Column written by Brian Sussman, bestselling author of Eco-Tyranny: How the Left’s Green Agenda Will Dismantle America.
Imagine owning a portfolio valued at an unfathomable fortune, and yet you’re bankrupt. Government laws are preventing you from tapping your assets.
There’s no need to envision such a scenario, because as an American, it’s a reality—you’ve been hustled by a federal government beholden to the green agenda.
The feds now own nearly 700 million acres of property; land brimming with natural resources vital to our founding principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The tragedy is our government is purposefully keeping the bulk of those resources—oil, natural gas, minerals, timber and water—out of our reach. And the government wants to control even more.
Federal land ownership was never the intention of this nation’s founders. Other than land necessary to maintain a limited, central government, the first Continental Congress recognized that such owning land, and the associated natural resources, would offer a government too much power; after all, a tyrannical future regime could decide to withhold those resources from the people. So concerned were they about this issue, that in October 1780, even prior to the ratification of the Articles of Confederation, the Congress adopted a general policy for administering any North American land transferred to the Federal Government:
The lands were to be “disposed of for the common benefit of the United States,” and were to be “settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and shall have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other States….” Additionally, the lands were to “be granted and settled at such times and under such regulations as shall hereafter be agreed on by the United States in Congress assembled…”
It may surprise you that this was written MAY 7, 2012.
By now you can see we are in the middle of this nightmare. Read more: http://www.forbes.com/sites/energysource/2012/05/07/drill-it-dam-it-log-it-how-to-fight-eco-tyranny-in-america/#44e01bad5675
