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Congress Moves To Seize
Control Of All US Water
From Bathtubs To Baptismal Fonts, Congress Moves
To Give the Corps of Engineers Control Of All U.S. Waters
Land Rights Network
American Land Rights Association
2-7-8

Issue: Having been slapped down by the U. S. Supreme Court's recent
decision that the words "navigable waters" in the Clean Water Act
limited federal agencies to regulation of navigable waters only.
Democrats and liberal Republicans in Congress are striking back.

They are attempting to pass the Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007
(HR2421 and S1870) that would amend the 1972 Clean Water Act and
replace the words "navigable waters" with "waters of the United
States." Further, it defines "waters of the United States" with such
breathtaking scope that federal agencies would be required to regulate
use of every square inch of the U.S., both public and private.

The proposed definition states: "The term 'waters of the United
States' means all waters subject to ebb and flow of the tides, the
territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their
tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent
streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes,
wet meadows, playa lakes [a flat dried up area, esp. a desert basin.]
natural ponds and all impoundment of the foregoing, to the fullest
extent that these waters are subject to the legislative power of
Congress under the Constitution."

Obviously, those behind this legislation have only contempt for the
Constitution, limited government and private property rights. To
understand what the framers of the Constitution intended, one need
only look to their writings and the writings of those from whom they
took wisdom and direction. A few of thousands of quotes follow:

Quote 1: "The moment the idea is admitted into society that property
is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of
law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If
'Thou shalt not covet' and 'Thou shalt not steal' were not
commandments from Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in
every society before it can be civilized or made free." - John Adams,
A Defence of the Constitution of the United States against the Attacks
of M. Turgot, 1787.
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