8:20– Don Brown – Former Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture – All Roads to “Heck” Are Paved With Good Intentions/Policies Affect Us All
8:50– Kim Bremmer – Former Dairy Nutritionist & Founder of Ag Inspirations – Water Quality & Agricultue; Talk vs the Truth
9:20– John Bolin – Former Law Enforcement Officer, Under Cover Organized Crime Investigator and US Marshall Fugitive Task Force Officer – Your Animals May Depend On Your County Sheriff
9:50– Break
10.05– Sarah Carlisle – Senior External Affairs Advisor for Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association Inc. – Renewable Energy – Can We Afford It
10:35– Zach Gerber – Attorney with Gerber Law Offices LLP – Fire and the Environment
11:15– Kris Stewart – Rancher & Advocate for Range Rights & Grazing – Grazing In The West- Why President Trump Met With Me
Noon– Lunch
1:15– – Kimberly Fletcher – President and Founder of Moms for America Inc. – The Heart of Conversation – Reaching out to Moms
2:00– Kathleen Sgamma – Western Energy Alliance – Oil and Gas-Why People Hate What Enables Their Existence 2:30– Break 2:45– Don Brown – Former Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture – Are Your Boot Straps Broken? – Suicide & Farmers 3:15– Speaker Panel Discussion – Audience participation Q&A panel summary 6:15– Dinner – Colorado
Food and Beverage Social Sponsored by Local Suppliers. A casual setting
with Colorado-produced food and beverage, that encourages attendees to
engage in valuable conversations with each other about the topics at
hand.
8:20– Conner Nicklas – Attorney with Falen Law Offices, LLC – Equal Access To Justice Act (EAJA)-Your Tax Dollars are Fighting YOU in Court.
Auer Deference- Non-Elected Bureaucrats- Are They Making The Laws?
9:05– Robyn O’Brien – Author & Rebel for the Health of our Children and Planet – The Unhealthy Truth
9:35– Robert Hurtado – COO & CTO of AgRegen International Corporation – Who Are The True Stewards? – The Importance of Soil Health to the Future of Agriculture.
10:10– Break
10:25– John Duarte – Partner in Duarte Nurseries- The largest permanent crop nursery in the United States – How the Farm Bill is Damaging Food Producers and Consumers.
11:00– TBD
11:40– Diane Sullivan – Hunger Advocate who spent a portion of her life hungry and homeless and had her first child in a homeless shelter – New Allies in Agriculture- Limiting Access to Technology in Farming Makes it Tougher for the Poor to Feed Their Families.
Noon– Lunch
1:15– Athena Ramos – Latina Leader, Wife, Mother & Concerned Global Citizen Working to Create a Healthier, More Inclusive and Vibrant Community – Building Latino Communities While Creating Agriculture Health & Safety.
1:45– Debbie Bacigalupi – Northern California Rancher & Podcaster – Politics In Agriculture- The Hidden Agenda
2:15– All Speakers Panel – Audience participation Q&A panel summary
3:00– Break
3:15– Marshall Ulrich – Colorado Farmer, Endurance Athlete & Author – Both
Feet On The Ground- Food, nutrition & common-sense has played a big
role in my athletic accomplishments & how my connection to
agriculture & nature is the glue that ties it all together. Don’t Be
Naïve About What Fuels You!
Although I think every presenter had their expertise, I do think it is necessary to provide some added material on the subject of Monsanto, now Bayer/GMO, (the Monsanto way), and Vaccinations. Some of the presenters have more of a "mainstream media" influenced opinion on these subjects, not taking to account that these issues are public health and safety issues, meaning, they are seriously effecting the lives of the general public in a big way. They have caused long term permanent damage and have led to asset striping of the middle class through the Industrial Medical Complex, and may lead to sterilization and death. I hope you'll watch the following videos and, as always, decide for yourselves.
The question was asked, "where can we go to find out more about Agenda 21"? No real good answer was given. May I refer you to this article, "The Growing Assault On Private Property Sounding The Alarm". Follow the links in that article. Tom Deweese has been involved in exposing Agenda 21 since the get-go in 1992, he and his organization have a wealth of tools and knowledge. And, as always, search my blog.
The U.S. government has inflicted 40 years of abuse on Nevada’s Hage family.
It has taken the U.S. Government, including the agencies of the National Parks Service and the Bureau of Land Management and the Federal Courts including Judges, to remove the Wayne Hage Family form their homestead ranch on Pine Creek Ranch purchased by Wayne and Jean Hage in 1978.
If you have read Wayne Hage's book "Storm Over Rangelands Private Rights In Federal Lands" you will understand the elite plan to lock up access to the land in the west by using U.S. Congress and the environmentalist agenda to do it. Wayne documents in his book how this was done and how it has been their intention so institute an "army" to do it. That's right! The elite, by using environmentalist, launched a plan to pass legislation that would incrementally encroach upon American rights to acquire and own land, institute National Parks and restrict use of western lands for livestock, timber, and to a lesser extent mining through regulation by agencies such as the National Parks Service, Bureau of Land Management, Environmental Protection Agency among others. The elite preferred these regulations be enforced at the point of a gun, but the times were not ripe for such an agenda, so they were willing to wait. These elites are now saying to themselves, "don't you just love it when a plan comes together"? Now we have the militarization of our environmental agencies depicted in the NPS and BLM at Bundy Ranch and being questioned by Sen. Mike Lee in committee, but the elites love it when a plan comes together, and with other damage done to America through their agendas, they don't mind waiting, even if it takes 50 - 100 years!
As I have been very interested in private property rights for many years the Wayne Hage Case has been very important demonstrating the usurpation of these rights. I have featured quotes from him in some of my earliest posts here, and so it with that in mind that I continue to post on the subject, including this latest update from the Hage Family after their ranch was foreclosed on in recent weeks, and evidence of more corruption in our courts, this case again featuring a ruling by Judge Gloria Navarro, Bundy Trial fame.
The Ultimate Land Clearance
by Ramona Hage
Recently the Wall Street Journal carried a front-page feature by Jim Carlton highlighting my family, the Hages. It attempted to cover the plight of western ranchers and our 40-year David and Goliath struggle to prevent the federal government from taking our ranch without just compensation through government threats, intimidation, prosecution, and abuse of discretion. Pine Creek Ranch is now in foreclosure. We have won enormous landmark victories for western ranchers in multiple bench trials, including a $14 million judgment against the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and in a separate court ruling that the government had engaged in a conspiracy beginning in the 1970s to take our vested water rights and grazing preferences. However, on appeal, the federal courts twisted themselves into a legal pretzel to rule in favor of the government, finally taking our ranch judicially. Like so many other ranchers before us (many personal friends), we are packing up and moving off the land in a modern-day, government-sponsored land clearance. What is not well-known is the shocking lengths to which the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, as well as the Department of Justice, went to circumvent law, law of the case, rules of procedure, and rules of ethical conduct to manufacture rulings which whitewash government misconduct. In light of the nonstop headline news swirling around DOJ and federal courts, it is worth noting that the rank lawlessness we are witnessing on the nightly news is not limited to a few political appointees, but is endemic throughout the courts and federal agencies. Since moving to Pine Creek Ranch as a high school freshman with my parents in 1978, I have had a front-row seat from which to view the lengths to which the government would go to drive my parents and so many other ranchers like them out of business. After winning three administrative appeals against the USFS each costing between $50,000 to $150,000 to defend the government retaliated in 1991 by raiding the ranch with a 40-man Forest Service swat team to impound 104 head of cattle. It then sold the cattle and kept the proceeds. The USFS perpetrated the raid based upon false allegations of overgrazing without providing us the constitutional protections of procedural due process of law before the cattle and our livelihood were stolen. Two massive civil cases the 1991 Constitutional Fifth Amendment Takings Case of Hage v. U.S. and the 2007 trespass case, U.S. v. Hage were born out of my family having to defend our constitutionally protected property rights in court on a ranch which was otherwise rendered worthless by the government’s actions.
Since 1991, we have slogged through nearly three months of actual court days in several separate bench trials, a jury trial, state water adjudication and contempt hearing against the government, the testimony of numerous witnesses, and review of thousands of exhibits. Two independent federal judges from two separate jurisdictions separated by more than a decade of time, after lengthy trials with actual evidence, concluded that representatives of the United States from the BLM and the USFS acted in coercive, fraudulent manners towards my family. Judge Loren A. Smith, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, after two bifurcated bench trials in a 20-year-long case, with a total of five weeks of trial where actual evidence was presented concerning the manner in which these agents of the U.S. government abused their discretion and power against the Hage family, concluded that any attempt by the Hages to negotiate or attempt to comply with the demands of these agents and their bureaucracies would be futile. Smith ruled in favor of the Hages finding that the actions of these agents constituted a pattern and practice designed to deprive the Hage family of its vested water rights, 1866 Act ditch rights-of-ways, and range improvements which resulted in a judgment for the Hages of over $14 million.
The government appealed. After a 30- minute hearing in the appellate court, three judges determined that had the Hages filed a request for a special-use permit the Forest Service would have granted it, and since the Hages did not file such a request, the case was not ripe, and therefore dismissed. This despite the fact that there was no requirement to file for a special-use permit, and despite the fact that Judge Smith specifically found that any attempt by the Hage family to work cooperatively with USFS or BLM agents would be futile. Unfortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court did not grant certiorari on this matter, leaving the Hages without a remedy. Judge Robert C. Jones, chief judge of the Federal District Court for the District of Nevada, after a four-week civil trial, with careful consideration of over 21 days of testimony and evidence, and an additional four days of a separate contempt-of-court hearing, determined that the representatives of the USFS and BLM acted in a manner specifically to conspire to deprive the Hage family of its vested property rights, in particular stock-water and grazing preferences, as Judge Smith had previously found in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Jones specifically found that the conduct of these bureaucrats “shocked the conscience” of the court.
The court also named the Department of Justice attorneys as possibly being a part of that conspiracy. Judge Jones found evidence of fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud on the part of the federal agents and of racketeering or RICO. He specifically charged several of the USFS and BLM representatives with contempt of court and ruled in favor of the defendant, Wayne Hage Jr., and the Estate of Wayne and Jean Hage. Finally, the BLM and USFS, which had arbitrarily cancelled the Hages’ grazing permits in the early 1990s, were ordered by the court to reinstate the Hage Estate’s grazing permits. After a 40-minute hearing in the 9th Circuit, the three-judge panel determined that no lucid judge would have made these findings absent some bias or prejudice against the government. This despite the fact that the findings made by Judge Jones in Nevada, after independent consideration of overwhelming evidence, made virtually identical findings to those previously made by Judge Smith in Washington, D.C. As a result of the court’s disbelief that representatives of the government would act consistent with the findings of Judge Jones, the 9th Circuit reversed Jones’ decision, remanded the case back to the district court level, and directed Judge Gloria Navarro to rule in favor of the USFS and BLM. This case was also appealed to the Supreme Court, which for the second time did not grant certiorari in the absence of Justice Scalia, again leaving the Hage family without a remedy.
Judge Navarro, a newly Obama-appointed federal district judge from the District of Nevada, was assigned to enter a judgment in favor of the United States against Wayne Hage, as a result of the 9th Circuit’s ruling that Judge Jones was biased and prejudiced against the United States. She dutifully relied on the allegations of representatives of the DOJ regarding damages incurred by defendant Hage. She accepted the government’s allegations without an evidentiary hearing and despite the fact that no evidence concerning the cause or amount of those alleged damages had ever been introduced in any court. This resulted in the United States being awarded a judgment against Wayne Hage Jr. in the amount of nearly $580,000, although the actual amount supported by evidence presented at trial by the government was a mere $15,000. The punitive amount of this judgment is currently on appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. This same Judge Navarro was the junior judge assigned to the criminal case against the Bundy family and other defendants. Judge Navarro in two separate Bundy defendant trials had, like in the Hage hearing, ruled entirely for the government during the course of those trials, in a manner that was shockingly biased to many court observers. However, last December in the third trial involving Bundy family members, evidence was presented concerning the agents from the Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, BLM and FBI engaging in fraud, misrepresentation of material facts to the court, and collusion against the Bundys. These agents had concealed over 3,000 pages of exculpatory evidence from the defense team in violation of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Judge Navarro was presumably left with no choice but to dismiss the Bundys with prejudice, which she did. She specifically noted that the BLM and DOJ engaged in “flagrant misconduct” and “deliberate attempts to mislead and distort the truth.” In addition to the fact that three different federal judges have specifically found a pattern and practice of inappropriate and even illegal behavior by representatives of the DOJ, BLM, USFS, U.S. Attorney’s Office, and FBI, additional evidence of gross misconduct has recently come to light via a BLM whistleblower. The so-called “Wooten Memo,” written by the BLM’s lead investigator on the Bundy matter, contains many charges against government agents including a chilling reference to a “kill book” which was bragged about by head BLM enforcement officer Dan Love. The 18-page memo reveals that the pattern and practice of the federal land-management agencies were, by design, intended to violate the constitutional rights and to deprive U.S. citizens such as the Hage and Bundy families of their property. A second Wooten whistle- blower memo was just discovered but it has been ordered to be sealed by the court by Judge Navarro, who continues to refuse to release the 3,000 pages of exculpatory evidence to the defendants in the Bundy trials.
The lengths to which the appellate courts have gone to substitute their own findings of fact for those of the trial judge, or to charge the trial judge with bias in order to avoid ruling on the merits of a case, or to utilize any other legal loophole in order to rule over 90 percent of the time in favor of the federal government is a sheer travesty of justice. The Hage cases are Exhibit A for why ranchers do not believe they have a snowball’s chance in hell to prevail against an all-powerful federal master, no matter how strong the evidence or how many judges agree with them.
As a DOJ attorney said to us during court-ordered settlement talks, they weren’t concerned about Judge Jones’ ruling because “we get everything we want from the 9th Circuit.” DOJ attorneys also informed us at another time that it is “Justice Department policy to get privately owned water into government ownership.” We unfortunately don’t have congressional investigators combing through court documents, emails and texts, secret warrants or phone taps, etc., in numerous cases where the BLM, USFS, EPA and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, enabled by the Justice Department and FBI, have targeted property owners and other land users for destruction. Dwight and Steven Hammond are currently sitting in jail, charged as domestic terrorists for a backfire that accidentally burned a small piece of adjacent vacant federal land. LaVoy Finicum was shot and killed by snipers on the side of the road. Raymond Yowell, the Dann sisters, Ben Colvin, Danny Martinez, Kit Laney, my family, and many others have watched their livestock and livelihoods hauled off by the BLM and USFS in cattle trucks at gunpoint without being afforded procedural due process of law or just compensation. It is no surprise to us that agents charged with enforcing the law would attempt to prosecute trumped-up charges to topple a duly elected president. Sadly, the evening news looks eerily familiar.
It wasn't to many years ago when the mainstream media accused Sarah Palin and others of "putting a target on the back" of individuals while showing amap of the United States with "cross hairs" on swing districts for the 2012 election in which the "blamestream media" takes a flying leap accusing Palin of bringing about the shooting in Arizona, where a Second Amendment champion Judge was killed and Gabrielle Giffords was wounded, setting the stage, to once more, restrict our God given right to protect our lives, liberty and property. Palin "rejected criticism of the map, and sought to cast the criticism as a broader indictment of the basic rights of free speech of all political persuasions and the acts, like the shooting in Arizona, begin and end with the criminals who commit them."
UPDATE-Four years later things have escalated! Enter the Citizens For Constitutional Freedom. After the Harney County Oregon rally in support of the Hammond men, who were scheduled to report to serve a sentence for domestic terrorism for starting a backfire to save their property and business, and in which they had already served time, after concluding the rally drove 35 miles out of town to the Malheur Refuge, where they found the doors unlocked, the keys on the desk and the lights on. It was part of a citizens stand to bring about action to a list of grievances brought to the attention of the Oregon city, county and state that fell on deaf ears. They tired the state department route of "letter writing" and it went unheeded. They had face to face meetings with political officials including Sheriff Ward, they were brushed off, so they took to the mic. It's "what" they said that led to the government amassing a standing army to defeat them by murdering LaVoy Finicum and rounding up every person with a mouth from Bunkerville Nevada, Recapture Canyon Utah, Harney County Oregon .
The members of the Citizens For Constitutional Freedom took time away from their families and employment to travel to Oregon from place to place to teach the Constitution including private property rights, the responsibility of the local sheriff, unconstitutional courts and tyranny by alphabet agencies. These same things were taught in Utah and Bunkerville. The group helped Harney County institute their constitutional right to form the Committee of Safety, which has helped to protect the residents God given rights. The committee was established to negotiate and coordinate between the county elected and appointed representatives in land use issues among others. They boldly asked the government and it's agencies to prove their claims to land via the constitution.
Although the C4CF group worked tirelessly to teach the people, make a record of their grievances and improve the grounds of the wildlife refuge their mission was twisted by the main stream media, local officials and federal authorities including congressmen and senators, calling their words a "virus" labeling them as "terrorists" and Mormon bashing." The media, even now, continues to "goad" them into making threats and inflames the public as they refer to the protesters as "brandishing firearms" and using the term "armed occupiers". Although the groups spoke to law enforcement many times, the only people who were hostile and used threats and force were the government and it's agencies. Just mentioning the constitution is cause for getting you thrown out of a public meeting!
It started with a flicker and became a roaring brush fire the BLM and USFW service would be proud of, and This is why the constitutionalists had to be "snuffed out!" I will use the "up close and personal" example of Pete Santilli for this, but as Americans, we have just "assumed" our founding and our founding documents. We know of them, but not about them. Pete was in the U.S. Military for several years. He swore an oath to the Constitution including defending it "against enemies foreign and domestic". According to Pete, he hadn't actually read the Constitution, it wasn't until he showed up to report on the events going on in Bunkerville Nevada where the Bureau Of Land Management was armed to the teeth sicking dogs on people, tasing people and throwing people to the ground and assaulting people with dump trucks and motor vehicles that he really understood it. It was during this time that he read the Constitution for the first time. It was because of the inspirational knowledge of the Constitution Pete traveled to Bunkerville and Burns. He learned very deeply the purpose of "Article 1 Section 8 Clause 17" and could repeat it by heart and did so many times.
It is sad to say, but the "dumbing down of America" has been going on for decades now. Generations have had our history hidden from us. We have not been privileged to know intimately our founding fathers and the documents they produced. The reason is sinister! It's the same reason they don't want you living outside the city limits anymore. In the city you can't see the stars. You can't gaze into the heavens and contemplate the majesty that created it. You go about your life unaware of your place in the grand scheme of things. You don't have a second thought that there is anyone greater than you. You just go about your life distracted by all the shinny objects in your immediate view. This is why the Wild-lands Project is so dangerous in my eyes. "Cut off our view of the heavens, and you cut off any contemplation of heaven and it's heavenly influences". God will speak to us if we let Him and he will let us feel His love, and this is dangerous as far as the opposition is concerned, and this opposition is Satanic! This is why our founding has been hidden from us! Because, whenever it is heard it inspires! It is like learning of God's plan for us for the first time. That God loves us. He gave us the ten commandments, a simple plan to help our earthly experience become more enjoyable. Jehovah suffered on the cross that we might live again...awe-inspiring! When the people of this nation learn the principles of our founding it opens a whole new world for us, because it is an inspired founding. The founding father's will even tell you that! Although they referred to it as "Providence", they were referencing God. They reverenced His name so much they rarely used it. This is what was happening in Burns/Harney County Oregon. If you've seen any of the meetings in which these principles were taught you could feel it and see it in the people themselves. These meetings were inspiring. There was a spirit of comradery, to put a name to it. People lingered at these places because learning the principles gives you a glimpse of heaven. Men want to be free! Freedom is a God-given principle. That freedom includes the right to life, liberty and property, including your thoughts and the works of your hands. When you learn these things your mind soars with the possibilities, it is empowering, and that is dangerous to the opposition, and that is why this "teaching" had to be stopped, because it was spreading to the neighboring County of Grant, and there were hundreds of people waiting to have their minds expanded with the spirit of the Constitution. And so, a standing army mounted.
Despite the fact that the Citizens For Constitutional Freedom pointed guns at no one, and in many cases were un-armed, frequented town to purchase meals and supplies, meet with the towns people etc. The government, with help from the press, decided to perpetuate a fraud on anyone watching. This included closing down schools, using one as the FBI operations center, taking over the local airport and erecting military blockades around them and the county courthouse and sheriff's department. Although the schools were 35 miles from the protest site, the schools in town were closed yet within a day or so the closest school just a few miles distance from the refuge was open as the parents determined they were in no danger. Hundreds of FBI/Military personnel and equipment was emmassed in a matter of weeks. Special medical teams took over the local hospital and soon bear-cat, m-wraps and black-hawks were deployed. The people at the refuge were subject to constant surveillance from drones, planes and closed circuit cameras including manipulation of wireless communications. And, although many visiting the refuge for more than a day camped outside the refuge boundaries, it was reported that is was the FBI/Military who was encamped on the refuge land. If there was any fear in town, it was visibly evident it was because of the law enforcement, FBI, Military presence. They were all decked out in their "battle rattle" including automatic "long-guns", finger on the trigger mind you, even when unarmed individuals approached them! It was overkill! I believe that if they hadn't created the narrative that the protesters were acting as they themselves were demonstrating, there would never have been an ambush by a standing army which resulted in LaVoy Finicum's assassination and the other members of the group being detained and whisked off to Portland, LATER being charged. A "kill stop" on a blind curve in a portion of the canyon with no internet access heavily wooded, line of sight tree trimming by snowmobile and chainsaws in preparation, when less than a half mile from the ambush was a long level straightaway with no trees within a half mile from the side of the road.
Let's get something strait. It is the words of government officials that has inflamed violence and bloodshed and "kept individuals from doing their jobs". It is their behavior that has devastated the lives of individuals across the west. And it is their need for revenge that spurs their round up of anyone who spoke a word, held a sign or a microphone or dared to take a picture or video of the misconduct of government and their lawless agencies. Retribution is flowing straight from the top including Valarie Jarrett/Obama, Harry Reid, Ron Wyden, Kate Brown, Dan Love, Greg Bretzing , Niel Kornze, Steve Grasty, David Ward and Amanda Marshall among others. That is why law abiding, freedom loving citizens continue to be rounded up across the United States, and it's getting worse! These are the people armed to the teeth with malicious intent. These are the people imprisoning people without cause and trampling their constitutional rights restricting their movements and limiting their speech, labeling them terrorists all for the gratification of the elite with a "that'll teach them" mentality. They are the bullies in this whole situation where the American people are asserting their rights and asking the government to prove they have any! The truth is, the citizens are holding the deeds, holding the rights, and are tired of footing the bill to have the government and it's agencies tell them what to do, when to do it and, how to do it. Some like to call the ranchers "welfare ranchers", well they're anything but! These ranchers just want to be left alone to enjoy their liberty they were born with, and our Constitution protects. These people aren't afraid of hard work like the bureaucrats and their front groups. They just want the freedom to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", but King George rules again! It's time once again, to declare our independence and stand, let's all stand together. We can't have the ruling elite dancing on the graves of our fellow patriots.
