Because of a two-inch minnow on the endangered species list, the water to California Central Valley has been turned off. Farms are closed, entire communities are suffering, with unemployment up to 40% in some areas, and people are being forced to visit food banks.
Sean Hannity interviewed comedian Paul Rodriguez who is fighting to get the water turned back on. Rodriguez, an Obama supporter, admits "We wanted change; we didn't think it would be this kind of change, but he kept his promise - we got change."
Notice that a Campaign for Liberty sign is slipped into view at about 2:20, then again at about 4:00, and again at 5:20.
Thanks to Steve W. for forwarding this video of the interview:
While I like our sign and logo, this is a time when I wish it wasn't so fancy. As a C4Ler, I knew what it said, but I couldn't really READ it on camera. It would have had more fantastic impact if it had been a more clear, basic font. *sigh* for miss opportunities.
Here in California, the media & politician's talk about our water crisis as though it's a natural phenomenon (aside from our state being a desert that is). They never mention the huge supply of water we normally depend on that was shut down by a federal judge. It's always "our" fault in California and never the state's! We must be punished.
Here in California, the media & politician's talk about our water crisis as though it's a natural phenomenon (aside from our state being a desert that is). They never mention the huge supply of water we normally depend on that was shut down by a federal judge. It's always "our" fault in California and never the state's! We must be punished.
My suspicion is that if this had happened in Texas, the water would already be turned back on after the People had defended their right to exist with force.
Posted 08/12/09 7:50 PM Michael Salvi Elkins Park, PA
The farmers are the ones that produce the tax dollars to pay for this water to get out to the farms. Therefore isn't this a dispute of private property, whereas the govt. is restricting it?? Constitution anybody?
Posted 08/12/09 8:05 PM Schlazone828 Woodstock, IL
Turn the pumps on,
OAAAAAARRRRRR,
get water from the Pacific Ocean.
HOW?
Evaporate (to rid the salt), Transport, and Drink (Something tells me there's a few more. It's been too long since I studied this in the 4th grade.)
it's called:
"THE WATER CYCLE"
And screw the government if they get caught for using:
i agree about the font in the Campaign logo. Maybe, being that we are a decentralized movement, somebody could make an alternate logo that is easier to read? I think it's very important.
I wonder if any of the environmentalists who got these idiotic and unconstitutional laws enacted are smart enough to get the irony of what happened. They killed a million trees in exchange for some tiny fish...
Posted 08/12/09 8:27 PM Paul Revered New Richmond, OH
This sounds a little fishy…. has anyone reported this to the White House? China must have taken all our engineers or maybe they’re just to busy selling the Chinese engineered pumping systems, because they’ve only learned how to become sheep in college. Baa Baa The water is not the only thing that was cut off.
I'm with the other comment above. No one should use that fancy font in a C4L sign or bumpersticker. Clarity is the utmost priority. How can we get a message out if people can't read it. Almost seems like sabotage.
Just go turn the pumps on. I am surprised no one hasn't tried yet.
Does anyone know what kind of minnows they are? They look like an ordinary shiner but in salt water. They are all over my area in the lakes and ponds. If that is what they are how can that be endangered?
This may a payment to China for the campaign contributions they made. Or, as Robyn stated, Rahm Emmanuel's plan for depopulation.
Did you see the associated video in the house where the congressman tried to bring a bill to the floor to get the water turned on and most of the democrats voted to table it?
Perhaps what is most revealing in this news story is the fact that farmers in California are having to appeal to the White House - 3,000 miles away, on the other side of the continent - to try to get this resolved. That alone speaks volumes about how power has become highly centralized and consolidated in the hands of a very small number of people. The president of the U.S. is being asked to help farmers in California get water. What more proof does one need that the Constitution has been shredded, burned, and its ashes swept into a very deep hole?
I'm with the earlier poster who said that the farmers should take matters into their own hands and turn the water back on for themselves.
When in Oregon we argued over water. If my government took it from me i would have simply cut the lock and opened the gate. How in Gods name can they sit buy and let those trees die? this in not a yearly crop! It takes years for a tree to produce. You cant just plant more and harvest in the fall like corn! This is CRIMINAL! We now have government that deprives the people of WATER!
Posted 08/13/09 01:12 AM LizLiz Brooklyn(or Cresco,PA!) , NY
Absolutely speechless.
we'll all suffer when food prices rise from this nonsense. Someone should just eff the law and turn the water on.
A law ceases to be a law when it damages the pursuit of happiness.
Just wait until they have Health Care, if the govt is willing to cut off the water so that they can allocate tax payer money to their special needs, just think of what will happen when they control health care.
Posted 08/13/09 02:34 AM Lauro4Liberty Havertown, PA
This is messed up! What do they expect to eat next year? I guess Queen Nancy would say "Let them eat cake!" All this damage just to save some tiny fish??? Hmmmm it smells "fishy" to me. Where is that White House email address again?...
My plan to take over the world (or maybe just save the valley):
STICK A FILTER ON THE PUMP THAT WON'T LET THE FISH IN!!!
Are people really this dumb or did they leave out important details that thwart my plan? If you buy a water pump for a pond they try to sell you a filter so you don't suck up all the leaves and clog the thing. If you move the pumps away from where the minnows spawn, you shouldn't have to deal with the minnows being too small to block. You will need additional pumps for the same flow, but something is a lot better than what they're getting now. All you need is to split the water line at the water source and add more pumps.
I'm not sure if their goal is national malnutrition or civil war. Since I didn't see any politicians in the area to admire the fish, I'm pretty sure they don't really care about that aspect.
California grows much of our country's produce in the area, and prices on fresh produce are already insane compared to other foods. Eating more fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices would make us much healthier, drastically reducing healthcare costs, but the poor already cannot afford enough.
Personally, I would have turned the water on and posted guards. I'm guessing it is controlled by a public utility company, so building a large enough militia/mob so that are requests aren't questioned might be step one.
Almost forgot, if they need a temporary filter, I have some old t-shirts they can use for free and strap over the water intake. I'll even pay shipping and handling if they need it. I guarantee they'll allow 100x the current water flow or your money back.
Putting aside the fact that I don't enjoy Sean Hannity whatsoever, this bit of news is shocking to say the least.
I want to make something clear to my fellow C4Lers; none of us here have a right to water. Not even me. It is a resource, albeit a scarce and precious one. But we do have a right to our property. As far as I'm concerned (as JJR1985 pointed out before), this water, supplied at the expense of taxpayers like these farmers, belongs to them. Either don't tax them at all (and give back ALL of their paid income) or open those valves!
If the fish-excuse is just a cover for a major infrastructural problem with the water supply (as would be inevitable under central-planning) then they should privatize it and settle property boundaries. Oh, and give back their money!
Find a suitable lake in Washington DC; take a few thousand of the minnows and release them there; pass a law that all the able bodied welfare recipients in the area have to feed the fish daily; set up bus tours periodically so members of the Sierra Club can go pet the fish; then open the gates and turn on the pumps in California and let the rest of the little critters help fertilize the fields.
If you think this is bad, check out S.787: Clean Water Restoration Act, which effectively expands the original clean water act to include any standing water anywhere. This would effectively obsolete the idea of private property.
Posted 08/13/09 4:51 PM PhilRidley London, United Kingdom
In England, they just amended the Reservoirs Act Regulations whereby the Environment Agency has control over very small bodies of water. They are forcing owners to drain bodies of water to levels where they are prepared for 1 in 1000 year storms. Yes, that's right, Britain hasn't been invaded for over 1000yrs, but apparently, we must now brace ourselves. This is not about endangered species, it is about Eugenics, and it is an operation that is global, albeit executed differently in different areas.
Hello everyone. First time posting here, still setting up profile.
I've been told by a friend in CA that the real people pulling the levers on this one are developers who are upset about some water rights issue and they're using some enviro groups as a proxy.
Keep in mind, that although I trust the person who told me this, it is just one persons point-of-view.
That said, whether it's environmentalism going way too far and/or a sick corporate welfare manipulation, this is really rotten stuff.
Posted 08/15/09 08:51 AM Old Cattleman Mt. Vernon, MO
To take an earlier post a step furthur, here's the scoop on the Clear Water Restoration Act. If you've got a pond or a swamp, the EPA has control of your land, not you. Read it:
Official Summary
4/2/2009--Introduced.
Clean Water Restoration Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to replace the term "navigable waters" that are subject to such Act with the term "waters of the United States," defined to mean all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing, to the fullest extent that these waters, or activities affecting them, are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution. Declares that nothing in such Act affects the authority of the Secretary of the Army or the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the provisions of the Clean Water Act related to discharges:
(1) composed entirely of return flows from irrigated agriculture;
(2) of stormwater runoff from certain oil, gas, and mining operations composed entirely of flows from precipitation runoff conveyances, which are not contaminated by or in contact with specified materials;
(3) of dredged or fill materials resulting from normal farming, silviculture, and ranching activities, from upland soil and water conservation practices, or from activities with respect to which a state has an approved water quality regulatory program; or
(4) of dredged or fill materials for the maintenance of currently serviceable structures, the construction or maintenance of farm or stock ponds, irrigation ditches and maintenance of drainage ditches, or farm, forest, or temporary roads for moving mining equipment in accordance with best management practices, or the construction of temporary sedimentation basins on construction sites for which discharges do not include placement of fill material into the waters of the United States.
Private property rights are out the window on this. Where is the outrage?
This is a clear case of the implementation Agenda 21 blueprint of Sustainable Development.
This is also a crisis that should not be wasted; NULLIFICATION is the solution to this problem.
Will the citizens of this country allow government be it local, county, state or federal to take their way of life away? Diminish the value of their property and push them of their land.
This is the line in the sand, time for Local Government to stand up against the federal government and exercise their sovereignty under the 10th Amendment, Turn on the water.
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