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Reading my truck
April 13, 2003
By Julie Kay Smithson
On this fine spring day, I took my blue heeler dog and went to the grocery
store. Fifty-five sunny degrees and a light breeze make him enjoy the wait,
and he knows there's always a treat in the offing. Since we only 'get to
town' twice a month, it's an outing that we both enjoy.
As I approached my truck with the cartful of groceries, I spied a young mom,
on her way to her own vehicle with her groceries, young daughter holding
tight to her mommy's hand. Mom was, as she said, 'reading your truck' (it has
a lot of bumper stickers on the back), and she seemed to be enjoying what she
was reading.
I asked if she had a computer and Internet access. When her answer was in the
affirmative, I told her that the
www.PropertyRightsResearch.org website was
mine, and that it was a family-safe site with a lot of information to help
families understand how vital it is to protect our ability to grow our own
food, shelter, etc.
She asked if I had a card with the website, and I gave her two or three, and
asked that she share them with friends and family. I explained that
PropertyRightsResearch.org has interesting graphics for all ages -- easy to
navigate for kids with school projects and for their moms and dads, too --
and a free downloadable program that will actually read the site audibly to
those with vision impairments or sight loss. She seemed very pleased by this.
She asked if my dog was friendly, so her young daughter was soon getting her
little hand slurped by Wiggles. I told her that many rural folks love
families, rural or urban, and that they would truly like for more people to
learn and understand why food and other products that are grown in our
country are so important to us all. She looked interested in this comment,
and asked if this was part of the information at my site.
I said that it sure was, and that there was plenty of contact information at
each article and guest editorial.
She was a very nice person, another person that is no longer a stranger, and
perhaps will soon be another ally in our efforts to protect and enhance
property rights and freedom.
Here are some of the stickers:
The Earth is Not my Mother, but the Creation of my Father
And to Protect and Care for His Creation, God made Ranchers
No Farmers, No Food
No Zoning (this one is the circle with the slash through it)
Did you Pray for our Farmers B 4 U 8 Today?
If you don't like Logging, Try Using Plastic Toilet Paper
If it can't be Grown, it must be Mined
=====Author contact information:
Miss Julie Kay Smithson
213 Thorn Locust Lane
London, OH 43140-8844
1-740-857-1239
http://www.PropertyRightsResearch.org
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Contents (left side of Home Page) are listed alphabetically for user
friendliness!
Dedicated to property rights, resource providers, generational land stewards,
consumers and freedom.
"Either you have a right to own property, or you are property." - Wayne Hage,
March 1992
Bardon v Northern Pac R Co. 12 S CT 856, 145 US 535, 538 36L, ED 806 - ‘It is
well settled that all land to which any claim or rights of others is attached
does not fall within the designation of public lands.’ United States Supreme
Court Decision
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is
striking at the root. - Henry David Thoreau
"The sacred rights of property are to be guarded at every point. I call them
sacred, because, if they are unprotected, all other rights become worthless
or visionary. What is personal liberty, if it does not draw after it the
right to enjoy the fruits of our own industry? What is political liberty, if
it imparts only perpetual poverty to us and all our posterity? What is the
privilege of a vote, if the majority of the hour may sweep away the earnings
of our whole lives, to gratify the rapacity of the indolent, the cunning, or
the profligate, who are borne into power upon the tide of a temporary
popularity?" -- Judge Joseph Story, 1852
God Bless America ... In God We Trust ... One Nation Under God ... Any
questions?
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