Limiting access to language, water and air in Harvey's aftermath

Government, on the other hand, always looks at numbers in relation to politics, not the human cost in lives and possessions. Attempting to convert the intangible into numerical values has divorced public administrations from considering the actual affect of natural (and manmade) disasters on individuals and their families. The upshot is an induced lack of compassion despite lip service to the contrary, and government has used the natural world against its citizens in order to complete the separation. If this sounds a little esoteric, perhaps it is. The point to be made may be cynical, but it also merits some thought. The deluge that is still inundating the Southern States becomes a measure of water, not so much where it originated, but how it should be administered by bureaucracies. There is a legitimate place for flood control, the building and operating of reservoirs, dams, canals and the ever-popular cemented-in water courses that were once rivers (can you tell I'm from L.A.?). The common sense approach to defending property from water damage or guarding against drought has been set aside by the need to control every drop of water flowing through the United States at one time or another. Right now, the EPA is re-evaluating the Water of the United States' overblown definition of "navigable waters" at the order of the president because of the regulatory overreach the agency had instituted at the order of former President Obama. For anyone with a computer, television or a smart phone, it can be seen that right now in the Gulf Coast every gully, road, interstate highway and deer path is virtually navigable. Besides the Coast Guard and first responders, the Cajun and Volunteer Navy are out on the water in anything that floats to save people from drowning under a 500-year flood. Interestingly, the Obama regulations put pretty much any occasional waterway under the purview of EPA to decide how a property owner is allowed to develop their land. Kind of makes you wonder what the aftermath of a disaster like Harvey could portend even in returning to the previous stretched definition of "navigable waters."

Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act, National Monuments and Antiquities Act

The fact is, government has steadily encroached on every essential of life by passing legislation to control them--Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act, National Monuments and Antiquities Act, et al. When a once in many lifetimes disaster takes place it is a sure thing that we need to be on guard of government taking advantage of the situation to control more of our ability to drink water, grow food and breathe air. Harvey will be, and already is being, manipulated to again try to institute carbon dioxide levels which are not possible to control, nor do we want to do so. The ever-present mythology of climate change drives the big government need to create a carbon credit, i.e. tax, on a natural necessary life-perpetuating gas. CO2 is imperative to bolster the atmosphere and protect the earth's surface from the contraction of the insulating heliosphere, which is allowing more and more cosmic radiation to affect us. (Yes, this is science from NASA). Out-of-control legislators are going overboard in every direction, including attacking the very core of American freedom: free speech and the free expression of religion. It's been covered by numerous news outlets that California lawmakers are pushing to control our tongues. Oh, not against the truly offensive language of profanity in the public square, but the address of an individual's preferred pronoun if they can't figure out what sex they represent. As one author put it, this is an attack on faith and one's liberty to follow theirs (unless they happen to be muslim), not just an unwelcome intrusion into language usage. Each of these incursions into personal choice of words, faith, property development or even occupation (some becoming unacceptable because they don't fit government's concept of what's necessary to perpetuate the state) are destabilizing the heart of America. Think this hasn't happened before? Let's take a brief look at history.

We are all aware of the term "ghetto," and most equate it with poor black neighborhoods, but that is not the origin of the word. It was first used in the Middle Ages referring to walled areas that housed Jews within population centers in the Italian city-states. Considered an unclean minority and unworthy of freely interacting with the general populace, they were forced into these enclaves called ghettoes. The Third Reich went a step farther by reconstructing ghettoes in the form of concentration camps. With the restricting of language, water and ultimately, property use, unrestrained legislators are attempting to force their anti-faith faith upon every member of society in order to control the actions and livelihoods of citizens. Are new virtual ghettoes in the offing for non-conformists, that majority of people who still believe in God and what He made, which is the earth, and man and woman to whom He gave dominion over the earth that He created? (Genesis 1:28) Or is government to usurp God's purpose to favor mankind, relegating humanity's standing to be beneath that which God intended him to rule? If government is created to serve mankind, then it's time citizens put a stop to those toiling to flip the coin, and not allow ourselves to be subjugated by the unnatural that government is redefining as natural. Note: The comment period for the re-visiting of WOTUS rules has been extended to September 27, 2017. Make your two-cents heard.