Pinon Canyon

Stop the Piñon Canyon Land Grab by the US Army

 

The Green Party of Colorado supports the property rights of the ranchers and farmers in Southeastern Colorado.   And we do not support the US Army’s decision to expand their mechanized vehicle maneuver area so that they will be prepared to fight the “wars of the future.”  If the ranchers and farmers are moved off their land, the surrounding communities will be affected economically.  The ecology of the Comanche grasslands will be changed and heritage sites containing the remnants of earlier civilizations and archeological relics will become inaccessible and subject to damage.   The U.S. Army’s “wars of the future” are wars to control other nations’ energy resources for the profit of a few of the world’s largest corporations.  The future health of the U.S. economy and our environment require that we wean ourselves from dependence on foreign sources of energy and eventually the use of oil altogether.  Fighting wars for the control of the last drop of a resource whose use is impacting our global climate is short sighted.   The Green Party of Colorado asks the U.S. Army to plan for future peace and not war by pulling its troops home from all over the world and using them as a defensive force that can protect the nation and help communities recover from natural disasters.  They should not be using oil as an excuse to destroy communities in Colorado and around the world.  Green Party representatives to Congress will vote against the acquisition of the Piñon Canyon land by the U.S. Army.