Slave Labor & Absent Discussion

Untold thousands, if not millions, of illegal immigrants work in the underground economy without any civil rights.  Next time you buy that cheap shirt or blouse made in China remember that the item itself as well as the Made in China label could have come from Southern California.  Louis Vuitton spent millions combing the slums of Manila, Calcutta and similar cities searching for those counterfeiting their products. But an investigator from Santa Ana found the illicit factory in Southern California. Meanwhile, the government bureaucrats in their lofty perches scratched their heads wondering why the LA sewage treatment plant kept overflowing. It was commonplace for a dozen or so people to live squeezed into a one bedroom apartment. Anyone who supports open borders supports a gangster style slave labor system.

But this discussion of legal or illegal has been too often defined as being pro or anti immigrant. Manipulation of the defining terms is, however, more clever than the blanket rejection of information all too often evident in local Facebook discussions. I wonder about these people who don’t try to examine both sides of an argument because thoughtful people read both sides and seek understanding. Politics is the art of the possible.  Any mature person knows that that are good and bad sites across the political spectrum.  I consider Liberals Unite to be a hate site while Counterpunch offers factual, reasoned analysis although I usually question their assumptions and discard their conclusions.  One left wing feminist article I read had observant insights contrasting women’s roles in the Tea Parties with the Republican Party. Reading differing points of view makes one think, the apparent unthinkable to many local commentators. Instead these Facebook commentators instantly and unequivocally reject many sites or sources as fake news. This obviously reflects their negligible commitment to democratic process. Their only real interest is in pushing their restrictive agenda.

Their persuasion substitute (as noted above with terminology control) lies in their techniques. Another example often used to confuse is to frame the debate as Democrat versus Republican. But the conflict of our time is globalism, which includes far too many Republicans, versus we the people populism. One doesn’t have to look further than the wild & scenic designation for part of Mokelumne River or our General Plan for evidence of our predetermined slot in globalist nightmare. It is our future and it must be in our hands. 

Copyright 2018, Mark L. Bennett

Another Wild & Scenic Time at the Board of Supervisors

I am speaking today against any wild & scenic designation for any part of the Mokelumne River and to protest this total waste of tax payer money for this absolutely unnecessary study by GEI Consultants.

Firstly, the very term "wild & scenic" is a misnomer. These are controlled dam release flows which are “coincidentally” ideal for rafting.

The very idea of what we are doing today, examining W&S in isolation, is absurd. Place all the W&S designations, conservation easements, land banks, carbon capture forests, etc, etc on a map and you have the land tenure system of the medieval Europe. Probably almost everyone in this room is descended from people who voted with their feet to leave that behind and join the American dream instead.

This proposed designation fits directly into the evil globalist plan to depopulate rural areas and house us in stack and pack big city apartments. Our job is to change the bed linen for the Bay Area liberal elite high tech tourists. Our way of life and prosperity are as important to them as was the life of the last housefly we killed. The importance GEI Consultants give the global warming fraud, the corrupted scientific reason for much of this, certainly substantiates this point of view.

Page 2-10 of the study states, “Using projected future water supply and demand under three climate change scenarios, the study concluded that Amador’s future water needs would ultimately exceed its current water rights if existing land use designations under the County General Plan are built out.” So why further restrict water use? Also, plans are plans, not the reality of an unknown future with assuredly unexpected events.  I find it easy to envision a future, given the increasing Federal debt, where we are under some sort of martial law to mine our gold and sent it to China to maintain our sovereignty.

This state designation is simply a prelude to the even more restrictive federal designation, which is probably an illegal inverse condemnation under the Fifth Amendment.  Even if some existing uses are grandfathered in, this precludes the activity of future generations of entrepreneurs and flushes the American dream down the toilet.

Furthermore, this designation doesn’t change anything in the present. Nothing will change and rafting, dam releases, etc will continue. The argument of protecting the river is fallacious. If anyone were to propose anything of significance along the river the environmental litigation would probably last longer than my lifetime.

The Mokelumne River Canyon/Devil’s Nose Dam maybe one of two outstanding water storage sites left in all of California.  What I assume this means is the most water stored for the least capital expenditure.  This is an obvious trade off decision since there are countless other rivers in California for tourism and recreation.  I have heard differing opinions on this and would have researched this further, but without funding from the George Soros Tides and Rose Foundations like the Foothill Conservancy has, my time is limited.

All the water that Amador County loses goes to East Bay MUD. And while probably within the law, the Foothill Conservancy and EBMUD have been in cahoots for years. They have a shared interest, despite an occasional lawsuit. Also, the Foothill Conservancy has a potential conflict of interest with O.A.R.S, a rafting company, whose proprietor sits on the Foothill Conservancy board. Is it possible that the county council look into this situation?

I came of age in the 1960’s and since then have adopted a saying of that time: Tell it like it is, baby, tell it like it is.

Mark Bennett,

Pine Grove

PS: There are slight revisions in the above from my earlier remarks at the Board of Supervisors.