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May 26, 1999
Memorandum
To: Libertarians and those not yet sure
From: D.A. Tuma
| The enclosed position paper responds to a petition
submitted to the California State Water Resources Control Board regarding regulation of
discharge from farm field drains in the Grasslands area on the west side of the San
Joaquin Valley in Merced County. The petition requests the Board to stop the discharge and cut off irrigation water to farms as a way to protect "public trust resources" from destruction. I find the petition consistent with past environmental socialist fear-mongering to win voter support for constraints on federal Central Valley Project (CVP) water deliveries and drainage relief for farms. My response attempts to discredit allegations in the petition and help revise public understanding of the Kesterson debacle. My response attempts to explain why congress reneged on its promise to renew CVP water supply contracts, raided twenty percent of CVP water rights dedicated for farms, and took drainage rights without just compensation. My response attempts to explain how the federal executive branch stole the primary purpose for which the Kesterson facility was authorized by congress. My response attempts to explain how government's legitimate purpose of protecting property rights and contracts has been corrupted by demented environmental ideology. My response attempts to explain how conflicts over use of common "public trust" property fosters fraud, perpetuates confusion, erodes morality, and conceals real dangers. My response attempts to offer an alternative to communist government reallocation of scarce resources: privatization of "public trust" common property. My response offers hope for a good time and a better life through self-government. |
Kesterson: a Microcosm of Government Corruption
By D.A. Tuma
Libertarian Candidate, 3rd CD
Part 1
Government Fraud Sustains Public Confusion about Drainage
Moral disaster at Kesterson
Slouching toward Kesterson
The sound of commerce
Government thought control fading fast
The uncooperative: robbers in the polling booth
Representatives give us the kind of government we want: no?
Out-of-control government
Government we want
Fight for pork
Calling the hand that feeds us "subsidized"
Who puts the pork in the barrel?
Part 2
Making up the rules as we go
The beast: leviathan
Theft: conspiracy to defraud
The baby boomers: they are a-changing
Market eventually delivers what we want
Recognizing value, recognizing fraud
Business subsidies
Environmental ideology
Idiot abuse: slavery: death
Demented Kesterson morality
Central Valley Project Improvement Act, Title 34, Public Law 102-575: scam
Dedicated purpose
Socialists and communists
Part 3
Usurpation of property right: "National Wildlife Refuge"
Bad faith in government socialism and communism
Farmers depend on us to honor our contracts
Environmental socialist assault on private property: CVPIA
CVPIA restoration fund: new tax
CVPIA restoration fund: eternal drain on prosperity
Low voter turnout: helpless
Government rules: subsidized speech frustrated
Porgans' Petition
Part 4
Advice to Porgans: message received loud and clear
"Meaningful public involvement": brain-washing
Precedence for rants before the Board
Bashing socialism into the dustbin of historical hysteria
Thanks to Porgans: illustration of demented Kesterson morality
Listener interest: consistency
Inflated body counts: inflated alarm
Humans Last: humility for slaves
Amusing government selenium limits
Natural law: human treasure
Selenium control recommendation
Real dangers
Part 5
How to expose fraud
Natural context of taxes
Farm field drainage is property right
Hunger and exposure
Intent of commerce clause
Taxes enslave
Final solution: source control
Natural context of dilemma
Natural context of contamination
Lack of viable plan: threat to agriculture
Bizarre priorities: enabled by government
Part 6
Highly toxic: "little or no data"
Better quality water for ducks than for people
Endangered species: people
Viability: river, delta, and bay
Life is knowledge
Facts of life: hostile habitat: corrupt knowledge
Obligation to protect: not non-viable tissue
Objection: forced to support religious creed
CVRWQCB actions: significant threat
Waters of the State: drainage of Porgans
Source of selenium contamination: imagination
Contaminant brain-washing
Free federal water for hunting clubs: lost opportunities
Why farms stay in production
Part 7
Market surplus: communist famines
National Environmental Policy Act violation: exclusion of world-wide impacts
Mean, eco-facist xenophobia
Legitimate corporations don't use government enforcement
What is the problem?
"What happened to the selenium?"
What happened to me?
Selenium not a contaminant
Market potential for assimilative capacity
Structural alternative for drainage
Beyond the sea coast, desert ocean
Selenium in our gypsum
Selenium before Kesterson
Stopping the recirculation and concentration of water
Part 8
Commitment to living on dry ground
Interference with genetic code
Child liabilities
Surplus kid subsidies
Farm subsidies
Jerking our market: corrupt government officials
Stability: human virtue
National defense: foreign trade restrictions
Why farm crops are uniquely valuable for trade
Where does human energy come from?
Choosing where we want to be
Solute limits disregard gravity and the Second Law
Diverting energy flows
Part 9
Conserving available energy
Alternative to CVP: fond memories maybe
Why teach our children?
Mistakes of so few
Mistakes of so many
Libertarian literature
Saving rivers for future generations
Hard lessons in trail tips
Assimilative capacity
No way for Kesterson to get upstream
Serving wildlife before people
Embryonic wildlife: bird-brained
Ponder the fate of mankind
Part 10
Tragic insensitivity
Kings lead us to war
Freedom to associate
Wisdom proportional to portfolio: wisdom weighted votes
Immigration quotas
Young, ignorant ingrates
What can be done
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