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Agenda 21, Cultural Marxism destroying United States, Globalization, Police State, State government offenses

Private property rights under attack

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CAN YOU SPARE FIFTEEN TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ONE OF THE SHORT ROUTES LEADING TO INSTITUTIONAL SLAVERY & MUCH MORE, E.G. DIANE MORRISON WALKING UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT A MAJOR TOOL USED BY AGENDA 21 & SENATOR JAKE FILES SUCCESSFUL EFFORT TO EXPAND GOVERNMENT’S EMINENT DOMAIN TAKEOVER?

BORDERS, BOUNDRIES, MANAGEMENT, CONTROL & DOMINATION. March 23, 2015

The transmitter of SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT legislation to Ark. state legislators is identified as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) an instrument of Agenda 21. Senator Files belongs as do most Republican Senate & House members to this freedom-killing organization.

Agenda 21 proposes and is intended to be implemented on EVERY PERSON on earth…it calls for specific changes for ALL PEOPLE.
563 American cities have already implemented Agenda 21…is Fort Smith one of the 563?

1. LAND…cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures & inefficacies of the market.
2. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS…will have to take a backseat to the COLLECTIVE.
3. Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require A PROFOUND REORIENTATION OF ALL HUMANS, UNLIKE ANYTHING THE WORLD HAS EVER EXPERIENCED.
4. A VIEW OF WHAT IS NOT SUSTAINABLE—single family homes, paved & tarred roads, dams & reservoirs, power line construction, plowing of soil, raising of livestock, etc. etc. etc. (See “Agenda 21 in One Easy Lesson” by Tom DeWeese,4/6/11, News with Views)

Citizens, have you noticed the recent frenzy induced by the Fort Smith city government or was it induced by the state & federal government, pertaining to Bikeways, Walkways, Trails, and the city/county governments’ activities in promoting Parks, a Water Park, Softball Complexes, etc? Why the sudden interest? Consider, if you will, “Bread & Circuses”, that is keeping the majority of the masses entertained, liken to Pavlov’s dogs, e.g. conditioned responses. In this particular case, entertainment venues compliments of the F.S. city government, but all paid for by gullible taxpaying citizens. The ultimate goal?

A Roman poet, Juvenal, circa AD 100, displayed his contempt for Roman politicians that passed laws in 140 BC to keep the votes of poorer citizens by introducing a “grain dole”: giving out cheap food & entertainment, i.e. “BREAD & CIRCUSES”, and quickly became the most effective way to rise to power. Can you say America today, or in this case, Fort Smith today?

Are these wonderful entertainment venues set in place by politicians and bureaucrats out of the kindred spirit for “public service”, or is there another agenda/motive?

The answer is absolutely yes! It is called “SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT”, the god of globalism and its goals. While citizens enjoy Bread & Circuses they are subjected to more indoctrination & conditioning unbeknownst to them. The result is ordinary citizens coming to rely wholly on government for all things provided by the increasing throngs of so-called “public servants” who claim they are diligently laboring to better the lives of us Ordinaries—do you believe that?

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT is the battle cry of the United Nations and U.S. governments, and is vigorously being promoted globally. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT’S progenitor is the U.N.’s Agenda 21=CITIZEN CONTROL.

Now you say, our Fort Smith Board of Directors and other hired public servants, e.g. City Manager Ray Gosack, would never be involved in promoting freedom & property-taking programs. Unfortunately there’s reason to believe some Board members do not comprehend the destructive concepts of SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT and its far reaching deleterious effects on citizens. Be aware that City Manager Gosack and his handlers, accompanied by Sebastian County Judge David Hudson, must be aware of SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. They are longtime wards of government, therefore they do not possess the political freedoms or willingness to govern & advocate with & for independent resolutions. Their voices & acts echo only the instructions meted out by their respective government unions who have no regard for middleclass citizen concerns. OBSERVE!

Have you noticed that all the above listed endeavors, Trails, Parks, etc. have already reached fruition in the quad-cities of NW Arkansas? Do you believe Fort Smith’s efforts are simply a coincidence?

Note the activities of the Frontier Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), an unelected Non-governmental Organization (NGO). Circa 2014 the moribund Frontier NGO arose from the sands like a Phoenix and now presumes and in actuality is the unelected chief advocate & promoter for Bikeways, Pedestrian Walkways & the Trails and other development projects, so say some elected officials. Therefore: who are the stakeholders in the Frontier MPO and what is their game? Some would say “public service”, I say, “Go to the back of the class”.

The city of Fort Smith pays dues to an entity called Western Arkansas Development & Planning in the amount of about $26,000 per year. The organization’s function is to take over every facet of citizens’ private lives in F.S. as will be shown as this article continues. The organization has 7 departments, one of which, for example, is RITA (an NGO) and Republican State Representative Matt Pitsch is the CEO, unelected, the authority, funded by whom and how much?

Recent statistics indicate there are at least 22 NGO’s in Fort Smith—all unelected & appointed, exercising immense control & power over our lives.
The Frontier MPO (an NGO) is under the heavy hand of Cultureal Marxist planner Diane Morrison and is funded by the Arkansas state & federal governments. By how much? City sources say, at this point, Fort Smith does not fund, but Morrison claims that the city will contribute for openers $17 million to the projected Trail System, in addition to continuing state & national funding. Morrison is the CEO of the Frontier MPO and is a salaried position…how much & who appointed Morrison & under what authority? Officials relate that Morrison has sole authority over the Trails Project & other development projects. What are the development projects? Are Morrison & her Frontier MPO presently involved in financial arrangements pertaining to the construction of the projected multi-county Trail System?

Another example of elected officials delegating their responsibilities to unelected persons, accompanied by little or no oversight.
Morrison’s website claims she has expertise in 34 areas dealing with SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, all having to do with the reshaping & remodeling (removal of private property) of every facet of the city of Fort Smith and is comfortable using the term SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT in her job description; the reason I label her a Cultural Marxist. Her planning calls for the ultimate demolition of all citizen privacies & rights. It is oxymoronic that Ms. Morrison’s involvement in Cultural Marxist philosophies has to be subsidized by a free enterprise society.

Specific questions have been submitted to some elected officials pertaining to the Frontier MPO and other subjects relating to citizen concerns, e.g. financial contracts made with American Resort Management. At this juncture far more questions arose than were answered—authority, contracts, grants, salaries, etc.. Is it a cover-up or do they simply not know?

FOIA’s have been submitted to City Manager Gosack & County Judge Hudson. The results will be reported.

Under the guise of transparency, city government and the Frontier MPO have previously orchestrated 3-4 “window dressing” meetings to sell the Trail System. Meetings were sparsely attended and in the main attendees were self-servers, e.g. bicycle shop owners. Probably less than a combined attendance of 100 individuals in a metroplex of 150,000 or more residents and being directed by an unelected state/federal body…they and the city government have forcibly & brazenly usurped the rights of Fort Smith citizens.

Citizens, do you want 100 or less individuals to dictate the tenor of business for 150,000-? Why don’t the City Manager, Mayor & Board of Directors take responsibility themselves for the 87 mile inter-counties Trail system and subject themselves to questions regarding SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT? Again, statements made by some elected officials would suggest they are oblivious to the ultimate goals of the Trail System being proposed to citizens as eye-candy.

Four more of the so-called public open-houses for Trails discussion are scheduled beginning this month and are to be held in Greenwood, Pocola, Van Buren, and Fort Smith. Certainly not a local program, nor is it intended to be.

Again, the question must be asked—why all of a sudden the volcanic interest in Trails? Do Ft. Smith politicians, bureaucrats & aspiring Insiders possess an insatiable appetite to spend tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to satisfy the desires of a hundred people or less, or is there another agenda?

Yes! it is one of Agenda 21’s children, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. Bread & Circuses you know—keep the majority of the masses preoccupied, fat, entertained and uninformed and they will gleefully walk into the flytrap & won’t know what hit them when the tent of freedom collapses. Precisely, the physical & mental state of many if not most Americans.

The majority of the masses are ignorant. The word ignorant is not to be interpreted as denigrating or hateful. It simply means–Absent Facts.

Many Americans, I believe, are aware of corrupt political & bureaucratic shell games, cover-ups, and diversions that impregnate every facet of American governments, but do not understand how to identify.

The implementation of Trail Networks is being pursued globally, instrumented by the United Nations & global governments as Job One and guarantees, in the near term, limitations on the types of transportation allowed, via the gerrymandering of borders, boundaries, traffic patterns, while controlling and limiting destinations. The reconfiguring of housing models (stack & pack), mass rationing & a takeover of all privately held natural resources, e.g. waterways. Additionally another right to be forcibly taken is our right to private property. Laws are being passed presently which provide cover for the unconstitutional & the vile act of private property confiscation; witness Arkansas SB 757 introduced by Fort Smith Republican Senator Jake Files. See below.

Plentiful entertainment venues, incorporated with other so called freebies, make it much easier for governments (police, fire, game wardens, forest rangers, et al) to control and manage populations. Notice: these agencies are all militarized and take their orders from national & international governments and NGO’s, not from you or me.

If you believe government is protecting your God-given & Constitutional rights, you are indeed ignorant (observe the number of laws, regulations, codes, etc. being passed currently by the Arkansas General Assembly—over 2,000). Much of the legislation in this session is being promulgated by outside interests, corporations & “non-profits” (NGO’s), to whit Senator Jake Files’ SB 757 gives the Arkansas state government power to preempt private property, i.e. expand state government’s Eminent Domain capacities, resulting ultimately in the elimination of private property—SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

In one section of SB 757 there are 15 points that lead to NO RECOVERY FOR CONFISCATED PROPERTY.

The Bill is a quagmire of slick political legalese. SB 757 also limits government compensation to private property owners, denying Constitutional rights.

Senator Files is in the quid-pro-quo business, e.g. $2 million state taxpayer dollars to the projected Fort Smith Marshall’s Museum in exchange for an ownership in a huge softball complex, much if not most is to be funded by taxpayers.

SB 757 was funneled to Senator Files & the Republican dominated General Assembly by the freedom-killing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is the genesis of much legislation offered and passed in state assemblies.

Realtors, contractors, Morrison with her 34 areas of Cultural Marxism; (e.g. multiple planning’s, grants, outreaches & “place making”, consulting, etc.) attorneys, bureaucracies, government expansion, etc. to name a few will make millions with the implementation of Files SB 757 with the help of his RINO buddies.

To bring that statement even closer to home, if you believe City Manager Ray Gosack and Sebastian County Judge Hudson and their enablers are protecting your rights, you are surely comatose. The above two have been wards of government throughout their adult lives and are instructed via their state & national unions every program they are to institute, sustain, and the mechanisms to be employed.
Citizens, we are in the flypaper. The omnipresent activities of the power-lusting Democrat & Republican parties, if left to their designs, guarantee the flame of liberty will be extinguished, in this case by Republicans.

The City Street & Sewer Sales Tax vote that would in part subsidize the projected SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Fort Smith Trail System will appear on a ballot in May.

Will it pass? Absolutely! Remember—Bread & Circuses & Ignorance. A textbook example of citizens subsidizing their own demise.
The war for the elimination of our freedoms is in full bloom and Sustainable Development is just one of the multitudes of instruments that are being used to control the masses—BREAD & CIRCUSES. Juvenal understood despotic government 100 AD, so why can’t citizens understand in 2015?

Government is and has always been the reservoir for despots.

Joe McCutchen

P.S. There are other significant matters, i.e. the $1/2 billion mandate and the accompanying $300,000 fine issued by the EPA, the anticipated 7-8% pay raises for all city employees, unfunded police & fire pensions, forced water fluoridation, the dysfunctional Convention Center, the proposed Marshal’s Museum, subsidizing downtown property owners, the failed Mitsubishi deal, replete with a plethora of “Bread & Circus” projects—all allegedly short or without funding. Where did the 30 year, $600 million street/sewer tax money go that was earmarked to fix crumbling streets and the dysfunctional sewer system?

IF YOU ARE FEEDING IN THE BREAD & CIRCUS TENT “KEEP YOUR PENNY ROLLING”!
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Agenda 21, Huckabee shameful record, Neo-Cons, Presidential Candidates

Huckabee–a Con-Con Conman of the worst order

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From: Secure Arkansas [mailto:actionalerts@securearkansas.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 1:32 AM
To: Joe and Barbara
Subject: Huckabee’s Influence on the Convention of States…

Vote NAY, and Oppose any version of a Convention Of States (COS), Article V Amendment Convention, and Compact for a Balanced Budget – in Arkansas or ANY State!

HJR1001 AN APPLICATION BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY UNDER ARTICLE V OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION FOR A CONVENTION FOR PROPOSING AMENDMENTS
(This bill comes up in the Arkansas House Committee on State Agencies and Government Affairs on Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 9:00 a.m! This bill must DIE in Committee!)

HJR1003 AN APPLICATION FOR A CONVENTION OF THE STATES UNDER ARTICLE V OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. (This bill failed of adoption in the House on March 3, 2015. Watch out for this bill! This bill may be going back to the Arkansas House State Agencies Committee to add an amendment and then back to the House to be voted on.)
To see how the Arkansas House voted on this bill, click here.

HB1006 AN ACT TO ADOPT THE COMPACT FOR A BALANCED BUDGET; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES (Returned by the committee “Do Pass”. This bill is scheduled to come up in the Arkansas House on Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. This bill MUST DIE in the House.)
Daniel Webster provided these words of encouragement: “Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6,000 years may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”

Legislators, we encourage you to dig for the truth. Don’t be deceived by people coming to you in sheep’s clothing telling you “this Convention Of States is for a balanced budget and this is the only way we can get a handle on the federal budget”. A Convention of States is an Article V (five) Amendment Convention or a Constitutional Convention. The Convention of States is created out of false hopes, dreams, and deception. The supporters of the COS are counting on everyone believing their deception and half truths.

The Progressive Republicans seem to be in control in Washington, D.C, and they do have control of the purse strings. The only safe way to create a balanced budget amendment is by introducing a Balanced Budget Amendment at the Federal Level in Congress. This would require ? of each house and then be ratified by ¾ of the states. The Federal level would still come under U.S. Constitution Article V but it would ensure that there is NO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. The COS method DOES open the door for a Constitutional Convention.

Now, what do the following three supporters of the Convention Of States (COS) — Michael P. Farris, Curtis Coleman, and Mike Huckabee — have in common? They are all so-called ministers and appear to be preaching the false Gospel of untruths and deception. Speaking of deception, the misleading Convention of States website is full of tricks and stratagems to deceive. Don’t be fooled! There’s nothing in the U.S. Constitution or the U.S. statutes that covers a “Convention of States”.

Statement from Mike Huckabee on the Convention of States site:
“My longtime friend, Michael Farris — who is an excellent constitutional litigator and professor — has joined with Mark Meckler and Citizens for Self-Governance to actually bring [a Convention of States] into reality. I have reviewed their plan and it is both innovative and realistic. I urge you to join me in supporting the Convention of States Project with Citizens for Self-Governance.”

A Convention of States is a project of Citizens for Self-Governance which Secure Arkansas does NOT support! This group is a wolf in sheep’s clothing!
Convention of States Endorsements
This one-page handout (click the link above) summarizes the Convention of States Project, highlights COS-related news clippings, and includes endorsements from Gov. Bobby Jindal, Sarah Palin, Allen West, Sen. Tom Coburn, Mike Huckabee, Sen. Ron Johnson, and Glenn Beck. (All of these people seem to be part of the Controlled Opposition.)

You don’t have to be too smart to understand the ways of the progressives are out to destroy our country and put us all under their control. We can’t let this happen. We have progressives on both the Right and the Left. Don’t let these so-called conservatives fool you. Are you kidding? By their fruits, you should be able to judge them.

In our opinion, Mike Huckabee is a progressive. What else could he be? The policies he’s supporting (shown below) all seem like they were taken from the U.N. Agenda 21 playbook. His record speaks for itself!
1. Huckabee wants to track people like packages using RFID
2. Huckabee is Advised by Council On Foreign Relations 2008 (YouTube video)
3. ”Huckabee is a high-tax, protectionist, big-government advocate of a strong hand in the Oval Office directing the lives of Americans.”
4. “Mike Huckabee urges states to back Common Core” On Jun 4, 2013 – … Former Ark. Governor Mike Huckabee sent the following letter to Oklahoma lawmakers, urging the continued bold adoption of rigorous Common Core.
5. Legality of Huckabee’s Mexican Consulate deal questioned
6. Huckabee’s pardons at issue after police killings

Most of the groups and individuals supporting the Convention Of States are in bed with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Mike Huckabee is one of these individuals, and he actually spoke at ALEC’s 34th Annual Convention in July 2011. ALEC also supports Common Core, water fluoridation, and big government.

Are some Convention Of States’ Key Supporters Connected to Common Core? YES! There is a connection of Common Core to ALEC, Huckabee, National Governors’ Association and U.S. Department of Education. Secure Arkansas’ opinion is that Mike Huckabee still appears to be supporting Common Core because he has a very complex stand on education. We agree with this Oklahoma educator who wrote an informative article to show Huckabee’s stance. Here is just one eye-opening paragraph from her article:
“Huckabee admitted right up front on his show that he is losing a good sized chunk of his TV audience. He then admitted and described a few, but not all, of the problems that are coming from Common Core Standards themselves. Huckabee said, “The term Common Core needs to disappear from the lexicon of education policy.” But a name change won’t change the philosophy or the centralized control policies that have been put into place.”

Here’s a link that shows his letter to Oklahoma lawmakers urging them to back Common Core. Also, Mike Huckabee is co-chairman of Alliance for a Healthier Generation which Bill, Hillary, & Chelsea Clinton Foundation co-founded. Mike Huckabee is also an advisory board member of Secure America Now with CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) member John R. Bolton and CFR member Devon Gaffney Cross.

Click here for another article that exposes Common Core ALEC corporate connections. Some of these groups are also supporting the Convention Of States (COS).

Do you really trust these groups attempting to change our U.S. Constitution? It looks as though our state lawmakers have taken all the federal grant money they can get their hands on and have jeopardized our children with Common Core curriculum in this so-called Race to the Top.

ALEC Demands Lawmakers Pledge Allegiance – to ALEC December 10, 2013
The State Chair must sign the ALEC form “The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) State Chair Job Description and Agreement” that appears on page 19 through 21 of the attached August 6, 2013 ALEC Board Meeting. One item in the ALEC Allegiance Pledge is:
“I will act with care and loyalty and put the interests of the organization first.” So, you see, legislator loyalty is to ALEC and NOT to the voters they are supposed to represent. Aren’t these legislators supposed to be safeguarding our Constitution?

A letter (shown below) written by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is encouraging state representatives to vote for Rep. Ballinger’s bill, HJR 1003, that calls for a Convention of States. This same letter was also sent to other Arkansas legislators. Please note on the bottom of Mike Huckabee’s letter, it shows “Convention Of States”. Is Mike Huckabee a paid lobbyist for the Convention Of States?

“All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”

– Arthur Schopenhauer

Arkansas Legislators, PLEASE vote NO on HJR1001, HJR1003, and HB1006.

Secure Arkansas supporters: Keep calling all the legislators, please!
Tell them you want them to vote “NO” on HJR1001, HJR1003, AND HB1006 (all 18 pages!). We must stop the Con-Con!

Please notify Secure Arkansas about the responses you receive from your legislator.

Title Name Phone Email District
Representative Charles L. Armstrong 501-224-5071 ffa191@sbcglobal.net
30
Representative Eddie L. Armstrong 501-444-8468 earmstrong4rep@gmail.com
37
Representative John Baine 870-862-2002 john.baine@arkansashouse.org
7
Representative Bob Ballinger 870-423-1035 bob@bobballinger.com
97
Representative Scott Baltz 870-378-1380 scottbaltz@yahoo.com
61
Representative Rick Beck 501-912-1441 rick.beck@arkansashouse.org
65
Representative Nate Bell 479-234-2092 nate.bell@arkansashouse.org
20
Representative Camille Bennett 501-257-7993 camille.bennett@arkansashouse.org
14
Representative Mary Bentley 501-333-2297 mary.bentley@arkansashouse.org
73
Representative Charles Blake 501-425-9824 charles.blake@arkansashouse.org
36
Representative Justin Boyd 479-262-2156 justin.boyd.pharm.d@gmail.com
77
Representative Ken Bragg 870-942-5269 kenbragg@windstream.net
15
Representative David L. Branscum 870-448-2408 davidlbranscum@hotmail.com
83
Representative Mary Broadaway 870-236-9800 mary@marybroadawayarkansas.com
57
Representative Karilyn Brown 501-580-9000 karilyn.brown@arkansashouse.org
41
Representative Charlie Collins 479-283-9303 clcollins6@cox.net
84
Representative Donnie Copeland 501-297-4857 donnie.copeland@arkansashouse.org
38
Representative Bruce Cozart 501-627-3232 bruce.cozart@arkansashouse.org
24
Representative Andy Davis 501-837-5109 andy.davis@arkansashouse.org
31
Representative Gary Deffenbaugh 479-719-8197 Gary.Deffenbaugh@arkansashouse.org
79
Representative Jana Della Rosa 479-236-3060 dellarosa4arkansas@gmail.com
90
Representative Jim Dotson 479-644-0740 jim.dotson@arkansashouse.org
93
Representative Charlotte V. Douglas 479-276-7777 charlotte.douglas@arkansashouse.org
75
Representative Dan M. Douglas 479-619-9231 dan-douglas@sbcglobal.net
91
Representative R. Trevor Drown 479-857-2498 trevor.drown@arkansashouse.org
68
Representative Lance Eads not available lance.eads@gmail.com
88
Representative Les Eaves 501-827-1344 les.eaves@arkansashouse.org
46
Representative Jon S. Eubanks 479-438-0533 Jon.Eubanks@arkansashouse.org
74
Representative Joe Farrer 501-743-6855 jfarrer@suddenlink.net
44
Representative Deborah Ferguson 870-735-7098 deborah.ferguson@arkansashouse.org
51
Representative Kenneth B. Ferguson 870-413-8942 kenneth.ferguson@arkansashouse.org
16
Representative David Fielding 870-234-6143 david.fielding@arkansashouse.org
5
Representative Charlene Fite 479-414-1818 charlenefiteforstaterep@yahoo.com
80
Representative Lanny Fite 501-794-2228 lanny.fite@att.net
23
Representative Vivian Flowers 501-329-8356 vivian.flowers@arkansashouse.org
17
Representative Mickey Gates 501-623-1100 mickey@mickeygates.com
22
Representative Jeremy Gillam 501-729-0042 jeremy@growing45.com
45
Representative Justin Gonzales 870-245-6365 justinrory@yahoo.com
19
Representative Bill Gossage 479-667-2122 bill@billgossage.com
82
Representative Michael John Gray 870-347-6000 michael.gray@arkansashouse.org
47
Representative Michelle Gray 870-368-4729 michelle.gray@arkansashouse.org
62
Representative Kim Hammer 501-840-3841 kimdhammer@yahoo.com
28
Representative Justin T. Harris 479-871-8542 Justin.Harris@arkansashouse.org
81
Representative Ken Henderson 479-970-4850 ken4arkansas@gmail.com
71
Representative Kim Hendren 479-787-6500 kim.hendren@arkansashouse.org
92
Representative Mary P. “Prissy” Hickerson 903-826-3119 prissy.hickerson@arkansashouse.org
1
Representative David Hillman 870-830-3004 dhillman@futura.net
13
Representative Monte Hodges 870-281-6878 monte.hodges@arkansashouse.org
55
Representative Grant Hodges 479-381-9513 grant.hodges@arkansashouse.org
96
Representative Mike Holcomb 870-489-7177 mike.holcomb@arkansashouse.org
10
Representative Douglas House 501-590-1055 housedouglas@gmail.com
40
Representative Lane Jean 870-234-5433 l_jean@sbcglobal.net
2
Representative Joe Jett 870-276-5319 joe.jett@arkansashouse.org
56
Representative Bob Johnson 501-982-1975 bobjohnsoncpa@gmail.com
42
Representative Jack Ladyman 870-340-7280 jackladyman@gmail.com
59
Representative Sheilla E. Lampkin 870-723-6449 Sheilla.Lampkin@arkansashouse.org
9
Representative Greg Leding 479-966-9201 greg@gregleding.com
86
Representative Tim Lemons 501-605-7565 arstrep43@gmail.com
43
Representative Kelley Linck 870-404-2741 kelley@kelleylinck.com
99
Representative Fredrick J. Love 501-612-3939 fjlove@att.net
29
Representative Mark Lowery 501-837-5221 markdlowery@mac.com
39
Representative Robin Lundstrum 479-957-1959 robin.lundstrum@arkansashouse.org
87
Representative Stephen Magie 501-327-4444 stephen.magie@arkansashouse.org
72
Representative Julie Mayberry 501-888-8222 julie-mayberry@att.net
27
Representative Mark D. McElroy 870-644-3822 mdmcelroy1@yahoo.com
11
Representative George B. McGill 479-651-2107 George.McGill@arkansashouse.org
78
Representative Ron McNair 870-754-7962 rmcnair1950@gmail.com
98
Representative David Meeks 501-277-9340 David.Meeks@arkansashouse.org
70
Representative Stephen Meeks 501-314-9250 Stephen.Meeks@arkansashouse.org
67
Representative Josh Miller 501-365-3599 josh.miller@arkansashouse.org
66
Representative Reginald Murdock 870-295-3208 rkm_72360@yahoo.com
48
Representative Micah S. Neal 479-935-5550 micah.neal@arkansashouse.org
89
Representative Milton Nicks, Jr. 870-739-5360 milton.nicks@arkansashouse.org
50
Representative Betty Overbey 479-885-6479 Betty.Overbey@arkansashouse.org
69
Representative John Payton 501-362-5815 paytonforthepeople@yahoo.com
64
Representative Rebecca Petty 479-621-3464 pettyforar@yahoo.com
94
Representative Mathew W. Pitsch 479-883-2072 mathew.pitsch@cox.net
76
Representative James Ratliff 501-454-5200 jamesratliff3468@gmail.com
60
Representative Chris Richey 870-995-2499 chris.richey@arkansashouse.org
12
Representative Marcus E. Richmond 479-299-4416 marcus.richmond@arkansashouse.org
21
Representative Laurie Rushing 501-545-6066 laurie.rushing@arkansashouse.org
26
Representative Warwick Sabin 501-374-0000 wsabin@wsabin.org
33
Representative Sue Scott 479-621-1265 grandmotherscott@yahoo.com
95
Representative Matthew J. Shepherd 870-862-2087 matthew.shepherd@arkansashouse.org
6
Representative Brandt Smith 870-351-7459 brandt.smith@arkansashouse.org
58
Representative James J. Sorvillo not available sorvillo4house@gmail.com
32
Representative Nelda Speaks 870-421-2552 nelda@neldaspeaks.com
100
Representative James Sturch 870-612-7589 jmsturch@yahoo.com
63
Representative Dan Sullivan 870-275-2929 dan.sullivan@AR53@gmail.com
53
Representative Brent Talley 870-983-2717 brent.talley@arkansashouse.org
3
Representative Dwight Tosh 870-926-0423 dwight.tosh@arkansashouse.org
52
Representative Clarke Tucker 501-379-1767 clarke.tucker@arkansashouse.org
35
Representative DeAnn Vaught 870-832-2638 deann.vaught@arkansashouse.org
4
Representative John T. Vines 501-624-1252 jtvines13@sbcglobal.net
25
Representative John W. Walker 501-614-9772 johnwalkeratty@aol.com
34
Representative Dave Wallace 870-919-8046 dave.wallace@arkansashouse.org
54
Representative Jeff Wardlaw 870-226-9501 jeff@jeffwardlaw.com
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Why would non-essential trails trump essential sewer/flooding crisis?

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A SYNOPSIS AT THE END IS FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT LIKE TO READ AND DEAL WITH THE FORT SMITH CITY GOVERNMENT’S DUBIOUS FINANCIAL ISSUES. January 25, 2015

THE RACE TO MAY—THEY ARE OFF & RUNNING! MANY QUESTIONS, NO REAL ANSWERS

They are off & running—the real owners of the Fort Smith City Government, City Manager Ray Gosack, F.S. Chamber of Commerce, F.S. Times Record/Warren Stephens, and the echelon of political high fivers.

The race officially began Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015 with an editorial salvo from the Times Record titled “Taxpayers Must Pay Bills, More”. Translation: Taxpayers; Suck it up, Shut up, Pay up.

The full court press continued: Times Record Jan. 12, 2015, 2 front page stories. Drew Linder, 1st National Bank employee and cheerleader for the unelected Bikeways & Trails NGO, in a blaze of bravado is leading a 6 person delegation of insiders advocating for 87.59 miles of trails. Linder paints a beautiful (at least in his mind) picture of what he believes eventually, if completed, the trails will look like. Linder claims the Trails will only cost the taxpayers a mere $17 MILLION. This is the estimated start-up cost.

Never mind the $500 million, 12 year EPA demand pertaining to the overhaul of the Fort Smith city sewer & surface water systems that has already been paid for at least once & mathematically could be more than once in the previous 30 years by the earmarked 1% street/sewer taxes which were misapplied and diverted. Now City Manager Gosack, Mayor Sanders & the Board are asking the citizens to foolishly vote for another 10 year extension of the city’s fun & gun spendathons.

The real owners of the Fort Smith city government, their enablers, and the compliant F.S. City Directors have staked-out their position by asking taxpayers for another 10 year renewal of the city’s two 1 cent street/sewer taxes, which by the way, city government, past & present, have surely obfuscated, misrepresented, misappropriated & diverted the 30 year/$600 Million tax monies, which could possibly be $1.2 billion that has been generated from the aforementioned two 1% street & sewer sales taxes. The city’s website and past Directors state there is a 1% sales tax for streets and a 1% sales tax for sewers.
http://www.fortsmithar.gov/newviews/Files/2012%20Sales%20Tax%20Election%20Presentation.pdf

Why did some of the city administrations present & past not discharge their sworn obligation to citizens and remedy the sewer debacle in a timely manner?

THE 1% STREET/SEWER TAXES WERE VERY SPECIFIC FOR 30 YEARS. THEY DEMANDED THAT THE REVENUES GENERATED WOULD BE APPLIED EQUALLY TO STREETS & SEWERS—NEITHER HAPPENED. WHAT GUARANTEES ARE IN PLACE THAT GOSACK, SANDERS, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND/OR OTHERS WILL ABSOLUTELY, UNEQUIVOCALLY SPEND ALL THE MONEY ON STREETS & SEWERS? AND WHAT ARE THEIR POLITICAL GUARANTEES WORTH?—NOTHING. ABSOLUTE PROOF THAT GOSACK AND HIS ENABLERS HAVE DIVERTED THE SEWER TAX FOR AT LEAST 25 YEARS IS THE EPA’S $500 MILLION RECENT DIRECTIVE TO THE CITY AND THE OUTRIGHT $300,000 FINE. THE CITY IS NOW FEVERISHLY CAMPAIGNING FOR WHAT THEY HAVE NOW RE-BRANDED AS A 1% STREET TAX WITH NO SPECIFICS.

MORE IMPORTANTLY NO MENTION OF AN OMISSION OF THE SEWER TAX. WHERE DID THE MONEY GO & THE AMOUNT FROM THE 2ND 1% TAX? THE TIMES RECORD IS NOW CALLING THE FORMER 1% STREET/SEWER TAX , THE 1% STREET TAX. THESE FACTS INDICATE THE F.S. CITY GOVERNMENT IS AN OLIO OF CONUNDRUMS, OBFUSCATIONS, DIVERSIONS AND MAYBE MUCH MORE.

If voters approve the 10 year extension it will generate a minimum of $250 million by one of the 1% taxes, but what about the second 1% tax, what happens to it?

The downtown insiders have closed ranks and their battle cry is “we must educate Fort Smith citizens”, i.e. program, indoctrinate & obfuscate. Government’s golden rule.

The main subject here is the upcoming May election to renew or reject what has been a 30 year 1% street/sewer tax that generated $600 million which specifically demanded every penny be used equally for renovation of sewers & street improvements, resulting in citizen taxpayers having little to show for a remake of streets & sewers. The tax tally could have reached $1.2 billion during the 3 decade long period.

The present and some of the past city governments for the last 30 years have diverted, misapplied, & misappropriated the $600 million to $1.2 billion and have no qualms about unctuously asking for another $250 million to $500 million replete with no guarantees (same as the previous 30 years) on what & how they would spend the upwards to $ ¼ BILLION to $ ½ billion. “Trust us”, again.

The question continues to be Where Did The $600 million to $1.2 billion Go? Certainly not on streets and sewers.

Back in the day, 25 years ago, city government, the Chamber of Commerce, & perhaps others ran a successful campaign to get the 1 Cent street/sewer sales taxes passed, all wrapped up in sweet promises.

Observe the present day condition of streets & sewers.

The campaign was a simple one, but effective. Citizens were besieged daily with the written and spoken phrase “It’s only a penny”. The proponents of the well financed 1 cent tax campaign featured their media ads with a 1 cent copper penny with Abe’s image sunny side up.
Citizens bought into it in 1985, bought into it again in 1995, and again in 2005 and now the question is will citizens be willing to get stiffed again for the 4th time, with the city’s battle cry “Great streets & no more flooding for only a penny”? That worthless little copper created somewhere between $600 million & $1.2 billion in 30 years and disappeared with no explanations from the “officials” the taxpayers elected to protect their purse and property. WHERE DID THE MONEY GO?
Fool me once, shame on you…fool me 4 times, shame on me.

What clever, surreptitious media blitz will the city & their enablers come with this go-around?

SYNOPSIS:
A FACTUAL REVELATION OF THE CONDUCT OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF FORT SMITH, AR REVEALS AT THE VERY LEAST ITS INCOMPENTENCY OR AT ITS WORST CRIMINALITY.

Tuesday night’s official Board Meeting Jan. 20th : In view of the Environmental Protection Agency’s leveling a $ ½ billion demand against the city of Fort Smith, coupled to an outright $300,000 FiNE, why would the Board’s major topic of discussion be centered on Agenda 21’s 87.59 miles of unfunded Trails? The startup costs given by unelected NGO Parks Commission Chair Lorie Robertson would be $17 million, this without available funding. She states the Parks NGO will demand 20%, not the 10% the TR reports as their part of the newly named “1% street tax”.

Major shortfalls continue to plague F.S. city government, e.g. deficits in Fire & Police pensions, accompanied by unfunded across the board 8% pay raises for city employees (4% increase in healthcare costs, 1% cost of living, up to 3% for step/merit increases, & the unfunded fluoridation of the people’s water supply). Yet Trails occupy center stage in official Board Meetings. All mum on the payment of the $ ½ billion EPA demand!

Facts support that one of the 1% street & sewer taxes have generated about $600 million dollars in its 30 year history. These taxpayer funds have been misapplied (who knows for what) and diverted.

In view of the diversion and misapplication of taxpayer funds, absent explanations and/or apologies to taxpayers, city government is now calling on voters to approve another 10 year 1% tax, replete with no specificities, as if they would be honored. And the other 1% tax?

The Times Record & the Fort Smith City Government have re-branded the name of the one of the two taxes to the 1% street tax, blatantly leaving out sewers. Why is that? According to the Fort Smith city government’s website there are two taxes, 1% for streets & a 1% for sewers, therefore why is the Times Record & city government now only talking about a 1% street tax in light of the $ ½ billion EPA mandate plus the $300,000 fine. This smacks of major deceptions aimed at the taxpaying citizen.

There’s no avenue for thinking citizens to comprehend & understand the circuitous maze of deception precipitated by city government. Again, there are TWO 1% taxes—a 1% tax for streets & a 1% for sewers. Why would the Times Record, always without questions, continue to alter the name of the official 1% street/sewer tax?
http://www.fortsmithar.gov/newviews/Files/2012%20Sales%20Tax%20Election%20Presentation.pdf

There is also the matter, and it smacks of bribery, having to do with the for-profit Delta Dental Insurance company’s subsidizing the start-up costs of $1 million to initiate the fluoridation of the F. S. water supply. Fluoridation has been turned down by voters on multiple occasions. Fort Smith sewers are not the only thing that smells.

It is noted that newly elected Director Don Hutchings was a past member of the F.S. Board of Dire

The F.S. City Government’s spendathon continues by subsidizing a plethora of entertainment venues, some government and some private, e.g. the Marshal’s Museum, the motorcycle rally, etc. all in full view of hundreds of millions in shortfalls.

The undeniable & indisputable foundation for this article and synopsis is based on facts that the present and past Fort Smith city governments have manipulated, misapplied and diverted somewhere between $600 million and $1.2 billion of taxpayers’ dollars as witnessed by the 25 year repeated demands made by the EPA on the city of Fort Smith for the correction of sewer/drainage problems. All the while the FS city government turned a 25 year blind eye to the EPA and the very real problems of raw sewage, flooding, etc. yet there were millions of taxpayer dollars readily available for revamping the sewer system/flooding problems. The EPA’s final demand was and is essentially a $ ½ billion demand fine & an additional $300,000 fine. The hubris that City Manager Gosack has shown, accompanied by various city Board members, shows arrogance and disrespect for F.S. taxpaying citizens.

Joe McCutchen

P.S. Notable supporters of Agenda 21 Trail systems, i.e. Lorie Robertson, Drew Linder, Bryan Merry (all unelected NGO members), and Bill Hanna & Casey Millspaugh—All are of the opinion that the Trails are “game changers”, “job creators” & would “draw industry” to the area.
Those are touchy, feel-good opinions directed at voters, perhaps self-serving, and that is all. There is not one shred of credible evidence and no empirical data that would support any of the above.

Did Whirlpool, et al leave because there were not enough Trails? Is that why Mitsubishi never occupied their enormous facility?

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HAPPY TRAILS!

North to
Bentonville, AR

West to East to
Henryetta, OK Fort Smith, AR Russelleville, AR

South to
Hatfield, AR

January 17, 2015
Each of the above cities is almost exactly 87.59 miles from the city limits of Fort Smith, AR which is the exact length of the Trails the Fort Smith city government is promoting.

Why, suddenly the uber push for this absurdity? A probable explanation:
1. No funding available due to the coming expiration of the 1% /1 cent street/sewer tax. Therefore; City Manager Gosack, the Mayor, the City Directors and their enablers have no present source of funding to support the Agenda 21 Trail System. Obviously, they are depending on citizen renewal of the 1% tax as their funding source for the proposed Trails.
2. The city also speaks of a partial source of funding from corporations. Corporations do not fund any entity from which they do not receive double or more benefits accompanied by political control.
3. As stated above, the city is counting on the 1% sales tax to be renewed and state affirmatively they will earmark 5% for trails ($1 ½ million per year). 10 years produces $15 million. Stated initial cost of the proposed Trails is said to be for openers $17 million, resulting in an immediate $2 million deficit, but does not address the enormous increases in the costs of doing business, inflation and government waste.
4. The cradle of Marxism in Arkansas, i.e. Fayetteville, Rogers, Bentonville, Springdale, has completed their U.N. Agenda 21 Trails Systems; therefore like sheep and not to be outdone the F.S. city sycophants must make their uber push to please the United Nations’ & D.C. demands.

TV Ch. 5 (& perhaps others) interviewed 2 or 3 Fort Smith citizens 1/14/15 and asked their views on the multi-purpose Trail system. Answers were what one might expect, varying from: “oh, it’s a wonderful idea”, “well; more people would use it in the summertime”. Of course, no statement or questions regarding costs or city government expansions, nor the justification of 87.59 miles of trails.

Fort Smith city government’s 2 main selling points (both fictitious).
1. The Trail system will bring in new industry. (not one shred of empirical evidence to support their assertion).
2. City functionaries are now maintaining the Trail system will draw more students to UAFS & they will graduate and remain here. (Doing what? Again no empirical evidence to support the wild claim.)
3. Both city arguments are based on nothing more than feel-good, sound-good indoctrinations.

Unfortunately we citizens are now wallowing in a “kept” society, and for the most part citizens are devoid of objective or analytical thought. In view of all the huge monetary deficiencies & multiple entertainment venues the Fort Smith city government has created and engaged in, why should a taxpaying citizen vote for ANY tax being promoted by this government in light of their 30 year history of mal-performances and plundering? Particularly the extension of the 1% street/sewer tax for 10 more years. For example:

1. Misappropriation & diversion of a $600 million mandated 1 cent sales tax specifically dedicated to streets/sewers initiated 30 years ago. Observe the decaying conditions of present day streets, sewers, and the accompanying flooding. The newer streets do not turn water. This piracy was accomplished by misapplication, misappropriation, diverting tax dollars, and perhaps other methods, absent citizen approval & most assuredly accountability.
2. In the wings is the recent leveling of an EPA $300,000 fine and their $1/2 Billion mandate to reconstruct the sewers. Money was readily available if the city was judicious & objective in their spending of taxpayer dollars. WE ARE PAYING FOR THE SAME PROJECT AT LEAST TWICE, I.E. SEWER RECONSTRUCTION.
3. This followed by city government overriding citizen voters disdain of mass medicating with fluoride…replete with no funding, and same goes for police/fire pensions, i.e. no funding.
4. City government promising across the board pay raises for city employees. 4% increase in healthcare costs and 3-4% for merit & step increases—Absent funding. City government deviously promotes their position that increases in healthcare costs are not monetary raises.
5. The numerous hugely expensive entertainment venues, some cash disbursements visible and some not, e.g. the Marshal’s Museum. The Merry-Go-Round never stops.
6. City Management is proposing 6-10 or more tax & fee increases. Some are new.

To conclude that the majority of citizens are politically disengaged may be correct, and if that scenario is correct it is the major reason we citizens are/have become nothing more than government vassals and few realize it.

So why is the city government supporting such a massive, absurd Trail program when the architects are the Federal Government and the U.N.’s Agenda 21?

Sooner than later citizens will come to realize the real purpose of the Trail systems. It would behoove them to do some critical/serious researching & thinking. The imminent Economic Professor Paul Craig Roberts wrote, “AMERICANS NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE ONLY THING EXCEPTIONAL ABOUT THE U.S. IS THE IGNORANCE OF THE POPULATION AND THE STUPIDITY OF THE GOVERNMENT.” In support of Dr. Roberts, here is the big question, where are the citizens who should be asking WHERE DID THE MONEY GO, i.e. the 30 year 1% sales tax for streets & sewers that generated $600 Million? Certainly not to the dedicated purpose—streets & sewers.

The Fort Smith city government has lied to the EPA for 25 years and more importantly, the citizens for 30 years. What would make one think these political sycophants will change their stripes?

IN A CAPSULE: THE TRAIL SYSTEM IS ULTIMATELY ABOUT AGENDA 21 REIGNING IN CITIZEN MOVEMENTS, DIMINISHING FREEDOMS, RESTRICTING PROPERTY RIGHTS & USAGE & ABSOLUTE CONTROL OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

THE REAL INDEBTEDNESS FORT SMITH HAS GENERATED, REVEALED STATISTICALLY IS STAGGERING AND TAXPAYERS ARE NOT AWARE OF THE REAL NUMBERS—WE ARE JUST VASSALS AND I GUESS I NEED TO HIT THE TRAIL.

Joe McCutchen

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Citizens: Suck it Up, Shut Up, Pay Up!

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ARE THERE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES FOR THE CITY’S WILLFUL VIOLATION (MISFEASANCE) AND THE STRONG POSSIBILITY OF MALFEASANCE FOR THEIR TREATMENT OF THE 30 YEAR 1% STREET/SEWER TAX THAT VOTERS HAVE AFFIRMED 3 TIMES? January 12, 2015

All governments are built on towers of lies, incestuous relationships & self-service: under the guise of “public service”.

For instance, City Managers emanating from the Strib Boynton era to Ray Gosack. Same time frame for City Directors who knowingly or unknowingly are and were complicit in perhaps the largest misapplication of citizen generated tax money in the city’s history—approximately $600 Million street/sewer tax money that accrued over a 30 year period replete with no accountability or explanations directed to city residents and in present day chronology from City Manager Gosack who has resided in the city government inner circles for 22 years. Nothing but dead silence from the city government functionaries.

Corruption you say, it would appear so.

Even more frightening is citizen silence and lack of outrage to confront the present Mayor & City Board. The significance of the silent Fort Smith citizenry for decades, for whatever their reasonings, has led to a rogue Fort Smith City Government.

In the wake of the 30 year $600 Million disappearance, the Federal Government’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just levied a ½ Billion demand against the city of Fort Smith which requires the city over a 12 year time frame to renovate its sewer systems. Over that span the $1/2 Billion EPA demand will in all likelihood balloon to $3/4 Billion. Still little citizen outrage.

Recall that ½ of the $600 Million misapplication was specifically earmarked to overhaul the F.S. sewer & ground water systems, which should have begun some 25-30 years ago. If the city government had spent the 1% street/sewer tax as was so specified the sewer overhaul would have easily been completed by 1995 at at least one-sixth of the ultimate price the overhaul will cost in the coming 12 years.

In this regard, at the last City Board meeting (1/6/15) Mayor Sandy Sanders was asked the question (I paraphrase) “What happened to the sewer tax money?” Sanders haughtily responded, “We have spent $200 million on sewers.” Obviously, Sanders programed answer was designed to silence the questioner. Mayor Sanders, provide the proof to substantiate your claim. Sanders did not address the other missing $400 million.

The city’s misapplication of the 1% street/sewer tax is scandalous. Not entered into the equation is the 30 year history of continued dumping of raw sewage into the Arkansas River system and the routine flooding of businesses and homes throughout the city, accompanied by extreme personal cost.

Inflation factored into the EPA demand simply means that citizens will be paying for the same job 3 times, and still yet few protestations from citizens.

THE QUESTION THAT DEMANDS LEGAL ATTENTION: IS THERE NOT LEGAL PROTECTION FOR CITIZENS, INCORPORATED INTO THE INITIATED ACT, OR WHATEVER THE OFFICIAL TITLE IS PERTAINING TO THE 3 DECADE OLD STREET/SEWER TAX IN CASE OF CITY GOVERNMENT ABUSES OF THE TAX? SINCE THE ACT REQUIRES VOTER APPROVAL, SURELY THERE MUST BE SOME STATED REMEDY FOR CITIZENS AGAINST MISAPPLICATION OR OTHER ABUSES OF TAX MONIES BY ELECTED OR APPOINTED GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS. IN THIS VEIN, WHO PROTECTS CITIZEN TAX ASSETS SUCH AS THE SPECIFIED STREET/SEWER TAX AND WHAT ARE THE PENALTIES FOR ABUSE, IF ANY?

If citizens sit idly by as they are presently doing, the corruption will only exacerbate. Those elected and non-elected city officials that fit into the previously mentioned chronological envelope must be punished.

The hubris that the present & past city governments have shown is breathtaking. And now they come with more proposed citizen taxpayer abuse: The federal ultimatums described above are now roommates with pension funds, a 7-8% across the board pay raises…both absent funding, water fluoridation absent funding, huge shortfalls, massive cash disbursements to Griffin/Sicard’s “private” enterprise, the Marshal’s Museum, culminating with 87.59 miles of the United Nation’s Agenda 21 Trails & Bikeways

There have been at least 4 recent meetings for hustling this United Nations Agenda 21 Project. The 2 loudest voices are unelected NGO Parks Commission Chairperson Lorie Robertson and 1st National Bank employee Drew Linder who appears to be the spokesman for the money hustle which Linder says will begin at $9.5 to $17 million startup costs and as citizens plainly should understand, the cost will balloon exponentially. Linder, in all likelihood, is the power-broker in the massive Trail project for downtown investors Griffin, Sicard & their consummate insiders.

The above is another toxic example of city government appointing individuals to powerful NGO’s that have the authority to regulate citizens’ lives in any number of ways.

The first Trail meeting was reported to have been attended by about 5 dozen (60) people. This past Thursday night, the 3rd meeting was convened and was attended by a handful of bicyclists, runners, and 2 bicycle shop owners; the total number of attendees was about a dozen individuals and through the mouths of an NGO are supposedly speaking for 150,000 people in the metropolitan Fort Smith area and accomplishing the city’s con job.

This is more devious misdirection by the Fort Smith City Government projecting the image that citizens are demanding bikeways & trails and the city government is “just trying to accommodate” i.e. 60 people that dovetails into a dozen.

All this in the midst of more massive tax burdens being laid on the backs of city taxpayers.

How is it that the Directors can even consider something as non-essential as “Trails” while dumping tons of raw sewage into the once beautiful Arkansas River system?

The Fort Smith City Government is a Fraud, marching to their own drumbeat. Are some of the City Directors even aware?

YESTERDAY’S TIMES RECORD EDITORIAL: “TAXPAYERS MUST FACE BILLS, MORE”………TRANSLATION: SUCK IT UP, SHUT UP, PAY UP. Never once did the Times Record call for city accountability or a question as to WHERE THE MONEY WENT.

Joe McCutchen
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Gone Missing: $600 MILLION…close enough for government work.

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January 6, 2015
MISAPPLICATION & DIVERSION OF TAXPAYER FUNDS HAS RESULTED IN CITIZEN’S DOUBLE TAXATION

MISAPPROPRIATION AND DIVERSION OF TAXPAYER MANDATED MONEY/FUNDS AMOUNTING TO $600 MILLION TO BE APPLIED TO STREET/SEWER IMPROVEMENTS BY PAST AND PRESENT FORT SMITH CITY MANAGERS & BOARDS OF DIRECTORS. RESULTS: A DOUBLE TAXATION & A VIOLATION OF A CITY STATUTE.

The 25 year edict leveled at the city government of Fort Smith, AR by the federal government’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), resulting from flouting by city governments, it becomes painfully obvious the issue has blossomed into a full blown city & federal legal matter which deserves an immediate investigation by the proper authorities.

Question: the specific matter of a 30 year history by the Fort Smith city government misapplying $600 MILLION that were to be dedicated to streets & sewers, what is the legal position of city/Sebastian County Prosecutor Daniel Shue and Federal Prosecutor Conner Eldridge?
Relative to the 30 year 1% street/sewer tax.

In this regard the Times Record reported that at-Large Director Kevin Settle has just concluded 8 years “of service” in the city government maze.

The Times Record reported further that the 1 cent street/sewer tax generated an estimated $21 MILLION yearly.

The above two facts were reported by the Times Record necessarily points directly at Director Settle that he must know where at least $168 million went in the 8 year period that Settle has served, which is part and parcel of $600 MILLION generated by the 30 year street/sewer tax.

Director Settle, along with the city government leadership, is mum pertaining to the misapplication and diversion of the estimated $600 MILLION street/sewer tax and counting. City Manager Gosack, Mayor Sanders and the Board of Directors are applauding strategies built on cunning subterfuge to pass another 10 year extension of the 1% street/sewer tax in the upcoming May election. The passage of this tax would create and sustain more taxpayer abuse orchestrated by the Fort Smith city government & NGO’s.

Jan. 4, 2011: Director Settle remarked about Gosack’s City Manager appointment, “We thought Ray would be and will be very good, and we didn’t want to lose his knowledge of city operations and the history.”

(Gosack’s knowledge of city operations and history has earned city citizens $ ½-3/4 Billion debt (double taxation), sprinkled with fines and a multitude of deficits.)

July 11, 2014: Settle stated in the Times Record, “Gosack has shown a great ability to lead the city”. (Where, into bankruptcy?)
Oct. 25, 2014: On other city matters, fluoridation/Delta Dental, Trails, Bikeways, etc—these matters show utter disdain for city citizens and their wishes.

Pertaining to fluoridation, Delta Dental and the Arkansas General Assembly Settle stated, “The City Board is more than willing to go along with the State Legislature”. Settle further responded, “The State passed it, not the Board, so we have to follow state law”. Settle showed no concern for city residents bymaking such an inflammatory statement. The Arkansas General Assembly, in league with an insurance company, in this case Delta Dental, has no constitutional or legal authority to force a city to mass medicate, absent funding, to satisfy the economic demands of an insurance company. The politically cowardly Settle knows full well that Fort Smith city voters did not want fluoridation and had voted it down on multiple occasions.

Nov. 4, 2014: Another unsettling matter. Chair of the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Parks Commission Lorie Robertson and her remarks regarding Agenda 21 Trails and the upcoming May vote to renew the 1 cent street/sewer tax, proposes to use the same corrupt strategy in the May election that Senator Jake Files & cohorts utilized to pass Issue 3. Issue 3 on the ballot was construed as a voluminous Ethics Bill, while on the back-end a couple of lines that doubled term limits for the Legislative manipulators.

Robertson put forth remarks pertaining to purloining 20% of the street/sewer tax and attaching 10% of it to Trails/Bikeways and the other 10% going to Police/Fire deficient pension funds.

Robertson’s remarks: “The beauty of this is not being written into the main part of this”, (referring to the confiscation of 20% of the street/sewer tax to be diverted to Trails & Pensions.) Robertson reveals she is devoid of ethics by openly admitting their plan to divert more of the street/sewer tax to unnecessary programs.

In other words, they count on citizens not reading the body of the street/sewer tax that gets them to the back end of the Bill that would contain the 20% takeaway.

Nov. 20, 2014: Director At-Large Settle bloviating; “City Manager Gosack has not had a raise in 2 ½ years”. Gosack receives $153,000 yearly in salary, plus a hugely liberal package of perks. A raise? Showering in a cascade of taxpayer dollars, Mayor Sanders receives an outrageous $250,000 annually for his own personal discretionary spending.

Should Fort Smith citizens choose not to examine their own Trails in lieu of the city government, financial asphyxiation will certainly occur sooner or later.

Is the official Board an obtuse, insouciant collection or are they in league with Gosack and the 30 year misappropriation of funds; furthermore, have there been quid pro quo awards during the disappearance of the approximately $600 Million street/sewer tax, especially in the area of very expensive purchases and massive amounts of new equipment?

Incidentally, recently constructed streets do not turn water.

A private business concern could never ever get away with violating the numbers of federal mandates being levied against the City of Fort Smith Administration; why the special legal treatment for the elected & managerial occupants of the Fort Smith city government for over 25 years? Why wasn’t the city locked down years ago and legal action brought against those present & past members of the city government involved in the $600 million diversion scheme?.

Citizens should demand detailed explanations and accountability for the disappearance of the $600 MILLION and if so indicated, litigation by the proper appointed and elected prosecutoral officials should ensue promptly.

Joe McCutchen

P.S. A portion of the City of Fort Smith’s “Mission Statement”…..INTEGRITY ALWAYS! & ABSOLUTE PROFESSIONALISM!!

P.S. In the wake of the new $1/2 -3/4 Billion new tax debt the citizens have been made aware that Gosack and the City Directors benevolently donated $50,000 more to the Marshal-Town Folly, designed to enhance and secure the downtown insiders’ assets. If the Marshal’s Museum reaches maturation , ultimately it will be turned over to some taxpayer subsidized entity.

Agenda 21, city government offenses, City Politics, Globalization

Rapacious Harpies never quit

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FOUNDER PATRICK HENRY’S RAPACIOUS HARPIES. December 30, 2014

No apologies, no explanations to the taxpaying citizens, no specific accountability to taxpayers, just political brute force and what appears to be misapplication of funds. WHERE DID THE MONEY GO GENERATED BY THE CITY’S 1% SEWER/STREET TAX?

Where did hundreds of millions of dollars dedicated to sewers/streets generated by the 30 year old 1% sewer/street sales tax go??? Specifically, the disappearance of $630 MILLION, one-half of which was dedicated for the eradication of sewer deficiencies.

The City Administration was notified 26 years ago by a directive from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to eradicate the sewer mess that was 4 years after trusting citizens had already taken action and voted for the 1% sewer/street tax.

The year 2014 the Environmental Protection Agency levied a $300,000 fine (allegedly no funds to pay the fine) on the citizens of Fort Smith, AR for non-compliance of the EPA edict.

Dec. 8, 2014 citizens were informed they must spend $200 MILLION to correct sewer/waste water deficiencies brought on by present & past City Managers’ inattention to the EPA mandate starting with the Strib Boynton Administration. Former & present City Directors were/are equally to blame.

Dec. 10, 2014 the $200 MILLION EPA demand ballooned to approximately $500 MILLION (1/2 BILLION) and will in all likelihood reach $750 MILLION due to inflation and government misfeasance at the 12 year finish line. It’s the city governments’ expectations that the $500 MILLION start-up money will be generated by ill-informed citizens’ voting for another 10 year round of 1% tax madness.

Pertaining to the $300,000 fine and the now $500 million EPA mandate, not one explanation from City Manager Ray Gosack, an off & on 22 year veteran city employee, nor from the obtuse Mayor & City Directors. Gosack stated in the December time frame he was pleased with the EPA arrangement. How so? The private sector citizens are the ones that will bear new tax burdens brought on by city government misfeasance, while Gosack & associates feed in the government welfare trough.

Enter the term “Sharrows”—emanating from aspiring political midgets and self-servers, fed to them by the United Nation’s Agenda 21 hucksters. In this regard Non-Government Organization (NGO) Parks Commission Chairwoman Angie Robertson stated with hubris, “We will earmark up to 10% of the tax revenues for trails.” Another example of an unelected dictating the tenor of city business. Who are “ we” Madam Robertson?

“Sharrows” is to be a looping trail 86 miles long at an opening taxpayer cost of $10-17 Million, absent funding. The city used 2 meetings for political cover in their “Sharrows” game and relied on a reported half dozen self-serving individuals to make the determination to build 86 miles of trails & bikeways. These few dozen attendees, for city purposes, are making a decision for the 150,000 person metroplex.
Until and if citizens examine their own trails in lieu of corrupt governments, the fiscal asphyxiation will continue, along with other personal attacks.

Coupled to the looping trails, Gosack and his insiders, with the full force of the Directors behind them, and by force of course, are poised to give city employees an 7-8% salary increase—a 4% health & a 3-4% merit/step raise…no available funding—the “officials” solution: raise taxes as Founder Patrick Henry once described, those “Rapacious Harpies”, referring to those who pick the bones of the producers.

Ark. governments’ preamble is always to lobby the AR. General Assembly, pass unconstitutional laws that give the Harpies power of force to increase taxes and create Commissions (NGO’s); thereby bypassing the wishes, demands & consent of the citizens. Recall if you will, that all departments in government have their unions & lobbying agents, coupled with NGO’s (Non-Governmental Organizations. The idea always is to expand government & crush private sector rights.

Further recall: Both City Manager Ray Gosack and Police Chief Kevin Lindsey belong to international managing & policing agencies. These two and perhaps other agency heads are taking their orders from the U.N. & DC opportunists while thumbing their collective noses at the citizens of Fort Smith and at the same time removing influence & decision-making out of the hands of taxpaying citizens. What are the ensuing costs of Gosack’s & Lindsey’s (& perhaps others) memberships in international bodies ?

There will be at least 15 fee increases and 10 or more new taxes implemented in order for the city to bestow employee pay raises and rekindle Fire & Police Pensions. The 25 new tax increases that are to be implemented by force will not totally cover pensions & raises. Then, how? What was the source of funding up to this point?

Then the matters of fluoridation, trails, bikeways, wayfinding signs, event nodes, etc. etc. All absent funding. And yes, Griffin & Sicard’s so-called “private enterprise”, i.e. the Marshal’s Museum which has been the recipient of several millions of taxpayer dollars, some of which appear to be surreptitiously obtained.

Then the big matter: the $½ Billion, 12 year initial cost for overhauling sewer/waste water systems and necessarily more new tax monies, more city employees, coupled with more economic demands and ensuing loss of personal freedoms made on Fort Smith citizens. Is an increase in property tax in our future, authorized by the Rapacious Harpies?

Conclusion: City Manager Ray Gosack and past Managers are guilty of misapplication of city funds, perhaps in the millions, aided by complicit or intimidated City Boards.

1. What happened to the $630 MILLION generated by the now 30 year 1% road/sewer tax?
2. What was the involvement, if any, of the Fort Smith City’s Attorney?
3. Why did City Administrators not act on the sewer mess in proper prescribed time frame?
4. Where are the explanations or excuses for this extreme, if nothing else, incompetency?
5. With the magnitude of financial deficiencies why would this administration even consider entering into hugely expensive non-essential programs such as trails, bikeways, etc. orchestrated by U.N. Agenda 21. Trails & bikeways already abound in the Fort Smith landscape.
6. Is there not a bid process going on in the city government?
7. By permitting city “heads” to take their marching orders from international bodies, are we not subsidizing in any number of ways our own demise?

THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION: Where is citizen outrage regarding the insouciant present city government? Should legal action not be brought against Gosack, the city’s legal counsel and to a lesser degree the Directors for practices they appear to be engaged in that have all appearances of malfeasance and misfeasance?

SOCIALIST AUTHOR H.G. WELLS CORRECTLY PREDICTED IN 1908 THAT:

“SOCIALISM WOULD CEASE TO BE AN OPEN REVOLUTION AND WOULD INSTEAD BECOME A SUBTLE PLOT. FUNCTIONS WERE TO BE SHIFTED FROM THE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE, TO THE APPOINTED OFFICIAL…A SCIENTIFIC BUREAURACY APPOINTED BY REPRESENTATIVE BODIES WHICH WOULD HAVE DIMINISHING ACTIVITY AND IMPORTANCE…”

Citizens this was and is the definition of functioning Non-Governmental Organizations which are at work nationally and internationally, complements of U.S. governments.

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net

Agenda 21, city government offenses, City Politics, Forced redistribution

Have you lost your minds?

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HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MINDS? December 18, 2014

I vividly recall Fort Smith business man Jerry Hamel repeatedly asking that very question a few years ago at a Fort Smith City Board meeting while they were still honest enough to televise their meetings for taxpayers’ transparency & oversight. That disappeared shortly after.

The question is even more poignant and relative now that we taxpaying citizens discover that for 30 years we’ve been paying a specific tax to have our sewers & streets upgraded to comply with common sense, legitimate costly problems, and an EPA mandate and that the mission is not only NOT accomplished but WE have to cough up a huge fine for that fact with absolutely no explanation or defense for the preventable crisis.

The Fort Smith City Government is worse than derelict, it as a whole or certain individuals within it are complicit in fraud and/or too uniformed to be employed in their capacities.

The most obvious suspect is the man who’s been next to or in charge of city machinations for over 22 years, City Administrator Ray Gosack. (By the way, did we ever find out the whys, wherefores, & outcome of the thousands of dollars’ worth of uncashed checks written to Fort Smith from the Van Buren Water Department that were found stashed in someone’s city desk drawer?)

The cavalier attitude and lack of concern/responsibility exhibited by him, the Mayor & most of the Board is not only irresponsible but unbelievably arrogant or cowardly.

If there is no accountability there is chaos & in all likelihood layers of criminality, period. The easiest job in the world is spending other people’s money, especially if there are no penalties for misfeasance.

More than one individual is responsible for the EPA $300.000 fine and a $200 million edict which has already ballooned to a $ ½ BILLION mandate. Heads should roll. In the private sector they would not only be fired and sued for the missing/misspent money but they would no doubt go to jail. Why should government be any different?

At the very same time we have city & county governments contemplating or already in motion to fluoridate our water (against the voters expressed will), spending millions on trails, bikeways, event nodes, (all of which will be utilized by a miniscule of the population & unneeded)….already losing millions on public transportation, the Convention Center, et al., all unfunded.

Is it any wonder that so many taxpayers distrust their governments? They get taken to the cleaners and the perpetrators (politicrats & private cronies) not only profit but are free of accountability!

The whole scenario mirrors “The Emperor’s New Clothes” parody…the con men convince the Emperor he’s being fitted with fine array and he parades & struts naked in the streets and the people are too intimidated & brainwashed to admit the truth…they just oooh & aaah over the impressive raiment…it takes the innocence/honesty of youth to proclaim that the Emperor is indeed NAKED for the people to admit the truth.

Yes, Mr. Hamel, they have not only lost their minds but also their ethics, honesty, courage and responsibility.

Citizens—don’t any of you care that you have been fleeced like sheep, humiliated, & robbed and no one pays the price for it? Who are you afraid of? Where are your voices…the Emperor is indeed NAKED for all to see.

Where is the press? The Times Record continues to write “minutes of the meeting” type reports day after day, never an investigative report or any hard questions regarding obvious discrepancies…no wonder newspapers are doomed to file 13. Who wants to read the same old politically correct regurgitation on a daily basis?

If fitting into the collective P.C. crowd is more important to citizens than their own hard earned money, property and individual rights/ liberties, then many minds have been lost, along with the rule of law/justice & our Founding Principles…probably forever.

~Barbara McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net

Agenda 21, city government offenses, City Politics

Where is the Wampum?

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WHERE IS THE WAMPUM???? December 17, 2014

What City Manager Ray Gosack, his underlings and present & past Fort Smith City Directors have done and are doing to the citizens of the city of Fort Smith is indefensible.

They are all guilty, past and present, of misfeasance or malfeasance or both.

The year 1985 citizens voted for a 1% road/sewer tax and it has remained in effect for 29 years generating hundreds of millions of dollars, yet the sewer crisis/problem remains. Additionally, the streets are in a state of disarray, WHERE DID THE MONEY GO???

In 1989 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mandated the city of Fort Smith Arkansas to correct major sewer/ground water deficiencies. The city exhibiting hubris & stupidity has ignored the EPA mandate for 25 years.

Recall: the city wisely passed the 1% street/sewer tax 4 years before the EPA mandate, yet no positive action by the present City Manager accompanied by past & present Mayors & City Boards. WHERE DID THE MONEY GO??

During the month of December 2014 the EPA fined the city of Fort Smith $300,000, plus a $200 million mandate to correct the long term violations. Within the month the EPA mandate rose to $500 million (1/2 Billion) and within the 12 year mandate the dollar figure will in all likelihood go north to somewhere approaching $750 million. The lack of action to correct these major water deficiencies by Gosack & past & present city Boards is financially criminal, and citizens bearing the major economic pain. Why should citizens have to pay the fine and those responsible do not?

Not one public comment by any member of the present city government regarding an explanation or a defense of their sordid governmental misconduct.

Apparently the present Board of Directors has not one modicum of understanding of financials, and that is being euphemistic.

Add to the present long-term financial woes engendered upon citizens by this government pertaining to the sewer deficiencies, Gosack has sold out the citizens in the matter of United Nations Agenda 21 (trails, bikeways, event nodes, etc.) and Police Chief Lindsey’s membership in 2 INTERNATIONAL policing organizations which dictate the tenor of business in all areas for the F.S.P.D. removing any influence from Fort Smith citizens. These 2 actions are despicable.

Then there is the question of how many hundreds of thousands of dollars of city taxpayer money have been surreptitiously directed into Griffin’s & Sicard’s Marshal Museum?

The Mayor & City Administrator should immediately fire City Manager Ray Gosack, the city attorney Jerry Canfield and then promptly resign. This would allow for a deep-seated, detailed independent audit and reforming the city government. WHERE DID THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS GO DURING THESE PAST 29 YEARS?

Where is the taxpayer citizens’ outrage and are they not guilty of allowing the above scenarios coming to past? And WHERE IS THE WAMPUM???

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net
P.S. Are we to believe none of the people in city government know how to balance a checkbook? Let the Ax quickly drop.

Agenda 21, city government offenses, City Politics, Forced redistribution, Globalization

Government Types Rely on Gullibility

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THE ENEMIES OF INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM CONTINUE TO TIGHTEN THE NOOSE. December 15, 2014

It’s hard to avoid pejorative comments when speaking of/about politicians and bureaucrats and other hangers-on, particularly when they are hell-bent on enslaving citizens.

Hot Dog! A new word from the Agenda 21 crowd. “SHARROWS” Sharrows is an international word used where the mode of transportation relies heavily on non-carbon fuel, i.e. bicycles, rickshaws, horse drawn carriages, walking and running.

Add “sharrows” to the lexicon of Agenda 21’s Sustainable Development’s words & phrases that the Fort Smith city government has recently adopted, e.g. quality of place, sense of place, event nodes, smart growth, bikeways, wayfinding signs, and now sharrows.

When government types have “visions” that arise out of the ashes of the Phoenix, the cost of said “visions” are always unbridled and the consequences are many in terms of loss of freedoms and/or treasure.

A Fort Smith fellow by the name Drew Linder had such a “vision”. Linder’s vision: a looping trail extending around the city at a projected cost of $9.5 million to $17 million for openers. No estimates pertaining to the numbers of new government employees and maintenance that such a program would demand.

Lorie Robertson, Parks Commission Chairwoman, opines, “We will earmark up to 10% of tax revenue for trails.” Ah yes, gullible citizens will jump on it.

Note: Robertson is the chairwoman of an unelected, non-governmental operation (NGO). Again, NGO’s blunt and completely isolate/remove citizen influence in government.

All the above in the face of a recent $300,000 EPA fine, ½ BILLION dollar edict from the EPA, projected 8% salary increases for city employees, the trails/bikeways scheme, bankrupt pension programs, fluoridation, all devoid of money to fund, therefore new taxes will be pursued….Question: WHERE DID THE 1% SALES TAX MONEY GO??

Bicycle Advocacy groups are very powerful. Advocacy is a fancy word for lobbying, influencing and/or strong-arming the politicians and the public. They are a very useful self-serving tool for “Smart Growth” & “Sustainable Development” which are integral parts of U.N. Agenda 21.

It’s not just about bike lanes, it’s about remaking cities and rural areas to the “sustainable model”. High density urban development (stack’em & pack’em) without parking for cars is the goal. Bike groups are the “shock troops” for the Agenda 21 plan.

Bush I signed us on to Agenda 21 in 1992. In 2009 600 U.S. cities, towns, counties had agreed to Sustainability Principles…Fort Smith, AR is a certainty to be among those now well over 600.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IS THE WORLDWIDE PLAN TO INVENTORY AND CONTROL ALL LAND, ALL WATER, ALL MINERALS, ALL CONSTRUCTION, ALL EDUCATION, ETC. ETC. THESE COMMUNITIES ALSO PROMOTE ALTERNATIVE MODES OF TRANSPORTION, E.G. FORT SMITH, AWAY FROM THE TRADITIONAL AUTOMOBILE TO POLICIES THAT ENDORSE & ENCOURAGE PUBLIC TRANSIT.

Linder made another poignant statement, knowing or unknowing “I think it is such a good fit for the street tax because it’s just another form of transportation.” Spoken like a U.N. Agenda 21 advocate.

Are Linder & Robertson unknowingly parrots or are they advocates for the United Nation’s Agenda 21 freedom killing cabal?
City Manager Gosack most likely knows and is an active agent in Agenda 21/Sustainable Development, as is Mayor Sanders, but do the City Directors know or understand?

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net