The Senate Environment and Natural Resources committee has marked up some 25 bills this week, all of which are an attack on private property rights and an expansion of government land ownership. Among the worst is S. 289 to establish the Journey Through Hallowed Ground (JTHG) National Heritage Area (NHA). Also bad is S. 278 to establish a permanent program to create new NHAs nationwide. APC has been the premier organization fighting NHAs. To date, because of your help, we have stopped them ... against all odds. It is urgent we stop them once again. Concentrate on stopping the JTHG NHA; stopping that should stop the effort to establish a national program. Do it NOW before the Senate passes these bills in the dead of night, and recesses.

We have issued a lot of Newswires and Sledgehammer alerts on this issue, but allow me to reiterate the serious threats NHAs pose to local communities and property owners. National Heritage Areas are a federal land grab scheme whereby federal money (pork) is funneled through the National Park Service to anti-property rights, anti-development, anti-capitalism local greens for the sole purpose of extinguishing your private property rights. Partnering with the Park Service, Gang Green is directed to use these federal taxpayer dollars to "preserve" whatever they consider to have natural, historical, cultural, educational, scenic or recreational (did I miss anything?) value. To read more about the dangers of National Heritage Areas, go to: www.americanpolicy.org/prop/senatetestimony.htm

The effort to establish the JTHG is pork barrel politics at its worst. Special interest groups are relying on deceit and outright lies to gain approval, hoping to pad their pockets at the expense of property owners and local economies.

During promotional and lobbying efforts, the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership has claimed their campaign has the support of towns and communities throughout the four-state area. As you've read here before, this is an outright lie that cannot stand the light of day.

If the JTHG NHA is established, it will likely then make establishment of a national program unstoppable. This will result in a FLOOD of new National Heritage Areas, each of which will DEVOUR private property rights, CONTROL local land use, and DESTROY local businesses. If a national program is created, the march will be on. Virtually every square inch of these United States could soon be within an NHA boundary, subject to the iron-fisted regulatory rule of the National Park Service and its green partners. We must make a stand. Hold nothing back. We cannot let this happen!

ACTION TO TAKE:

It is urgent you call your Senators NOW and tell them:

·                                 Oppose the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area.

·                                 This is a massive federal land grab and must not pass.

·                                 The Senate can help you "protect" your private property rights best by keeping greedy federal (and allies') mitts off your land.

·                                 This is pork barrel politics and must not be passed in the dead of night!

Tell them you'll be watching, and will remember, their vote!

Call the Senate Switchboard: (202) 224-3121. Ask for your two Senators by name, or tell the switchboard what state you're in, and you will be directly connected with the desired offices.


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