AMERICAN RIGHTS GUARDIAN UPDATE
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The Only Printed Voice of Opposition to Federal Government Indian Policy in Wisconsin.
Published by Protect Americans' Rights & Resources to maintain an informed membership.
The Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act, and the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act, direct that federal taxes be paid on just about everything that is bought in the pursuit of outdoor sports. These tax dollars according to the law that enables the taxing can only be used to enhance hunting and fishing habitat. This river of greenbacks has been flowing into the Federal Government’s coffers for over ˝ century. During that period countless politicians and government agencies have become glassy-eyed and started to salivate with the thought of getting their hands on all this money. Now judging by the lack of audits, many have succeeded, and are doing an extraordinary job of covering up. Tribal Governments have been trying for years to get their hands into this pot of gold. They apparently have seen some success. Remember the $100,000 extortion pay-off to the Lac du Flambeau a few years ago? PARR still contends that then DNR Secretary George E. Meyer admitted to using federal funds when questioned about the source of the pay-off dollars.
Federal Deal-Making Threatens Citizens' Rights…When There's No Accountability!
This article was made available to The Community Forum web page by the Heartland Institute, based in Chicago. By James Beers. If you care about CARA, the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act, the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act, and the continued management of fish and wildlife resources for the benefit of all citizens of the United States, you might be interested in what follows.
    If you are concerned about bureaucrats forming illegal alliances that threaten your freedom to hunt, fish, and trap, you might also find the following worthy of your time.
    Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson generate roughly $650 million per year.  The laws require that each state or territory receiving money must be audited by the federal government every five years.  There have been no audits of the states and territories on any cycle, much less the mandated five-year cycle, for nearly 20 years.
    The acts' lead sponsors, and knowledgeable wildlife managers across the country, considered audits a crucial element in the federal government's oversight role.  Honest audits were needed to keep the occasional state bureaucrat or politician from diverting funds from sportsmen to parks, prisons, and state motor pools.  Audits would also ensure that profits from timber sales and other such things stayed with sportsmen-oriented pursuits.
    Five years ago, as scandal and corruption overtook the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's (USFWS) administration of Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson, auditors were retained to complete the, mandated, uniform, and thorough audits required in the two laws for the past 60 and 40 years, respectively.
    They were given five years to complete their investigations and file their reports.  Of the 60 required reports, 32 were completed on time ... and then the auditors were fired.  The auditors had estimated they'd need an extra six months to finalize the remaining 28 reports.
    The far-reaching and long-overdue investigation had required that new auditors be trained in the analysis of fish and wildlife operations.  Some states refused auditors access to the financial and operations data they needed to conduct their investigations.  Some USFWS administrators worked behind the scenes with state lobbyists to thwart the investigations and fire the auditors. They succeeded.
    Independent and objective?  Today, boxes of draft information languish in government offices.  Having fired the auditors who gathered the information---and thus are in the best position to understand, interpret, and report it---the USFWS is paying the Office of the Inspector General in the U.S. Department of the Interior millions of dollars to complete the audits.  Never mind that the Inspector General doesn't do audits, or that any auditor worth his salt will tell you no one can take reams of audit notes developed by others and write proper reports from them.
    And never mind that even if they were to try, state government officials would have an easy time challenging the findings, since the hands on, investigating auditors aren't available to explain or defend their work.
     In 1998, the Solicitor in the U.S. Department of the Interior advised the Inspector General and USFWS officials that "It would not be proper for the OIG to enter into a reimbursable agreement with FWS to perform audits of FWS grants, because such an agreement may involve an improper augmentation of OIG appropriations.  In addition, the risk that this kind of agreement would have a detrimental impact on the OIG's independence and objectivity weighs against this course of action."
    The Office of the Inspector General acts as a "watchdog" over the activities of Interior Department agencies, reporting to the Secretary of the Department.  It's not difficult to imagine the mischief possible if the Inspector General were paid millions of dollars by USFWS---one of the agencies the IG is charged with monitoring.
    It only gets worse.  The impropriety of the relationship notwithstanding, USFWS continues to pursue an arrangement whereby the Inspector General's office will conduct all future audits of Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson spending in the states.  By becoming USFWS contractors---paid with millions of excise tax dollars from sportsmen---the Inspector General's office will grow beyond what Congress, through the appropriations process, has authorized.
    It won't be long before the Inspector General's office is effectively under the control of an agency it is supposed to be monitoring.  Once that happens, even the potential for accountability in the Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson programs will be lost.
    Worse still, the battle over the Conservation and Reinvestment Act (CARA) is looming large again this year.  USFWS officials and staffers for their lobbying group, the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, have predicted CARA will pass this year.  If it takes 124 USFWS staffers to administer $650 million in Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson funds today, imagine how many it will require to administer the billions in CARA funds that would pass through the agency?
    CARA will destroy the relationship between state conservation agencies and the sportsmen and recreationists who reside in those states.  State agencies will be answerable to federal politicians and bureaucrats for their shares of CARA funding.  Can we reasonably expect them to do what's best for the residents of their state, when the powerful national and urban lobby groups who call the shots in Washington want something else?
    If CARA passes, expect state fish and wildlife agencies to metamorphose into mini-federal agencies.  Their mixed-use, sportsmen-friendly policies will disappear, replaced by policies disproportionately favoring endangered species, road less forests, and land acquisition.
    Cooperation with the National Trappers Association and Sportsman's Alliance will be replaced by unpublicized meetings with the Fund for Animals, Humane Society of the U.S., PETA, and Animal Protection Institute.
    For 30 years, I worked as a state and federal employee in wildlife management.  Though no longer my job, it remains my passion.  I don't like what I see these days, and I pray that each of you who care as much as I do will do your best to set things right. (Jim Beers is a retired wildlife biologist and refuge manager of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service).
PARR Ed Note: PARR sent a letter to Wisconsin’s delegation in Washington DC indicating our members’ deep concern about the disappearing funds and CARA.
    Congressman Tom Barrett showed concern about congress losing control of oil and gas revenues, Congressman Sensenbrenner appears to have taken considerable interest. He has many concerns about CARA and says he will definitely vote against it.
    Senator Feingold’s letter goes back to July 25, 2000. Feingold writes that the 106th Congress adjourned without further action on the bill.
    “Although this specific legislation did not pass, as Congress was finishing its actions on the Fiscal Year 2001 Interior Appropriations, congressional appropriators and the Administration reached an agreement to fund the Lands Legacy Initiative for 6 years. The Interior Appropriations conference committee added a new Title VIII on land conservation with two parts. One part of this title provides $686 million for Lands Legacy programs in FY2001 in addition to what is already provided in the normal agency appropriations for these programs, making the total appropriation for these programs $1.2 billion.”
    $1.2 Billion of our tax dollars spent and CARA hasn’t passed yet. How all this money can be spent just to satisfy wacko environmental groups, and acquire another degree of people control power? This is really a slap in the face to this senior, who is struggling with one tremendous balancing act, trying to exist after paying my taxes to help pay for this. Nobody’s Senator Herb Kohl Said “CARA WHO??”
   Oh yes that’s why we pay our politicians such a lucrative salary. In that way we get the best to represent us.
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DNR increases walleye limits on 127 lakes
(By Kurt Krueger News-Review Editor)
Higher daily walleye bag limits for sport anglers went into effect June 1 on 127 lakes in northern Wisconsin, affecting 34 lakes in Vilas, Oneida and Forest counties.
    The State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) increased the limits after reviewing the results of Chippewa spear fishing on 282 lakes the tribes had declared for harvest.
    Lakes that increased from a bag limit of two walleyes to three walleyes included five lakes on the Three Lakes Chain: Big, Big Stone, Fourmile, Laurel and Long. Other Oneida County lakes that are now three-walleye lakes include Thunder and Whitefish in Three Lakes, and the Rhinelander Flowage. In Vilas County, the limit was raised to three walleyes on Black Oak, Cranberry and South Turtle lakes.  In Forest County, Crane, Franklin and Jungle lakes now carry a three-fish limit. Two lakes, Spirit Lake and Virgin Lake in Three Lakes, increased from a bag limit of one walleye per day to three.
    In addition, the muskellunge size limit on Spirit Lake decreased from a 45-inch minimum to the statewide regulation of a 34-inch minimum. An additional 83 lakes were increased to a five-walleye daily bag limit, which is the maximum daily limit statewide.  That list includes Annabelle, Big Crooked, Lost Canoe and North Turtle lakes in Vilas.
    Oneida lakes now sporting a five-walleye limit include Lake Julia, Columbus, Emma, Indian, Squash and the Hat Rapids Flowage. Despite the changes, a two-walleye bag limit was retained on certain popular angling lakes such as North and South Twin near Phelps.
    Beard said the reason for not adjusting lakes larger than 1,000 acres in size is that tribal members can harvest walleyes with gill nets on those lakes during the summer.
    “Members of all six of Wisconsin's tribes have gone to Mille Lacs in Minnesota to gill net walleyes, and they have been successful,” said Beard.  “It is because of that harvest possibility here that the department cannot adjust some bag limits for anglers.”
     Beard said the department initially sets special bag limits based on tribal harvest declarations to ensure the combined Indian and sport angler harvests do not exceed safe levels.  He said all Chippewa harvests are monitored and counted on a daily basis.
     Tourism interests in the north have worked with the bands to try to secure a minimum daily bag limit for sport anglers of three walleye per day.
     DNR Secretary Darrell Bazzell said increased angling opportunities on 127 walleye lakes is yet another reason for people to head to Wisconsin this summer. “Nearly 2 million people fish in Wisconsin for a total of 17 million days each year.  Sport fishing generates $2.1 billion for Wisconsin's economy, supports 30,000 jobs and produces $75 million in income and sales taxes each year,” he said.
     “One of our jobs is to provide balance between state and tribal angler harvest,” said Bazzell.  “The increase in the bag limits provides an opportunity for state anglers to increase their opportunities for harvest, while assuring that the tribes maintain their rights to set quotas and harvest the resource.”
     On the 282 lakes identified for Chippewa harvest this year, daily bag limits were adjusted as follows: one lake with a one-fish bag limit; 64 lakes with a bag limit of two walleye per day, 134 lakes with a daily bag of three, and 83 lakes will be returned to the statewide daily bag limit of five walleyes per day.
     As part of a 1983 federal court decision affirming Chippewa Indian off-reservation hunting and gathering rights, the six Chippewa bands set annual harvest quotas for off-reservation lakes in the ceded territory.
PARR Ed Note: Over the years PARR has noted its contempt over the Indians declaring quotas way in excess of their physical ability to spear.
     With the myriads of government grants and their gold mine casinos, the old claims that they need to spear the fish for the food needed to exist, become hollower. One would think that someone in tribal government would eventually realize that while the fishermen are no longer Walleye fishing “Up North,” but are fishing on Lake Erie catching Walleye, the slot machines in their casino are sitting empty. I think it’s the old shoot yourself in the foot syndrome!
     In reference to the comments, by our new DNR officials, in the above article, PARR will leave you, the readers, to draw their own conclusions.
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Secretary Bazzell’s Voodoo Math
(By Greg Graunke)
Dear Mr. Bazzell,
You estimate the Chippewa Walleye kill is 20,000 to 30,000, based on figures provided by the tribes. Assuming the Tribal numbers are correct and wounding mortality is not counted and the take for non-Indian fishermen is 4,000,000, then how can the roughly 7% of the walleye killed by the tribes cause the non-Indian bag limit to be reduced by 20 to 100%?
    We know that including the wounding mortality rate, which can be as high as “100% of the kill of musky and lower for walleye,” (based on the observations of one of your wardens) is very prevalent, and can take some credence from our proportional argument. However, we feel that the wounding mortality rate which has been completely ignored in the past needs to be exposed to the light of day.
    We were also wondering if the movement of boats from one lake to the next in order for the thousands of non-Indian fishermen to “try and get a normal five fish limit is not having an adverse affect on the lakes as exotic species can very easily be transported from one lake to the next by boat trailer or bilge? Sincerely, Greg Graunke, Chairman PARR.
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How’s This for Equality?
(By Greg Graunke)
Articles in several recent publications have talked about the unregulated winter muskie spearing by Chippewa tribal members.  One article detailed how three Lac du Flambeau tribal members took undersized muskies and speared without the proper permits.  They were prosecuted in tribal court and fined a total of $360.  I did some checking and found out the cost for the same offenses if the violators had not been tribal members.  The court costs alone for three people would be about $135.  The fine for each under-sized fish would be $168 and not having a license would be another $138.  The total would come to $1,482, plus I did not figure in a fine for leaving a hole unmarked on the ice.
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Gennifer Flowers was asked if her relationship with Clinton was anything like Monica Lewinski's.  She replied, "Close, but no cigar."
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Attorney General Jim Doyle Manages to Lose Another Indian Case
(By Bob Manzke)
Many of you probably remember when Jim Doyle was running for Attorney General, the treaty rights controversy was raging. His campaign claim was that because he spent his legal internship working for the Navajo Tribe he knew how to deal with Indians. Granted he solved the problem with much ease, he refused to appeal Judge Crabb’s ruling (Voight) giving the Indians the whole enchilada, that’s how he acquired the name Navajo Jim.
    Then PARR chairman Larry Peterson, wrote Navajo Jim asking him to explain his association with Indians, this prompted an indignant explosion by Mr. Doyle.
    Since then some high profile cases were lost, costing the state $millions, mainly because of negligence, i.e. rapist going free etc. He allegedly doled out tobacco money to favorable (large campaign donations) individuals. Now he managed to lose another case involving Indians, does this surprise anyone?
    The detail of his latest betrayal of his oath of office follows:
    The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court decision that gave the Sokaogon, or Mole Lake, the power to set water quality standards that are higher than those now promulgated by the state Department of Natural Resources.
    Those standards mean that Nicolet Minerals Co. would have to return water from its proposed zinc and copper mine in Forest County at the same pristine quality as before it came into contact with the mine.
    Perhaps more significantly, the decision is likely to open the door for other tribes to seek authority to regulate pollution on lakes, rivers and streams on their reservations rather than rely on the DNR. Dale Alberts, president of Nicolet Minerals, said the company could comply with stricter limits.
    "We suspect that other tribes will be interested in this," said Mike Lutz, a DNR lawyer.
    Indeed, an official of the nearby Menominee tribe said it will ask for the same authority as the Sokaogon because tribal members believe they can police their water better than the DNR.
    A spokesman for the Menominee tribe said that while economic development is important to his tribe, clean water is more important. "If our ancestors were willing to lay down their lives for this territory, certainly we can sacrifice the money, time and efforts for those who will live here in future generations," Fish said.
PARR Ed Note: This guy now wants to be the Governor of The State of Wisconsin. Anyone who has ever been impacted by treaty rights better look twice before voting for Navajo Jim for Governor.
    The Indians better start worrying about economic development off the reservation as well as on. The money that feeds their casinos and provides the government grants they exist on doesn’t grow on trees.
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Don’t Cannibalize Any More of Our Tax base
(By Victor Bellomy a member of the PARR board of Directors and a resident of Crandon,Forest County)
Several weeks ago Nashville Town  Chairman Sleeter claimed that his plan for the state, "to buy the Crandon mine property was a win-win situation for the state, the tribe and the town of Nashville". He conveniently left out Forest County and the Town of Lincoln  from his list of winners.  It is not a surprise that the Chairman of the Town of Nashville did not feel concerned of the loss of land from the tax rolls since most of the land is in neighboring Lincoln Township and not his own township of Nashville.
    76% of the land in Forest County is already removed from the tax rolls, a combination of  federal national forest ,state land, county land and Indian Tribal lands.  Forest County can ill afford to loose even more land from its tax base.  I understand that the county receives $250,000 a year in taxes right now from the Mining property.
    This is even before any infrastructure is built there. If the state steals our land who will make up this shortage in our annual taxes? We residents of Forest County already bear our burdens, as we are the 4th poorest county in the state. We were hoping to move up in this list, not down.
    Well, why the rush? You ask. Simple, once the State owns the property the natural resources will stay in the ground. Those that seem to have an agenda of people control almost appear to be advocating financial decline. I often wonder how these power brokers will exist without the tax dollars they live off. Once again, why the headlong rush into this purchase?  The DNR has not even finished the Mining Impact Statement (EIS) so we do not even know the impact.  Each side of the issue has its opinion but I for one would like to wait for the impartial scientists of the DNR to review the project data. Yes our DNR is clearly at least impartial about this project since it has spent almost a decade studying the project (at the mining company's expense) if it were biased it would have given out the permits. Let’s wait until the EIS is complete before we decide to run off spending money that we don't have or in the case of the stewardship fund would best used for many other smaller projects.
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Giant Redwoods
(From NewsMax.com)
You don't have to be a tree hugger to love California's magnificent sequoias. But thanks to environment-destroying "environmentalists," these towering symbols of the West could go up in smoke.  A 38,000-acre fire roared through Giant Sequoia National Monument today and came within two miles of the Trail of 100 Giants. This majestic grove features some of God's greatest work, among the largest and most ancient living things on Earth, 1,500 years old.
    Nuisance lawsuits lodged by "environmentalists" have abetted the growth of the fire. "The courts have blocked the removal of much of the underbrush on the monument's forest floor," the Associated Press reported today.
    "Every other project we've tried to do, the environmentalists have filed a lawsuit," said forest ranger Dale Pengilly.
    All that underbrush, along with weeks of drought, has increased the danger to the "priceless" trees, said Forest Service spokesman Matt Mathes.
    "These trees can withstand a lot of fire, but if there's a lot of fuel buildup on the forest floor, and temperature and humidity and winds are not favorable, we could have a problem," he said.
    Oh, and human lives and property are in danger too. More than 1,000 people have fled the area. At least 10 buildings have burned and 200 homes are at risk.
    "I was scared. I've never seen it so close. It was coming so fast," said Simone Wallace, who left her home in Johnsondale on Sunday.
     Now, thanks to tree-hugging hypocrites, more than 1,000 firefighters are risking themselves to save the sequoias.
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The Ark-2002
If Noah lived in the United States in the year 2002, the story may have gone something like this:
     And the Lord spoke to Noah and he said. “In one year, and the rain shall not stop until it submerges the entire earth and all living flesh is destroyed, Because of this, I want you to save the religious people and two of every species on earth. Therefore, I command you to build an Ark.”
     In lightning flash, God delivered the specifications for the Ark. Dismayed by the task, but respectful to Gods wishes, Noah took the plans and agreed to build the Ark. “Remember,” said the Lord, “You must complete the Ark and fill it with the religious people and two of every species on earth in one years time.”
     Exactly one year later, fierce storm clouds covered the earth and all the seas of the earth went into turmoil. The Lord saw Noah sitting in the front yard weeping. “Noah,” he demanded, “Where is the Ark?” Noah replied, “Lord, please forgive me, I did my best, but, there were big problems and obstacles. First, I had to get a building permit for construction, and your plans failed the building codes and design review standards. I had to hire an engineering firm to redraw the plans. Next, I got into a fight with OSHA over whether or not the Ark needed a sprinkler system and approved floatation devices. Then, a neighbor objected, claiming I was violating zoning ordinances by building the Ark in my front yard, and too close to the side yard set backs. Therefore, I had to apply for a variance from the plan commission. This failed, and I appealed to the board of adjustment. There the variance was granted, under the condition that the Ark reflects “NORTH WOODS CHARACTER”.
     Next, I had to import wood from over seas because there was a ban on cutting trees to protect wolf habitat, the spotted owl nesting, wet lands, and the environment in general. The carpenters formed a union and went on strike. I had to negotiate a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board before anyone wood pick up a hammer. Now, I have 16 carpenters on the Ark (All demanding passage).
    Next, I started rounding up animals; an animal rights group joined a suit brought by the DNR, claiming that I failed to have the proper licensing to handle the animals. They also objected that I Was taking only two. They were granted
an injunction and the suit is pending.
    Meanwhile, the EPA notified me that I must cease and desist the project until I file an environmental impact statement on your proposed flood. They do not take kindly to the idea that they do not have jurisdiction over the conduct of the Creator of the Universe.
    The Army Corps of Engineers are demanding a map of the proposed flood plain. I sent them a globe, Right now, I am trying to resolve a complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that I am practicing discrimination by not taking atheists aboard.
     The IRS have seized my assets, claiming that I’m building the Ark in preparation to flee the country to avoid paying taxes. I just got a notice from the State that I owe some kind of User tax and penalty for failing to register the Ark as a “Recreational Water Craft”. The Land Use Commission is sited a failure to seek a mobile home designation on their land use plan. And, finally, the ACLU got the State Supreme Court to issue another injunction against the project, saying that since God is flooding the earth, it’s a religious event, and, therefore, unconstitutional. I don’t think I can complete the Ark for another five or six years, Lord!” Noah wailed.
     The sky began to clear, the sun began to shine and the seas went calm. A massive rainbow appeared.  Noah looked hopeful. “You’re not going to destroy the earth, Lord?”  “No” The Lord said sadly. “I don’t have to. Your government already has.”
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U.S.’s Invisible Southern Border
(Parts of the following taken from an article by Julie Watson of the AP, an Oliver North article in Conservative Chronicles and a News Max.com article.)
It is almost scandalous the way the United States southern border is violated almost daily. Mexican police and army troops actually escort drug runners and illegals over the border and into the United States.  Thanks to the investigative work of Rep. Tom Tancredo, R.  Colorado, we've learned that since 1996, the INS bureaucracy has been covering up cross-border incursions by armed Mexican military and law enforcement personnel.  According to Tancredo, in the last six years, at least 118 incursions have occurred across the U.S. border 61 by Mexican military and 57 by Mexican law enforcement personnel.
     "Last year," he told me, "there were 23 recorded incidents most of them transpiring in areas frequented by drug traffickers and body smugglers," the people who slip illegal aliens into the country for a fee.  "And worse yet," he said, "these corrupt Mexican Federales and soldiers who provide armed cover for this invasion are shooting at U.S. Forest Service, Indian Police and Border Patrol officers."
     He cited an incident on May 17, when a Border Patrol agent came under fire near Ajo, Ariz. The agent told Tancredo that he saw three Mexican soldiers in a HUMMV, at least 5 miles inside the U.S. border, when one of them opened fire and shot out two windows of the U.S. officer's Chevy Tahoe.
     "This is unacceptable, it's tantamount to an act of war," said the congressman, a member of the House International Relations Committee.  Border patrol agents say that the Bush-Cheney administration has "disarmed" them to appease Mexican President Vicente Fox.  One officer said, "We're up against Mexican federal police and soldiers, armed with automatic weapons, protecting drug deliveries, sometimes miles inside the United States, and all we have are pistols."
     Looks like the reincarnation of Pancho Villa. In the early 20th century Pancho Villa, led a raiding party across the border into The United States. Consequently, today we need another Black-Jack-Pershing, for the same reason. For those that don’t remember, Black-Jack-Pershing was a General of WW I fame, who before WW I lead a detachment of US soldiers into Mexico, chasing Pancho Villa.
     The “up yours Uncle Sam” attitude displayed by the Mexican Government with their complete disregard for U.S. sovereignty is a diplomatic insult. Moreover, the result of this “get the drugs and illegals across the border, and damn the consequences,” is generating a harvest of bitter fruit…irreparable damage to the environment.
     Drug traffickers scar volcanic desert with illicit runways, while law enforcement officials chase them through once tranquil parks.  Thousands of migrants traipse across delicate backcountry areas sending campers fleeing to ranger stations, fearful of crowds trekking by their tents in the night.
    Wilderness areas on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border are taking a beating from an onslaught of migrants, drug traffickers and law enforcement officials, a new study says.  Some national treasures in both countries have been lost forever.
     Few parks have taken a greater toll than the U.N.-designated biosphere reserve El Pinacate and Arizona's adjoining Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
     Last year, officials caught 200,000 migrants and 700,000 pounds of drugs in Organ Pipe alone, and It could take 20 years to recover from the damage, while some archaeological sites are gone forever.
    "Organ Pipe National Monument is becoming Organ Pipe National Catastrophe," said Randall Rasmussen, program manager of the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Association.
    Officials estimate smugglers drove 5,000 cars through protected wilderness last year alone.  Towering Sahuaro cacti, hundreds of years old, have been carved by migrants with the names of Mexican villages.
    People trampling prehistoric stone sleeping circles created 10,000 years have eroded them away.  On a recent afternoon in Organ Pipe, discarded water bottles, backpacks, hot sauce containers and Spanish-language comic books littered the ground around a sprawling Ironwood tree, estimated to be 1,000 years old.
    The area's harsh conditions have taken the lives of migrants, who flooded the region after the Border Patrol increased its presence along more populated spots in 1993.  Last year, eight bodies were found in Organ Pipe and 14 other people passed through the park before dying in neighboring Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge.
     In Pinacate, Mexican soldiers have destroyed archaeological areas including one with a 10,000-year-old drawing on it mistaking them for illicit runways, Pinacate Park Director Carlos Castillo said.
     In addition, the army has dug deep trenches to destroy 19 clandestine airstrips marring hundreds of acres of volcanic desert that took 4 million years to form.  The soldiers' markings could remain for another 100 years.
     Also a Forest Service ranger complained, "the fires these 'transiters' started have burned more than 35,000 acres.  We can't even drop fire-retardant chemicals because there are so many illegals in the forest.  Why aren't the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth screaming about that?"
     Why, indeed.  And why hasn't the Mexican government answered the simple questions posed to Fox by
Tancredo?  In a letter to the Mexican president, the congressman asked if "any disciplinary or legal actions" are being taken against the Mexican soldiers and law enforcement officers who violate our border.  Juan Jose Bremer, Mexico's
Ambassador to the United States wrote back, chastising the congressman for his "impolite and inadequate tone."  But he didn't answer the question.
    Ashcroft must stand up for the beleaguered Border Patrol, clean out the INS bureaucracy and insist that the Mexican government responds.  Meanwhile, an unknown bard among those who guard our borders has reduced their lament to doggerel:
     Both parks are home to rare animals.  The cactus pygmy owl has abandoned one of its few nesting areas in Organ Pipe since smuggling took off in the area.
    The endangered sonoran pronghorn antelope population has shrunk by 68 animals since 1993.  Mexico has an estimated 346 pronghorn antelopes, while 140 remain in the United States, according to the last census.
    Mexicans feel that the South Western United States belongs to them, and there should be free passage into the land of milk and honey. Mexico did not defeat the United States in a war, nor did they purchase, or annex all or part of the United States. However, there is no doubt that they are the paramount race in this country. Even though, for a couple of hundred years, people of the United States have been educated to communicate in English, Spanish dominates in many Government agencies, This domination is a result of “affirmative action” which puts Hispanics in government jobs without the necessary communication skills.
    Here are the results of a Zogby International poll, in which 801 Mexican citizens were polled May 25-26:
Do you agree or disagree that the territory of the U.S. Southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico?  Agree: 58 percent Disagree: 28 percent not sure: 14 percent.
     Do you agree or disagree that Mexicans should have the right to enter the United States without U.S. permission?  Agree: 57 percent Disagree: 35 percent not sure: 7 percent.
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Gun Grabbers at it Again
(By Bob Manzke)
Yesterday I received a phone call from the NRA, cautioning me about Senate Bill 890. This bill is sponsored by Senators: McCain, Shumer and Clinton. The aim of this bill is to shut down gun shows. The above mentioned Gun Nazis claim that gun shows are a source of weapons for terrorists. I have been to several gun shows, and I have yet to see nitrate fertilizer available by the tons or C-2 or C-4 plastic explosives, flight training or any of the other terrorist’s tools of choice.
    The biggie of this bill is the registration of everyone that enters a gun show. So in the eyes of the elite left, if you attend a gun show you are evil and need to be watched, all part of complete people control.
    Democratic State Sen. Chuck Chvala managed to sandbag Senator Dave Zien’s concealed carry bill before it came to a vote. The argument here is; you don’t need to carry a weapon the police will protect you…Oh Yea!
    On the final Sunday of Milwaukee’s Summer-Fest traffic was slowly leaving the parking area, it was impossible to move your vehicle. The groups of black youngsters that were roaming the area proceeded to pull white men out of their cars, and while yelling racial locutions beat the crap out of them. Of course these were not hate crimes, black on white never is.
    If we don’t need concealed carry ability, then just where were the cops that we are constantly told are there to protect us? That’s a good question! These incidents happened on Sunday evening and the story didn’t break until Thursday morning, and talk radio broke the story. After that, of course, our left wing newspaper had to print the story. Amazingly the story died just like that. This whole thing happened almost a month ago and no arrests have been made and the whole incident is buried.
    The attitude is it’s the fault of those who got beat up. If there ever was a case for concealed carry this is it. The cops that the gun Nazis claims are the ones to prevent this sort of thing from happening were conspicuous by their absence.
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Residents of Grant County, Oregon, recently approved a measure placing a double-whammy on the Left.  First, the measure bans the presence of the United Nations in the county, and, second, allows residents to cut trees on federal land with or without approval from the bureaucrats at the U.S. Forest Service.
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Lottery Generated Property Tax Relief Vaporizing
Whether or not the retailer  performance program has done what we thought it would, quite obviously, the answer is no.”  Wisconsin Lottery spokesman Andrew Bohage.
    The state's Legislative Audit Bureau found "little evidence" that the retailer performance cash incentive plan increased either lottery sales or the number of ticket sellers.
    The program was expected to increase sales by $24.9 million between July 1999 and July 2001.  Instead, ticket sales fell by $27.2 million during the period, the bureau said.
    Sen. Fred Risser (D-Madison), a longtime lottery opponent, said the audit shows the slow but inevitable death of the state lottery.
    "Does the fact that it has gone down in revenue mean it's going out?  Not right away.  But it started reaching its high point and now it's fading away.  In our lifetime, we will see the end of the lottery," Risser said.
    Lottery sales peaked in fiscal year 1994-'95, when $518.9 million in revenue was reported.  By fiscal year 2000-'01, sales had dropped 22.7% to $401.2 million.
    So far this year, Bohage said, lottery sales are up 4% to 5% over 2000-'01, with just over $390 million reported, a month before the fiscal year ends.
    The main reason for the lottery income decline is the increased competition for gambling dollars.
PARR Ed Note: The big selling point used in convincing Wisconsin Citizens to approve the lottery was the tremendous
relief in property tax the lottery was suppose to provide. The amount has been declining every year. This decline has been proportional with the Indian Casino profits.
     After the state lottery fails, I suppose there will be state referendum to outlaw gambling in Wisconsin. I wonder how Barbie Crabb will get around that when the word lottery is no longer in the State Constitution.
     Now the reason for the clamor to obtain 30 year contracts becomes clear. If, after gambling is outlawed in Wisconsin, the Tribes have signed long term contracts they will be able to keep right on running their casinos.
     Isn’t it ironic an initiative that was established to provide tax relief is destroyed by those that pay no tax at all? This is the result of progressive legislation from the federal bench.
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With the adoption of the income-tax amendment in 1913, the amount of money people retained as their own became totally subject to the will of the government. Congress might set the percentage high or low, but that wasn't really the point.  The point was that by granting public officials the unfettered power to determine the percentage of income tax, government became the determiner of how much of their income people would be permitted to keep.  The Sixteenth Amendment effectively nationalized people's income and placed them on a government allowance.
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Protester Dies After Falling From Tree
A woman who climbed 150 feet up a tree to protest a timber sale fell and died from her injures before rescuers could reach the remote site in the Mount Hood National Forest.  The timber sale she was protesting had been canceled three days before her death Friday, and the protesters expected to leave the area within a week.  It took rescue crews over two hours struggling up snow-clogged dirt roads to reach the tree-sitters' camp after fellow activists called rescuers, Clackamas County sheriff's spokes-woman Angela Blanchard said.  The caller said the woman, identified as Beth O'Brien, 22, of Portland, was unconscious but still breathing, Blanchard said.  However, by the time rescue crews arrived about 9:30 p.m., O'Brien was dead.  She had unhooked herself from one platform and was trying to reach another by a rope ladder when she fell, Blanchard said.  Ivan Maluski, a longtime Eagle Creek protester, said tree-sitters were days away from leaving the site after a three-year vigil.
PARR Ed Note: What a stupid waste!
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With the Looney liberal California Court ruling to remove the words “Under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance, we thought it would be appropriate to include this 33 year old prediction:  "Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country, and two words have been added to the Pledge of Allegiance: Under God.  Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that this is a prayer and that it would be eliminated from schools, too?"  --Red Skelton concluding his TV show commentary presciently explained the Pledge of Allegiance, January 14, 1969.
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In the late winter of this year, Federal Government Indian Policy opponents lost a giant. Jim Mitchell of Jemez Pueblo New Mexico died. Even though I never met Jim personally I knew him well from the many enlightening phone conversations we had. Your wit and never exhausting wealth of information are sorely missed.
Rest in peace old friend.
Kudos to Jim’s wife Charlotte who is carrying on with the fight for equality.

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