From:                              John (Jack) R. Venrick [[email-masked]]

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----- Original Message -----

From: Jack Venrick

To: AJack R. Venrick

Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 4:22 PM

Subject: How Government Is Using Roundabouts To Run Us Around Our
Property Rights (Reduced Font Printable)

----- Original Message -----

From: ron ewart

To: r.ewart

Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 9:33 AM

Property Rights

To:     NARLO Members, American Rural landowners,
Interested Parties,
Senator Cheryl Pflug, Reps,
Rodne and Anderson, (5th District) Senator Pam Roach, Jay Manning (DOE), the
entire King County Council and
the news media.

From: Ron Ewart, President, National Association of Rural
Landowners (NARLO)

FOR:  Mostly
Washington State taxpayers and property owners.   But don't be
fooled.  These kinds of injustices are happening in every state in
the Union, as European, UN, socialism and radical
environmental influences, slowly but surely usurp our remaining constitutional
rights, in pursuit of the one-world-order.

NOTE:  As a standard policy, NARLO does not
forward other e-mails, but this one from an angry and articulate rural
landowner, is the exception.   Although it outlines a local
issue, it is a universal one in every state.  We hope you will take the
time to read the whole e-mail, including our introduction and understand
how your government, through stealth, is removing the American people's right
to be the "consent
of the governed".
Government knows what is best for us and by God they are going to shove it down
our collective throats whether we like it or not.  As anyone with
eyes to "see", they are doing a damn good job of it.

"It
doesn't take guns to conquer a people, it just takes millions of stupid
laws."

Ron Ewart

INTRODUCTION TO FORWARDED MESSAGE

The following is an e-mail message
from rural landowner and American patriot, Jack Venrick, outlning why the
government "inmates" are in charge of the asylum.  From fish and
habitat culverts, to European-style roundabouts, to the ESA, the GMA, and the
CAO and to millions of other federal, state and local land use and
environmental laws, American citizens have become nothing but serfs
who must bow down to the almighty government, both politicians and bureaucratic
demagogues alike.  The Indians use sympathetic, spineless courts
to blackmail American taxpayers to pay for returning their precious salmon
habitat back to its pristine condition of 150 years ago.

On top of the Indians, we have
the wealthy and politically powerful environmental groups lobbying the
legislatures and using the courts to force radical,
un-American environmentalism down the throats of rural Americans, while
the city folk get off virtually scot-free.  So much for equal protection under the
law.  Have they forgotten the 14th Amendment?

It would appear that every time that
any of us bring up these egregious injustices, nothing happens except for the
giant yawn that comes out of the mouths of those of you (in government) who have
the power to do something.  Your silence is an insult, if not a slap in
the face to American citizens and taxpayers that are demanding redress from
government.  Your usurpations will not last forever.  Do not make the
mistake of forgetting the law of unintended consequences.  You can't
herd Americans like you would sheep.

For over a year we have
reseached these fish and habitat culverts being foisted on the backs of rural
taxpayers, when the mandate for installing them comes out of federal or state
statutes.  Why the Hell should rural landowners have to pay for a federal
or state mandate?  Why indeed!

So if you have the courage, take the
time to read Jack's prophetic words on how government (the inmates) is in
charge of the asylum.  This asylum that use to be called
the free United States of America, but is no longer.

If you do take the time to read it,
perhaps you (the government)
will answer this one very poignant question.

WHAT IN THE HELL

ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?!!!

If past history is any guide,
probably nothing!

For those taxpayers and
landowners reading this, the only reason government gets away with this
crap is because you stand there and do nothing.  Government only responds
to the rising collective voices of tens of thousands of Americans who demand
that government stay within its constitutional limits.  No other power,
short of armed revolution, will have any affect on them.  If you
don't care, neither do they and their power rises accordingly.  That is
exactly the "State
of the Union" today.

Ron Ewart, President

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RURAL
LANDOWNERS

P. O. Box 1031, Issaquah, WA
98027

425 222-4742 or 1 800 682-7848

(Fax No. 425 222-4743)

Website: www.narlo.org

To: WA DOT & King County DOT

cc: American Property Owners, WA
State House & Senate, WA AG, Association of WA Cities, WA DOE, King
County Ag Commission, King County Council, Media, American Policy Center,
Evergreen Freedom Movement, Freedom Groups

Looking West SE 416th & SR 169

Proposed location of a $4
million roundabout for humans

Enumclaw, WA Community Meeting Held
to Stop State Forced Roundabout

The following are my meeting
notes and my opinion FYI.

Senator
Roach called the 3rd meeting of the WA State "Proposed"
Roundabout promptly at 7PM, Wednesday. 9-26-07 at the Enumclaw, WA
City Library.

44
attended the meeting plus several from WADOT

Senator
Pam Roach and Representative Chris Hurst did an excellent job in
representing the community.

What
a refreshing change from the likes of our King County Council who
only represent Seattle.

If
it was not for Senator Roach and Representative Hurst, Washington State
DOT would roll over us faster than King County does.

Still
the Ms. Eng the WA DOT Regional Director tells us they are engineers
and know best what is good for us.

Unbelievable
arrogance and more evidence of a higher up Washington State Green Agenda.

Property
owners are increasingly experiencing this silent and deadly green
extremism in all levels of government including;

County District & Superior Courts, e.g. Pierce
County

WA State Prosecuting Attorneys, e.g. Pierce and King
County

The Nitty Gritty

Mr.
Russ East, Assist. Region Administrator of the NW Region DOT
Highway Construction Program for Snohomish & King County previously
told Senator Roach there would be no roundabout but the money would
be kept for the intersection.

Representative
Hurst asked for a letter confirming this.

DOT
NW Regional Administrator Ms. Eng wrote the letter but did not vacate the
roundabout plan

Senator
Roach and Representative Hurst both stated their position, i.e. the
overwhelming majority of the community does not want the roundabout.

Senator
Roach asked for alternatives for the intersection instead.

The
DOT drew up alternatives at the last minute, i.e. they never even
considered alternatives for the intersection.

Part
of the requirements for any traffic control given to the DOT was "not
intrusive to private property".

Roundabout
cost estimated to be $4 million and take 3.3 areas of rural private farm
land property

A
major intersection realignment and signal cost estimated to be $4 million
and take 2.7 acres of rural private farm land property

Legislature
has allocated $6.1 million of tax payer money for this intersection

$400,000
has been spent so far on study

Traffic
count on SR169 is 12,000 per day, or about 6,000 each way, north and south

There
has been 32 accidents in 8 years, i.e. 4 accidents/year, other numbers and
years show 2 accidents/year

DOT
is inferring it was their way, i.e. roundabout or no way, i.e. they Mr.
East & Ms. Lorena Eng refused to take the roundabout off the table.

Senator
Roach went through a list of DOT hand write alternatives with the 44
in attendance and eliminated 4 alternative including the roundabout.

The
DOT was directed to come back to a working group of Senator Roach to
discuss.

Meeting
adjourned

Mr.
Russ East email is [email-masked]

Ms.
Eng email is  [email-masked]

P.S. #1   Here is another
type of "roundabout" for fish and an example of
how government railroads local rural property owners.

Intersection of SE 416th and 244th
SE looking West

Before installation of an est.
$500,000 concrete fish "roundabout"

There are NO problems at this
intersection!

NO safety problems, NO water
problems & NO fish.

Here is a Qwest cable being rerouted
for the ghost fish

Qwest contractors
installing phone cable splice box to reroute Qwest phone cable

This took several men and several
large machines 3 days work.

The work crew had no idea why they
were doing it.

The City of Enumclaw has to also
reroute a water line.

This needless fish roundabout was
not approved nor authorized by the local property owners affected.

But it will cost us big time.

Our local main road is shut down for near a month.

There was no local meetings about this.

Nor were the rural property owners asked if they
wanted it.

Nor was the City of Enumclaw tax payers
asked.

The King County Council said nothing.

The King County DOT contact never replied to my email
or set up a meeting

Please see attached email from Ron
Ewart www.narlo.org and Barb Lindsey of One Nation United http://www.onenationunited.org which covers the background of this long string
of government imposed usurping and meddling of private and public property.
Check out both web sites and discover how government unconstitutional
takes more of our private and public property.

There is a long rope of government
taking intertwined with many smaller cords of taking.  Each
level of government downstream becomes less effective in representing its
people because of this intertwined tapestry of
taking.

At
the top of the taking is a non government special interest group

Government
at any levels are sued and bribed by special interest groups

U.S.
government rather than saying NO pass pork barrel and extreme
legislation not having a clue of the downstream consequences.

Then
the U.S. Congress extorts the States typically using DOT funding,

The
States rather than saying NO take the bribe,

The
States then write more strangling unconstitutional private property
taking legislation extorting their counties and cities.

The
counties equally addicted, write more illegitimate private property taking
regulations and codes further extorting the property owners.

The
cities in turn are even more addicted and beef up their codes and
enforcement of tyrannical green takings

The
rural property owners slowly collapse from the weight of this
coercive force

The
cities & counties rapidly Gerrymander & eminent
domain progressively more rural land around them

The
cities and counties fight for rural land for "best available
revenue"

i.e.
they draw and quarter rural private property for their own future reserve
of revenue

The
rural areas are turned into socially engineered private property
reserved ONLY for government growth, e.g. cities, tribes,
counties, state, federal, military.

The
rural property owners are brutalized by Gestapo code enforcement
and green theme courts.

Local
government is rendered near "helpless"

Private property owners basic rights are ripped out

Individual freedom and liberty gradually
disappear.

We are closer to Russian collective farms now, than
early American post Revolution colonial independence

The profile of the beast is its increasing use of
force to take increasing more tyrannical legislation, judication and
administration.

The first head of the beast in driven by super
wealth.

The beast starts to take on another head driven
by social engineering colluding with the first head

Other heads of the beast grow to support more special
interest and each other

Free choice is soon taken.

The America dream of individual freedom and liberty
has been taken in two centuries by big government partnering
with big business and social engineering agenda

"From its inception,
the right of property in Russia became associated with the
consolidation of the nobility's power over the peasants and the abuse of the
serf system.....The property rights bestowed
by the tsarist regime became identified with its
despotic authority."

Property And
Freedom, pg. 196, Richard Pipes

Culvert ruling backs tribes

By Lynda V.
Mapes

Seattle Times staff reporter

In a landmark decision
more than 30 years in the making, a federal judge Wednesday ruled the state
can't build or maintain road culverts that hurt fish passage or diminish fish
populations because that violates tribal treaty rights to fish.

The case has broad
implications to spur the pace and increase the cost of state culvert repairs already
under way around Western Washington. The ruling by U.S.
District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez, expected to be appealed, could also lead
tribes to seek other habitat protections.

"This could be very
big," said Mason Morisset, an attorney representing tribes in the case.
"If it stands, you will see tribes assert themselves on a broad range of
activities to protect the habitat. Whether it's clearing wetlands or building
roads and developments ... , if we can show you are going to have a net loss of
habitat, that is a treaty rights violation."

The judge posed no remedy
in the decision; that's a step that will begin next week. Fixing more culverts
faster is sure to be on the table. And that is going to be expensive.

"I'm not going to
use the 'B' word, but it's millions of dollars," said Fronda Woods,
assistant attorney general for the state of Washington, the defendant in the
case.

The case pertains to fish
habitat everywhere north of the Columbia River and west
of the Cascade crest, affecting the treaty rights of about 20 tribes that
brought the suit.

No state agency faces a
bigger potential bill than the Department of Transportation, with about 800
culverts in Western Washington to fix.

"I have great
concern from a budget perspective," said Paula Hammond, interim
transportation secretary.

The agency has already
spent $40 million identifying and fixing problem culverts since 1991 and
intends to spend $69 million more over the next 12 years. Now it looks like
that won't be enough.

"It's likely
hundreds of millions of dollars of corrections that would need to be
made," Hammond said. "We
don't have those kinds of funds, and you have to weigh this against the costs
for maintaining and preserving our existing infrastructure."

The ruling didn't speak
to culverts built and maintained by local governments, raising questions about
broader implications of the decision.

"What's next?" Hammond
asked. "Think about a stream as it crosses a city street and a county road
and a state highway as it makes its way to Puget Sound.

"It doesn't solve
the problem unless you correct the whole corridor, and if we can't afford it at
the state level, the local agencies certainly can't," Hammond
said.

For tribes, the ruling
was a long-awaited culmination of the original Boldt decision, U.S.
vs. Washington. In that case,
tribes sought not only affirmation of their treaty right to fish in their usual
and accustomed places, but protection of habitat to ensure that fish would
always be there to catch.

P.S. #2  Here is
amphitheater "roundabout" for the tribe (MIT)and another example
of government meddling and illegitimate taking of rural private
property.

This was rural farm private property
but with the right amount money and the right connections, the Muckleshoot
Indian Tribe bought the land, transferred it into the U.S. Bureau of Indian
Affairs tribal trust, fired a protesting BIA manager.  Then they proceeded
to build a 20,000 seat outdoor amphitheater holding 40 some events a
year.  Gambling and entertainment big business are using tribal
sovereignty to take private property all over America.  Local Enumclaw
people tried for years to stop it, but were stiffed by King County Council and
the courts.  This mess is 5 miles from me.  They had over a dozen
choices of sites not on the Enumclaw rural farm land plateau but they were
allowed to take this one piece of rural private property.  Yet we cannot
use our land, clear our ditches, drain our fields, remodel our homes, subdivide
our land for our relatives, etc.

P.S. #3.  Here is another
example of how King County Council and government meddles and extorts rural
private property

"Picture a dairy
farm with no diary cows"...

King County Council sells a
multimillion dollar bond to the King County citizens.  Seattle voters
and environmental extremists who do not live out here want to park out the
Enumclaw Plateau but do not want to pay for it themselves.  So they raise
the money through a bond that everybody pays for the rest of their life to
buy out the development rights of a few farms.  They distort and
misrepresent the wording and advertising in the bond measure.  It is the
primarily the green crowd in Seattle pushing these unconstitutional
takings.  The dairy farm near me was given $400,000 and has since gone out
of business.  Milk prices were too unstable.  He sells off half the
farm and contracts to stay alive and raises corn.  All of which probably
barely pay for the property taxes and his living expenses.  This is
government social engineering at its "finest".

This is why our Founding Fathers
designed a limited government.  These are just a few local examples
or how big government has created a long rope of takings of our
constitutional and natural rights.   Big government and big special
interest are weaving a rope of taking that is hanging us all out to dry.

P.S. #4.  The cities, with
the help of Association of Washington Cities and State and counties grab
rural farm land to grow their tax base.

Local inc.
& uninc. towns eat up rural farm land for higher and
best tax revenue while they systematically,

sue,
fine, brutalize, jail, lien, trespass, extort property improvements
upon tens of thousands of rural property owners.

Then
they use much of this money for their own inner city projects.

City
of Renton soon grows out to Maple Valley,

Maple
Valley soon connects to Black Diamond,

Black
Diamond connects to Enumclaw,

Enumclaw
connects to Buckley,

Buckley
connects to Lake Wilderness & Lake Tapps & Sumner & Puyallup
& Fife & Tacoma & Olympia

Picture
rural private property owners squeezed out of their life and their
rights

If
you can't see this picture, come out here and I will show it to you

This
is the agenda of Washington State, County and City governments,
Association of WA Cities, all of the green groups including the courts,
the legislature and the executive.

e.g.

City of Enumclaw grabs half of Rainier Horse
Stable directly on SR 169 with a traffic count of 12,000 a year for a
middle school

and they take two 100 acre farms to sell to a
developer to build $350,000 cracker box homes 12 feet apart with no play
ground for the kids,

now they are trying to eminent domain more rural
farm land west of the city

It won't be long before there is no
rural land because the local cities will take it for their own
coffers.  The Growth Management Act is not what you think.  It is an
unconstitutional taking of private property for the sole benefit of government
at all levels PLUS their partners in crime, i.e. the green extreme groups
and the green businesses.

Few will see the following:

rural
property owners cannot use their land or have only limited use,

nor
afford the insane and unconstitutional illegitimate taxes on private
property including their wages,

nor
cannot sell their land at commercial value for their own retirement.

nor tolerate
the never ending escalation of illegitimate taxation without
representation

including
zoning changes and DDES and county district and superior court Gestapo
tactics.

the
media both conservative and liberal turn their mics
away because their audience and funding are city based.

ACTION ITEMS

Demand an
open government including public disclosure of government and non
government AGENDAS

Demand policy
changes stopping all government action against local private
property owners

Demand
any government or non government action requires direct approval of the
local property owners.

Demand
a shift in government taking, to a government that respects and
honors local communities first and foremost.

Demand
major changes in the county and state courts;

including Prosecuting Attorneys, District,
Superior, Court of Appeals &  Supreme Court Judges

oath of office to obey the State and U.S. Constitution
must be beefed up to

Much stiffer penalties and easier prosecution

Judges and PA's must disclose any agenda they are
given

Judges and PA's and their staff must be monitored
and held personally accountable.

all property related violations must have strict
limitations on penalties,

no open ended tampering of bail bond, jail time,
avoidance of pleas, et al

Property Owners are witnessing District and Superior
Court corruption especially in Pierce and King County

Demand
an INDEPENDENT whistle blower and watch dog groups inside all
government departments that touch private property

Demand
expanded powers of the Attorney General's office to take complaints
from citizens groups to investigate and prosecute
any government corruption regarding private property takings.

Demand
stiff sentences against any government employee,

including stiff fines and imprisonment of
government employees giving excessive code enforcement and

the same for all court personnel that
violate & harasses the rights of private property owners

Demand stiff
sentences against any green extreme groups that pressure government at any
level to exercise private property takings, e.g.

Washington Environmental Council, Futurewise, CELP,
Nature Conservancy, Autobahn, etc.

Demand government
wide investigations of departments that are overly zealous of private
property owners, e.g.

Pierce and King County court system

King and Pierce County code enforcement, DDES.

King County Council extortion of unconstitutional
permitting fees on top of unconstitutional property taxes.

Demand
new legislation allowing personal liability suits against any
government employee who breeches his/her oath and code of conduit.

Demand the
establishment of a Independent Office of Freedom and Liberty at State and
county levels

where any government employee may be summoned
and held accountable

before an independent group of private property owners
and/or victims

from any acts including excessive legislation,
regulations and enforcement upon private property owners.

Demand
impact statements on the basic constitutional rights of all impacted rural
property owners.

The so called Growth Management Act,
Critical Area Ordinance, Endangered Species Act, et al, are an environmental
ponzi scheme, taking and redistributing basic God given, natural and
constitutional rights from every honest man and women in America.

American government at all levels
has become a deadly cancer against all our freedoms and liberties.
We have reached a flash point between the takers and the taken.  Socialism
and Communism in Washington State cannot coexist with free people.

"Russian servitors
had no guarantees of personal rights, which is why they cannot be called
nobles: their landed estates, indeed their ranks and very lives, were dependent
on the goodwill of the tsar and his officials.  No charters were issued to
them before the modern era (1785) of the kind that were familiar in medieval
Poland, Hungary, England and Spain.  From this point of view, the status
of a Russian noble" was no different from that of the lowest commoner, and
so it comes as no surprise that in addressing the tsar the highest dignitaries
of the realm referred to themselves as his slaves.  Land tenure entailed
not so much rights as obligations, and there were even cases heavily punishable
under a law of 1642 of dvoriane trying to evade state service by bonding
themselves as slaves to other landlords.

How extreme was the
hostility of the Russian monarchy to private property can be seen from the fact
that it refused to acknowledge as inviolate property even personal belongings,
recognized as such by the most primitive societies.  Russians had no
certainty that government agents would not seize any object of value in their
possession and forbid trade in any commodity by declaring it a state
monopoly.  Fletcher thus describes the anxiety he encountered among
Russian merchants:

"The great
oppression over the poore Commons, maketh them to have no courage in following
their trades: for that the more they have, the more daunger they are in, not
onely of their goods,  but of their lives also......""  Property
And Freedom, pg. 178-179 Richard Pipes

Jack Venrick

Rural & Watching

My Freedom & Liberties

Being Taken

Unjustly, ungodly, unnaturally,

And Unconstitutionally

Enumclaw, WA

"The wise man says, " I am
looking for the truth," and the fool, "I have found the truth".

Russian Proverb