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Lawrence, KS. Economic Woes Real Reason for Freedom's Frontier?

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Funding Problems Plague Freedom's Frontier

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MISSOURI POLITICIANS WHO SUPPORT "FREEDOM'S FRONTIER"

Gov. Matt Blunt

Former Sen. Jim Talent (Brownback Mountain)

Rep. Ike Skelton


INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH "FREEDOM'S FRONTIER"

National Geographic Center for Sustainable Destinations

The Clinton Global Initiative

International Council on Monuments and Sites


2004 Congressional

Testimony of Carol Lagrasse 

on the TRUE purpose of National Heritage Areas


Freedom's Frontier visits NAACP

Freedom's Frontier Courts Black Supremacist Group


Freedom's Frontier Radio Interview

September 27th Political Cesspool radio interview about Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area


Letter Details National Park Service Censoring of History

"Bureaucrats are Rewriting History" Letter to the Editor in the Southeast Missourian newspaper about the National Park Service


Another Missouri Land Grab?

More Western Missouri & Eastern Missouri Lands to Become "Heritage Trails" Under Control of National Park Service


From Op-Ed News

Missouri's Reconstruction and Coded Messages by Candidates

"Blunt and Talent have both openly supported Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area, a program born in Lawrence , Kansas used to re-write history, threaten property rights and implement global programs in Missouri."


Differences = Dollars

Why Missouri should just say "no" to the tax-burden bureaucracy known as Freedom's Frontier

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kansas Selling-Off "Freedom's Frontier?

From The Missouri Bushwhacker Blog (posted May 11th, 2008)

From outsourcing bureaucracies, to firing museum directors, the Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area project, based out of Lawrence , Kansas has had its share of controversy.

Perhaps the most telling piece of evidence yet, that Freedom's Frontier is not about preserving history, but securing $10,000,000 for a "heritage grant" that would threaten not only Missouri (and now seemingly Kansas history as well) but the property rights in both states.

It looks like I was right on track when my article, "Lawrence, KS Economic Woes Real Motive Behind Freedom's Frontier? " was published on Jan. 27, 2008 on the Op Ed News website.

A Letter to the Editor published in the Topeka Capital-Journal published on May 4 , 2008, confirms what I and many others have been saying for quite some time.

While the backers of Freedom's Frontier in Lawrence have been portraying that it is an effort to "preserve" history, the author of the letter,PAUL M. BAHNMAIER of LeCompton, Ks writes...

"I was shocked when I read in The Capital-Journal that a member of the Kansas Legislature, a Mission Hills senator, proposed selling the state historic sites.

To sell our history is to sell our souls.

It was suggested that a panel be appointed to determine the importance of the state historic sites. Be assured that although this may not happen now, once this seed is sown it will surely grow.

I would like to propose to this future panel that it consider selling not the historic sites, but the land surrounding the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka, and even the museum itself, before it considers selling off the historic sites located throughout Kansas. The museum is merely a new, modern structure of no particular historical significance.

However, the sites are buildings where historic events occurred and people made history. Many of these historic sites are more than 150 years old, are National Historic Landmarks and are partners in the Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area.

Tourism is one of the leading industries in America, and our Kansas historic sites play a major role in attracting state, national and international visitors to Kansas to learn about our great history. Kansas history is not for sale to the highest bidder."

So why would the State of Kansas want to sell off historic sites that are partners in the Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area?

My guess is that it has always been about the money and not Kansas history and certainly not Missouri history.

They have the necessary partners signed up for Freedom's Frontier, to portray wide support for the project, but as from the begining, the only real support for the project is limited to Lawrence and the eastern Kansas area.

Freedom's Frontier is about securing $10,000,000 for Lawrence, Ks. This should serve as a warning to historic sites in southern and western Kansas, as well as western Missouri who have decided to become "partners" in Freedom's Frontier.

Allying yourself with those who have promised to promote tourism and preserve your historic sight might be the one thing that destroys it.

Clint, Missouri Bushwhacker

mobushwhacker@yahoo.com

 

Freedom's Frontier Stalls: Senator Brownback Fumes

From Op-Ed News.Com, April 21, 2008

A March 1'st , 2008 article published in the Washington Times , entitled, "Boeing Loses Bid to Build Tankers to Its Rival" stated :

"The Pentagon yesterday passed over Boeing's bid for a $40 billion contract to build a fleet of refueling tankers for the Air Force, instead choosing a team that includes Boeing's European rival Airbus.

The team of Northrop Grumman and European Aeronautic Defence and Space (EADS), Airbus's parent company, will build an initial fleet of 179 tankers. The contract to supply the tankers had initially been awarded to Boeing, but was withdrawn in 2004 over a procurement scandal that resulted in officials from Boeing and the Air Force being sent to prison.

For EADS, Boeing's rival in the commercial aviation industry, winning means getting a foot in the door of the U.S. military aircraft business. For Boeing, losing means that its 767 line will probably be shut down at some point as commercial sales for the plane decline. "

Great, just what this country needs, more jobs leaving during a time in which jobs are scarce and the dollar is falling.

Times have been especially tough for the aircraft industry, and it looks like times are going to be even tougher now that the EADS corporation has gotten their foot into the American military market.

A March 24, 2008 posting on Business News.Com ("Air Force tankers fly on borrowed time" ) stated that:

"The tanker deal would have meant 3,800 jobs in Wichita { if Boeing } had won the contract. "He has made it abundantly clear that, if president, he would be indifferent to the outsourcing of American jobs, even at a time when our families and our nation's economy are hurting the most," said Larry Gates, chairman of the Kansas Democratic Party"

According to the March 18, 2008 issue of the Wichata Eagle, U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R) Kansas, told a group of Wichata business leaders that the EADS corporation has an unfair advantage in obtaining the tanker contract...

"Standing with a bar graph depicting billions of dollars in foreign government subsidies to a consortium of European aircraft companies, Sen. Sam Brownback on Monday stressed that a massive tanker contract must be overturned.

It was the latest in a string of harsh criticism of the Air Force's decision to award a $35 billion contract to the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., Airbus' parent company, and Northrop Grumman, instead of to the Boeing Co., to build the next generation of aerial-refueling tankers.

Brownback said U.S. government figures show the European companies received $5 billion in subsidies that were intended to jump-start their commercial aircraft program. Now that subsidy is undercutting an American company on a military contract, Brownback told about 150 people at a downtown Rotary lunch at the Broadview Hotel.

'Do you think Boeing could launch a good aircraft with $5 billion?' he asked.

The crowd of business leaders and government officials applauded loudly when Brownback said the contract decisions should be overturned.

Brownback said the tanker deal 'popped us right in the jaw' in Kansas. He later noted that he is working with other officials to determine the full economic impact of losing the contract.

'I'm still mad about this,' he said"

That's odd, because just five days prior to addressing Wichata business leaders, the Kansas City Star in a March 23, 2008 article entitled :

"Questionable tanker deal could cloud November election for Republicans in affected states" had this to say about the lost Boeing contract:

"WASHINGTON | Some Kansans furious and mystified over the demise of a Boeing bid to replace the Air Force’s aging armada of aerial tankers think they detect John McCain’s fingerprints.

The senator from Arizona says the decision was the Pentagon’s and that he had nothing to do with it other than to ask for fair competition, for taxpayer money not to be wasted and military effectiveness not impaired.

Boeing allies, however, point to the former Airbus lobbyists on the Republican’s campaign staff and the political contributions from the company. They question an amendment he championed opening military bids to foreign manufacturers, his letters to the Defense Department pushing to ensure Boeing wasn’t the lone airplane maker being considered and his call to ignore European subsidies to Airbus."

(So much for McCain's pledge not to bow to "special interests" )

The article also reveals that:

"in 2003, when Congress approved his amendment that allowed the Pentagon to buy American military equipment from foreign companies. Sens. Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback, both Kansas Republicans, voted for the amendment along a largely party line.

And in 2006, McCain wrote letters to the Defense Department suggesting the criteria be broadened and the issue of European subsidies to Airbus not be a deal breaker. Opponents said the senator was lobbying on Airbus’ behalf, but McCain said he was merely calling for an open bidding process.

McCain’s backers think his moves benefited America: “All the senator advocated for was 100 percent full competition, and that’s it,” said Keith Ashdown of Taxpayers for Common Sense

Republican anger is publicly vented at the Air Force. The 500 direct, and 3,300 indirect, jobs it would have led to in Kansas are sorely missed. At one time, Wichita had more than 50,000 aerospace jobs. Today it has 39,300 (and about 4,000 at Boeing).

The could have meant $145 million a year for the Kansas economy. Given that, Larry Gates, chairman of the Kansas Democratic Party, has no reason to hold back."

 Brownback , who is campaigning for Republican presidential candidate John McCain , defended his actions  in an article found in the Wichita Eagle  entitled, "Would Kansas snub McCain over tanker?" published March 23'rd , by stating that it is :

"an entirely different picture" now, adding that Boeing paid a price for its misconduct: "There were corruption charges and people went to jail, as they should have." 

With the loss of nearly 4000 jobs at the Wichita, KS plant, partly because of Brownback's vote to open up the contract bids for military manufacturing, Brownback now has a real problem on his hands.

In politics nothing is coincidence, so one has to wonder what McCain has promised Brownback, in return for his support, and if that promise still stands if Kansas is unable to clean up this mess that he has helped create in his own homestate.

Brownback has only one thing left to fall back on now; Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area.

The Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area. It is the brain child of Republican Kansas U.S. Senator Sam Brownback his one time room mate former Missouri U.S. Senator "Chicken Jim" Talent.

The two Senators worked in unison to secure funding ($10,000,000 over 15 years) that would turn most of Eastern Kansas and 12 Western Missouri counties into a National Heritage Area and under the authority of the National Park Service.

A shaky plan to land $10,000,000 in Federal tax dollars over the next 15 years by creating a national heritage area in Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri, that some say threaten private property rights is all Brownback has left to help deliver Kansas to McCain in the November, 2008 presidential election, and according to one anonymous source who contacted me, Brownback is fuming mad about the lack of progress that is being made on the Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area.

The anonymous source writes:

"One of my “deep cover” sources from Lawrence was at a meeting recently where Sen. Brownback was present.  According to my source the Lawrence Downtown Redevelopment/ Visitor’s and Convention program/Destination Management/Freedom’s Frontier scheme was mentioned.  It was reported that Brownback was fuming about the lack of progress on the projects. My source said some of the people in attendance “…just didn’t want to talk about it” to Brownback or anyone else."

Who could blame them? I'm guessing they would have rather had the 4000 well paying jobs and not had their property rights threatened by a $10,000,000 tourism scheme.

Authors Website: www.clintlacy.com

Authors Bio: Clint E. Lacy is a friend of freedom and a Southern author and activist. He resides in the Ozark Foothills of Southeast Missouri.

 

 

 Private Bureaucracy Threatens Missouri / Kansas  History

The dismissal of a Douglas County , Ks  Museum Director raises more questions about financial issues and a Lawrence "power grab" for the Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area

From opednews.com  March 31'st, 2008

The February 15th,2008 edition of the Lawrence Journal-World carried an article entitled "Watkins Director Dismissed" which details the dismissal of long-time director of the Watkins Community Museum of History, which is located where else, but Douglas County, Kansas.

The article states that, "The director of the Watkins Community Museum of History has been dismissed as part of a shake-up in the management of the struggling nonprofit.

In a short news release, the board of directors of the Douglas County Historical Society — which oversees Watkins — announced that Rebecca Phipps no longer was director of the museum.

When contacted Thursday, Phipps said she did not resign from the museum, but she declined to go into specifics about her departure.

“At this point, I don’t want to comment until I’ve had a chance to talk to an attorney,” Phipps said.

Phyllis Tiffany, chairwoman of the historical society’s board of directors, said there has been “a very clear trend downward in interest, membership, funding and our approach to membership and funding.”

She said the museum’s administrative structure needed to be reorganized to reverse that trend."

So in layman's terms, Phipps was fired. The fact that funding was listed as one of the reasons for her dismissal, is not surprising. The Freedom's Fraud website, which has been following the coverage of the Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area, has long questioned the support of the public , based on the amount of financial contributions it has received.

The fact that Phipps would not comment without speaking to an attorney , makes this writer question the reasons for her dismissal.

Was it really over lack of revenue that the museum has been generating lately, or is there something that the Douglas County Historical Society is not telling us?

It is not a far fetched theory, to wonder if Phipps was dismissed for other reasons. Perhaps she did not agree with the way that the Douglas County Historical Society and Destination Management has been presenting the history of the Missouri / Kansas border area.

Additional information found in the February 15th, Lawrence Journal-World newspaper states that, "Phyllis Tiffany, chairwoman of the historical society’s board of directors, said there has been “a very clear trend downward in interest, membership, funding and our approach to membership and funding.”

She said the museum’s administrative structure needed to be reorganized to reverse that trend.

“There has been a tremendous awareness on the part of the board that a lot of changes had to be made, to join the 21st century, if you will,” she said. “A lot of reorganization needed to be taken care of.

“Rebecca Phipps has a lot of skills and so forth, but they didn’t seem to be compatible with what we’re trying to do,” Tiffany said.

Douglas County Administrator Craig Weinaug said he did not know the specifics behind the dismissal. But he said county commissioners had expressed concerns to the museum board of directors, which is an independent organization that receives about $135,000 in county funding on an annual basis. Weinaug said the county has challenged the group to find revenue sources other than tax dollars.

“Watkins has made several efforts to do that in the past, but their success has been somewhat limited,” Weinaug said. “The County Commission has expressed significant concern that they need to do a better job with that.”

Maybe the reasons for Phipps dismissal were financial after all. It is not a foregone conclusion to believe, al least based on the lack of financial support for Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area, the Douglas County Historical Society along with Destination Management, a private entity that has taken the place of Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau is siphoning off funds from wherever they can get them, to qualify for the $10,000,000 that the federal government has promised the heritage area over a 15 year period.

Also no surprise is the fact that Destination Management Inc. is under the leadership of Judy Billings, who was the former director of the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau.

According to the February 17th, 2008 issue of the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper:

"Change, even when it’s for the better, often is difficult. The changes that are occurring in the organization and leadership of Douglas County’s historical tourism efforts are bound to cause some hard feelings, but they have a strong chance, in the long run, of making this area’s wonderful history more accessible to visitors and a bigger draw for tourism.

At the center of the changes is the new Destination Management Inc., under the leadership of Judy Billings, the long-time director of the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau. The first shifts took place several months ago when DMI formed and took over the operation of the visitor’s bureau from the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. At the same time, DMI formalized its leadership role with the Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area.

The goal of this transition was to put Lawrence and Billings at the center of developing the new heritage area and to coordinate that project with other historical tourism efforts in the county. Those pushing the reorganization said putting the heritage area management under the local chamber of commerce wouldn’t be acceptable to others involved in the project, which includes 41 counties in Kansas and Missouri."

Which proves what the I have been writing about on the Freedom's Fraud website for quite sometime; the fact that a national heritage area that was created and passed in congress , spearheaded by Republican Senators Sam Brownback and Jim Talent, is based out of and centered in Lawrence, Kansas.

With the creation of this heritage area comes many questions regarding property rights and how the controversial history of the Missouri / Kansas border area will be presented.

The fact that the Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area is based out of Lawrence , Kansas , makes it very questionable that the area's Civil War history will be presented in an objective , or even accurate manner and you can bet that the with the Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area headquartered in Lawrence, the true history of Missouri will not be told.

It seems that the folks at Destination Management will stop at nothing to scrounge up enough money to qualify for federal funding. The dismissal of Rebecca Phipps is proof of enough for me.


Authors Website: www.clintlacy.com

Authors Bio: Clint E. Lacy is a friend of freedom and a Southern author and activist. He resides in the Ozark Foothills of Southeast Missouri.

 

Son of Kansas Governor Designs Sick Prison Board Game...

Gillius Inc

 

From the Feb. 1'st, 2008 post of the Missouri Bushwhacker Blog...

O.K. Missourians, the Freedom's Fraud website has made incredible strides in convincing several Western Missouri counties not to participate in Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area, but for those of you who are still convinced that by aligning with the State of Kansas, Missouri will better its image and increase tourism, check out the new "board game" that the son of the Governor of Kansas has designed, it's called "Don't Drop the Soap".

According to our friends over at the CofCC website...

"TOPEKA, Kan.  —  The son of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is peddling a board game titled “Don’t Drop the Soap,” a prison-themed game he created as part of a class project at the Rhode Island School of Design.

John Sebelius, 23, has the backing of his mother and father … Sebelius spokeswoman Nicole Corcoran said both parents “are very proud of their son John’s creativity and talent...Yes, only someone with strong links to Kansas would dream up something that stupid.  And only someone who winds up to win two terms as Chief Executive of Stupid, Inc. would be proud of such a thing and their spawn that created it ...The site describes, “Don’t Drop the Soap” as a game “Where no one playing enters through the front door!” ...“Fight your way through 6 different exciting locations in hopes of being granted parole,” the site says. “Escape prison riots in The Yard, slip glass into a mob boss’ lasagna in the Cafeteria, steal painkillers from the nurse’s desk in the Infirmary, avoid being cornered by the Aryans in the Shower Room, fight off Latin Kings in Gang War, and try not to smoke your entire stash in The Hole...The game includes five tokens representing a bag of cocaine, a handgun and three characters: wheelchair-using ‘Wheelz,” muscle-flexing “Anferny” and business suit-clad “Sal ‘the Butcher.”

And that's not the best part...

"John Sebelius is selling the game on his Internet site for $34.99, plus packaging, shipping and handling. The contact information on the Web site lists the address of the governor’s mansion"

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius is of course, on the Board of Advisors for the Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area.

Clint, Missouri Bushwhacker

mobushwhacker@yahoo.com

 

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