TOWN AFTER TOWN AFTER TOWN...THE GRASSROOTS ARE SINKING IN THEIR HEELS:

Jim Brown

Southern Utah Residents United in Their Dislike for UN...

Wed Jul 25 11:25:42 2001

Southern Utah Residents United in Their Dislike for UN, Big Gov't

By Jim Brown July 24, 2001

(AgapePress) - Towns in southern Utah are taking bold measures to defend

their constitutional rights, but never did they imagine that their battle

against the United Nations and big government would attract so much national

attention.

CNSNews reports the town of Escalante is considering a city ordinance that

would require most heads of a household to own a gun. Virgin, a town 40 miles

away, adopted a similar law earlier this year.

Recently, the town of Washington City passed a resolution that supports

repealing the 17th Amendment, which makes the election of U.S. senators a

popular vote rather than a decision by state legislatures. Supporters say the

proposal would make senators more beholden to their constituents interests.

Meanwhile, CNSNews reports a federal mandate protecting a desert tortoise

habitat has blocked off 75,000 acres of land and forced Washington City to

spend over $150,000. Residents of southern Utah already feel burned by the

Clinton Administration's 1996 decision to create the Escalante-Grand

Staircase National Monument, which forced closure of two million acres of

coal-rich land to mining and development, limiting land-use rights for

farmers and ranchers.

However, even more than the federal government, locals fear the UN and its

aggressive measures on the environment, gun control, and population control.

In a symbolic protest of the UN, the La Verkin City Council passed an

ordinance July 4 declaring the village a 'UN-free zone,' making it a

misdemeanor to engage in UN activities. Now Virgin and a pair of other towns

-- Toquerville and Hurricane -- are considering their own UN-blocking

ordinances.

“I believe my rights come from God, not from the United Nations, says

Hurricane resident Don Tait. Tait and others feel the UN's goal is to become

a global government that will sabotage rights guaranteed by the U.S.

Constitution.

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