President Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washington D.C. 20500 August 24, 2013 Dear Mr. President, and First Lady Michelle, On January 31, 2013, DNR told me they wanted my land rights – no cows, sheep, dogs, cats,chickens, goats, pigs (all of which I have or had) – no fishing, camping or hunting on my property. They offered me gimchecks and baubles while they talked for two hours about the qualities of our great wetlands and what “great sacrifice” I could make by giving up my land rights. A week later, I went to DNR office and brought with me gold coins. I told them that I paid drain services, and the drain commission has not maintained my creek in about thirty years. DNR told me that they will not allow me to rebuild my drain, even though I pay drain fees. They say that instead, they allow my backlands to flood, and it helps the farmers already profitable, by acting as a natural leach field for their chemical runoffs. Van Buren County is riddled with well holes and buried fuel tanks. Many places get supplied with bottled water. Much of the water here is unfit to drink. Look at the store inventories, and you may see the water storage may be as great as food supplies in volume; such is the demand for fresh water. DNR says they have found PCB’s in many farming areas, because of chemical runoffs. They claim farming is a greater polluter than the oil companies (look at what happened in Marshal Michigan [they say it was the biggest land oil disaster in our history]). If you pay for a service and do not get it, that is theft of service, otherwise they would not charge anything. DNR books say I can have a drain. It is not the right of DNR to question my logic. I simply do not need my back lands flooded. Draining my land will help keep PCB’s off the property. They could also install a weir. Friday I got a call from the police department saying DNR had turned in some gold coins. That was odd, because I’d left a set of keys along with it, at the office. They returned my keys, but not my gold. Gold is heavier than keys. They had to be together. Why did it take DNR six months to find it? That to me is indicative of their incompetence, the point I wish to make. The police told me I should come in and claim it, or they would dispose of it. I told the police that if they take the coins, they are guilty of theft. I instructed them to return it to me and hung up. At the same time that DNR is working on people to get their land free, they are giving DEQ mineral rights to sell for fracking. Eight thousand acres of our public lands are for auction. They allow fracking to within 450’ (about the length of a football field) of the fresh water table. Fracking is allowed up to fifteen hundred feet from Lake Michigan (about three football fields). Half of all the wells drilled are said to start leaking immediately, and the rest usually leak within thirty years. People complain of animals dying and high cancer rates in areas that were fracked. Seventy-five percent of all polluted water and chemicals used in fracking, return to earth surface and gas also escapes into the environment. DEQ says it is a neutral organization that just happens to rely on money from oil companies; nevertheless, that money they depend on does not influence them. People in Michigan and across the nation need to know how DNR is acquiring land rights from citizens. They need to know how oil companies lambast and badger people for the minerals. You as President need to know what is going on in our country. If the Governor and all his Senators and State Representatives are taking oil money, they cannot possibly represent their constituents. When Senators shake your hand and promise to get back with you, chock falls off their faces from over-farding. If you hold your breath waiting for these guys to address your concerns, you are in grave trouble. You say you want honesty in government, maybe we need to address the fresh water situation of Lake Michigan. They predict the water table to drop two feet in several years. I get many emails from you asking for money. It is funny that when I leave gold at DNR office, they can lose it in a few moments. I also question the integrity of an organization, when the office head calls people, “creep”. This is what I would like to tell Dr. Chen Guangcheng about US. I believe we have many similar problems in US. If we believe in our constitution and our people, we need to make changes that work with ordinary civilians. Sincerely, Johny Appalachia
Posted on: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 02:55:41 +0000
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