Here is a riddle for you: What
does the Klamath Basin area in southwestern Oregon and
northern California, the Flathead Indian Reservation in
western Montana, and the African country of Zimbabwe
have in common? Answer: Government reform and
intentional harassment of farmers ends food production,
and in Zimbabwe’s case, brings starvation.
In an article published on www.europeanguardian.com
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is begging white
farmers to return to Zimbabwe. Once known as the
“breadbasket” of southern Africa, readers may recall
that in the early years of the decade 2000, the Zimbabwe
government conducted major reforms that resulted in
terrorizing white farmers, and forcing them to flee the
country, turning their land over to the black population
Fast forward to 2015 and even with assistance from the
USA, the UK and Australia, USAID cannot supply enough
food to Zimbabweans to stave off their escalating
starvation. Mind you, this catastrophe is the result of
government reform. Ring a bell?
One would think such a scenario could never occur in the
United States. One would be quite wrong. In the past
decade most of the cattle/farm production in
southwestern Oregon and northern California has been
devastated by government reform. And now four
life-giving dams will be removed through a bullying
cabal of federal agencies gone entirely rogue, four
Indian tribal governments, political pressure from the
Greenies and Agenda 21 folks, and the ignorance—even
cruelty—of California and Oregon Governors. Removing
four dams will eliminate any possibility of water
storage for crop production. More government reform is
taking out America’s food.
All the western states are targets for the removal of
food production. That’s the goal of the current federal
administration that harmonizes nicely with the One World
Order folks. In Bellingham, Washington, thanks to a huge
EPA grant to the Swinomish tribe, enormous billboards on
the Interstate trash their area farmers for “polluting
the waters.” In California, the San Joaquin Valley has
already had its crop production decimated, and that area
once provided over 20% of our country’s food.
Removing access to water is the federal game, using any
and all available federal agencies to assist. EPA’s
Waters of the United States (WOTUS) is a major tool that
is thankfully being challenged in court. Rapid
escalation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is
additional federal weaponry. The precious Sage Grouse is
being used to eliminate cattle production, just as the
Spotted Owl wiped out the timber industry. The BLM, USFW,
DOI, USDA, BIA and all of the federal alphabet agencies
acting alone or in concert are racing to wipe out food
production and property ownership before the current
President’s time runs out. Meanwhile, he’s doing
everything he can with his infamous phone and pen. Do we
want more of this from the next President?
Oh, and in the recent years, the White House has
determined that America’s power grid is good “economic
development” for Indian tribes. So the Department of
Energy and Bureau of Indian Affairs are rolling out
billions to tribal governments, encouraging them to
hurry and convert America’s water and electrical public
utilities into private tribal sovereign assets. That
will accomplish two goals: 1) the end of food
production; and 2) the intentional national security
softening of the country’s power-grid. Simultaneously,
tribal governments can long-term lease their private
Indian “trust” lands to Middle Eastern countries for
“economic development” too. The combination of a
federally sanctioned Indian Energy program and
co-mingling with Middle Eastern countries is a marriage
made in hell. America thanks you, President Obama.
The Flathead Indian Reservation entirely depends upon an
agricultural economy and is now subject to the
implementation of a hideous combination of harmonious
goals. The Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribe (CSKT) has
for many years voiced intent to remove all “white
people” from their reservation “by any means possible.”
This goal fits nicely with the environmental radicals
who want the human footprint gone from the western
states. It also fits nicely with the One World Order and
Agenda 21 folks who want the destruction of state
governments and ultimately an end to the United States.
And the fools currently running our country (led by the
White House and Congress) are intent on knocking down
one American industry after another as fast as possible,
while bringing in hundreds of thousands of folks who
hate America to help with the task.
As example, here is the Big Picture on the Flathead
Indian Reservation that is home to three counties,
eleven municipalities and a population of 75%
non-Indians—mostly farmers, cattlemen and ancillary
agricultural businesses. In concert with the CSKT,
Montana’s Executive and Legislative Branch abandoning
its authority and protections on Indian reservations,
and a collection of federal programs cramming down right
now on Montana landowners (including tribal members)
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1.All Western Watershed
Management Plans for the great rivers (Missouri,
Mississippi, Columbia, etc.) have transitioned
their primary purpose from agriculture and
economic development to the protection of tribal
sovereign cultural resources, ESA, etc.).
Irrigation is now at the bottom of the list for
use of major river waters.
2.The Columbia River Treaty. An international
treaty between the United States and Canada
coming up for renegotiation. Fifty-three
northwestern tribes are geared up and demanding
that two national governments, the U.S. and
Canada, perform their “moral obligation” to turn
control of the Columbia River over to the
aboriginals.
3.Capturing state waters using tribal
governments as pawns. This includes the CSKT
Water Compact, Klamath Dam Removals, and
projects targeting Washington, Idaho, other
areas of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, etc.
4.BIA-owned/controlled power and energy
entities. Now requires ALL customers of BIA-owned/controlled
power or energy entities to provide extensive
and intrusive personal information (i.e. social
security numbers, EIN numbers, # of acres owned,
annual water/power use, number of persons in
households, household incomes, etc. (See March
31, 2016 Federal Register).
5.Indian Energy Program as "Indian Economic
development" to transfer public utilities (dams,
energy plants) from public utilities to tribal
sovereign assets. This is billions of dollars
and huge federal facilitation for tribes to take
over major pockets of our nation's water and
electrical power grid.
6.Obama's new federal "Drought Resilience"
Program, with complete capability of pinning
down individual landowners through guidance and
enforcement. (See Federal Register, Presidential
Proclamation, March 21, 2016). This new federal
program to monitor drought involves top
officials of fourteen federal agencies,
including the Department of Homeland Security
and U.S. Army. Question:Why Homeland Security
and the U.S. Army? Is this the coming of
Marshall Law?
7.The CSKT Compact on the Flathead Reservation
and directly impacting 11 Western Montana
counties. Approved by Montana Legislature, April
11, 2015.
8.Transfer of Kerr Dam to CSKT, September 5,
2015. Now all water rates (wholesale and retail)
are controlled by the feds/tribe with NO caps,
and NO review by Montana Public Services
Commission.
9.Mission Valley Power Company. Owned by BIA,
operated by CSKT. Now wholesale and retail
electric rates have NO caps, and NO review by
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It would be nearly impossible
for our friends and neighbor landowners here on the
Flathead Indian Reservation, or anywhere, to be
completely aware of all of these simultaneous forces and
processes bearing directly down rapidly on their own
individual lands. The intent is to take out food
(meat/crop) production here and across the western
states. The ultimate goal is to also take down
landowners, property rights, and replace State authority
with federal/tribal jurisdiction in wide swaths. It is
happening right now, and has been quietly developed by
multiple agencies for a couple of decades. Then
President Obama lit the match. Failure of landowners to
act makes it a certainty. In Western Montana, food
production IS the economic engine for livelihood on the
Flathead Reservation.
No government will help people living on the Flathead
Reservation. All governments are intentionally
adversarial to the landowners, county/municipal
governments and ancillary businesses. We only have the
federal court, or this area goes the way of Zimbabwe
soon.
The Good News: Like the federal mob rule wiping out the
dams of Klamath River Basin, all of the above
constitutes a whole volume of federal violations of the
U.S. Constitution, Montana State Constitution, Tribal
Constitution, egregious violations of the federal
Administrative Procedures Act (APA) such as due process,
and discrimination. Actually the whole collusion of
federal agencies constitutes a racketeering (RICO)
violation, likely violates the Sherman Antitrust Act,
which also applies to the federal government, and
countless other congressional laws, court rulings and
regulations.
The irony is that the black/white printed law is on the
side of the citizens/landowners since all these agencies
have intentionally gone rogue and no longer follow their
own regulations or any laws. For now, justice in a court
is our only hope, but court will be clumsy, costly and
tedious at first, moving through the lower courts
(mostly filled with Obama appointees), then up to the
appellate courts where help should come (even from the
unpredictable 9th Circuit).and, if necessary, on up to
the Supreme Court.
In the United States will our farmers succumb to the
government reforms and terrorizing? Will they just give
up and leave as happened in Zimbabwe? Or will they stand
and fight, knowing they have the complete support of all
those Americans who have food on their table today? We
must put down the political, and pick up the
preservation of this country. We may never get a
Do-Over.
Elaine Willman, MPA, is author of Going to Pieces…the
dismantling of the United States of America, and
Slumbering Thunder, a primer for confronting the spread
of federal Indian policy and tribalism overwhelming
America.
Contact: toppin@aol.com
GUEST COMMENTARY
But It Gets Worse…
In the land of great friendships, hardworking farmers
and neighbors, there is an escalating values crisis.
Within the Flathead Irrigation Project, a small but
aggressive group has decided that the inability of their
neighbors to vote in an election is just too bad. A
small group believes that Lake County’s failure to
notify voters of arbitrary reinterpretation of Montana
Code Annotated (MCA) election codes is just fine.
Failure to notify voters of these changes or even of an
upcoming election is just swell. The fact that Lake
County could arbitrarily decide who gets to vote and who
doesn’t, without prior notification to all voters, is
A-OK with a small but powerful group of irrigators. But
it gets worse…
When a majority of the Flathead Joint Board of
Commissioners (FJBC) learned of the Lake County Election
staff actions and inactions described above, its legal
counsel researched and recommended that a faulty
election process had occurred, and that the FJBC should
cancel the election until statutory clarifications could
occur and all irrigation voters be informed. The FJBC
serves all irrigators, not just the powerful few. Power
comes when one doesn’t play by the rules. (This should
be the motto of Montana politics since statehood). The
FJBC cancelled the election. Coincidental with the
powerful few, Lake County moved forward with the
election of May 3rd anyway, fully knowledgeable that
hundreds of irrigators would be left in the dark, unable
to vote. But it gets worse…
The FJBC considered Lake County’s decision to go forward
with the election, and passed FJBC Resolution 2016-1
continuing cancellation of a flawed election, and
continuing the terms of office of its existing
commissioners until a new, fair and just election could
be held. The powerful few stuck its thumb in the eye of
the FJBC and convened an illegal meeting of the Flathead
Irrigation District (FID) – one of four irrigation
districts within the FJBC on May 10th.
Of five current commissioners on the FID, two showed up
for the meeting; three commissioners did not. Two FID
commissioners, Dick Erb and Paul Guenzler, took it upon
themselves to convene a meeting knowing full well that
no quorum existed to justify even starting a meeting.
The purpose of the meeting was to install commissioners
elected by the flawed May 3rd election cancelled by the
FJBC. The meeting should never have been opened when no
quorum was present. Oh, but who cares about rules? Dirty
politics is the big money crop in Montana. Mr. Erb
convened the “meeting,” quickly swore in a questionably
elected commissioner, and said, “Now we have a quorum,”
then proceeded to swear in another commissioner
questionably elected.
In true Kabuki theater, the FID, having never held a
meeting in many, many months, decided to convene an
illegal one fully intended to increase support for the
CSKT Compact on the FJBC Board. The current majority of
FJBC commissioners vehemently oppose the CSKT Compact.
Mr. Erb assured attendees that this farce of a meeting
was to “promote unity.” Having a lengthy career as
Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary
Fund (IMF), former member Council on Foreign Relations (CFR),
globalist and One World Order supporter, Mr. Erb is a
master of double-speak. If he speaks “unity,” watch your
back. The opposite is coming.
So neighbors be damned. It doesn’t matter if one farmer
can vote and another cannot. It doesn’t matter if public
entities cannot convene an illegal meeting absent a
quorum. It doesn’t matter if the FJBC Board, on which
FID commissioners have taken an Oath to serve, passes a
formal Resolution cancelling an election. It doesn’t
matter if Montana election codes are arbitrarily changed
without notification to district voters. It doesn’t
matter about following any law. Who follows laws these
days, anyway? What only matters is the will of the
powerful few. But it gets worse…
The truly good, hardworking neighbors and majority of
folks directly affected by the corrupt process revealed
above are just too good for their own good. They wring
their hands in worry, but fall silent as victims. They
have learned to be kind, and apparently pushing back or
publicly speaking up is unkind. They loath conflict, so
they take the blow. That is how bullies prevail over
good people. That is how the FJBC is being internally
decimated by tyrants beholden to those who would steal
state waters, private water rights, and limited, if any,
access to water. The only reason a powerful few exist is
because a passive many succumb.
In the turmoil occurring on the Flathead Indian
Reservation, the gentle, kind and hardworking irrigation
families are killing themselves with their own kindness.
They are, at this point in time, no match for the
federal, state and tribal governments, and the local
powerful few. The great folks earning a living on this
reservation are further handicapped by uninformed or
ill-informed local elected officials fearful of being
called a name if they disagree with a tribal government
decision, or support the FJBC. So, until courage is
planted, blooms and harvested around here, the future of
irrigation and the entire agricultural economy of three
counties surely will get worse…
Elaine Willman,
Ronan, MT
509-949-8055
toppin@aol.com
NOTE: Elaine Willman lives on irrigation land in the
Flathead Irrigation District, and is the author of two
books: Going to Pieces…the dismantling of the United
States of America, and Slumbering Thunder...a primer for
confronting the spread of federal Indian policy and
tribalism overwhelming America. |
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