"Let me teach you to be a thorn. Or...how to stick it to 'em" April 22, 1998

SISKIYOU DAILY NEWS Wednesday, April 22,1998

Let me teach you to be a thorn. Or... how to stick it to 'em

BY NANCY GREGG
Property Rights Activist, Author

he first words out of my mouth were, "I respectfully decline this nomination to be president of this organization as I am more suited to be a thorn in their side..."
     "Teach us to be a thorn, Nancy," was heard form t he back of the room and then another and another. I have given it prayerful consideration. You all should know that I believe this movement will not be successful unless we each acknowledge in our own way in our hearts that it is only through Divine Intervention, in answer to our prayers that we will find the courage to act and put our energy into the return of the REPUBLIC of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
     You should also know that I believe with each of us doing that which is required to be come personally responsible for our government, we will succeed.
     So here we go - Lesson No. 1: When we were children we were taught strict obedience to our parents. However, if you want to have a free society, government is not your parent - it has to be obedient to you, not you to it.
     So you do not allow government entities, (agencies, bureaus, congressmen, elected politicians) on any level, dictate your behavior to you.
     For instance, I am hurting more than I have every hurt about anything in my entire life. The country that I love has reached a state where it is threatening to take everything I have acquired - from my home and property to my way of life, which was my American Dream. Over the years local rules and regulations have made it more difficult to enjoy my way of life. With the restrictions of my land use they took my dreams of eventual retirement and development of my property. These regulations stole my dreams of the future. Without dreams, we have no hope.
     Now, this National Marine Fisheries Service has informed me that I can only complain to them until April 24. Who are they to tell me how long I can complain?
     The length of time to object should be in direct relationship to the time expended to acquire what is being taken from you. In this

GUEST OPINION
case the rest of my life. For it is my life's work they are taking - the ownership of my land, my belief in constitutional governing, my dreams!
     Since arrogance and ego breed disrespect for others, we are going to have to remind them that we are not expendable resources. (I have heard people referred to as expendable resources by U. S. Forest Service personnel and military personnel. And I have no doubt that most environmental agencies in government refer to people in that manner.)
     I am not a resource! I am not theirs to possess,direct, instruct mandate or regulate! I am a child of God's with the Divine Right of self, direction, decision, responsibility and life. Each of you are endowed with these same inalienable rights! Claim them now!
     Every time you write a letter you are claiming that right. Every time you attend a meeting you claim that right.
     When we all showed up at the fairgrounds in mass we scared them folks... It was the first time I have truly been aware that they were quaking in their shoes. That means that they now have been threatened, so the push back is going to be as energy-charged as our response has been. (It is the law of equal and opposite reactions.)
     As you write your letters do not ask them to do something to help. Tell them specifically, "I want you to cease and desist all action in regard to this regulation." If it is to a member of congress, it should state, "I want you to pass this bill, or tell this agency that they will stop infringement of the citizens' rights of private property."
     Regarding this quo0te from Congressman Herger's letter of March 13, "Protecting and preserving species that require special attention should correctly be considered a priority of the federal government," I say bull puckies! I don't see anywhere in the framework of the Constitution that animals, vegetable and minerals are more important than the citizens of the United States of America! This tells me that this representative to Congress has reached the position that his own ego is telling him the status to which he has arrived makes him more knowledgeable about our own good than we ourselves. Tell him in your

letters that you will hold him personally responsible if thisregulation is proceeded with by the National Marine Fisheries Service. He has been given by me personally the means to talk with other colleagues with reason to promote a prompt and swift action to halt this aggressive behavior in our government:
   1. Pass bill HR 901. This bill protects public and private property from being given to others with the stroke of the president's pen.
   2. Pass bill HR 1146. This bill takes us out of the United Nations. Anyone voting against that bill should be run out of office.
     All these people take an oath of office. It is to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America. Any federal elected official or bureaucrat who moves to enact any regulation that is in direct contradiction to Constitutional Law should be prosecuted, civilly and criminally. Civil court should be to strip them of their wealth and give it to those who they damaged and criminal court should be for treason.
     Every week I want you to write to the next guy up and complain that you have not had a response from the last guy you wrote. Every week I want you to send a personal letter to congressmen and senators, federal and then state. On the state level it is time we STOPPED the uncontrolled bureaucracies called Fish and Game Water Resources, Public Utilities, and on and on and on...
     While you are writing your letters please give your children pad and pencil, let them draw a picture of protest or write their own letter. But actively teach them to make government accountable to us all. Make them use the power of one!
     If you teach them this, all the schools in the world will never be able to take from them the value that this one act instills. They will have strong self-worth, and they will be able to hold themselves responsible for whatever happens in their lives. We and our children, are the Republic of the United States of America.
     This is how to be a thorn. Let's grow into a large bush. This bush will blossom into new beginnings.
     First lesson is over, your grade in this course is determined by how many mailbags are delivered to all these people. God bless you. and God, please, bless My America.