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American Land Rights Association - Land Rights Network
PO Box 400 - Battle Ground WA 98604
Phone: 360-687-3087 - Fax: 360-687-2973 - Email: <alra@pacifier.com> - http://www.landrights.org
Legislative Office: 508 First St SE - Washington DC 20003
Phone: 202-210-2357 - Fax: 202-543-7126 - Email: landrightsnet@aol.com
ACT FAST - CARA Hearing June 20th
Your Congressman and Senator Are Home This Week
WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?
The Greens and Government Agencies Want Your Land.
They're willing to use condemnation to take it. Yes, that's right. If
CARA passes, government agencies will have the money to confiscate your
land.
The Resources Committee is planning to hold a hearing on CARA June 20th.
Sponsors will try to bring it to a vote in early July.
CARA, the Conservation and Reinvestment Act (HR 701), has a huge number of
Co-Sponsors in the House and could pass unless you rise up and oppose it
NOW. Why do the co-sponsors support CARA. MONEY$$, MONEY$$, MONEY$$.
CARA is one of the largest PORK BARREL BILLS EVER. And it will TAKE
YOUR LAND.
WHY IT IS URGENT TO ACT NOW!!
The House Resources Committee has set a hearing on CARA (HR 701) for June
20th.
It is urgent that you write and call your Congressman to oppose CARA.
Congress is home for the Memorial Week Recess until June 4th. This is the
time to go to a local meeting where your Congressman is speaking to oppose
CARA.
Call your Congressman's local office. Put the heat on.
You must make controversy about CARA quickly. You were lucky to defeat
CARA last year. The greens and their land grabbing friends will take no
prisoners this year.
CARA WILL HURT YOU!!
CARA is an all out attack on all landowners including farmers, ranchers,
miners, forestry advocates, recreation enthusiasts and many more. It will
force the closure of hundreds of rural communities and force residents into
the cities.
CARA also funds an assault on Federal land users. It funds more Roadless
and Wilderness areas, and converts millions of acres of private land into
government land which then is made off limits to you.
CARA will make millions of acres off limits to energy exploration and
development while taking $3 billion each and every year for 15 years ($45
billion in total) away from America's ability to solve its energy problem.
CARA makes our energy problem worse while handicapping our ability to fix
it.
READ THIS LIST CAREFULLY
THERE'S A TARGET PAINTED ON YOUR CHEST
HERE'S WHY YOU MUST FIGHT CARA
-----CARA will provide over $45 billion dollars over 15 years in a
guaranteed trust fund, most of it for land acquisition. This is virtually
the same bill you fought off last year.
-----The real name for CARA should be THE CONDEMNATION AND RELOCATION
ACT for that is what it really does.
-----CARA sets aside $3 billion per year that does not have to compete in
Congress for funds in the appropriations process with medical care,
education, defense or any other social need. Why should land acquisition
and condemnation of private land get a higher priority than the military?
MAKE CARA COMPETE - NO TRUST FUND;
-----Government agents and appraisers get well OVER ONE BILLION DOLLARS PER
YEAR TO CONDEMN PRIVATE PROPERTY. No one is safe. Eminent Domain will be
rampant;
-----Environmental law firms receive grant money so they can sue YOU into
bankruptcy;
-----Extremists gain $60 million dollars per year to train an ARMY of
investigators who will trespass on your land to LOCATE AND POLICE
ENDANGERED SPECIES;
-----ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS clamor for - you guessed it - money money
money - to reintroduce wolves that kill livestock and run cattle ranchers,
farmers, inholders and landowners off their land;
-----CARA would provide billions of dollars over fifteen years for
government agents to condemn private property and then turn it into
wilderness - no access, no people;
-----CARA funds SHUTTING DOWN RECREATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL ACCESS to
the federal lands by making more lands available for more wilderness
designations like President Clinton has done;
-----"Non-government organizations" (NGOs) win funding to draw up UNITED
NATIONS Biosphere Reserves, override national sovereignty and eliminate
private property rights;
-----CARA will fund new UN Biosphere Reserves and UN World Heritage Sites;
-----Lands cut off by Forest Service Roadless Rule will become targets for
CARA as well;
-----CARA helps make more LANDS OFF-LIMITS TO ENERGY EXPLORATION AND
DEVELOPMENT;
-----All lands with Endangered Species will be targets of land acquisition
- there will be no limit;
-----Green groups will seek to designate hundreds of areas of private land
as new Federal areas;
-----Much of the MONEY WILL GO TO THE NATURE CONSERVANCY and other
giant green land trusts;
-----HUNTERS AND SPORTSMEN WILL LOSE ACCESS to acquired lands;
-----Inholder families are specifically targeted in the new bills;
-----Hundreds of small communities in existing Federal areas will be wiped
off the map;
-----Land acquisition has always been used as a WEAPON TO REGULATE AND
CONTROL PRIVATE LANDOWNERS;
-----LAND ACQUISITION DRIVES AWAY EMPLOYERS The community and its
future are left in doubt;
-----CARA (HR.701) will make it more difficult to build homes and
businesses in rural areas;
-----NO PRIVATE PROPERTY WILL BE SAFE with these funds available.
FARMERS WILL BE ESPECIALLY HARD HIT;
-----The Federal agencies should take care of what they have before buying
more land;
-----Billions of dollars of private land will be TAKEN OFF THE TAX ROLLS
forcing local taxes up;
-----Congressional Appropriations Committee estimates the FEDERAL AGENCIES
ARE $12 BILLION BEHIND IN DEFERRED MAINTENANCE. Any money should go for
maintenance, not land acquisition; and
-----There should be no net loss of private land in America.
STOP CARA, THE CONDEMNATION AND RELOCATION ACT
SAY NO TO THE GIANT LAND GRAB
SAY NO TO LAND CONFISCATION!!
WHAT YOU SHOULD DO IMMEDIATELY!!
--1. CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN at the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 225-3121
to oppose CARA. There is a temporary FREE NUMBER of (800) 648-3516. URGE
THEM TO VOTE NO on CARA. NO massive trust fund! NO land grabs!
URGE HIM TO ASK FOR FIELD HEARINGS ON CARA IN YOUR AREA. Ask if
he or she has signed up to sponsor CARA. If so, ask that he or she remove
their name. Congressman JC WATTS of Oklahoma just dropped his
co-sponsorship.
--2. WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN. A simple one page letter using two or three
of the reasons to oppose CARA we have listed above. Put them in your own
words. BE SURE TO ASK FOR FIELD HEARINGS. Send your letter to:
Honorable: ________ US House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515.
--3. FAX YOUR CONGRESSMAN. Get and keep the fax number of your Congre
ssman. If you don't have it, ask for it when you call. FAX your letter to
your Congressman and ask that your letter be submitted for the official
hearing record of the hearing on June 20th. ASK FOR LOCAL FIELD
HEARINGS SO THAT YOU CAN TESTIFY.
--4. YOUR CONGRESSMAN IS HOME UNTIL JUNE 4th. He or she may be
holding town meetings to meet with you. It is very important that you
call his office to find out where they will be. Call their office in
Washington, DC or their local office. Get their schedule. Go to the
meeting. Alert at least five friends.
--5. HERE IS THE NEW HOUSE RESOURCES COMMITTEE LIST. Check to see
if your Congressman is on it. If he is, YOU MUST NOT FAIL to write and
call him. If your Congressman is not on the committee list, it is still
vital that you urge him to oppose CARA and ask for LOCAL FIELD HEARINGS.
RESOURCES COMMITTEE LIST -- 107th Congress (Save this list)
Republicans:
James Hansen (UT) Chairman
Don Young (AK)
Billy Tauzin (LA)
Jim Saxton (NJ)
Elton Gallegly (CA)
John Duncan (TN)
Joel Hefley (CO)
Wayne Gilchrest (MD)
Ken Calvert (CA)
Scott McInnis (CO)
Richard Pombo (CA)
Barbara Cubin (WY)
George Radanovich (CA)
Walter Jones JR (NC)
William Thornberry (TX)
Chris Channon (UT)
John Peterson (PA)
Bob Schaffer (CO)
James Gibbons (NV)
Mark Souder (IN)
Greg Walden (OR)
Mike Simpson (ID)
Thomas Tancredo (CO)
CL Otter (ID)
Thomas Osborne (NE)
Jeff Flake (AZ)
Dennis Rehberg (MT)
Democrats:
Nick Rahall II (WV) (Ranking Minority Member)
George Miller (CA)
Edward Markey (MA)
Dale Kildee (MI)
Peter DeFazio (OR)
Eni F. H. Faleomavaega, Delegate -AS
Neil Abercrombie (HI)
Solomon Ortiz (TX)
Frank Pallone (NJ)
Calvin Dooley (CA)
Robert Underwood, Delegate - Guam
Adam Smith (WA)
Donna Christian-Christensen, Delegate - Virgin Islands
Ron Kind (WI)
Jay Inslee (WA)
Grace Napolitano (CA)
Tom Udall (NM)
Mark Udall (CO)
Rush Hold (NJ)
James McGovern (MA)
Anibal Acevedo-Vila-Res. Comm. - PR
Hilda Solis (CA)
Brad Carson (OK)
Betty McCollum (MN)
IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO AT LEAST FIVE OTHER
PEOPLE - YOUR WHOLE LIST IF POSSIBLE.
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Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or
payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this
information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more
information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
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PO Box 400 - Battle Ground WA 98604
Phone: 360-687-3087 - Fax: 360-687-2973 - Email: <alra@pacifier.com> - http://www.landrights.org
Legislative Office: 508 First St SE - Washington DC 20003
Phone: 202-210-2357 - Fax: 202-543-7126 - Email: landrightsnet@aol.com
ACT FAST - CARA Hearing June 20th
Your Congressman and Senator Are Home This Week
WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?
The Greens and Government Agencies Want Your Land.
They're willing to use condemnation to take it. Yes, that's right. If
CARA passes, government agencies will have the money to confiscate your
land.
The Resources Committee is planning to hold a hearing on CARA June 20th.
Sponsors will try to bring it to a vote in early July.
CARA, the Conservation and Reinvestment Act (HR 701), has a huge number of
Co-Sponsors in the House and could pass unless you rise up and oppose it
NOW. Why do the co-sponsors support CARA. MONEY$$, MONEY$$, MONEY$$.
CARA is one of the largest PORK BARREL BILLS EVER. And it will TAKE
YOUR LAND.
WHY IT IS URGENT TO ACT NOW!!
The House Resources Committee has set a hearing on CARA (HR 701) for June
20th.
It is urgent that you write and call your Congressman to oppose CARA.
Congress is home for the Memorial Week Recess until June 4th. This is the
time to go to a local meeting where your Congressman is speaking to oppose
CARA.
Call your Congressman's local office. Put the heat on.
You must make controversy about CARA quickly. You were lucky to defeat
CARA last year. The greens and their land grabbing friends will take no
prisoners this year.
CARA WILL HURT YOU!!
CARA is an all out attack on all landowners including farmers, ranchers,
miners, forestry advocates, recreation enthusiasts and many more. It will
force the closure of hundreds of rural communities and force residents into
the cities.
CARA also funds an assault on Federal land users. It funds more Roadless
and Wilderness areas, and converts millions of acres of private land into
government land which then is made off limits to you.
CARA will make millions of acres off limits to energy exploration and
development while taking $3 billion each and every year for 15 years ($45
billion in total) away from America's ability to solve its energy problem.
CARA makes our energy problem worse while handicapping our ability to fix
it.
READ THIS LIST CAREFULLY
THERE'S A TARGET PAINTED ON YOUR CHEST
HERE'S WHY YOU MUST FIGHT CARA
-----CARA will provide over $45 billion dollars over 15 years in a
guaranteed trust fund, most of it for land acquisition. This is virtually
the same bill you fought off last year.
-----The real name for CARA should be THE CONDEMNATION AND RELOCATION
ACT for that is what it really does.
-----CARA sets aside $3 billion per year that does not have to compete in
Congress for funds in the appropriations process with medical care,
education, defense or any other social need. Why should land acquisition
and condemnation of private land get a higher priority than the military?
MAKE CARA COMPETE - NO TRUST FUND;
-----Government agents and appraisers get well OVER ONE BILLION DOLLARS PER
YEAR TO CONDEMN PRIVATE PROPERTY. No one is safe. Eminent Domain will be
rampant;
-----Environmental law firms receive grant money so they can sue YOU into
bankruptcy;
-----Extremists gain $60 million dollars per year to train an ARMY of
investigators who will trespass on your land to LOCATE AND POLICE
ENDANGERED SPECIES;
-----ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS clamor for - you guessed it - money money
money - to reintroduce wolves that kill livestock and run cattle ranchers,
farmers, inholders and landowners off their land;
-----CARA would provide billions of dollars over fifteen years for
government agents to condemn private property and then turn it into
wilderness - no access, no people;
-----CARA funds SHUTTING DOWN RECREATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL ACCESS to
the federal lands by making more lands available for more wilderness
designations like President Clinton has done;
-----"Non-government organizations" (NGOs) win funding to draw up UNITED
NATIONS Biosphere Reserves, override national sovereignty and eliminate
private property rights;
-----CARA will fund new UN Biosphere Reserves and UN World Heritage Sites;
-----Lands cut off by Forest Service Roadless Rule will become targets for
CARA as well;
-----CARA helps make more LANDS OFF-LIMITS TO ENERGY EXPLORATION AND
DEVELOPMENT;
-----All lands with Endangered Species will be targets of land acquisition
- there will be no limit;
-----Green groups will seek to designate hundreds of areas of private land
as new Federal areas;
-----Much of the MONEY WILL GO TO THE NATURE CONSERVANCY and other
giant green land trusts;
-----HUNTERS AND SPORTSMEN WILL LOSE ACCESS to acquired lands;
-----Inholder families are specifically targeted in the new bills;
-----Hundreds of small communities in existing Federal areas will be wiped
off the map;
-----Land acquisition has always been used as a WEAPON TO REGULATE AND
CONTROL PRIVATE LANDOWNERS;
-----LAND ACQUISITION DRIVES AWAY EMPLOYERS The community and its
future are left in doubt;
-----CARA (HR.701) will make it more difficult to build homes and
businesses in rural areas;
-----NO PRIVATE PROPERTY WILL BE SAFE with these funds available.
FARMERS WILL BE ESPECIALLY HARD HIT;
-----The Federal agencies should take care of what they have before buying
more land;
-----Billions of dollars of private land will be TAKEN OFF THE TAX ROLLS
forcing local taxes up;
-----Congressional Appropriations Committee estimates the FEDERAL AGENCIES
ARE $12 BILLION BEHIND IN DEFERRED MAINTENANCE. Any money should go for
maintenance, not land acquisition; and
-----There should be no net loss of private land in America.
STOP CARA, THE CONDEMNATION AND RELOCATION ACT
SAY NO TO THE GIANT LAND GRAB
SAY NO TO LAND CONFISCATION!!
WHAT YOU SHOULD DO IMMEDIATELY!!
--1. CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN at the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 225-3121
to oppose CARA. There is a temporary FREE NUMBER of (800) 648-3516. URGE
THEM TO VOTE NO on CARA. NO massive trust fund! NO land grabs!
URGE HIM TO ASK FOR FIELD HEARINGS ON CARA IN YOUR AREA. Ask if
he or she has signed up to sponsor CARA. If so, ask that he or she remove
their name. Congressman JC WATTS of Oklahoma just dropped his
co-sponsorship.
--2. WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN. A simple one page letter using two or three
of the reasons to oppose CARA we have listed above. Put them in your own
words. BE SURE TO ASK FOR FIELD HEARINGS. Send your letter to:
Honorable: ________ US House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515.
--3. FAX YOUR CONGRESSMAN. Get and keep the fax number of your Congre
ssman. If you don't have it, ask for it when you call. FAX your letter to
your Congressman and ask that your letter be submitted for the official
hearing record of the hearing on June 20th. ASK FOR LOCAL FIELD
HEARINGS SO THAT YOU CAN TESTIFY.
--4. YOUR CONGRESSMAN IS HOME UNTIL JUNE 4th. He or she may be
holding town meetings to meet with you. It is very important that you
call his office to find out where they will be. Call their office in
Washington, DC or their local office. Get their schedule. Go to the
meeting. Alert at least five friends.
--5. HERE IS THE NEW HOUSE RESOURCES COMMITTEE LIST. Check to see
if your Congressman is on it. If he is, YOU MUST NOT FAIL to write and
call him. If your Congressman is not on the committee list, it is still
vital that you urge him to oppose CARA and ask for LOCAL FIELD HEARINGS.
RESOURCES COMMITTEE LIST -- 107th Congress (Save this list)
Republicans:
James Hansen (UT) Chairman
Don Young (AK)
Billy Tauzin (LA)
Jim Saxton (NJ)
Elton Gallegly (CA)
John Duncan (TN)
Joel Hefley (CO)
Wayne Gilchrest (MD)
Ken Calvert (CA)
Scott McInnis (CO)
Richard Pombo (CA)
Barbara Cubin (WY)
George Radanovich (CA)
Walter Jones JR (NC)
William Thornberry (TX)
Chris Channon (UT)
John Peterson (PA)
Bob Schaffer (CO)
James Gibbons (NV)
Mark Souder (IN)
Greg Walden (OR)
Mike Simpson (ID)
Thomas Tancredo (CO)
CL Otter (ID)
Thomas Osborne (NE)
Jeff Flake (AZ)
Dennis Rehberg (MT)
Democrats:
Nick Rahall II (WV) (Ranking Minority Member)
George Miller (CA)
Edward Markey (MA)
Dale Kildee (MI)
Peter DeFazio (OR)
Eni F. H. Faleomavaega, Delegate -AS
Neil Abercrombie (HI)
Solomon Ortiz (TX)
Frank Pallone (NJ)
Calvin Dooley (CA)
Robert Underwood, Delegate - Guam
Adam Smith (WA)
Donna Christian-Christensen, Delegate - Virgin Islands
Ron Kind (WI)
Jay Inslee (WA)
Grace Napolitano (CA)
Tom Udall (NM)
Mark Udall (CO)
Rush Hold (NJ)
James McGovern (MA)
Anibal Acevedo-Vila-Res. Comm. - PR
Hilda Solis (CA)
Brad Carson (OK)
Betty McCollum (MN)
IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO AT LEAST FIVE OTHER
PEOPLE - YOUR WHOLE LIST IF POSSIBLE.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *NOTE: In accordance with
Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or
payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this
information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more
information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
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