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Show Page 4 The Utah Independent April 8, 1976 The Paper That Dares To Take NATIONAL RIVER BASINS FIT WORLD SCHEME River basins are back in the news again, showing that world governance, with the U.S.A. tangled in it, may be closer than we think. White The hydroelectric water regions of the USSR (Soviet Union) are of course standard fixtures in the planned economy of the global Communists whose burning desire is to graft the United States into the world scheme. authorities basin River never really caught on in the United States. They met resistance. Only the Tennessee Valley Authority lives on, a relic. But the chaotic movement is revving up again. A federal law has been passed. Sec. 209 of the whipsaw" law, a sobriquet for WPCA, the Federal Water Pollution Concontains the trol Act (PI Jan. 1, deadline basin river plan: Yet the Interstate reverberating. Commission on the Potomac River Basin in 1 974 was deeply engrossed in the whipsaw" plan. Another presidential order was signed. E.0. 11613(1971) hitched the police power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the basin harness. Add the whipsaw" law that affects every drop of water in the United States and the boldness of the plot begins to show. The . global intent appears early in Sec. 101(a)6- - and is scattered throughout the whipsaw" law. Navigable waters means all the water in the U.S.A. The Contiguous Zone is an international territorial zone established or to be established by treaty. Ocean" means the high seas beyond the Zone. Whipg saws janitorial excuse aims to clean up all the water in the U.S.A. and the rest of 1980. the world in time. A lotzrf police Because it is a metro scheme power is needed to do all that, and fashioned by metrocrats, the power the regionalists believe that they to create river basin government have it in the river basin tactic. that would kill off States' One Water Resources Council is vested in the official sovereignties stated, The strength of a The U.S. river basin commission over some executive sector. President is acting through the of the other coordinating Water Resources Council, a mechanisms lies in the fact that it federal body. The basins have been has a chairman appointed by the set by presidential executive President who, although he is not orders, bypassing the legislative in any specific Federal department, in his position as a Presidential apCongress. he has access to the attenA blizzard of river basin maps pointee, tion of the heads of Federal struck the United States in the concerned with water early seventies distributed by departments development. citizens alarmed by the magnitude resources he is supported by a Furthermore of the bureaucratic attempt to take that it neither Federal nor over water and land use controls. staff State employed but consists of Ranging from 22 river basins on people whose loyalties are to the one map, to five or six superimor commission. posed on the U.S.A. map, the See Multistate number of river basins and their metrocrats, Ed. p. 122, Advisory Regionalism ruling commissions (RBCs) have Commission on Intergovernmenstabilized at six (6) these: Pacific D.C. tal Wash., Relations, Northwest, Great Lakes, New noble-soundin- 92-50- 0) one-world- ers A-39- England, Ohio River, Upper Misand the sissippi group merged in the Missouri basin. The Potomac RBC is not listed in the basin lineup. Uproar followed the exposure of a proposed and partially unsigned Potomac Compact, and is still Souris-Red-Rain- ey (ACIR). The RBCs had jurisdiction in over 34 states and 110 sub-basi- ns 1972. Other basins may have gone under the yoke since then. The te Watermaster who enjoys the loyalty of all the RBC com-summa- commissions water controls the to bestow or to withhold. CHURCHMEN DECEIVED ay socialism Continued from page 2 ism, that has been a total failure? What do they see in socialism to give them any hope that it would ever solve the food problem? Why cant they see that the free countries have demonstrated their capacity to do so? One group seeks to portray Jesus as a liberator of the oppressed from colonial industrial capitalism. Jesus never advocated any law to help the poor. He spoke only of individual, voluntary action on their behalf. When a certain young man said to him, Master, speak to my brother that he divide the inheritance with me, Jesus replied, Who made me a divider over you? of covetousness, Luke 12:14. There is nothing in the teachings of Jesus to indicate that he favored dispossessing some by force and distributing the proceeds to the needy. He was against force in all human relationships. His method was to wait until the power of his appeal entered the human heart and the individual chose to act fairly, sympathetically, and generously toward his fellows who were in need. Churchmen who advocate socialism are doing a great disservice in so misrepresenting the teachings of our IJe-wa- re Iprd. Economics Department NonrnwooD institute Washington: The U.S. is naive in its foreign policy: we treat our enemies better than we do our friends, U.S. Senator Jake Garn (R-Usaid today on the National Town Meeting. Appearing with ), Senator Dick Gark Senator Garn said that we are not giving our allies the proper signals" and that because of it, they are unsure of our commitment. The Senators discussed the question, Is the U.S. Overextended Abroad?' on . the hour-lon- g program, which was carried live by National Public Radio. If overextended means spread too thin, then the answer to the question would certainly be yes, Senator Garn said. We are spread too thin because we are not as committed as we must be to meet the demands the world situation places on us. What is needed is not a shrinking of our military and foreign involvement to make our thin defense posture look fatter, but a dedication to expand our capabilities to meet the responsibilities that are undeniably ours. We cannot bury our head in the sand. The ostrich only fools himself when he takes that apT) (D-IA- proach to a problem; hes even more vulnerable to attack because of his refusal to recognize the extent of the danger he's in. I am concerned about our deteriorating position worldwide. History shows that most wars, even as early as the Phoenician sea battles, were started because one side thought they were stronger and could beat the other. War is invited by weakness and that is why the U.S. must deal from a position of If we withdraw our strength. troops from around the world, if we withdraw support from our allies, we will add to worldwide tension. We have been witnessing for the last several years, an unprecedented buildup of Soviet military strength. The U.S.S.R. spends 15 of its gross national product on the military, compared 50 of our expento our ditures are for personnel while Russia spends only 25 on manpower. We are currently trailing the Soviet Union in almost every area of military armament and have fewer men under arms than r since 1950. Our military any-yeaspending has been decreasing in terms of the GNP, while have operations government remained constant and transfer payments have increased at an annual rate of nearly nine percent. 6. The U.S. is not overextended abroad; we must maintain troop strength and extend more help to our allies. The only way we should reduce our troop strength overseas is if the U.S.S.R. would participate in a mutual, balanced troop reduction program." oooooooooooooooo EXPOSE YOUR FRIENDS to the Utah Independent 12 Assorted Back Issues .for ONLY $1.00 oooooooooooooooo P.D. Beter reviewed The Emerging Constitution. Biographical Dictionary of the Left says of T ugwell: Few New Deal braintrusters came into the Roosevelt Administration with a more flaming red background than Tugwell. He had campaigned in 1929 for the Socialist Partys mayoralty candidate for New York City, Norman Thomas. (This was at a time when the Communists in support of were openly Thomas.) Tugwell had been a mem ber of the first American Trade Union Delegation to the Soviet Union a Communist When Tugwell enterprise. returned from this junket, he set down his impressions in Soviet Russia in the Second Decade. His Communist were Robert W. Dunn and fellow-travelStuart Chase. The book was sold through Communist Party bookstores. $20. TOWN MEETING ON FOREIGN POLICY Copyright Jo Hindman 1976 A Stand . By Thomas O. Breitling GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE CHANGES By Thomas O. Breitling - co-auth- ors "I will seek changes in the structure of government so that the government is more effective, more honest, and more responsive to the needs of the American people. (Emphasis added.) The quoted sentence is from a letter dated March 15, 1976 with the letterhead of Gerald R. Ford and with his facsimile signature. I know what all of President Fords words say, but I have no inside information on what he intends for them to mean. CONJECTURE However, it is not difficult to conjecture meanings that could apFord. For ply to the words of the in sentence a prior example, same letter, he said, I want to reverse the flow of power to centralized government and to give people more power over their own lives." If this sentence is taken at face value, Mr. Ford can only mean the end of all Federal regulator agencies and of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). As long as any of these agencies exist there can be no reversal in the flow of power to centralized government. Do you believe Mr. Ford intends to make structural changes in government which will end the regulatory agencies and the IRS? On the other hand, it seems that we have seen the principle of reversal used before. Didnt Mr. Nixon say that the 10 Federal Regional Councils were established to bring government closer to the people? But, what has actually happened is the strengthening of the regional bureaucracy and the central government, which is clearly shown by the urgent plea of many elected, local government officials to the central government that Revenue Sharing be continued. Yet, if local governments had really of-M- been strengthened, such governments would attend to their own revenue needs, without having to beg from the stronger central government. THE EMERGING CONSTITUTION Committee To Restore The Constitution, Inc. reported in its March and April, 1976 Bulletins a critical analysis of a 1974 book entitled The Emerging Constitution. The book is by Rexford Guy Tugwell and is published by Harper & Row. The retail price is er CHANGES IN STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT It seems more than coincidence that Gerald R. Ford proposes changes in the structure of government in the same time frame as Tugwells new book emerges. Regionalism and Metro are not intended to be passing things. Regionalism and Metro are the forerunners of planning and In all cases these control. programs call for planning and control and for the charade known as citizen participation. I find it interesting that John D. Rockefeller III called in his book The Second American Revolution for a deliberate, consistent, long-terpolicy to decentralize and privatize many government functions to share m power, to diffuse power throughout the society. Such a policy must be guided by wise leaders, fostered by an able public service, and draw on all elements of In short, the the society. strive must to turn on government the private sector. Its new role must be that of facilitator of participation." (Emphasis added in first part. Last emphases in original.) And in his letter of March 15 . President Ford said, As President, want to build upon the progress of the past by charting and guiding the Nation toward a brighter future. I am pledged first and foremost to bringing a renaissance of the individual in our society. I want to reverse the flow I of power to centralized government.... ABOLISH REGIONALISM AND METRO Is President Ford in favor of bringing a renaissance of the individual in our society? If he is, he can begin by issuing an Executive Order abolishing Federal Regional Councils and the accompanying Federal Regions. He can submit a bill to Congress which would repeal the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968. He can crusade for begin a one-ma- n abolishment of all types of consolidation of control. Will he? The thoughts havent entered his head. SERVES US RIGHT? C O M K A I TIMS So much is taken from us in ''taxes (47 percent of our incomes) NSPIRACY to pay for the services government PATRIOTISM! provides, that more of us are ending up in need of government Common sense is nol services to provide for our needs; so common" dependent, no longer able to afford Voltaire to be independent. 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