Government: Stealing 2.5 million Farm acres for War planning

I am trying to help spread the word on the latest actions of our government.

I read this article and it outraged me so.  Why is our government taking such valuable land and why do they need so much more-especially after announcing the closures of so many already EXISTING bases?

Who and what is being built on these lands?  They do not need so much land and surely should not be abusing rights and such valuable resources for food if they did need some land.

From After Downing Street.org

"Southeastern Colorado is being invaded by the US Army
Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2006-10-26 00:28. Activism

http://www.pinoncanyon.com

Southeastern Colorado is being invaded by the US ARMY just as Iraq and Afghanistan were invaded.

In 1973 the Army Corp of Engineers condemned 234,000 acres of productive farm and ranch land and created the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site (a offshoot of Fort Carson located 150 miles north west outside of Colorado Springs.

April 1st 2006 it was brought to light that the Army was considering another 'land grab' and is now looking to takeover an additional 418,000 acres of (again) productive ranchland ripping 400 ranchers off lands their families have owned for generations (some going back to Spanish Land Grants). THIS IS THE LARGEST LAND GRAB BY THE GOVERNMENT SINCE THE INDIAN TAKEOVER.

Time is running short in our outmanned/outgunned fight and we are looking for support from coalitions who believe our government is out of control.

The reasons the ARmy gives for needing additional land for training are needing to train additional troops not only for the Global War On Terror, but for a possible ground war on China! A"Defunct" Military map from the Department of Defense shows the Army looking to
eventually take over 2.5 MILLION ACRES in Southeastern Colorado. From the Kansas border to Inerstate 25 (from East to West) and from Highway 10 to the New Mexico border (from North to South). This is unconscionable waste of land that produces food for America and abroad
to make more war is criminal. Please look into the matter and let your subscribers and readers know what the government is doing to the few left in this country who provide a needed service. We can't let them get away with taking more Agricultural land."

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/...

•  All the people

  I want to see all the people who whined about Bill Clinton's expansion of the National Park System lining up to support you on this issue.

  What's that I hear?  One lonely cricket, chirping?

  Thought so.

  by Nina Katarina on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 09:33:24 AM PDT

•  Cheney really is making us a military nation

  his sole aim - every aspect of governmental policy geared towards an imperial power.

  by paige on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 09:47:21 AM PDT

•  Maybe Halliburton

  need more land for their detention centers?

  by bobtaco on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 09:52:23 AM PDT

•  Are there any newspaper articles on this? NT

  NT

  by Eric J in MN on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 09:57:45 AM PDT

•  Yep, yep and yep.

  Can't we just send them all to the moon?  I'm sure Halliburton has great plans for there.  

  by Linda in SFNM on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 09:58:46 AM PDT

•  It's happening in NC also

  Some of the most verdant farmland in eastern North Carolina is being pursued by the Navy for a practice field for "touch and go" landings. The story has been covered extensively by the news media in NC (especially the Raleigh "News & Observer").

  Unfortunately, Sen. Dole has not been much help in stopping this land grab. From my reading of it, it seems that the Navy has acted with hubris and in bad faith at virtually every juncture of the process...kind of like Dubya and his cronies.

  The real kicker here is that the large Canadian geese and Tundra swan population that uses the Atlantic flyway (near Lake Mattamuskeet) would be a severe danger to the aircraft and pilots.

  It would be almost cartoonishly demented if it weren't so sadly dangerous.

  by ncnygirl on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 10:12:58 AM PDT

•  I live next door

  to this proposed military installation. This is a real David and Golliath story. A local man, Doug Holdread, has written many articles about Pinon Canyon being stolen by the Defense Department. Google him. Or go here http://www.pinoncanyon.com/ for the web site dedicated to stopping this travesty. We locals do not hold out much hope for prevailing against the US Army unless this gets more exposure. We need HELP!

  by azygous on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 10:13:45 AM PDT

•  http://salazar.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm

  Please write Senator Salazar, as I just did.

  by Linda in SFNM on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 10:22:43 AM PDT

•  True wealth always comes back to basics

  No legitimate economist anywhere in the world believes that a U.S. economy constructed on a history of cheap land, cheap water, cheap energy and cheap food can persist in it's present state, not in the face of global competition for resources to feed (and please) 6 billion people. Especially now, since our economy is now running entirely on a hallucinatory "gentleman's agreement" not to crash it, even though we have been printing funny money for 35 years completely untethered to any real, tangible resources.

  When oil hits 150, 200, 250 dollars a barrel, and people come to understand that all these "alternative" energies have remained undeveloped to this point because they're even more expensive, real value may very well revert to the basics: oil, steel, timber, land, land with water and soil that can grow food. All those numbers assigned to "dollars" in computers all across the globe will mean nothing, if there's no electricity to run the computers.... Smart people have known this for a very long time.

  by David Mason on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 10:47:16 AM PDT

•  Land war on CHina? How nuts can they be?

  China OWNS US. They have a billion people to draft. I think this is for a more sinister purpose: slave plantationss to grow food for the Republican elite. Like they have in Uzbekistan.

  by Halcyon on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 10:53:16 AM PDT