What does HB 1069 do?

The founders of our country established the states to serve as an alternative to and a constraint on the power of the federal government. HB 1069 provides for the state to exercise its inherent constraint against the excess of the proposed take-over of ¼ of unspoiled Colorado by Rumsfeld’’s Transformation Project.

Eminent domain was never intended to be un-reined. The state, through our system of checks and balances, is obligated to limit federal government excess.

The federal government cannot be counted on to constrain itself. Without the representatives of the people of the State of Colorado rising to its responsibility, what is to stop the Pentagon from taking ¼ of unspoiled Colorado for new lethal, high-tech testing and training grounds? What is to constrain a Pentagon that already has more than 25,000,000 acres at its disposal if the state does not exercise the right given it by our founding fathers?

The Pentagon in its proposal to “transform” the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site by acquiring 2.5 million acres – 418,766 acres in the first take — acts as if it is the patriotic duty of taxpayers to hand over ¼ of unspoiled Colorado. This excessive, wasteful and destructive demand is made as:

* increasing numbers of soldiers are sent to war without protective gear;
* traumatized troops return to Ft. Carson and other bases without mental health support;
* shattered volunteer soldiers return to a VA hospital system made into a national disgrace from neglect and lack of funding.

If the representatives of the people of Colorado fail their obligation to constrain the proposed land grab by Rumsfeld’’s Transformation Project, they will ultimately:

* condemn and cause forced removals of generational ranchers from their land and livelihoods;
* displace agriculturally based rural communities, schools, community colleges, hospitals, and senior centers with Rumsfeld’’s Transformation Project’s new lethal, high-tech weapons systems testing and training;
* destroy the last shortgrass prairie in the American Great Plains, her red canyons, unique and outstanding habitats of creatures great and small. Rivers, soils and plants will be made into a war testing and training ground if the representatives of the people of Colorado allow ¼ of unspoiled Colorado to be taken by the Pentagon;
* sacrifice 165 million year-old fossil records of dinosaurs and other ancient life to a Pentagon that spends more than all other militaries in the world combined if the representatives of the people of Colorado refuse to stand and constrain this unthinkable excess;
* see tributaries to the Arkansas River polluted and molested by new generations of lethal weapons systems rather than enjoyed by generations more of children native to this place;
* lose ancient and historic archaeological sites as they will be collected into closets of the brass or locked up in military storage just like those that have already been looted from the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site if the representatives of the people of Colorado do not constrain the Rumsfeld Transformation Project from taking ¼ of unspoiled Colorado.

The Pentagon’s own documents belie the need for expanding PCMS by saying that Ft. Carson has room to train the anticipated additional troops at the base near Fountain. So why this excess? What is it that the Pentagon wants to do here that they cannot do on the 25,000,000 acres already supplied to them by American taxpayers?

Take a look at the cold hard truth of the matter. Here’s an unscientific test…..go to Google Earth and pull up Pinyon Canyon and then compare it to the surrounding land. Can you pick out the boundary? There is no comparison. The Army has proven it is a better steward of land than even the NFS with their Comanche National Grasslands and leased grazing rights. Across all Army and DoD installations, their stewardship has created environmental islands unmatched by anything a private landowner or even an environmental group can boast.

Ms. Rikhof is trying to emblazen your passions with false accusations, inflammatory words and misinformation without any logical, factual or scientific basis. Pinyon Canyon in its current state has over 5000 protected sites that preserve, categorize, and record the history of the area. What cannot be protected on site due to environmental degredation is in fact removed from the site, catalogued, and stored in accordance with internationally recognized standards and do not end up “in the closets of the brass.” They are available to the public through routine request. This information is no secret. Some internet searching and library visits will tell you this. Investigate the facts for yourself.

The fact is that under federal regulations, you can go on virtually any property in the U.S. and find something of “significance” (Historic Preservation Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, etc) that can prohibit the federal government from doing a particular action but in no way prevents a private land owner from doing the same action. As a landowner, I could graze a piece of land into nothing (seen it), dump my old cars into a gully (yup that too), bulldoze a historic homestead (takes up space), and spray paint my initials next to a petroglyph (So cool) and the federal government couldn’t do a thing. If the federal government did that, they would be sued by every environmental group and overnight “action” committee that had cause. The very property rights she purports to protect are destroying the very things she says are worth preserving. Don’t believe me? Take a trip down scenic US 350 for yourself and see what I am talking about. Visit Pinyon Canyon (yes you can do that as a taxpayer). Drive through lovely Model, CO (the Army didn’t do that, economics did it) Visit the Dinosaur Tracks (by the way…ceded by the Army to another entity for stewardship along with a large tract of the Purgatoire basin adjacent to Pinyon Canyon) via the Comanche National Grasslands (about a 3 mile walk). Into nature? Observe the resident Elk herd on Pinyon Canyon, photograph the throngs of antelope, video a mountain lion feeding on a wild turkey in a red walled canyon. Can’t do that on private land without permission even if you could find the wildlife.

I think L D Jamison said it best…maybe things have changed. In the Civil War, armies lined up shoulder to shoulder at 100 yards and shot at each other. Today we think that is barbaric. Thirty years ago we were prepared to fight the Russian Hordes with tank divisions on line in western Europe. Today that seems suicidal. Today, a single combat brigade of 4000 Soldiers can dominate an area the size of the state of New Jersey utilizing technology.

Don’t rely on my words or anyone else’s. See for yourself what the Army has done for stewardship at the current Pinyon Canyon. If you can’t or don’t want to, research the facts for yourself about Pinyon Canyon or any other installation’s environmental record compared to that of any industry or governmental entity out there.

In Iraq, they are engaged in urban warfare, in cities and towns, down narrow streets and alleys, around corners and up and down stairways. The military hasn’t fought in open spaces for a very long time and began training soldiers in urban warfare as far back as the early 1980s.

Additionally, southeastern Colorado is far from either coast where troops and equipment have to be moved in case of deployment. Logistically, Pinyon Canyon doesn’t make a lot of sense.

And you’re correct, part of this argument may be emotional. I’m a native of southeastern Colorado and I’d move back in a heartbeat if I could find a job in my profession. People who love the area, LOVE the area. They don’t want to hand it over.

p.s. Hurray for Ritter, who signed the bill just hours ago!

To force these people out of land that has been in their families for generations is totally beyond anything “American”.

It may be too late already for the ranchers near Pinon Canyon Site. The expansion is more than likely influenced by the “down-wind drift of depleted uranium”. The contamination from the military’s use of DU weapons, and DU armoured tanks, leads to “environmental soil/water/air contamination with DU nanoparticles. Grazing animals are highly susceptible to inhalation of soil/vegetation contamination will they eat.

I am further investigating the link between DU nanoparticles, with BSE and CWD. DU is just one example of a PNC or “proteon nucleating center” consisting of a metal cluster. These clusters consist of 40-300 non-ionic metal atoms. Within Dr. Vitaly Vodyanoy’s (from Auburn University Alabama) USA patent #7,138,255 “Method for the Isolation and self-assembly of Small Protein Particles from Blood and Other biological Materials” has identified PNCs in blood of various mammals.

In his further new (May 31, 2007) USA patent application 20070122799 he has further explained his theories and techniques regarding PRIONs etc. These nanoclusters have been shown to scavenge misfolded proteins to form proteons: clusters of up to 100,000 protein molecules with metal centers.
Check these out at the USA patent office.

In the application he states:
“All PRIONS are proteons, but not all proteons are prions”…..

The metal PNCs are the template for the misfolding, polymerization and aggregation of proteins.

Theoretically, if the lands surrounding Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site are contaminated with DU nanoparticles (and other nanoparticles which may include tungsten, aluminum, iron, etc… depending on the targets struck with DU weapons)…. the people and animals that “inhale”, “ingest” or “absorb” these nanoparticles could be at risk for a multitude of diseases (many of which he lists in his patents).

Rockyflats Co, and White Sands, NM are the birthplace(s) of CWD. These military zones are contaminated with radionuclides from years of testing…. I suggest you read the late MARK PURDEY’s papers and articles regarding his ecodetective journey to these regions of the USA, where in he documented the metal contamination and “co-inciding” mineral imbalances clearly associated with TSEs, and weakened immune systems.

Do some google searching of these key words, sites:

www.markpurdey.com and www.purdeyenvironment.com

“Educating Rita” - rita is the Icelandic word for scrapie, “mark purdey and white sands missle base”

and, if you want to see the agruments that I have been making on behalf of the work of dozens of medical researchers, including Mark Purdey, David R. Brown, R. Deloncle, F. Paquet, P. Paquet… and others like DU expert “Leuren Moret”….. please check out a ranchers message board called “ranchers.net” and go to the “bullsession” link. Search “Kathy” to find all my messages.

This is no joke! Leuren Moret recently (April 2007) documented excessive back-ground radiation levels down-wind of a military base on the Bigh Island of Hawaii. The USA military claims they don’t/didn’t use DU weapons on this base… The excessively high readings on particular days coinciding with maneuvers, proves that they are.
see you tube video KITV news with Leuren Moret…

The Wainright military base in Alberta was just expanded also.

Mark Purdey came to western Canada several times and documented the presence of roque metals near military bases… the combined exposure to these metals and mineral deficiencies in copper/zinc appear to be linked to our BSE and CWD cases…my opinion… not the CFIAs… The sources of rogue metals can be man-made or naturally occurring; however, the source for “fired”/”burnt” metal PNCs is limited to man-made (weapons, flaring, coal-fired electricity, nuclear reactors, nuclear facilities/nuclear testing..and NORMs (naturally occuring radioactive materials) from volcanoes…

The ranchers of Pinon Canyon need to have their soils tested by someone they trust… look for uranium including DU nanoparticles, tungsten, manganese and various heavy metals..

Here is quote from their web-page:

“In 1983 the U.S. Government created the Pinon Canyon maneuver Site (PCMS), and displaced families, condemned properties, and ruined relationships that have gone back generations. They promised at the time that they would never allow live fire at the site, and they promised they would NEVER expand it.

In 2006 the U.S. Government said through the Army at Fort Carson that they want to do it again. But instead of taking 250,000 acres like they did in 1983, they now are over reaching and proposing extending the site to 2.5 million acres.

If they are successful, the Army will take over the ENTIRE Southeast corner of the state of Colorado. The Army broke their promise about live fire in 2004, and now they want to break their promise to American Citizens about not expanding, and they have not provided one valid reason why expansion is necessary. In fact, they haven’t provided much information at all.”

Here are many stories on DU which is contaminating the San Francisco Bay Region from explosions conducted by the Livermore Lab at Site 300. Every one in the San Francisco Bay region who has had hair tested has Uranium in their hair. This stuff goes everywhere. Scroll down to the people in gas masks, it starts there.
http://babywhisperingloudly.typepad.com/babywhisperingloudly/

We are all being poisoned globally and locally and everyone should be riled up and furious about it. Only the citizens can stop it - and we are with a global citizen geiger counter movement.

Army Times website: Strykers harmful to Hawaii environs
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/07/ap_strykerbrigadehawaii_070721/

EIS: http://www.sbct-seis.org/Executive summary: http://www.sbct-seis.org/documents/Exec_Sum.pdf

I would just like to comment, at this time, that UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES will Canadians accept the “testing” of these new military systems by the USA military on Canadian soil.

As I watch this battle in Colorado over the MASSIVE expansion of the Pinon Canyon site, the hair on my neck rises. Many of these “new” systems and unmanned airplanes are proposed to be built and/or tested in Canada. Lougheed Martin and other such companies are working on this in Southern Alberta (Lethbridge and Spring Bank on a project which they claim is for unmanned and manned planes).

Presently, the Canadian government is selling out our Country to the Security and Prosperity Partnership (the three amigos - the North American Union).

In the Canadian Gazette, the government has published new regulations governing many nuclear activities - trying to harmonize them with the USA.

One such ruling will allow the manufacturers of planes to use depleted uranium as counterweights (within the planes). They will be allowed to possess “ANY AMOUNT” of DU (depleted uranium U238) without a license. The DU is manufactured into actual parts of the plane, but for “safety” they must be marked appropriately.

Since September 11, 2001 showed the world that airplanes can be used as weapons against humanity (infact as non-conventional flying missiles), it is not beyond reason to believe that the military plans on packing these unmanned airplanes with DU and using them as a weapon (ie: not just for surveillance).

It is against Canadian law to use any uranium from Canada for weapons. This law is not presently being enforced, and members of the military industrial complex and their suppliers are able to utilize Canadian uranium for so-called dirty bombs and bullets. Yes, they are effective. However, the debris is persistant and toxic.. It is nondiscriminant and destroys the immune system of man and beast. Stable lead 206 is the final end product of the decay series of uranium 238. We are all aware how dangerous lead can be, it is imperative that we all understand that the daughter decay products above lead in the U238 decay series are even more toxic than lead.

In Alberta (where I am from) chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and elk is being found in areas directly associated with:

The Suffield CFB in South-East Alberta (huntng zones CWD is being monitored are north, east and south of the base.

The Wainwright CFB (Canadian Forces Base) - (hunting zones east and north to another CFB called Cold Lake) are the areas with CWD.

The Namao CFB north of Edmonton, Alberta. These zones are sources of wild and domestic CWD cases. The hunting zones being monitored reach from east to west, on the northern zones of Edmonton and area, all the way up to the Swan Hills Incinerator for high-temperature burning of “special” toxic waste.

See page two at this website for the zones being monitored for CWD in Alberta - and their relationship to the above locations:
http://www.srd.gov.ab.ca/fishwildlife/livingwith/diseases/pdf/2006_AB_Sask_border_prg.pdf

Metal contamination of the prion protein associated with CWD and BSE (other TSEs), has been confirmed by many researchers. Burning of waste at the Swan Hills Incinerator will not get rid of the metals (including any radiological metals). Indeed, it gasifies the metal then when it recondenses it forms non-ionic metal spheres.

These non-ionic metal spheres contaminate the environment down-wind of where they are made and released, eg. the incinerator at Swan Hills, AND, just like the Depleted Uranium munitions used by the military. Without proper testing and identification of the rogue metals contaminating the prion proteins associated with CWD - there is no way to rule out DU as the cause (or at very least) a contributing factor in CWD. Please read Dr. Vitaly Vodyanoys USA patent application 20070122799.

The father of the prion hypothesis, Dr. STanley Prusiner of University of California, has shown in several of his own research papers - that uranyl acetate (containing similar spherical uranium nanoparticles) is capable of seeding crystals of prions. Several other metals used in negative stains, did not.

It is time for the ranchers and citizens of Colorado to examine the true reasons why the military wants to expand Pinon Canyon, and put a stop to further contamination of the planet.

Canada allowed the testing of “cruise missiles” at our Cold Lake CFB (and maybe at other bases we weren’t told about). Foreign military (NATO) countries have been utilizing CFB Suffield since WWII. A base that is 664,000 acres large. It is not just for maneuvering exercises, but also for “biological” research.

My husband’s uncle was one of the Canadian soldiers used as guinea pigs at the Suffield base during WWII. He, and many others were exposed to mustard gas and other nerve agents. He survived his ordeal, but lives a life with chronic lung problems. Others, he states, died immediately after the test. Many more suffered for years before their deaths.

This is what the military industrial complex finds acceptable.

When are the people of this country going to demand that laws be passed to prohibit our “representatives” from accepting money from the war industry? Until such time, the world will never be a safe place for children and other living beings.

The United States has a larger military than the 8 other largest militaries worldwide (including Russia) combined and we spend more than twice the money that all of the other militaries world wide combined annually….who are we protecting? Because it certainly is not the people of this country or any other (we are hated and feared by the entire rest of the world). It only serves to fund the criminal activities of this government and its’ march to conquer the rest of the world by force for the large corporations…fascism.