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  My quoting bits and pieces of the LEAGUE OF PRIVATE PROPERTY VOTERS
  propaganda, strategy and real agenda has generated several requests
  for the entire document.  So I have archived it for download or file 
  request (freq) at the below BBS:

...   ONE WORLD BBS, L.A. 310-372-0987   (1:102/129)

  If you have never called a BBS before, the simplist way is to have
  your computer call ONE WORLD, follow the prompts (give your name 
  for the "logon:" prompt), move into the environmental file area
  from the main menu, and download PRIVATE!.ZIP by again following 
  the directions.   ZIP files need to be decompressed.
  
  I have also posting it on Fidonet's ENVIRO (not ENVIRON) conference.
  
  It is about 95K long, ZIPed to about 25K.  The file name is
  PRIVATE!.ZIP.  This is right out of the horse's mouth.  You can read
  their own words and determine for yourself if the now popular so 
  called "Property Rights Movement" is really concerned about 1) the
  property rights of the common man as Rush and other Right Wingers
  are pushing it, or 2) if they are really even concerned about
  ANYBODY'S private property at all.

  Or are they really more concerned about getting government handouts?
  Cheap government grazing "rights", nearly free taxpayer land, fee 
  simple under the obsolete mining laws, timber industry welfare by
  increased taxpayer built roads?  Casinos in Nevada worth billions 
  built on ex-taxpayer land "sold" for pennies under mining laws, with
  practically no pretense of mining.  And More.  See for yourself if this
  "movement" is not really attempting to play on emotional lies: "Big 
  Brother and the environmental whackos are out to seize everybody's 
  land!"   See for yourself who is looking to fence whom out.  Who wants
  to abuse the taxpayers.  Take a look.

  One thing is sure; this "movement" is gaining popular support.  The
  strategy is brilliant, and like most good propaganda; fear is the 
  tool.  The lie is calling privileges and taxpayer welfare to the 
  rich "rights".   Oh really??  Swallowed in all of this are the one 
  or two real private property concerns.  All else is a scam riding 
  on fear tactics.

  Perhaps you will come to the same conclusion I have; the "Property
  Rights Movement" is really nothing more than a well funded arm of
  the blindly anti-environmental "Wise Use" movement.

  I am tired of ditto-heads claiming I am biased.  Read the entire 
  unabridged document for yourself, YOU decide who is trying to play 
  you like a cheap harmonica..

  Rush Limbaugh is wrong about this.  I urge people to let him know.

  LOOK!  Where is Private property?   (only in their rhetoric???)

  ======  all below edited for brevity, DIRECT QUOTES: =========

 
K> @Subject: 1993-94 Private Property Congressional Vote Index (Part I)
K> Paul Kelly     
K> PROPERTY RIGHTS EMERGING AS MAJOR CAMPAIGN ISSUE
K> NEW INDEX RATES CONGRESS 

K> fighting for their political lives,"  League of Private Property
K> Voters chairman Chuck Cushman said.  "But there is also no doubt
K> that the vast majority of Americans view the ownership of property
K> as a constitutional right.  Certainly, they do not appreciate, and
K> are unlikely to forget, the actions of those who put the whims of
K> special interest groups over and above the protection of private
K> property."

K> The Private Property Congressional Vote Index for the 103rd 
K> Congress tabulated fourteen key roll call votes in the House of 
K> Representatives and ten in the Senate.  

K> Two hundred sixty one grassroots organizations had joined
K> the League of Private Property Voters at press time to officially
K> sponsor this Congressional Vote Index because we all believe that
K> property rights are important.  The index is offered as an educational
K> tool.  
K>  our free market economy is based on secure and enforceable
K> property rights.  Our prosperity depends on private property ownership.

K>  private property is what allows people to pursue their own
K> goals, independent of the state or society.  Without the ability to own
K> property, the personal achievement of individuality is put out of reach
K> for all but a few. 

K> UNITED STATES SENATE  (1993 1994 Senate Votes)
K> CONGRESSIONAL VOTE SCORECARD  08/02/94 

K> The votes listed below show how Congress supported (S) or opposed
K> (O) the League of Private Property Voters support position taken on the
K> following votes. A description of each vote is listed below the

Alaska
   Murkowski F (R)         S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S    100  100
   Stevens T (R)           S  S  S  S  S  ?  S  S  S  S    100   90

Vermont
   Jeffords J (R)          O  O  O  O  ?  S  S  O  O  O     22   20
   Leahy P (D)             O  O  O  O  O  ?  O  O  O  O      0    0


                     QUICK REFERENCE GRID


     Cut this page out and then cut along the numbers.  Place the grid 
on top of any page of the vote index to give you a quick reference reminder
about the issues decided by the votes we included.



            > > > House of Representatives Quick Vote Grid < < <

#1  Limit funding for FS multiple use roads.
  #2  Raise grazing fees.
    #3  No volunteers    National Biological Survey (NBS) 
     #4  Require NBS to get written consent for access. 
       #5  Raise grazing fees.
         #6  Passage of National Biological Survey (NBS).
           #7  Mining Law Overhaul    Land Restoration.
             #8  Passage of extreme Mining Law Overhaul.
               #9  Montana Wilderness Bill Passage.
                 #10  Motorized vehicle access    California Desert. 
                   #11  California Desert Act    condemnation.
                     #12  Protect property values    Calif. Desert. 
                       #13  Reduce acquisition backlog    Calif. Desert. 
                         #14  Passage    California Desert Act.


                  > > > U. S. Senate Quick Vote Grid < < < 

#1  Increase grazing, mining, recreation and irrigation fees.
  #2  Support a mining royalty.
    #3  Economic and employment impact statements.
      #4  Raise grazing fees. 
        #5  Cloture vote on grazing fees.
          #6  Cloture vote on water rights and grazing fees.
            #7  Cloture   water rights, grazing fees and regulations.
              #8  Make East Mojave a National Monument (not a park).
                #9  California Desert Bill    Land acquisition. 
                  #10  California Desert Bill    Passage.


Senate Votes #1 and 2:  Mining Royalties and Higher Grazing Fees

We believe mining claims on Federal lands are property rights.  

Imposing a mineral royalty on previously existing mining claims would change 
that property right retroactively.  Similarly, Federal grazing permits are 
based on pre existing property rights   primarily private base property, 

Senate Vote #3:  Requiring Economic and Employment Impact Statements.
S. 171 passed the Senate on a voice vote, but never reached the House floor.

Senate Vote #4:  Blocking Babbitt's Grazing Regulations

We believe grazing permits result from pre existing property rights.

Senate Votes #5, 6 and 7:  Interior Appropriations Filibuster.

They attacked grazing permittees' private property rights, particularly their 
water rights.  And, as with Babbitt's proposals, the Congress had not had a 
chance to hold hearings or consider Reid's complex changes in the Federal 
grazing program or western water law. 

                U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
   (1993 1994 House Votes)


CONGRESSIONAL VOTE SCORECARD                                          08/02/94

     The votes listed below show how Congress supported (S) or opposed (O) the
League of Private Property Voters support position taken on the following

Georgia
   Bishop S (D)            S O S S O O O O O ? O ? O O    25   21
   Collins M (R)           S O S S S S S S S S S S S S    93   93
   Darden G (D)            S O O S O O O O O O O S O O    21   21
   Deal N (D)              S O S S O S O O O O O S O O    36   36
   Gingrich N (R)          O S S S S S S O O S S S ? S    77   71
   Johnson D (D)           S O O S O O O O O O O S O O    21   21
   Kingston J (R)          S S S S S S S S O S S S S S    93   93
   Lewis J (D)             S O O O O O O O O O O O O O     7    7
   Linder J (R)            O O S S S S S S S S S S S S    86   86
   McKinney C (D)          S O O S O O O O O O O O O O    14   14
   Rowland J (D)           S O S S O S O O O S O S O O    43   43

Hawaii

K> House Vote #1:  Forest Service Multiple Use Roads

K>   This is part  of an overall attack on logging
K> communities by cutting the FS road budget  thereby creating defacto

K> House Votes #2 and 5:  Federal Grazing Permits

K> Approximately 27,000 ranchers hold livestock grazing permits on nearly
K> 300  million acres of Federal lands in the Western States.  Grazing
K> permits are  based on pre existing property rights.  These include

K> House Vote #2:  Grazing Fees Moratorium

K>  raising
K> Federal grazing fees and  implementing new grazing regulations during
K> Fiscal Year 1994.  

K> House Votes #3, 4 and 6:  National Biological Survey

K> Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt's proposal to create a
K> National  Biological Survey to inventory the nation's biological
K> resources 

K> House Vote #6:  NBS Passage

K> The House on October 26, 1993 passed and sent to the Senate H.R. 1845,
K> to  establish a National Biological Survey within the Department of the
K> Interior.   The final vote was 255 Yes to 165 No.  Although H.R. 1845

K> House Votes #7 and 8:  Mining Law Repeal

K> The General Mining Law of 1872 provides incentives to encourage people
K> to discover and develop valuable hardrock mineral deposits on B.L.M.
K> and Forest Service lands in the Western States.  The central incentive
K> is the right to stake a claim on a mineral discovery.  The claimant has
K> secure tenure in his claims so long as he makes progress in proving and
K> developing the mineral deposit.  Eventually, the claimant may be able
K> to patent his claims   that is, receive fee simple title to both the
K> surface and subsurface.   

K> House Vote #9:  Montana Wilderness

K> House Votes #10, 11, 12, 13 and 14:  California Desert


K> CO SPONSORS OF THE PRIVATE PROPERTY CONGRESSIONAL VOTE INDEX

K> ADIRONDACK BLUE LINE CONFEDERATION
K> ADIRONDACK SOLIDARITY ALLIANCE 
K> AES CATTLEWOMENS               
K> AK FOREST ASSOC
K> AK LOGGERS ASSOC
K> AK MINERS ASSOC               
K> AK SUPPORT INDUSTRY ALLIANCE
K> AK WETLANDS COALITION
K> ALLIANCE FOR AMERICA
K> ALSEA VALLEY ALLIANCE
K> ALTA CALIFORNIA ALLIANCE
K> AMADOR/EL DORADO/SACRAMENTO CATTLEMENS ASSOC
K> AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION
K> AMERICAN LAND RIGHTS ASSOC
K> AMERICAN LOGGERS SOLIDARITY
K> AMERICAN POLICY CENTER         
K> AMERICAN WILDERNESS RESOURCES
K> ANIMAL OWNER & KAREGIVER ASSOC
K> ARKANSAS SCENIC RIVERS LANDOWNER ASSOC
K> ASSOCIATED OREGON LOGGERS INC  
K> BIGHORN SHEEP                  
K> BLACK HILLS INST OF GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH
K> BLACK HILLS REGIONAL MULTIPLE COALITION 
K> BLACK HILLS WOMEN IN TIMBER    
K> BLUE RIBBON COALITION
K> BOHEMIA MINE OWNERS
K> BONANZA GOLD SHOW              
K> BREVARD CHAP CITZ FOR PROP RIGHTS
K> CA ASSOC OF FOUR WHEEL DRIVE CLUBS INC
K> CA CATTLEMENS ASSOC            

[all "A"s and "B"s shown...  --Doug]


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