Thursday, March 7, 2013
FLORIDA CABINET APPROVES CAMP BLANDING FLORIDA FOREVER PURCHASE ~Land will provide environmental, military buffering benefits~
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 7, 2013
CONTACT: DEP Press Office, 850.245.2112, DEPNews@dep.state.fl.us
TALLAHASSEE – Governor Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet today approved the purchase of 1,578 acres in Clay County that will provide conservation value and military buffering for Camp Blanding as part of a Forever Florida Project.
The acquisition of this land is a collaborative effort between the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and U.S. Department of Defense. The total cost of the 1,578 acres is $2.1 million, with the state paying $600,000 and the U.S. Department of Defense paying $1.5 million. Federal funding is available through a cooperative agreement between DEP and the Army National Guard Bureau.
"By approving this land acquisition, you continue to ensure the local and state economy will thrive, you will ensure these sensitive lands are conserved and citizens will be able to use them and will also ensure that our Army National Guard and other military units will have the environment to properly train and prepare our military men and women to protect Florida and our nation," said Lt. Gov Jennifer Carroll at Thursday's Cabinet meeting.
“The purchase of land near Camp Blanding Joint Training Center, the premier National Guard training site in Florida, is a win for Florida and a win for our military,” said DEP Secretary Herschel T. Vinyard Jr. “This land provides environmental protection benefits as well as a buffer to aid the military in its preparation to protect Floridians.”
Public acquisition of this project will contribute to the Florida Forever goals by increasing the protection of Florida’s biodiversity of species, the natural community and landscape as well as protecting, restoring and maintaining the quality and natural functions of land, water, and wetland systems of the state. There are four major blackwater streams from three major river basins originating within the Camp Blanding – Raiford Greenway project area, as well as several headwaters and tributaries. The purchase will also increase the amount of forestland necessary for continued natural resource management.
"Camp Blanding Joint Training Center is a major training environment for various local, state and federal organizations as well as the military, and we are grateful for the opportunity to continue preserving the natural habitat that surrounds it," said Maj. Gen. Emmett Titshaw Jr, Adjutant General of Florida. "We certainly appreciate working together with Camp Blanding's neighbors to enhance our Florida Forever goals."
This land will provide a natural buffer to Camp Blanding’s training center and allow soldiers and equipment the necessary training area, thereby limiting disruption to neighboring residents. It will limit development in the vicinity of Camp Blanding Joint Training Center, provide proper space for military ranges and ensure that Florida remains the most military friendly state in the country. The Florida Department of Military Affairs, Florida Armory Board will manage the property as a natural forested area.
“DEP and Camp Blanding have been important partners with the District in our work to protect water resources in north Florida,” said St. Johns River Water Management District Executive Director Hans G. Tanzler III. “This property will provide protection of water quality in the area and may also have a future in enhancing public water supplies.”
This is the second acquisition in recent months that aids the Department in fulfilling its mission to buffer military installations and provide environmental benefits to Florida. In December, Florida acquired a conservation easement on Seven Runs Creek as part of a Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement. That 2,336 acre parcel of Seven Runs Creek will provide an environmentally protected connection, in perpetuity, between Eglin Air Force base and the Choctawhatchee River Water Management Area,
About the Florida Department of Environmental Protection
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is the state’s principal environmental agency, created to protect, conserve and manage Florida’s environment and natural resources. The Department enforces federal and state environmental laws, protects Florida’s air and water quality, cleans up pollution, regulates solid waste management, promotes pollution prevention and acquires environmentally-sensitive lands for preservation. The agency also maintains a statewide system of parks, trails and aquatic preserves. To view the Department’s website log on to www.dep.state.fl.us.
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The next step is anarchy!
Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel
“Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”
Senator Daniel Webster, 1851
Our nation’s system of checks and balances, as defined by the Constitution, are being systematically dismantled. We have been forced into a constitutional crisis of the first order by leftist intellectuals, radical activists, and elected officials in our own government.
Will you help defend and restore the Constitution as the key document of our nation’s government and the cornerstone of our individual rights and liberties?
We intend to deliver a powerful message to President Obama and the new 113th Congress to stand by their oaths! Please read my urgent message and call to action below – Mat.
Have you ever taken an official oath of public office, or a soldier’s oath to defend our nation, or an oath of appointment as an officer of our judicial or law enforcement systems? The official oaths of office in the United States of America call for a solemn pledge to defend our Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic.
Enemies of the United States of America – of both the foreign and domestic varieties – would love nothing better than to destroy the very foundation of this nation – our Constitution!
Tyrannical leaders around the world and in all time periods since our founding have despised our Constitution because it represents everything despots hate: Government of the people, by the people, and for the people!
After decades of defending the Constitution in courts of law and the court of public opinion, I am convinced that the greatest threat to our Constitution now comes from within our own borders – America’s homegrown, domestic enemies.
Never before has this document that was forged in the flames of the American Revolution come under such a withering attack from those who call themselves American citizens.
Even our own federal officials have systematically hacked away at the Constitution in recent years.
Leftist members of the federal bureaucracy – regardless of which party is in political power – have proven to the American people time and again that they will stop at nothing to further their socialist agenda, including:
The overt subversion of the Constitution;
Continual sidestepping of one or more of the Branches granted power by the Constitution;
Enactment of Executive Orders, mandates, regulations, or other initiatives with little or no review or oversight;
Overt deceit, distortion, and demagoguery to sway public opinion and bring discredit on the lawful procedures laid out in the Constitution.
The bottom line is this…the Constitution of the United States is being systematically assaulted in order to form a more socialized union!
Most Americans do not begin to realize how far we have already strayed from the principles our Founding Fathers laid down in the Constitution.
When Daniel Webster spoke of "anarchy throughout the world" more than 160 years ago, he could have been speaking of our own time! True anarchy is spreading, even here in America. Just consider some of the recent "Occupy Wall Street" protests, for example.
By uncoupling government from the Constitution, we are starting even now to see the chaos and lawlessness that Webster predicted. It's easy to track how all this has happened…
Socialists in the media and academic world... liberals in Congress... Hollywood elitists and radical demonstrators who seek their own agenda…these disparate groups have ALL worked to undermine the bedrock of American government.
The enemies of American exceptionalism know the Constitution is our nation's foundation and that its subversion will be the fastest way to change America into a society of THEIR liking!
++Liberty Counsel will continue defending the Constitution against ALL enemies!
That is why I am writing to ask you to join a powerful national campaign to DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION by signing our powerful Oath of Allegiance Letter today.
The Oath of Allegiance Letter promises that you will stand with Liberty Counsel and many tens of thousands of like-minded, patriotic citizens of the United States to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic!
Liberty Counsel will then present our signed Oath of Allegiance Letters to our elected officials to let them know – in no uncertain terms – that we expect them to adhere to their own Oath of Office, the Constitution, and to join the battle against the Constitution’s enemies!
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++“We the People” demand that our government return to the rule of law as established by our Constitution!
Never before have government leaders so intently ignored the basic functions and separation of powers laid out by our nation's governing document.
Enemies of the Constitution call it archaic... rigid... inflexible... non-inclusive... intolerant... and unworkable in modern society.
But for nearly 225 years, this amazing document has helped sustain America as what former President Ronald Reagan called “the shining city on a hill.”
Our goal is to gather many tens of thousands of these signed Oath of Allegiance Letters to the president and members of the new 113th Congress.
Liberty Counsel has become quite effective at making your voice heard and getting points across to politicians who swore their own oaths of allegiance!
I wholeheartedly believe the Constitution is worth defending. As a friend of Liberty Counsel, I believe you do, too! Please click here to stand with us:
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We have all been forewarned by the actions and mandates of Leftists in authority (whether in the federal bureaucracy, Congress, or the judiciary) that the Constitution is only being honored when they think it is advantageous to their cause!
Unless Americans reaffirm their allegiance to the Constitution, our rights to speak out freely...to disagree with and petition the government...to exercise religious freedom...to own a firearm to defend ourselves...and other crucial rights...are likely to disappear forever!
Make no mistake: When our rights come under attack, the Constitution itself is under attack and at great risk! Right now, Americans face a "clear and present danger" to the freedoms that they have taken for granted for too long!
Together, let's reaffirm our allegiance and restore our constitutional
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Thank you for standing with us,
Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
A U.S. Senator asserts that the Benghazi attacks are the subject of a “massive cover-up” by the White House
3/6/2013
A U.S. Senator asserts that the Benghazi attacks are the subject of a “massive cover-up” by the White House – while a Congressman says the mainstream media is being totally compliant with the White House by not asking any tough questions on Benghazi.
That’s why Grassfire has petitioned congress to “Demand the Truth” with a powerful petition campaign.
As a signer of that petition, you know how important it is to all Americans, especially the family members of those who died on 9/11/12, to learn the truth about the Benghazi massacre and to hold those responsible accountable.
Our friends at Liberty Counsel, a nonprofit litigation, education, and policy organization are also petitioning Congress demanding a full congressional investigation into the Benghazi cover-up.
This issue of national importance will only go away if we say nothing. To the dismay of the Obama administration – public pressure is keeping this debate alive.
We urge you to take a minute and add your name to Liberty Counsel’s petition calling for a complete investigation.
http://www.grassrootsaction.com/767/petition.asp
Thank you for increasing your grassroots impact by joining with Liberty Counsel in their initiative.
Your friends at Grassroots Action
P.S. If you want to learn more about Liberty Counsel’s initiative, please see Mat Staver’s message below.
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Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel
Recently, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) pulled no punches on “Meet the Press” in declaring there has been “massive cover-up” by the White House on the 9/11/12 attacks on our Benghazi consulate and safe house, and about the actions and whereabouts of President Obama that night.
“What did the President do and who did he talk to the night of the attack on Benghazi?
We don't even know who the people were who were evacuated from the consulate the day after the attack. There are many, many questions. So we've had a massive cover-up on the part of the administration.
Why did the president for two weeks, for two weeks during the heat of the campaign, continue to say he didn't know whether it was a terrorist attack or not?... We don't know. But we need the answers. Then we'll reach conclusions. But we have not received the answers. And that's a fact.”
The White House remains completely silent on where President Obama was or what he was doing during the hours that American personnel and assets in Benghazi were under siege.
Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) told Fox News that following a 5:00 briefing on 9/11, the President did not take or receive any phone calls.
A simple phone may have saved the lives of Americans and certainly would have sent a different message to radical jihadists than our inaction did.
Instead, was the president more concerned about his campaign appearance the next day in Las Vegas?
++The mainstream media (MSM) is an accessory to this outrageous stonewalling.
Representative Gohmert contends that the MSM is “totally complicit” in assisting the White House in this massive cover-up…
“They don’t ask the tough questions. They let him skate on this.”
In fact, members of the mainstream media have done more complaining about having no access to the President while he golfed with Tiger Woods this weekend in Palm Beach than in calling for White House answers on Benghazi!
The White House isn’t doing their job. The mainstream news media isn’t doing their job. That’s why we, as concerned American citizens, must demand answers and accountability through our elected representatives!
Americans demand the truth and the families of the victims deserve the truth!
Liberty Counsel Action is asking members of our team to tell lawmakers that we demand a full and honest investigation into the Benghazi cover-up.
You can demand the investigation into the Benghazi cover-up by clicking below and adding your name to our petition that already has over 55,000 signatures:
http://www.grassrootsaction.com/767/petition.asp
++The White House stonewall continues unabated.
Why did the White House insist on deceiving the American people for many weeks after the attack?
Why did they blame a ridiculous anti-Muslim video for the disaster when, in reality, the administration knew within 24 hours that this was a pre-planned, well-orchestrated terror assault on a U.S. Embassy?
Now we know that former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta briefed Obama – and the administration knew it was a terrorist attack from the very beginning!
And why are the numerous witnesses to the attack not being made available to Congress to interview?
Unless we insist on honesty and accountability, the horrors and lies associated with Benghazi will continue to be swept under the rug until some far-distant date when the Freedom of Information requests will finally be honored.
Please, don’t allow this travesty of justice to continue!
I urge you to take a minute now to be included in this important petition delivery. Please, join us in calling out the people responsible for this cataclysmic failure by signing our powerful petition. Click here to add your name:
http://www.grassrootsaction.com/767/petition.asp
Thank you for joining us in this important initiative to take a stand for those Americans who were so brutally murdered at the hands of radical Islamic terrorists.
Mat Staver,
Liberty Counsel
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