Rural Landowners Declaration of Rural Independence

It is abundantly apparent that high-dense urban areas, known as cities, have an unfair electoral advantage in passing laws and deciding social and environmental policy.

This electoral advantage disenfranchises rural landowners who have no say in such policy and strips them of their constitutionally protected freedoms, their dignity and their property rights. In far too many cases, rural landowners are deprived of their rights of due process and just compensation, as required under the 5th Amendment.

Again, this electoral advantage allows cities to elect politicians that pass laws and dictate policy that ONLY affects rural landowners but leaves city folk virtually un-scathed. The Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the Clean Water Restoration Act (CWRA) are just two examples of tens of thousands of laws, acts and ordinances that only affect rural landowners, while urban dwellers get off scot-free.

Rural landowners have come together to demonstrate just how important rural land is to the city's existence and to communicate to them that our disenfranchisement shall not stand.

Rural landowners have come together in the spirit of solidarity to stage a silent protest against the tyranny of the majority (cities) and their government counterparts that have sold rural landowners and this country, literally down the river.

We, the rural landowners of America, hereby declare the week of June 30th through July 6th, 2008 (including July 4th, "Independence Day") and each 4th of July week each year thereafter, as a declaration of rural independence.

Starting at 12:01 AM, Monday, June 30th, 2008 and ending at midnight July 6th, 2008, rural landowners, all across America, unite in the following actions, or in actions, as the case may be....