Your Right to Private Property is Being Threatened by Congress
The Conservation and Reinvestment Act (CARA) is a
Billion Dollar a Year Land Grab of American Citizen’s Soil
July 9, 1999
Both the House and the Senate of the U.S. Congress have proposed
companion bills, HR 701 and S 25, that will give the Fed’s and their
green allies over $1 billion annually to "buy" private
property and put it in federal hands. Federal agencies, along with thugs
like the Nature Conservancy, will be able to use the funds to pressure
unwilling property owners to sell their land. The bill fits perfectly
into the Clinton Administration’s "Urban Sprawl" land grab.
This bill is the most anti-private property and landowner
legislation proposed in years!
CARA is expected to move out of the House and Senate committees this
month. We must exert pressure on House and Senate leadership and our own
Congressmen so that this bill dies.
Among the numerous reasons we should oppose CARA are that no private
property will be safe with these funds available, hundreds of small
communities in existing Federal areas will be wiped off the map, Green
groups will seek to designate hundreds of areas of private land as new
government reservations, billions of dollars of private land will be
taken off the tax rolls, forcing up local taxes.
Environmental groups and big government proponents are salivating at
this opportunity to acquire private property for their self-serving,
detrimental agenda. The Greens recently sent an army of workers to
Capitol Hill to pressure our representatives into supporting this attack
on our constitutional liberties. We must counter their efforts!!!
ACTION TO TAKE:
1. Call House and Senate Leadership and demand that they block
a floor vote on the Conservation and Reinvestment Act!
House: HR 701
Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) (202) 225-0600
Majority Leader Richard Armey (R-TX) (202) 225-4000
Senate: S 25
Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) (202) 224-3135
2. Call your Congressmen, both of your Senators and your
Representative and urge them to vote AGAINST this bill. Capitol Hill
Senate Switchboard (202) 224-3121. Capitol Hill House Switchboard (202)
225-3121.
DON’T CALL JUST ONCE, CALL THROUGHOUT JULY.
AND TELL OTHERS TO DO THE SAME
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