The Story of Two Americas

It is simple to see the beginnings of two United States of America. The current administration is attempting to force mandates which are totally unconstitutional on to the people. Those of us who refused to comply, are going to be threatened with a “punishment”, so to speak. we will be restricted to travel on airplanes, we will be refused entry to certain stores, theaters, or special events. In some cases education will be refused by universities if you do not comply with certain mandates. However, you will also find that those who are being “punished”, will find alternative ways 2 receive at the services or entertainment or products without going to those stores, theaters, schools. It will appear like a “black market” so to speak, for lack of better terms. Interesting enough, instead of being punished you will find that this group of people that have been targeted for noncompliance will thrive.

Sadly, the areas or cities or demographics who do comply with mandates, will find that they will be punished bye those corporations, organizations and government entities who seek to punish those who don’t comply.  So in other words just the opposite is going to occur. How can I say this? Well it’s simple to see. Those who refused to comply will find those people who are willing to take advantage of a market that opens up, and they will cater to those who have been ostracized by the federal government. This market will thrive better than the original market, in spite of the supposed restrictions.

In some cases I believe that the left would encourage a split of the United states, by putting all the red states together as one country and then the left leaning states would have their country. Sadly though this would be to the detriment of those living in the left leaning states because dare need to support themselves would be dismal. Most of the red states are very productive agriculturally and in manufacturing, And the left leaning states are areas of the country that have seen decline since the 1960s.

The results of this split would most definitely see those areas of the country that are populated by the minority, see even worse situations occur for them. the high welfare rates and unemployment rates would skyrocket. Interesting though, there are jobs everywhere right now because people are too lazy to go back to work. so for a while the left leaning areas of the country will see a slight improvement in economy and then a major drop. The red states we’ll see their economy boom. And for the near future it will grow and become stronger.

Let the federal government split the country, they will see that those who refused to comply, will thrive in spite of the roadblocks they have put up. They will see the ingenuity of the people who made this country in the first place. Do not comply! Do not worry! Sometimes a reset button is a good thing, sometimes you have to split the sheets. Right now I think splitting the sheets would be the best way to go.

What Mandate?

To date, I cannot find an Executive Order for the mask or vaccine mandate supposedly given my Joe Biden. ONLY the news media has spread this information. Does anyone have an Executive Order number for the vaccine mandate? Then there is the vaccinate or lose your job. NO EXECUIVE ORDER so there isn’t a mandate, only words.

Think about this a bit. Just because people are passing information along does NOT mean there is truly an Executive Order. They are testing us to see how far they can push without laws and they can’t even get laws for this stuff because it is a VIOLATION of the Nuremburg Code! Wake up People!

Dear Kansas Legislators

Dear Kansas Legislators, Coming up on October 18th(tentative date), there is a special committee meeting to discuss the 30×30 Biden executive order that so many Kansas Land owners are opposed to. This executive order seeks to control 30% of the land and water in the USA. The Department of Interior claim that the 30×30 aka (American the Beautiful) is voluntary but with the behavior of the current administration, we (I and thousands of people I have been communicating with) feel this is nothing more than government overreach at best and tyranny at worst. We do not want this in Kansas!

When looking at the 30×30 ideology, we find that it comes from the Center for American Progress which is a George Soros foundation funded organization and the 30×30 is not based upon scientific facts but by opinion papers that are written by those who believe in Socialism and shun Capitalism. The lands that can be included in the 30% includes; national parks, wilderness areas, permanent conservation easements, state parks, national wildlife refuges, national monuments or other protected areas. The other protected areas are of grave concern as CRP land is often looked at as a protected area and when you look at National Heritage Areas (NHAs), they are protected areas! Kansas currently has one NHA; Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area (FFNHA) and a proposed Kansas Nebraska Heritage Area Partnership (KNHAP) in which Kim Wilson PhD, professor at the University of Nebraska is hellbent on pushing through. My first question is, why do they need 22 million more acres in an NHA when they already have 19 million in FFNHA? Why do they need FORTY ONE MILLION ACRES to fund these TINY little supposed historical/economic entities in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri? Of the 29 Kansas counties in FFNHA, ONLY DOUGLAS county Kansas BENEFITTED FINANCIALLY, the rest of the counties who were, if they were informed about the NHA were suppose to realize economic development and tourism when in fact most LOST population and saw no gains either way.

Why do I mention the NHAs? Simple, because the Department of Interior, through the National Parks Service administers this program. The intrusive behaviors of NGO (Non-government organizations) have in other NHAs, put restrictions on what can be done in designated areas. To make matters even more nefarious, these NGOs are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and we get pertinent information needed to know when they are pulling something on the land owners of a designated area. This is a resemblance of the feudal system of Britain prior to the Revolutionary war, where Lords were over the people. This NGO situation is not only unacceptable but repugnant in the eyes of land owners and those in agriculture.

Then we also have the Chisholm and Western trails that have been “nominated” for lack of better words by Senator Jerry Moran and Representative Ron Estes, who want to designate these trail with a heritage designation, which would add too the number of acres affected by designations that COULD throw them into the 30×30 Land Grab.

The PEOPLE of Kansas do not need any further overreach from the federal government and we hope that not only will you say NO to the 30×30 but also NO to the KNHAP & FFNHA(which is up for reallocation this fall). We the PEOPLE want the State of Kansas to put their foot down and deny the federal government overreach! We also want the Kansas Legislature to send strong wording to Senator Jerry Moran, Senator Roger Marshall and all of the Kansas Representatives that we DO NOT APPROVE OF the Department of Interior being able to designate NHAs with out Congressional approval. To this, we explain that Senate Bill 1942 will re-allocate funding for FFNHA and take the approval for any NHA out of the hands of Congress and give it to the Department of Interior and National Parks Service. We do not need bureaucracies telling us what to do, when WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE BOSS OF ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS FROM CITY UP TO FEDERAL LEVELS. Hear us now, or find the ballots at election time, going to someone other than yourselves.

The American Community Survey

I recently got a phone call about the American Community Survey that was sent to an individual from the US Census Bureau. I had never heard of such a thing and told that person not to answer the questions or send it in. I wanted a copy of it because they said it was 48 pages long! It also had a lot of intrusive questions on it. So, I did some research and this is a legitimate survey by the US Census and it gathers MORE information than the every 10 year census does.

The topics included in the survey include: ancestry, citizen voting age , citizenship status, disability status, educational attainment, fertility, grandparents-as- caregivers, Language spoken, marital history, marital status, migration/residence from previous year, place of birth, school enrollment, undergraduate field of degree, veteran status and years of service, class of worker, commuting to work and place of work, employment status, food stamp info, health insurance coverage, income earnings, industry, occupation, poverty status, work status from previous year, how many bedrooms in house, computer and internet use, house heating fuel( gas, bottled, kerosene, coal, wood, solar), kitchen facilities( if you have refrigerator, sink with a faucet, stove), if you have a bathroom, tub or shower, smart phone or computer, occupancy status, occupants per room, plumbing facilities, rent, rooms, monthly owner costs, telephone service, tenure (owner/renter), units structure, value of home, vehicles available, year householder moved into unit, year of structure built, age, sex, group quarter population, Hispanic or Latino origin, race, relationship to householder, total population. Not only this stuff but they want to know how large the property is that you live on, if you have a mortgage and how much it is, if you raise livestock and how much you make of of the sales of livestock! Perhaps they want to know how often you crap in the yard or wipe your ass too. You could offer that information to them.

The federal government already has this information through the IRS, drivers license, property taxes, welfare office and other governmental agencies. WHY do they need it all under one roof? They claim it is for government funding and other such nonsense. They are WAY too intrusive on this information. AND they threaten you with a fine of up to $5,000 if you don’t fill it out. They even send people to your house that will come every day to harass you!

According to what I gathered, your household has a 1 in 400 or some chance of getting this survey every month. This is beyond intrusive. I am advising people IF you get this survey, fill out the BARE bones of it, don’t put your birthday, phone number, name or any names of anyone living in the house (the census doesn’t ask that), Write American as race, don’t give out any income information in amounts, and write NOYB (none of your business). The census is enough to fill out every 10years, they don’t need to know when you wipe your ass!

Yes I am pissed off. Yes this is stupid, the census is enough information. Even the name of this survey is questionable and some people’s survey is over 48 pages long! Just say NO! as far as I gathered this agency is not a law enforcement agency and cannot push prosecution, only the judicial branch can do that. So just say no to government over reach again!

Do NOT COMPLY

No where in the Constitution of the United States does it tell us that the American Citizen must comply with everything that comes out of Washington DC. In fact, the Constitution and its predecessor, The Declaration of Independence states we have the God Given Rights to Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness. This in itself tells us that as long as we do not infringe upon others, we have the God Given Rights to do as we please. That includes making medical decisions for ourselves, agreeing or disagreeing with what the Leadership (or lack there of) is saying or doing. At this point in the United States, what we are seeing in Washington DC is nothing short of tyranny AND TREASON against the People and the Constitution of the United States by not only the Administration (that I argue is illegitimate due to illegalities in the voting) but also by all the bureaucracy.

In this case as we are now in, only States can make decisions for the People as the Federal Government has, by fiat, made itself null and void because it is out of grace with the WILL of the PEOPLE! The forced mandates to vaccinate is not only an act of tyranny but also against the Nurnberg Code http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/nuremberg/ Thus, we are witnessing what is now akin to Hitler’s Germany during the 1930’s -early 1940’s. Read the Code and tell me that it is not what is happening in the USA at this time.

Those main players in this tyranny include Anthony Fauci, the head of CDC, the Biden (fake) Administration, and the lamestream news media that continue to push for mandated vaccines.

Not only is this Administration pushing for human control, they are also pushing to control 30% more land and water, taking land owner’s RIGHTs to manage their land.

We have NGO (non-government organizations) such as non-profits DICTATING zoning and planning, no to mention grabbing and spending tax payer dollars to LINE THEIR POCKETS. When will you have enough? Will you comply like the German People or will you fight back? I CHOOSE TO FIGHT BACK. I choose NOT TO COMPLY!

IF you agree and choose not to comply, please share this post and join with those of us who Choose not to comply and not to let our great country fall to tyranny and treason!

You Cannot Separate Them Any Longer!

Throughout the process of the push for the Kansas Nebraska Heritage Area Partnership (KNHAP), the group that is wanting this designation has sworn up and down that the National heritage Area(NHA) designation has nothing to do with the 30×30 executive order signed by Joe Biden. On the surface, this is the truth. The NHA was touted as a “new type of park” started in the 1980’s and the “How Much Nature Should America Keep” Center for American Progress report(the reasoning behind 30×30) hadn’t been written at that point. But the National Parks Service was involved with NHAs in various ways. Let’s fast forward from the 1980’s. Where the Center for American Progress has published a paper called; “How much Nature Should America Keep”. This paper is based mainly on opinion papers and less on scientific facts and research. But it is pushing to take 30% of the land and water under government control by 2030.

The 30×30 (Also called America the Beautiful) isn’t clear on what land is to be targeted but it will be OFF LIMITS to most human use! That means if your farm is in that area, you don’t farm anymore. There is some questions about lands such as National Parks, wilderness areas, permanent conservation easements, state parks, national wildlife refuges, national monuments and other protected areas will be used as part of the 30×30. So our national parks may become off limits as well as other areas and what does “other protected areas” mean? In the broad spectrum of things it could include National Heritage Areas. Why not? the National Parks has their fingers already on some NHAs and with the Nature Conservancy purchasing conservation easements, you could find yourself right between easements that restrict what you can do on your land because of the easements! Or worse yet, CRP land that people sign up for could become part of the plan! IF you have recently signed up for a new CRP contract, you better check the fine print to see if there is anything in it about endangered or threatened species and you would be in for a mess. You can also forget about those wonderful hunting areas that will be shut down.

National Heritage Areas are designated areas that are ‘to help economic development and increase tourism’. Or rather, this is how they are ‘sold to the public’. They are designations that prevent industry or things that don’t fit with the theme of the area, such as new cell towers. Sadly, Kansas already has a NHA and it is called Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Areas that includes 19 MILLION acres that covers 29 Kansas counties and 12 Missouri counties. Amazingly, only one county in this designation has financially benefitted from the NHA designation and that is Douglass county (Lawrence, Kansas). Why haven’t the other counties benefitted? Crazy as it seems, counties don’t even know they are in that NHA designation! WHY is that?

Not only is the language similar between the NHAs and 30×30, they also have similar players. The Nature Conservancy is one main player that has in the past been used by the National Parks Service to purchase Conservation Easements and then the Nature Conservancy sells those easements to the National Parks Service. Other players in the came include the League of Conservation Voters, Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society Action Fund, The Wildlands Network and Center for Biological Diversity, just to name a a few. AS many can recognize they are environmental groups that usually go overboard with their beliefs and they have a tendency to say animal agriculture is bad for the environment (We will look at animal agriculture later in another post.).

Looking at the Senate Bill 1942, you will find that the re-authorization of NHAs will put all control of the NHA’s into the hands of the Department of Interior (National Parks is under DOI) and the funding will be through them. But let’s look back at the people who are pushing for the 30×30 and were co-sponsor of the Center for American Progress Report that the 30×30 is based upon. It was Co-sponsored by then Senator Kamala Harris who is now Vice President and former Representative Debra Haaland, who is current head of the Department of Interior! So, if SB 1942 passes and all NHAs are reauthorized (because NONE of them could become self-sufficient within the 15 year time frame) and with re-authorization, they will be funded through the Department of Interior budget and it is easy to see where this is heading.

The 30×30 WILL involve the NHAs through their special designations. According to the Center for American Progress Report (which by the way is based upon NO SCIENCE BUT OPINIONS) the 30×30 will include; “National Parks, wilderness areas, permanent conservation easements, state parks, national wildlife refuges, national monuments or other protected areas.”

We cannot let this slide! In fact, the newspapers are now printing articles touting the great ideas of conservation easements! While on the surface these easements look good and make some money, they will eventually remove some land from tax rolls OR lower the amount of taxes they pay, which is detrimental to the county tax coffers.

Regardless of what the KNHAP proponents say, with S.B. 1942 coming up, you cannot look at an NHA without looking at the 30×30 plan because they will both be administered by the Department of Interior if Senate Bill 1942 passes. You best get your phone calls into your Senators and Representatives in DC now.

Just so you can keep informed, the link below is from the Center for American Progress and it is the report (mainly opinions and little if any science) that is pushing for the government overreach and land grab.

Why Does She Keep Pushing?

Professor Kim Wilson is a University of Nebraska Landscape Architecture extension specialist. She is also the head of the board that is attempting to overthrow the will of the people in the proposed Kansas Nebraska Heritage Area Partnership. Of the 49 counties in this proposed area 45 OPPOSE this designation. Why on earth would Kim Wilson continue the pushing for this designation if the majority of counties in this proposed area adamantly oppose what she is wanting to do? What is her agenda? Who is behind her on this? There are lots of questions to ask of her and no one is getting anywhere with her. I actually called this woman to talk with her, told her up front I opposed what she was doing but she refused to listen and promptly hung up the phone. That gives me a very poor report on the University of Nebraska’s professors. Really, if her “better than thou” behavior is an example of the University’s professors, I would never recommend a college student look at the U of Nebraska.

But I digress. Why is Kim Wilson up to this push to move forward when people do not want this? Is she going to get a bunch of money to get this through? Is she going to be paid to be the board head? It is curious that the National Heritage Areas are suppose to be a grassroots project but it seems that there is just a board of people who are really not interested in the concerns of land owners but in getting this designation passed so they can line their pockets of a non-government organanization /non-profit. The lie that they want this designation for tourism and economic development is easily debunked when you look at other National Heritage Areas across the country. These non-profits are suppose to be self-sufficient within 15 years of organizing and yet not one is! As of the 2019 fiscal report from the Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area (FFNHA) which engulfs 41 counties, 29 Kansas counties and 12 Missouri counties, their income comes from local governments and federal governments, in other words, YOUR TAX DOLLARS, to the tune of 97% That’s right folks, 54% of their income is locally funded through foundations that are taxpayer funded. So, if you have an economic development non-profit, they are probably funneling money to them. Oh and the best part of this whole scam is that only ONE COUNTY of the 29 counties in Kansas has benefitted from the FFNHA and that is Douglass county! Most of the other 29 counties don’t even know they are in this designated area!

The problem comes when these NGOs start pushing zoning and planning in these NHAs and that is when comprehensive planning and zoning regulations start dictating to land owners where they can build fences, what they can and can’t do with their land and what color you may paint your home. Yep, check out Lyon county Kansas and the Flint Hills Regional Council’s push to outlaw agriculture in that county.

So back to Kim Wilson. Why is she pushing so hard for something THE PEOPLE don’t want? I think we need to follow the money but you can ask her yourself! Here is her contact information!

Kim Wilson

PROFESSOR, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

EXTENSION SPECIALIST

College of Architecture

kwilson4@unl.edu

Office: 402-472-5149

extension.unl.edu

Biden Should Resign Immediately

I am furious that the suicide bomber took the lives of our Servicemen! This whole debacle in Afghanistan is just the tip of the iceberg with the incompetence that Joe Biden is exhibiting. From the moment he was sworn in, his WHOLE Administration has committed treason in one way shape or form. From the illegal mandates to the disregard of LAW and the executive orders that take away private property rights.

The worst of all these treasonous acts was the act to deliberately endanger American Citizens in Afghanistan! He his a murderer, an accomplice to murder and guilty of exposing American citizens to the potential of kidnapping, rape, child abuse, torture, dismemberment and who knows what else. He has also endangered the lives and families of those in Afghanistan who have helped us in years past as translators or informants.

The sad part about Biden’s treason is that he is so mentally incompetent he doesn’t realize that he has done this and if he has, he is so lost in his mind that it doesn’t register. However, his handlers, from his wife on up to Barak Obama(we all know he is still pulling strings) Kamala Harris, Valerie Jerett and even Nancy Pelosi should also be held accountable.

I am calling and demanding the IMMEDIATE resignation of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi! They have committed the worst treason against the People of the United States and also have endangered the people of the world by their incompetency and blatant disregard for life. I am also calling for the court marshal of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi as well as those close to them. They should be tried not only for war crimes against the service members who lost their lives and injured but also for crimes against the sovereignty of the United States of America. If you agree, share the hell out of this and make phone calls to your representatives and senators, demanding accountability.

The Fight Continues

I attempted to have a conversation with Kim Wilson of the University of Nebraska, who is the main point of contact for the Kansas Nebraska Heritage Area Partnership (KNHAP). I told her I was astounded that the University would allow one of their professors to be associated with an association that intends on restricting people’s private property rights with Non-Governmental Organizations that can push zoning and planning in areas that are designation NHA’s (National Heritage Areas). I also confronted her about the secrecy behind the KNHAP, with the lack of transparency. Before I could continue on, the woman hung up on me after being very rude and nasty in attitude. Yes I was confrontational but she should be able to take the heat if she is going to be part of this deception.

So….. what is the Educated Cowpuncher going to do in response to this nasty attitude and deception? I am going to PUSH HARDER and encourage more people to FIGHT back. They are not going to stop! They will defy the PEOPLE’s WILL! This isn’t freedom, this is tyranny! We cannot let a small number of people force us to participate in something that will infringe on our rights!

Kim Wilson talks down to people because she talks to you like she is lecturing you, like a professor in a classroom. Her arrogance will be her greatest downfall in this battle.

The remainder of my post today will be of a letter, written by Angel Cushing, that was sent to the Omaha World Herald Editor who CHOSE NOT to print it. Since the secrecy continues and the deceit on the side of the proposed KNHAP board, I CHOOSE to share this letter and ask that you share this as well. I have highlighted a few things, by boldening the font.

 The following letter below was submitted to the Omaha World Herald:

Angel Cushing



Dear Editor,
I want to thank Mr. Paul Hammel for his July 25, 2021 article titled ‘Operation Blindside’: Proposed Kansas-Nebraska National Heritage Area delt a serious blow’  I do appreciate the attention he has brought to this issue. Most property owners do not find out that their home has been mapped, and voted on by Congress, until after the vote has been cast and changes in regulations begin to find them. Thank you, Mr. Hammel.
In addition, Mr. Hammel’s inquiry and interview of the Webster County Commission directly resulted in action. Webster County Commissioners were under the impression that the Kansas Nebraska Heritage Area Partnership were no longer in pursuit of a National Heritage Area as a result of Governor Pete Ricketts’ letter to the Willa Cather Foundation. The first Commissioners meeting after the interview, resulted in the passing of a resolution in opposition. On July 20th, Webster County joined 40 counties of the 49 mapped in the proposed boundary in saying “no, thank you”, to the Kansas Nebraska Heritage Area Partnership. Well, done Mr. Hammel! Well, done!

I would also like to thank the County Commissioners for listening to the property owners within their county. For attending the meetings where we presented, for asking questions of the former representatives and attorneys in their counties. Many, such as Russell County, Kansas Commissioners, did extensive research, talked with landowners, businesses and municipalities in other National Heritage Areas. Gage County, Nebraska was thrilling. They called upon every expert on every side. They got everyone in the county who might have knowledge to offer input and they dedicated time in several meetings discussing and debating National Heritage Areas. No matter the vote, every citizen should be very proud of the dedication of these Commissioners and Supervisors. I am very grateful for them.

I do appreciate Governor Pete Ricketts’ willingness to stand up and get involved. The work is ten times harder when news will not carry your message to the people. It makes it necessary to get to as many communities as possible. I do have personal experience in that plight as it is I, who has arranged most of the public meetings and presentations within this proposed federal boundary. In the course of those meetings and the presentations that followed, I have printed  more than 2000 copies of Governor Ricketts’ letter to the Willa Cather Foundation and distributed them to citizens throughout Nebraska and Kansas. I will hand out even more in the coming months. That does not count the electronic versions. The most recent was sent to property owners in Florida who recently discovered they have a National Heritage Area and are beginning to organize in opposition to it. Thank You Nebraska, for sharing the Governor of your great state with property owners around the country.

I did notice that Mr. Hammel had a difficult time locating landowners willing to be interviewed. So, I would like to help him with finding the information he had sought, such as the National Heritage Area in Yuma, Arizona. That National Heritage Area was reduced to the four square miles it is today after the “suggested” management plan was adopted by local administrators. It took 3 years of residents petitioning Congress in order to get that federal boundary of the Yuma NHA reduced. Additionally, if Mr. Hammel were to spend some time on Congress’s website, he would find testimony of residents in Oregon, and Washington who were regulated so extensively that they were ordered to repaint their structures choosing a color from a specific color pallet. I am quite sure that Mr. Hammel did not attend any of our public meetings? Had he attended or called, I would have told him about my home in Lyon County, Kansas. How our county commissioners in an effort to join a neighboring National Heritage Area in pursuit of more grant money, complied with every “suggestion” made by the Flint Hills Regional Council. My Commissioners hired a contractor from Oregon who believes livestock are ruining the earth, to write our planning and zoning regulations. Their drafts banned barb wire and cattle fencing in addition to zoning everything outside of the city limits as a park. Lyon County is located inside of the Flint Hills, in cattle country. We grow rocks and livestock here. I spent $20,000 in legal fees and public awareness advertising during that fight. None of the donations we have received has come close to covering the expense of this fight. Sadly, I did not win. Right now, the city of Emporia, their commissioners, representatives whom I will never be allowed to vote for because I do not live in their district, is granted jurisdiction over unincorporated lands throughout the county through Joint Planning and Zoning. Though we have been granted permission to fence in our livestock, less the corner posts within the visual site triangle, the city and county still have extreme regulations that became enforceable on April 1st. I expect enforcement will be based on what parcels “partners and stakeholders” would like to develop as neither municipality has the manpower to enforce all of the newly adopted regulations on the entire county.

I also noticed that no one realizes that National Heritage Area is not a condition for federal grant dollars. How is your local tourism industry failing to promote the historical places? Does creating a federal boundary, voted on by Congress, with a management plan guided by the National park Service under the Department of Interior, truly aid the people living within the boundary? Or does it aid the people who sit on the boards of the National Heritage Area? Had Mr. Hammel been made aware of the Inspector General Report on the National Heritage Area in Mississippi that used federal funds to purchase property for the National Heritage Area, after of course, the director bought it and then sold it to the NHA, that he was the director of, for a profit… Well, I am sure Mr. Hammel would ask the question of who actually benefits from the federal boundary of a National Heritage Area.
And of course, that would naturally lead him to the question of land acquisitions. Creating a federal law preventing the use of federal dollars for land acquisition has not prevented National Heritage Areas from becoming National Parks. Blackstone River National Park was once a National Heritage Area. Shenandoah National Heritage Area is now a National Park, so too is Cane River Creole.

I am so glad Mr. Hammel and The Omaha World Herald has brought this issue to light.
Thank You,

Angel Cushing
Allen, Kansas

It is Time

            There comes a time in the existence of a country that the people realize that their government is not functioning as it should. I have long felt that way as do many of my friends. But we have failed to change that situation, but we are now faced with the point of no return, either we continue the same path, or we make a major change. That change requires us to vote for people who are not career politicians. We all talk term limits, yet we continue to reelect people who have been in office way too long. It is time that we mark career politicians as the bad candidates they are. Our founding fathers did not intend for us to have a House of Lords in Washington DC. They fought to get away from such things during the early Revolutionary War.

            So, it behooves us now to step up and save our country as a Republic or say goodbye to the constitution and become a communist country. Which will it be? Will we continue to reelect career politicians who have been in office for more than 10 years? Should we reelect people who have been in office for 30 years in Washington DC? I think the epitome of stupidity is doing the same thing repeatedly expecting a different result. We are not only faced with doing this to save our country, but we’re also doing this to save the world. So, are you willing to stand up and take your place in office? Are you willing to run for office? If you are not, then you’re part of the problem. You do not have to run for president, senator or representative but you could run for school board, city Commission, or county Commission. You may even feel that you could run for clerk or treasurer of the county. But you need to know, if you do not step up to make a change, you are going to be responsible for the downfall of our country.

            I have already witnessed the people standing up and using their voices. I have witnessed people attending meetings to learn about national heritage areas and the negative effects they have on the people in those areas. I have witnessed county after county signing resolutions against national heritage areas and I am also seeing counties begin to sign resolutions against the unconstitutional 30 by 30 which is now called America the Beautiful. There standing up against tyranny of the government and they are winning! The people are who are in control of this country not those career politicians! And small corners of the country the rumblings are now becoming reality people are standing up, people are fighting back, and those elected officials are starting to listen!

            Our founding fathers we are nothing more than a ragtag bunch of people who worked hard and gave a damn. some were farmers, some were businessmen, and they all had the same desire, representation! They fought a war against an empire, and they won! They set forth the law of the land that has been trampled into the dirt in recent years. Enough is enough! The war has begun! Each one of us must take up the sword to fight what they feel they need to fight for. find a battle in which you know that you can help and join with those people who are fighting that battle. If you are good with writing letters, then write letters for those you are working with. If you make phone calls to your representatives and senators and let your voice, be heard, then that is your battlefield, get with others and organize. We are all in this together, because if we do not fight back, everything that our founding fathers fought for will be lost.  this is our Revolutionary War, join ranks with those with whom you have common interests, get a battle plan together, and execute that battle plan. Now I am not talking about a physical war which weapons such as guns, I am talking about words and laws.  this is how we take back our country! This is how we show those career politicians their game is over! President trump started draining the swamp, we the people will finish it! The way we will finish it is from the bottom up. Chop off the legs to slow the momentum, then work up to the head. Not as conventional as most think it could be, but this is a battle a battles, in which the people must win or give up totally and succumb to communism.