OCR Text |
Show A Declaration Of Support Extending hands of friendship to want-to-be residents, visitors and passers through is an unwritten code among the caring people who make this part of Utah their home. It is unfortunate that such American neighborly concern has paid you in return with heartache and worry for the future. Your selfless acts were given to selfish covert individuals, who were in search of much more than was given. Your ability to nurture, use and conserve the land you have inhabited inhab-ited over the past century is a testament tes-tament to your wisdom and management man-agement of the natural resources that are so vital to the areas way of life. Sadly, with one stroke of the pen, this land you have so carefully preserved has been moved under a "so called" higher domain of stewardship stew-ardship due to a fabricated excuse of preservation abilities. The sights they view are possible because of your sense of proper use to an area that you knew would need to be present and useful for generations to come. The liberal governmental wolf in sheep's clothing ("hidden agendas") agen-das") has lingered in the shadows for years, patiently waiting for small opportunities of enpowerment to achieve its ultimate goal of total control and ownership. Using the 2020 vision of hindsight, such occurrences have resulted in more rigid land, resource, and grazing rules imposed by the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service, Increasingly, environmental and wilderness study areas, native animal and habitat studies such as radio tracking the mountain lion, following the goshawk, searching for the spotted owl and worrying about the ever so tiny flowering plant in Red Canyon added to the momentum. Individuals using the reasons of recreational use and sight seeing enterprises en-terprises were in fact opening the doors for the pounce. Imposition of union rules and regulations on small vital industries such as the Escalante Sawmill and others were also part of the slow and intricate evolution of the plan. For those of us who know and love the area and the people residing within the confines of the proposed land seizure, our first reaction is sympathy for the loss and hardship, but sympathy and pity cohabitate and the time is far past for such frivolous use of energy and human resource. This letter is a declaration of support and concern on the part of those of us who are native to the area but may live elsewhere. As the words of Benjamin Franklin so aptly announce, "we must all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately". So, we too, must unite with courage, strength, determination and wisdom to counter the aggression upon the god-given rights and freedoms free-doms that sustain our families. Brigham Young was once quoted as saying, "A man will never loose his shirt if he keeps his sleeves rolled up". That kind of attitude and action is one of the few options remaining. The fabric of our constitution is being pulled apart one thread at a time. How many threads are remaining? re-maining? How many threads will we stand up to preserve? We must, as conservative Americans, consider the long-range goals of those we place and trust in office. We must consider the examples ex-amples they set, the policy and law they police, and the moral values they represent to this nations most priceless asset, our children. Our children are those gems of the future that our present administration and its followers would have us believe that this land grab was instituted to provide for. Hidden under the guise of freedoms, those leaders will allow, a limit to be place on the number of children who will enjoy the area set aside for the national monument. Through their stand on abortion they will impose death grips by governmental hands on generations to come. We need to sharpen our vision and keep our ears to the ground for that same wolf-in-disguise is continuing con-tinuing its quest of evil socialistic rule and rein. As parents of young families, we have enjoyed more freedoms than our children. We are proud to trace our roots to your soil. Our hearts are saddened sad-dened to think that one day soon, our opportunities to return and live peacefully among the rocks, hills, and most importantly the people we love, may not be possible and that our children will not be able to form a permanent bond (as we were blessed to do) with the land that is so dear to our souls and for which our ancestors gave their time, energies and lives to pass it on as part of their legacy. Dan Meisenbach and Family, California, Wayne Pollock and Family, California. |