“Bladder Pods” – We Won!! What Happened?

“Bladder Pods” – We Won!! What Happened?

By Leon Howard

THAT WAS THEN: “Diana and I attended the meeting when farmers ‘ponied-up’ the money for the University of Idaho to do the DNA testing of this weed, the “bladder pod”. It was obvious the US Fish & Wildlife “Service” would rather spend $600,000 to steal land rather than spend $5,000 on a DNA test that would give them facts to bring to the table.

We knew in our hearts this was another ploy to destroy the Columbia Basin agricultural base … part of the U.N. Agenda 21 scheme to return the majority of Washington State to the wilderness of the dinosaurs and wooly mammoths.  We knew their ‘junk science’ couldn’t stand up to true scientific scrutiny and we were right!  The bladder pod found throughout the United States is all from the same family of weeds; there’s nothing “special” about it and there is no need to ‘protect’ them here or elsewhere … So, we won! Didn’t we?

But the Fish & Wildlife “Service” hasn’t conceded yet and we won’t have an answer from them for 6 months!  Is that stupid or what?  They try to steal land with junk “science” and when confronted with irrefutable scientific evidence, they have the audacity to say, “We will take this into consideration.”  What the heck does that mean?”

THIS IS NOW!  We now know what the Fish & Wildlife “Service” meant when they said, “We will take this into consideration.”  They totally ignored the DNA testing, the real science, and adopted the “junk science” for the Bladder Pod, making the “White Bluffs Bladder Pod” a “protected sub-species”!

The farmers will spend a lot of their money fighting this federal stupidity in court and, depending on the federal judges, our farmers may or may not win even though the facts and real science support the farmer’s contention that the bladder pods of the Pacific Northwest are all the same plant!

There is only one way I can see we, the people, win this fight for our agriculture industry and it relies on our elected officials!  It is the responsibility and duty of the County Commissioners and the County Sheriffs to end this federal terrorism!

It is time for the residents demand the Commissioners of Franklin County and Grant County to enact a county ordinance denying the federal Fish & Wildlife “Service” jurisdiction to impose their agenda in Franklin and Grant Counties!  It is then up to Sheriff Lathim and Sheriff Jones to enforce the County Ordinance.

Yes, the Sheriff can tell the Fish & Wildlife “Service” he will not allow this federal “rule” to be enforced in his county because the Sheriff is the CLEO (Chief Law Enforcement Officer) of his county and his authority is above all other law enforcement officials in his county.  But, I am sure the Sheriff would appreciate knowing the County Commissioners were there to back his authority.

It is time we stop kowtowing to bureaucrats; they work for us, not the other way around! It is time to get “in their face” every time they try to impose stupid “rules” as if they were law, and tell them “Hell, no!” every time they try to rob us of more of our God-given freedoms!

You can also help by contributing more to the Franklin County Farm Bureau for the appeals to federal court; that information follows.  It is obvious the F&WS ignored the Public Comments but those addresses are also here if you would like to write them and offer your opinion to their stupidity and dereliction of duty!

Put bladder pod on the memo line of your check and mail to:

Franklin County Farm Bureau 

30 Aries Dr. 

Pasco, Washington 99301

Addresses to write the letters:

Proposed Listing Address:

Public Comments Processing

Attn: FWS-R1-ES-2013-0017

Division of Policy and Directives Management

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

4401 N. Fairfax Dr., MS 2042-PDM

Arlington, Virginia 2203

Critical Habitat Rule Address:

Public Comments Processing

Attn: FWS-R1-ES-2013-0012

Division of Policy and Directives Management

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

4401 N. Fairfax Dr., MS 2042-PDM

Arlington, Virginia 22203