THE
PROPERTY RIGHTS FOUNDATION OF THE WEST
Monthly Meeting

Wednesday June 17th 2009 7:00 PM
The Country Steak-Out
19592 East 8th Avenue
Ft. Morgan, Colorado

Are We The People Interested In What We Can Do?
Last months meeting produced some tremendous questions and discussion 
as to the numerous concerns across America.
We will pick up where we left off 
Along with updates as to the things we have been working on. 
Elizabeth Quint just recently graduated from Merino High School.
For a project in Ag this last year she chose the topic of 
Property Rights
She will be giving her speech that she prepared and we will have the opportunity to 
hear and discuss the concerns of our children. 

Please take this opportunity to attend this months meeting to discuss 
What We The People can really do to help everyone’s situation. 

Letter To The Editor by Chuck Miller

I was moved to write this letter because of this holiday season; starting with giving thanks at “Thanksgiving,” followed by the “ Dear Santa” letter, then ending with a New Years Resolution. I hope you that read this take credit where credit is due, except criticism if it fits but most of all join me in making a New Years Resolution that will make a difference.

I’d like to begin by thanking my parents and grandparents, and the generations before them.  They worked hard supporting my life choices and preserving the right for me to be successful.  It was up to me to be as dedicated and honest as they were.

I’m thankful to have a wife and children who have further surrounded me with a love that has made my life complete and fulfilling. This country was built on a foundation of dedication, hard work and sacrifice, layered with honesty. If you think about it, the most important things in life are family, friends and the opportunity to choose what you want to do for a living, and what you do to make a difference in preserving a healthy future.

Our country started with a backbone!  A backbone of desire to not only be self-sustaining, but to produce enough essential goods to support an entire community. The people who settled our country had one dream. With that dream, an American dream to be a farmer, they carefully marked out a piece of land and developed water, so they could build a home, and grow food and fiber.

The newly formed governments allowed the necessary rights to stake a claim on the land and water in return for their dedication, hard work, and stewardship over their claim. Their honesty and respect for one another, was generally held together with a handshake.It wasn’t long before this American Dream grew as a valuable, reliable way to feed the world.

Ironically, this group of agricultural people has deceased to 2% of our population, while people disconnected with agriculture has grown to a whooping 98%. This disproportionate percentage might be OK, if only the 98% knew us more, and controlled us less.

We are thankful for our military and their families who make huge sacrifices to protect our freedoms.  May I humbly offer, that our farmers also do a work to protect our freedoms, by insuring our food and fiber providers never fall in the hands of unfriendly nations! Maybe we should all stand up and clap for them, shake their hand and say “thank you” for all they do to protect our freedom.

If it weren’t for these two types of people, would our country be the country it is today? The 98% need to join with the 2% in concern with what is going on in our country today.It truly appears that the individuals we’ve elected from about 40 years ago and on have neglected critical thinking as to what it takes to maintain the feeding and clothing of so many.

Perhaps these past 40 years, we’ve become so involved in our personal lives, that little attention has been devoted to those we trust and put upon the many challenging positions required, to protect our rights. We relied on them to uphold our constitution, and make decisions based solely on doing so. 

The rights our forefathers developed have been dramatically meddled with. And at great peril for our present and future. I’ve heard about some movement called a new world order, and if this is what’s evolving, it’s evolving in an exceptionally dis-ordered way.  It’s as though the powers that be, i.e. the moneyed, have brought out a demolition crew hell bent on crushing our freedom foundation. Their most serious offence is taking away agricultural use of land and water. Yes.  This is true.  They are taking America’s land and water out of agricultural use, and importing your food and fiber from un-friendly nations.

Well by now you might be thinking I’m a bit crazy and this is really not happening. If that is the case I ask you to forget the big picture and look at what is going on right in your town.Remember how we started this: production agriculture!  The backbone of our country, which is being brutally whipped.

Lets ask a few simple questions and see what the answers are. Why, in the development of water in Colorado, was 85% put in Agriculture?  Why does only 2% of the population feed the world?  Why are farmers considered an independent breed? Why is the FFA the largest membership organization? Why do some still hold tight to the American...”I want to be a Farmer” dream? 

The answers are simple.  Many of us would like to be a part of that elite group of strong individuals who get up before the sun, walk out of their homes and look across a glowing horizon, go about morning chores, develop an order of daily duties with a clear mind, enjoy activities with the whole family, eat the food they produced, walk the kids to the school bus, serve their community church, school and other organizations, wave to the kids on the bus returning home from school, feed all the animals, pray for our service men and women,  repair machinery, doctor a sick critter, and the list goes on. 

Did you know that one of the finest crops an agricultural family produces is a great child? Ag people have a solid reputation of carrying their honesty into every corner of their walk in life.  They bring irreplaceable abilities and drive to till our lands into needed products, all while preserving our water, wildlife and environment. What other segment of society can stake that claim?

Folks, we are on the verge of seeing our American Dream being shoved over an edge into nothingness. Your country and community began with production agriculture. But guess what, we are now asking the farmer (Remember, 2% of the population.), to perform these same levels of production on lands where the waters are being moved into protecting things that serve no other purpose than a “look see” by a handful of people.

Join together and protect your investment in a future supply of safe, economical food and fiber that comes from your friendly neighborhood farmer.  Your farmer neighbor needs at the least... the 85% water he or she has the right to use.

My Christmas wish is two-fold: You, the 98% non-ag folks, please, be alert, be aware, and stop anyone who threatens your food and fiber supply by trying to take away that water from it’s proper and very necessary usage. Farmers come together and protect your vested right to use that water.

My New Years Resolution is to do all I can to help consumers and farmers accomplish this mission together. I challenge each and every one of you to make this a priority. We the people of Colorado must come together, get educated, and keep Colorado’s water in Colorado.

If the water of this state is not allowed to run on our fields, there will be no need for any streets. 

Thank you for doing your part.

Chuck Miller

Miller is an auctioneer, real estate broker in North Eastern Colorado, who embraces our undeniable right to purchase and protect property.

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P.O. Box 543

Brush Co. 80723