Are water rights next?

Letter to the Editor, 

Apparently, the task of kicking us out of the Kootenai Valley is not happening fast enough. In addition to shutting down resource development on government-owned land, putting gates on access roads, removing some roads altogether and relentlessly pushing for wilderness designation, now our government is trying to take away our water rights. 

A Montana state “Compact Commission” has been formed and came out with a 990-page document giving various Indian tribes the lions share of water rights for western Montana. 

So far, our national parks have been ceded to the United Nations, our resources locked up, our access to public land denied and now it seems our water is being shut off. What’s next?  Giving private land to China? 

While all this is going on, our taxes only grow higher, our freedom diminished and rules, regulations and mandates rain down upon us with ever increasing intensity. 

Our spend-happy Congress has shackled us with so much debt it can’t be paid while giving every dollar in our treasury to the banking cartel. If this isn’t depressing enough, our loony electorate puts the men that orchestrated this mess back in office. 

This can’t be real! It must be a nightmare I’m having. 

— Bill Payne

Libby