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Show The,Paper That Dares To Take A Stand September 25. 1975 The Utah Independent Page 3 which funds should be due a certain government, and then have made ITOM BREITLING SOUTHEASTERN UTAH ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS (SUAOG) By Thomas O. Breitling Back in July 1 sent a form letter to the Chairman of every County Commission in Utah suggesting they investigate ACIR and Utah substate regionalism. In late August I received a very well written and thoughtful letter from Mr. Gardell Snow, who is an elected official in the Southeastern Utah Association of Governments area, and is Chairman of that AOG. Mr. Snow and Mr. Matheson of Iron County are considered by Commissioner Karl MacFarlanc of Ogden to be the two most conservative people in Utah. In saying that Mr. Snows letter is well written does not mean that I agree with his theses. In fact. I disagree. His letter is in the letters section of this issue and my column this week is my reply to him. I mailed the letter to him on September IS. so he has it before this column goes to publication. Based on Mr. MacFarlane's evaluation of the two men named above, I am more convinced than ever that we need new labels. My letter to Mr. Gardell Snow follows: a deposit that government's account in the local bank. The Treasurer of the United States could handle this along with his other disbursements such as dividends on National Service Life Insurance. In your second paragraph you refer to the fact that your people. ..have paid their taxes and are entitled to their share of these funds. To me. this is a strange concept. 1 believe almost anyone might understand the need for the federal government to tax so as to have funds for its fiscal obligations such as purchases of goods and services, but taxing individuals, companies, and institutions so as to return the money to them is. indeed, a strange concept. Yet. this is what you have said occurs, when you say that the people.. .are entitled to their share of these funds. What actually occurs is that individuals, companies, and institutions are taxed, so that the funds can be used for certain which the federal programs government believes are socially desirable. While such programs are designed to achieve a multitude of ends in themselves, the most important end is being achieved by the use of regionalism as the means for distribution of funds for federal programs. And this brings me to my reasons for objecting to regionalism, which I mentioned earlier. In his new book When Governments Come to Washington (The Free Press, 1974), Donald H. Haider refers on page 143 to regionalism as regional governance. My dictionary defines governance as the act. manner, function, or power of government." So. we can properly say that Southeastern Utah Association of Governments, when it exercises its regional governance is exercising Dear Mr. Snow: Thank you very much for your letter of 19 August, which you w rote in response to my form letter of J uly 2 on regional government. I appreciate your writing as you did. because in doing so you provide the opportunity for new ways that we can look at divergent to its power of government. And to do this is outside the provisions of the Utah While you. as an Constitution. elected official in your own county have certain 1 powers and authorities as granted by the State Constitution and responsibilities to the people w ho elected you. you have no constitutional authority to make decisions which will directly ideas. affect the other two counties in You have done a good job of association. your three-counand explaining your The Utah Attorney Generals office expressing of regional has already ruled that while it is in favor viewpoint government (or governance), and legal, under the Interlocal this helps me understand why you Cooperation Act, for various of with interpretation my counties to disagree get together for For the regional concept. example, interlocal cooperation, the I notice that your stated concept of Governors Executive Orders esregionalism is that it is a tablishing multicounty asmechanism which has been es- sociations of government is untablished to distribute funds to the constitutional. This opinion was counties and the municipalities expressed in a letter from the AtAnd I throughout the nation. torney Generals office to Senator it that is function a this .agree that Douglas Bischoff during the can perform. general session of the Legislature Of course, even if regionalism early this year. were only a mechanism to do what But to return to the concepts I still would you have described, expressed in your letter, in your for third paragraph you said. 1 dont argue against the concept I later. will which explain reasons feel the people in our District is much in But, reality, regionalism should be deprived of programs more than this. If this were its only and funds that arc available to function, such job could be han- them, as well as to all of the other dled in myriad ways by existing people in the nation. 1 feel this agencies at the three and four levels would be a betrayal to the oath of And if all office which I swore to." 1 am at a of government. concerned felt that an entirely new disadvantage in that I do not know exiswhich oath of office you refer to, approach would be better, the ting private banking structure but I have before me the oath that could have been used as a is required by all officers made mechanism to distribute funds. elective or appointive by the Utah the federal Constitution, and it says. I do For example, government could have solemnly swear (or affirm) that 1 basis upon will determined a pro-rat- a support, obey and defend the ty Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this State, and that I will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity." We can both determine that the Constitution of the United States says in Article IV. Section 4, The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form ON COURSE Capt. Joe H. Ferguson BIG LAETRILE COURT VICTORY of Captain Joe . Ferguson Government Then in Article 1. 3 Section of the Utah Constitution F.D.A. HARASSES CANCER VICTIMS is found. The S late of Utah is an inseparable part of the Federal Many readers of this column are aware of the Union, and the Constitution of the senseless and vicious attacks the federal Food and Drug United States is the supreme law of Administration has made upon the users of vitamin IT 17, the land." Further on in Article XL or Laetrile. For those who might not be familiar with the Section 1. counties are established F.D.A. vs the Citizens freedom of choice, however, a few as legal subdivisions of the State, and while optional forms of words in the way of background might be interesting. There is a group of doctors and citizens who claim that a County government are provided in for Section 4 of the same article, certain vitamin, 7, commonly called Laetrile, is effecthere is no mention of substate nor tive in the prevention and control of cancer. They in multicounty regions anywhere contend that cancer is the result of a deficiency of this the Constitution as legal subvitamin in the diet. There is much evidence that supports divisions of this State. their position, and this writer has studied some of their With reference, then, to the material for the past two years. And, although this writer oath required of elected or apdoes not presume to be competent in the field of pointed officials and to the U.S. biochemistry to pass judgment on the value of vitamin 7, and Utah Constitutions regarding he can certainly assure the reader that the F.D.A. has a guarantee of a Republican Form of Government, coupled with the certainly not proven that it is of no value or even that it is fact that you advocate and harmful. The F.D.A. has taken the position that vitamin B-is not to be used by the citizens until the F.D.A. has participate in a government based on the principle of democratic cenapproved it, and the F.D.A. is not going to allow tests to tralism. such as is used in Soveit determine its value! Pursuing this type of gestapo-lik- e Russia, how do you rationalize the mentality, the F.D.A. has fanatically pursued dealers arid fact that you may have already The important thing to remember users of vitamin 7. betrayed your oath of office? As in the F.D.A. vs. vitamin B-fight is that 7 is a you must know, democratic cenvitamin NOT A DRUG and that the F.D.A. has tralism is a system in which the NEVER proven that the vitamin has ever harmed grass roots level of government elects people to a certain position. anyone! The obvious observation one can easily make These elected people then meet regarding the issue is that the F.D.A. is not interested in the health of the citizens but is definitely interested in together and elect from their ranks people who will serve in what is preventing them from making their own choice regarding considered the next higher level of the medical care they may receive. government. This is exactly how became Chairman of you CITIZENS WHIP F.D.A. IN COURT Southeastern Utah Association of In view of the gestapo-lik- e attitude of the F.D.A. and Governments. other federal agencies, we can say, Thank heaven for the Even more to the point of your patriotic Americans around the country who will stand letter, though, is the problem of up for freedom! One such group of patriots comprise the from the national money Committee For Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy, government to implement local located in Los Altos, California, with Bob Bradford programs. In their textbook. An heading the group. This group, represented by General Introduction to Taxation (The Harbrace Series in Business and Clyde Watts of Oklahoma City, a famous trial lawyer, Economics. 1972). Sommerfeld. recently took on the F.D.A. after the F.D.A. has illegally seized a supply of vitamins from various citizens. Anderson, and Brock tell us on a 6. In a landmark decision rendered August 14 in page Today taxes are major tool by which the federal Oklahotfia City, Judge Lutehr Bohanon ruled in favor of influences directs and government Glen L. Rutherford and other citizens in a class action suit the reallocation of resources necesinstituted two years ago. The court found that some of sary to achieve a nation's economic Rutherfords supplies of Laetrile had been seized by and social objectives." This being federal action and that such action is unconstitutional.. true, we may conclude that you are The court also found that Rutherford was cured of lower-intestiserving as an instrument of a cancer (invasive adenocarcinoma) following federally planned economic and Laetrile treatment. The court found Laetrile both effecsocial policy, and this is not what tive and harmless and that the F.D.A.s action in seizing you were elected to do. Rutherfords supply of the vitamin to be unGovernment planned economic and social policy exemplifies constitutional. of Union the Socialism, including There are several morals to be learned by the above. Socialist Soviet Republics. And The first is that many actions of the agencies of the federal Soviet Republics are not the type government are more political than scientific. The second of republic described in our is that the statement by Thomas Jefferson, What country National and State Constitutions. can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are no warned from There are many other things I time to' time, that the people preserve the spirit of resiswould like to cover in this letter, . tance, is true! but is already too long. $o I will just close with this thought. 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