FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2019, President, NARLO (Apr. 14, 2019) — “The Great Western rural landowner epitomizes the raw courage, self-reliance and fierce independence of Western America’s past. He (or she) must not only face what nature and the markets can throw at him, he must suffer and endure the […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2018, President, NARLO (Jun. 10, 2018) — “Insurgencies are easy to make and hard to stop. Only a few ingredients need to combine to create an insurgency; like oxygen and fire, they’re very common and mix all too often. The recipe is, simply, a legitimate grievance […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2018 (Jun. 3, 2018) — “The brutal reality is that only a groundswell of national rural outrage will reverse the course of socialism and environmental extremism in America and return us to a Constitutional Republic. Farmers, ranchers and rural landowners could very well be […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2018, President, NARLO (Jan. 21, 2018) — By now many of our readers have heard that a U.S. District Court Judge in Nevada has dismissed the federal government’s case against Cliven Bundy and his two sons for an April 2014 armed standoff at the Bundy Nevada […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2017, President, NARLO (Nov. 19, 2017) — History has shown us that people don’t behave well when crammed together in big cities. Big cities have given us the “Blue” states. Big cities are hotbeds of socialism and government control. Big cities, with their voting majorities, control […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2017, President, NARLO (Nov. 5, 2017) — Property Rights: “Property in a thing consists not merely in its ownership and possession, but in the unrestricted right of use, enjoyment, and disposal. Anything which destroys any of the elements of property, to that extent, destroys the property […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2017 (Aug. 13, 2017) — I keep running, but the dogs are gaining. I’ve been running for two days now and I’m hungry, tired and exhausted. I hear the hounds behind me but I must find the strength to stay ahead, always ahead. If […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2017 (Jul. 30, 2017) — A while back we attended an evening meeting of over 30 rural landowners, in which a couple of auditors of a land use department were there to collect stories of government abuse, for the purposes of an audit. They got an […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2016 (Nov. 27, 2016) — Dawn was breaking over the Circle P in Western Wyoming. The sun had just barely broken above the east horizon and the growing light cast an eerie pinkish glow on the Grand Tetons. A few puffy clouds lingered at the top of […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2016 (Nov. 20, 2016) — Most Americans are totally unaware of the battle raging in the West between landowners and the government and the environmentalists, especially those Americans who live in big cities. Their food arrives at the grocery store by truck and neatly […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Nov. 6, 2016) — At the start of this great country, around 1776, there might have been 3 million inhabitants of the Continental United States, mostly concentrated along the East Coast in the original thirteen colonies, not including the native population. Now at 320,000,000, […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2016 (Aug. 27, 2016) — “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” — John F. Kennedy Put two people in a room and disagreement, at times, is a virtual certainty. Put 320,000,000 people in a nation and disagreement, sometimes violent, […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2016 (Jul. 31, 2016) — It is a well-known fact that nothing happens in Washington, DC by accident. There are no coincidences. It was not a coincidence that former president Bill Clinton suddenly appeared on the tarmac when U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s plane […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2016 (Feb. 28, 2016) — “In Paris, I found myself surrounded by Germans; they were all over the place. They played music, and people would go and listen to them! All along rue de Rivoli, as far as you could see from place de […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Jan. 17, 2016) — “If you own rural land, the government and the environmentalists want it and intend to take it, regardless of your property rights engraved in the U.S. Constitution.” — Ron Ewart * * * * * * * * * […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2015, President, NARLO (Sep. 6, 2015) — The history of man on Planet Earth is riddled with brutal, vicious imperialism, as men with radical ambitions sought to conquer land and people and reap the spoils of the war they forced on the innocents. They either did […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2015, President, NARLO (Aug. 9, 2015) — The Framers of the American Republic and the U.S. Constitution knew how governments, left unattended by the people, would eventually morph into kingdoms, dictatorships, or a pseudo- Democracy run by the mob, in what Alexis de Tocqueville, 210 years […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2015 (May 31, 2015) — “The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy” ….. [or a Republic] — Charles de Montesquieu, French Philosopher, 1689 to 1755 – – […]
“IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2014, President, NARLO (Jun. 8, 2014) — “It doesn’t always take guns and chains to enslave people. It just takes a zillion unconstitutional laws and a bureaucracy to enforce them, to which the people blindly comply without resistance.” — Ron Ewart Government, at least in what is […]
“IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2013 (May 12, 2013) — “There is no week, day, or hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.” — Walt Whitman Back in 2004, we were involved, with several other rural landowners, in opposing a particularly […]