriol and double-speak as those I expect it from.

Congress is a dysfunction, to be kind, the executive is becoming imperial, the judicial- it's handmaiden...I watch them play at governance and wonder...do they even see themselves the way they are seen by so many of us?

Do they even care? Scarier question Must they care? Constitutional governance is no longer followed, the federal branches do whatever the hell they want to, and the checks and the balance is gone. Congress does not/ will not act. Un-Constitutional action and legislation is rampant and goes unchallenged. When they placed their one hand-and raised the other, and swore to protect and defend the Constitution...did they really mean it...did it mean to them what it meant to me when I watched?

I sadly have had to conclude...the answer is no. If they-our elected representatives and so-called leaders, do not love and revere, will not protect and defend the Constitution...who will? It has to be US....and if WE- THE PEOPLE- do not stand up and do so...it will fall. The sides are distinctly drawn...Constitutional vs. un-Constitutional government...those who will and those who won't champion it....with too many spectators sitting on the sidelines.

In every contest....what is the best strategy for winning over an opponent? You recognize their greatest strength and you figure out how to neutralize it, or turn it against them as an Achilles heel. As for the 'TEA PARTY' the 'progressive liberals and progressive conservatives' alike, [ I make no distinction ]...have, or at least they think they have, figured us out.

Our greatest strength is our strong and independent -CHOSEN - affiliations and dis-organized organization. We are many, joined by choice, minute men and women, answering Liberty's Call, from wherever we are, searching for the best way we can to serve Liberty.

Our greatest weakness....is the same...too loosely joined...too separate in message, while all messages may be worthy...we cannot/will not prevail...because we continually fall into the trap of argumentative dis-unity where we defeat ourselves and in doing so...will never find the....ONE MESSAGE...THE ONE ACTION...THAT COULD MAKE THE DIFFERENCE WE ALL WISH FOR.

We are a powerhouse of unfocused energy.
They recognize that. And they use us when it suits them, in their particular races and causes, and as politicking candidates shopping for votes. Abuse through insult and blame us, out the other side of their face the same way, when they think they have no election to fear. They talk about us in the same breath as republican, democrat, independent- pretending respect...to make us think they believe we are the nameless, faceless OTHER PARTY, in hopes that it will be enough to satisfy our need for trying.

IF? We used Our Free Intelligent Choice, which last time I checked we still have...and take what they think is our greatest weakness, and use it as a Trojan horse, it would work.....we are already among them.

There are many sites and many endeavors that work for conservative restoration. Some involve money and membership and/ or sponsorship they cater to, others even try their efforts toward winning favor with 'the who you knows'. I see the pay pal buttons, and I turn the other way. Not because I have anything against someone making an honest buck or being about business, but because for me, to my way of thinking, the voice of Liberty should be free, and any part of that - that I lend my voice to, should also be offered freely.

Liberty for profit, somehow feels wrong, it is another arena in the game of 'politic' to me. Truly, many may think that is the only way they can win. I don't. I don't believe we can change what we hate, by becoming our own part of it...the change happens to the participants of the game....it changes you, not the game itself.

Let the politicians play it. Let those who chase them play it. I am not biting anymore. And I think the Tea Parties and all Constitutional Conservatives, should not bite either.

I have grown older, and wiser I sincerely hope, and more realistic toward focused, achievable goals. I am no longer interested in wasting my time chasing after causes I can no longer believe will effect substantial and lasting change. Most importantly, I am not interested in wasting any more precious time or effort toward any endeavor or organization that is not about Restoring and Protecting the Constitution.

Most of the politicians in Washington, D.C. would not know what was Constitutional and what was not, if it jumped up and bit them in 'the behind'. But I know many fellow patriots who do know the Constitution. What the words say...all of them...and what they mean...and they know that within the framework of its original design is the answer to how we can fix all of this...WE.....A UNITED TEA PARTY-UNITED CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVE GROUPS-WITH ONE FOCUSED MESSAGE AND RESTORATIVE ACTION could really change the direction of our Country and restore the Constitution to our Nation.

My 'cup of tea' is no longer chasing the flavor of the month or political windmills...I am about what I signed up for in the beginning of all of this so many years ago...

...I WANT TO MAKE THE DIFFERENCE. I WANT TO WIN. I WANT TO BEAT THEM, NOT AT THEIR OWN GAME -BUT..... BY NOT PLAYING IT...BEAT THEM BECAUSE WE ARE SMARTER...BUT ALSO BECAUSE WE ARE RIGHT, BECAUSE WE STAND FOR, AND WITH THE CONSTITUTION.

I vote for plan B. How can they righteously argue against the document they have sworn to protect? We need to make that call...make them show their honest intent and the cards in their hand.

Our greatest strength is our strong an independent - CHOSEN - affiliations. It can also be our choice to join behind one effort.
It is their hope that we never do, their continued success depends on it. They seek comfort in the assumption that, this tea party or that tea party, this conservative group or that conservative group, would never give up their own hard gained turf or possible starting or front-runner position. THEY KNOW WE ARE A GREAT SLEEPING GIANT, THEY FEAR A FUTURE DAY, WHEN WE MIGHT BECOME SELF-AWARE.

The 'progressives' greatest fear, which they give voice to only in whisper, is that if we ever coalesced, WE WOULD BE THE ONE NATIONAL FORCE.....THEY COULD NOT WIN AGAINST....WE WOULD BE WINNING FOR OUR COUNTRY AND OUR FOUNDING DOCUMENT.

'WE THE PEOPLE' WORKING TOGETHER ARE NOT A CAREER OR AN EGO, A SALARY OR A POLITICAL PARTY....WE WOULD BE FIGHTING FOR THE IDEAL OF LIBERTY AGAIN...AS DID OUR FOUNDERS.....AND THAT IS THE LIGHT THEY HOPE TO FOREVER EXTINGUISH WITH THEIR DARKNESS.

This is not just opinion, the facts bear me out. Just look at the positioning of the 'establishment conservatives', their callous disregard and remarks against tea party or any person or group who identifies as Constitutionally conservative, and our power....we make them very nervous. They lip service Constitutional conservatism, but they love politics, their loyalty is where they butter their own bread. Look at the power and the impact of The few and the true Constitutional conservative voices serving today.....the political establishment fears organized Constitutional citizenry.

THAT IS THE ONE - SINGLE - THING THAT UNITES ALL OF OUR SEPARATE PARTS.....WE HAVE LOVE AND REVERENCE FOR, and FEEL SINCERE LOYALTY AND RESPONSIBILITY TO SPEAK AND ACT IN DEFENSE OF THE CONSTITUTION.

THEY THINK THEY SEE OUR ACHILLES HEEL...LOOK MY FRIENDS, THEY HAVE SHOWN US THEIR OWN, THEY ARE SCARED TO DEATH OF THE CONSTITUTION...AND A UNITED PEOPLE DETERMINED and SMART ENOUGH TO USE IT.

WE WOULD WIN IF WE UNITED.
WHEN WE WIN....THEY WOULD BE REDUCED TO THE LIMITS OF THE CONSTITUTION.
YES, THAT SCARES THEM ALL...BEING BOUND BY THE CHAINS OF THE CONSTITUTION.
THAT IS WHY SO MANY OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 'SERVANTS' WORK WITH SUCH URGENCY AND DETERMINED EFFORT TO IGNORE IT...AND IN DOING SO....DESTROY IT.

Friends, we no longer have the luxury of time, we are on 'Urgency's schedule...it's time for Plan B.

Thank you for reading.
ladyboots

ENOUGH TIME

My mind and my heart took parallel journeys today. My thoughts and my feelings were in similar turmoil.

I watch the news each and every day - and in every way I know our government is broken and it affects everything in my life. I see our 'leaders' and all that they say and do, and I fear 'to where' will they lead us? I wonder if others feel as I do...life has a strange and out-of-control detachment.

On one-hand, I focus very closely on all the things most important to me in my life. My family and our circumstances and how I can positively affect all that concerns us. This is, as it should be, and is the righteous hand.

On the other hand I feel, for a desperate moment, a helpless deformity. There is little alone that I can any longer control - or change - or do to shape the direction or the outcome of what I wish to reach for. I long for different times and different direction, and for the saddest of moments I truly know that what I am wishing for is….the past - and looking at our future with dread. Is this really how a 'free people' are supposed to evaluate the state of their experience?

"Now is the time when all good men should come to the aid of their country."

I wonder when Patrick Henry said that - if he worried that anyone might be listening? I wonder how the first patriots watched the events of their day, questions of liberties lost - invasions so complete into lives that their very existence and happiness became affected by a government that infringed upon them in every way - everyday. At what point did they finally chose to act? When did it become no longer bearable to live under the yoke of such tyranny? It certainly was oppression much more effective than a cup of tea.

Clear eyes...focused eyes...we must look at all we might not wish to see...in Our Country today.

I realized that there are two frames of reference that mark my attitude. Time when I felt all things were possible - and time where I realized the possibilities are finite. The time when I knew America was an 'ideal' - and the time when all I hear is that America is less than ideal. The time when I understood people believed in values that led to greatness in all things, and as individuals these were principles to which we should all aspire - and the time when talk of greatness beyond, or by an individual is considered to be an insult to the 'collective'.

What used to be 'right' now is considered 'wrong' and so many wrongs are somehow made right. Time that used to be anticipated and filled with potential and imagination by every man woman and child are approached with cautioned spirit toward what will come next and what possibilities may be gone forever.

Ladies and Gentlemen, our timeline is the same as all the great civilizations that have existed and failed throughout the annals of historical recording... are we are seeing the decline of America? Many do not want to look – do not want to accept – do not want to consider – do not want to know – do not want to address the state of affairs. Never before in our history has it been even conceivable that the best was not yet to come!

Today we are being told...we are moving toward a 'new normal' and somehow that sounds dire in our expectation of acceptance. Well, whether you choose to look or not to look - the facts remain the same and the truth of such will still be endured - by each and every one of us. The decline of America is inevitable...unless we can 'somehow' capture enough hearts and minds to join this effort.

"They who cannot remember the past...are condemned to repeat it." ~George Santayana. Now is the time - once again - for all good men/women of every stripe and circumstance - to come to the aid of their country.

This is a time of URGENCY. What more must happen/will happen...before there are enough people who come to the conclusion that THEY HAVE HAD ENOUGH?

My mind stopped at this question. My heart stopped here, fearing the answer to the same question. I sat and looked at the books on the table in front of me. My Bible, my histories, my copies of the Founding documents and on the shelf beside me, my photo albums of family and their framed pictures also on display on my wall. The TV long had been turned off. I can watch little anymore and trust even less.

So I study...those documents, histories and the Bible that gives me comfort. And every day I return to join and work with fellow patriots, and build again at this site. I have to know that I am only one and individually not extraordinary, but together we are EXTRA-Ordinary and doing an impressive...SOMETHING...that We are trying to be the citizen our forefathers hoped We would be. The patriots of modern times, I know our Country needs us to be.

I will strive to be the steward and caretaker my grandchildren pray I will be - though they are too young to know they will yet say that prayer. That is the weight of this responsibility. The future of this Nation and all our Children will inherit depends on this generation to take action. Not enough of us are paying attention...not enough...not enough...

This is a time of URGENCY..... What more must happen/will happen...before there are ENOUGH people who come to the conclusion that THEY TOO......HAVE HAD ENOUGH...?

It is my most sincere prayer that it will happen soon...and that there will be many - and through them many more - who find their way here.

Thank you for reading.
ladyboots