That's what they are gonna call ya for standing up against the government and for the Constitution:
"Colo. ranchers resist Army's growth plans; Pentagon tries to buy property" by Peter Slevin/Washington Post November 11, 2007
WALSENBURG, Colo. - Herman Moltrer returned from Vietnam to be a cattle rancher on the broad shortgrass prairie that stretches as far as the eye can see in southern Colorado. The rugged work earned him a living and a little something extra for his soul, but now he fears he may have to sell his land, at someone else's price.
The US Army wants 418,000 acres of private ranch land, tripling the size of its Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, a training site considered suitable - some would say essential - for preparing American warriors to do battle in the Middle East and Afghanistan. The 1,000-square-mile facility would be 15 times the size of Washington.
Several dozen ranchers and members of 15 county commissions that voted to oppose the project find themselves pitted against the Pentagon and Colorado business interests in a struggle over property rights, personal heritage, and the contested priorities of national security.
Amid countless conversations around Colorado dinner tables about the potential for an economic boom or a government betrayal, specialists on the environment, archeology, and paleontology are registering their worries that the land will suffer. Both houses of Congress voted against funding further work next year, one skirmish in a fight not nearly over.
Colorado might not be alone. Military planners foresee a need for 5 million more acres of training facilities by 2011.
For the endless fucking wars, huh?
In Pinon Canyon, where prehistoric dinosaur tracks lie near a surviving section of the Santa Fe Trail, the Army sees an opportunity when other training grounds are overtaxed by the demands of war. The move is also part of a long-term reorganization of the armed forces.
The founders must be rolling over in their graves!
To Colorado business leaders, the expansion would help consolidate and enhance the state's growing role as a military hub: home to Fort Carson, the Air Force Academy, and the US Northern Command.
But the government's appeal to patriotism when ranchers could be forced to sell property owned by their families for generations leaves many landowners cold. They remain skeptical of the claims of national security and frustrated by the lack of answers.
They are also infuriated by what they consider callousness among proponents of the expansion, such as the comment from state Senator John P. Morse, a Colorado Springs Democrat, that "patriotism is about accepting your cost, even when it is disproportionate."
Even if it means getting rammed in the dupa!
Stan White, who could lose more than two-thirds of the 9,000 acres he ranches in Walsenburg:
"It's rude. It ain't right. It's not American. We take our military and our country very seriously, but we're up against something we can't get a hold of. If they get this done, it's a national disgrace."
The land under discussion is an arid plateau that occupies a sparsely populated slice of Colorado near New Mexico. It lies alongside 235,000 acres acquired in the early 1980s. The open spaces provide rambling room for 67-ton tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles to practice maneuvers within a few hours of Fort Carson, home to a dozen Army units.
Look at how they try to sell it as a shit piece pf property, like who would want to keep that?
Fucking shit MSM!
According to the Army, the training ground needs to grow for two reasons. The first is that training centers in Fort Irwin, Calif., and Fort Polk, La., are operating at capacity. And Fort Carson was approved to receive two new brigades, totaling as many as 10,000 soldiers, in the 2005 base realignment process.
More soldiers means a need for more space for training, a problem that extends beyond Colorado.
And MORE WARS!!!!!
In a September speech on the Senate floor, Senator Wayne Allard, Republican of Colorado, said the Army believes it has a current deficit of 2 million acres needed for training, a figure expected to grow by 2011 to 5 million acres, or 7,812 square miles - an area about the size of New Jersey."
Why not just give the military it's own state then?
Oh, that's right, the U.S. already is a military state!
