My Official Shawnee Forest Plan Revision Comments
 
 
 
 
June 21, 2005
 
 
 
To: Hurston A. Nicholas, Forest Supervisor

Attn: Plan Revision Comments

50 Highway 145 South

Harrisburg , Illinois 62946

618-253-7114

 
 
This entire email, including headers, is to be construed and accepted as my Official Shawnee Forest Plan Revision Comments.
 
I am deeply concerned about the economy of the area which includes the Shawnee [national] forest.
 
There are currently no fewer than seven designated wilderness areas, with at least three more in the planning stages. These designated wilderness areas -- the goal of those implementing The Wildlands Project -- are denuded of humans: EXCEPT those few who are so steeped in 'deep ecology' that they consider such places religious worship areas. This also has the desired effect of decimating the economy of the region, further denuding ever more areas of humans. More and more privately owned land -- which, incidentally, has become more and more 'inholdings,' or private lands surrounded by federal lands -- now is targeted for 'acquisition' as 'habitat' for 'endangered' 'poster species.' Why, 'possible habitat' for the lily-livered whatnot will likely soon be announced as the reason more chunks of land are to be acquired -- by whatever means necessary to create 'willing sellers' or by the preferred method of control: 'conservation easements,' which still entitle the private owner to bear the yoke of property taxes, while losing use of his/her/their land.
 
The Forest Service is currently preventing people living adjacent to the forest from entering on horseback. These people, many of whom live where they do because of the close proximity to the [national] forest -- and who heard that the Forest Service is a 'good neighbor' -- must now load their horses and drive for miles to reach a permitted trailhead.
 
The reason for this arbitrary behavior on the part of the Forest Service is only too clear: To devalue the property abutting the [national] forest.
 
This creates by coercion and malevolent actions on the part of federal employees -- like the 'National' Park 'Service,' 'U.S.' Fish & Wildlife 'Service,' Bureau of Land 'Management,' etc., an invitation for endless expansion, until everything everywhere is owned by the government.
 
This means that ever-increasing areas of the Shawnee [national] forest -- and many other places, though my Official Public Comments deal today with just this one -- are deroaded, gated and locked Off Limits to almost all people. How 'pristine' is a world that has been arbitrarily forced into a static time frame: 'as it was before European settlement,' i.e., pre-1492?
 
How is it that such a date and such a 'settlement' is the point before which Earth was ostensibly 'nirvana?' Hogwash and balderdash, sports fans! Whoever decided to put European-descended Americans -- Americans by birth and Americans through and through -- on such a Language Deception guilt trip? Traitors to America and all this great country stands for, that's who. Yes, some dare call it treason, for that is what it is.
 
We are not protected by our Constitution as much as our Constitution is protected by us. The leaky boat we are currently in is the result of our being complacent and taking for granted that we'd be 'protected' by a document that clearly never intended to be the only protection of our freedom.
 
Our freedom -- our property rights, our property, our free use of that property, and thereby our prosperity -- cannot exist without OUR INVOLVEMENT.
 
A few of us have been involved, but more are being added to that number every day. The snowball is gathering size, strength and momentum, and those who are hungering for the truth and receiving only 'empty calories' from what they are spoon fed by the major media sources, are finding 'meat and potatoes' in the truth.
 
Every word of what I write to you today is The Truth and nothing less.
 
The First Amendment clearly states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." -- yet, by sleight of hand and behind closed doors, for years this Trojan Horse has been built using words in the form of Language Deception as its material. Implementing The Wildlands Project is ESTABLISHING A RELIGION, AND also giving its followers a HUGE place to worship that has been ill-gotten through theft, using such unconstitutional legislation as the 'Endangered Species Act' and others. 
 
Its high time we revive our knowledge of all we owe our Founding Fathers and our Christian heritage (yes, I said Christian, because it's TRUE) and our Constitutional Republic and STOP this wholesale theft of property rights and decimation of America's economy on the altar of The Wildlands Project, which is nothing more than Global Control of all people.
 
The Wildlands Project is nothing more than the Language Deception stalking horse for killing property rights and freedom. It is a non-native, invasive abomination that deserves a deep hole and a formal burial -- and the sooner, the better.
 
The Shawnee [national] forest revision plan is undoubtedly a 'plan.' It is, however, a 'plan' that denigrates people by removing them from ever more areas of the [national] forest and decimating the promised 'recreation' from its boundaries.
 
It is clear that any and all current and future 'plans' for this forest must be gutted and started again from Square One, with Square One being the prohibition of the Forest Service from closing ANY trails that cross private land.
 
Square Two: No more purchase of private lands or conservation easements on private land.
 
Square Three: No more forbiddance of equestrians and other recreationists from forest lands.
 
Square Four: The Immediate Cancellation/Revocation of All 'designated,' 'proposed,' or 'planned' 'wilderness areas.' Having [national] forests -- originally intended to provide Americans with an abundance and reliable source of timber -- MUST go back to its original, stated intent and dispense with the 'Closed' signs and locked gates to the very people whose taxpayer dollars bought the [national] forest lands in the first place. Respecting the REAL OWNERS of these lands and the responsible users of them means not locking them up and holding them at armed/arm's length from the places recreating families should be enjoying -- and where timber harvest MUST again take place as part of the Original Intent for the founding of the Forest Service in the first place. Remember, it was/is part of the United States Department of AGRICULTURE (USDA), BECAUSE trees are a renewable resource.
 
REVIVE and breathe new life into resource providing -- in America, land that I love! -- and note that I appreciate those who choose responsible resource providing and recreating over global 'providing' and thus, global dependence.
 
This statement is made because the Forest Service, its origin, the USDA, and all Department of Interior agencies, are spending American taxpayer dollars to 'rewild,' 'restore and protect' -- Control -- places all over the globe. That is not their province and it is not their job.
 
As part of My Official Comments, this belongs in the record: such federal agencies have NO BUSINESS existing or using American taxpayer dollars internationally.
 
 
Julie Kay Smithson
 
213 Thorn Locust Lane
 
London, Ohio 43140
 
 
740-857-1239 (voice / no fax)