Let Your Voices Be Heard

There is still a need for letter writing as we forge a new direction in our county and in our country.  All of us need to write our concerns and our aspirations to the following elected officials.

(Also take or e-mail (savebearsears@gmail.com)  a duplicate copy of your letter to President Trump to Kara Laws's office before Jan. 18.  

Want your name on the "Trump this Monument"?  Sign it this weekend at San Juan Record. It's headed to Washington D.C. soon.  Thanks, Nikki Safrit.

Pres. Trump https://apply.ptt.gov/yourstory/

Congressman Jason Chaffetz  https://chaffetz.house.gov/contact/

 Senator Mike Lee  https://www.lee.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact

Navajo Nation webmaster​@navajonsn.gov

 Senator Orrin Hatch  http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-orrin
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Here's my letter:

Dear President Trump,

I pray you will listen to concerns that Utah and other western states have regarding the absconding of land via the Antiquities Act.  When a single president can confiscate 553 Million acres while local citizens in hundreds of rural communities suffer environmental terrorism, there is something wrong with the federal government, something wrong with this 1906 legislation, and something terribly wrong about the power of NGOs who seem to have all the cards.  It’s time that you show them the “Trump” card and rescind those recent designations.

If the Bears Ears Monument were initiated by Utah Tribes who live here, that might be a different story, but the Conservation Lands Foundation from Durango, Colorado was the initiator, orchestrator, planner and financial broker in this real estate deal.  They used neighboring tribes to form a pro-monument coalition, offering financial benefits and promising power to “co-manage” the monument.  It began as an agenda item on the CLF land takeover list in 2014 and they used financial allies until they had their way. Native people were simply a means to an end.

For Utah Natives who fought against this monument, this designation represents broken promises made to a long line of native people who are living on broken reservation lands. The Navajo know what it's like to live without electricity or running water. There are greater needs than locking up land and locking out jobs. But the Enviro-nazis don’t care about reservation life, so now the Environmental Hunger Games are moving on to capture Cascade-Siskiyou Monument in Oregon, Coastal areas in California, and over 6 million acres in Alaska.  These lands are not being secured for the benefit of the United States or its people. The greed of the ultra-Green is unbelievable and will only benefit the countries we are indebted to, $20 Trillion dollars worth. We support our Utah congressional leaders and we supported you in the last election.  Please seek to rescind the designations, and to repeal or modify substantially the antiquities act.   Yes, it’s time for a change, and time to make America Great Again. 

Janet Wilcox