Dekulakization of America - The Process of Elimination
Diane Alden
Originally Published on NewsMax.com

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When communism began its inexorable march through Russia and Eastern Europe, the first areas brought under communist control were the rural areas. The process began for the Russian peasant, or "kulak," with the extermination of the kulaks as a class. The kulaks who resisted collectivization were shot.

Others were deported with their families, and many hundreds of thousands were forced to labor in the wilderness areas of Siberia. Many tens of thousands perished there in the vast wasteland of Siberia.

In the grain belt of the Ukraine the peasants and farmers resisted collectivization and 6 million died of starvation in a period of a few months in the early 1930s.

American power elites don't shoot our kulaks; they just run them out of business with laws they pass. Laws meant to do one thing end up having an altogether contradictory effect from the original intention of the bills passed by Congress.

As the 1,400 farmers of the Klamath basin discovered recently, their fathers and grandfathers had signed onto one system through the Reclamation Act only to be run out of town by the Endangered Species Act.

With all the good intentions in the world Congress passes one law until a powerful group or groups come along with another law - never mind that they are incompatible. Money and loud minorities and ignorant majorities trump the right thing to do.

In the 1960s and 70s the "new age" of environmentalism began to have immense impact on land issues and private property rights. Laws meant to "save" one thing were being used to destroy something else. As a militancy took over the green movement, common sense and compromise got lost in their moral high ground posturing, half-truths and lies, and the end game eventually justified the unconscionable means.

Add that to the billion-dollar business environmentalism became over the years, plus the religious overtones its extreme edges took on, and the mix is a recipe for unconstitutional laws and folly. The once well-intentioned environmental movement became one more elite power grouping bent on destruction of those who stand in its way.

Fateful Year of 1979
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter co-opted 100 million acres of Alaska under the Antiquities Act, thereby putting that much land of the sovereign state of Alaska out of any kind of use but for the elite and their pursuits. That land is then off the tax rolls and the citizens of the state are then floundering to regroup and find a way to pay for state expenses.

Thirteen years later comes Bill Clinton, and the same thing happens, nearly 100 million more acres put off-limits to all but the most elite pursuits. Alaska became one of the meccas for the new religion of environmentalism. It was a great destination for those who could afford hunting trips or cruises to one of the prettiest places on earth.

Over the years the same thing has happened throughout the intermountain West as the area became as valuable for scenery as for cattle, logging, mining and rural and small town living.

In effect, the entire area became a big park or high-priced development and a playground for the rich. But its most important function was as a sort of mecca to the religion of the greens - radical environmentalism.

One has to ask, do all these land grabs do anything for the endangered species or for the saving of land or the environment? Not according to the National Center for Policy Analysis, which in 1997 said;:

"For all of its power, the ESA has not worked well. Of the 1,524 species listed as either endangered or threatened during the ESA's more than 20 years of existence, only 27 had been delisted by the end of 1995. Seven of the 27 had become extinct, eight others had been wrongly listed and the remaining 12 recovered with no help from the ESA. In fact, no species recovery can be definitively traced to the ESA."

Meanwhile, logging in the Northwest has decreased 89 percent since 1990 and entire communities have been destroyed to save an owl that was not endangered. Too bad Congress, with its pathetic attempts at oversight, didn't see that the report on which the ESA listing was based was a grad student's observations out in the woods.

Using that logic, I can attest that the robins are endangered because I have not seen many in my backyard this year. Congressional oversight on these issues is a joke.

The 1990s
The mean green machine rolls pitilessly over a class of people - America's kulaks. The next target after the loggers became the federal lands rancher and those dependent on the old Bureau of Reclamation water laws in the arid sections of the West.

Between the greens and the government, dozens of counties in the intermountain West are now virtually bereft of meaningful employment for the rural poor, i.e., the natural resource producer - the miner, the rancher, the logger.

That includes the small rancher who depends on his inholding in public lands to maintain some kind of bare existence. Contrary to what the greens say, most ranchers have fewer than 500 head and they are not the Texas variety.

Texas is lucky. It has next to no public or federal lands. Its cattle industry does quite well in comparison. But Texas cowboys are not all that much interested in the woes of cowpokes in Idaho, Montana or the intermoutain states.

Texas family logging entities have learned, however, that even George Bush's "Don't mess with Texas" means little to Congress or the greens. Texas logging is running into its problems now, too, under the ESA and other regulations.

The tactic used by the greens and feds is to divide and conquer. Happens all the time as rancher is pitted against rancher, rancher against farmer, rancher against logger, state against state, state against federales.

These groups pay attention to vague promises that the mighty green machine and the feds make – promises like special privileges and more money for pet projects or causes. The promises, as they eventually learn, mean nothing.

It isn't enough that the federal government now owns or controls most of Alaska. It also controls or owns most of the intermountain West. Do you realize that 89 percent of the state of Nevada, 66 percent of Idaho, 45 percent to 55 percent of California, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado are under federal control?

In all, approximately 42 percent of the United States is under centrally planned and federal control.

Do you also understand that we live on 5 percent or less of the land mass of the United States? That is a fact, but the greens and the feds will not be satisfied until they have run rural America off of what is left.

A backlash against the extremes of environmentalism and government bullying and central planning began out West in the late '70s. It was called the Sagebrush Rebellion. It took place in the arid Western states like Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.

Like the stories of the Old West, this rebellion was about cowboys against the land grabbers, only this time the grabbers were America's elite: big business, big foundations, big government and big special-interest green groups. All combined to destroy what was best in rural America.

Joined by the county commissioners of Western States and private-property rights groups throughout the United States, the backlash grew in scope as rural America and private property activists decided that the coalition of power elite against the rural areas had gone too far.

The real fight began as the historical trend toward centralization and deprivatizing of the land areas of the United States included international interests as well. This trend toward centralization and loss of sovereignty is aided and abetted by such international efforts as United Nations Agenda 21, the Wildlands Project, Heritage Rivers, and a thousand and one efforts in state and local and national areas to put off-limits to human use most of the land mass of the United States.

In fact, the Wildlands Project will have funding because of CARA, the Conservation and Reinvestment Act. Logging and mining and ranching are disappearing. Rural communities are beginning to disappear from the landscape. Certain recreational uses like hunting WILL be next.