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Previous laws passed by Congress are still law

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Editor,

Official records on file in our court houses prove our ownership of the land, water and minerals, along with rights of way over our property and are still the law, proven by our courts in the past.

The leadership that we hired or elected and have trusted to protect these laws and rights are the real suspects today. Why are they afraid of litigation? Will it expose the truth?

Dams were built for the benefit of the Irrigation Projects in the west, and the funds derived from the power sold for the benefit of the irrigation projects were growing at a rapid rate, 24/7. Water rights, allotted and sold by the U.S. government, were attached to the land patents and were used to power the dams to create the electrical power.  The funds derived from the sale of the power created with our water rights were to be used to pay off the constructions costs of the dams and irrigation projects. The power was valuable; look to who set up the BLM in the 1940s to control the wealth: Congress.

The other mistake congress made was the 1949 repayment contracts needing 60 percent of the irrigators to agree. This was another insurance policy for our land patents and water rights.

Things were going quite well when our state decided it was time for another “insurance policy,” updated the state constitution in 1972 and reaffirmed our water rights existing under previous law with the State Water Act. The water appropriations have been on the books for well over 100 years and yet we still have to fight for these property rights today.

The power generation rights on the Flathead Irrigation Project may lead to a very large RICO court case for people who believe they were invisible.  A congressional or forensic audit will prove to all that the State and Federal laws have not been followed. Previous laws passed by Congress are still the law.

That is why you have not passed this Compact on the Flathead.

Gene Erb
Dixon

 

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