Dave Hodges
Activist Post
The title of the article is not hyperbole. The Air Force is indeed
preparing to steal as many homes as needed to fulfill two objectives:
(1) To ensure the profitability of the military industrial complex (2)
To use the mission of the Air Force to drive down home values in the
adjacent areas to a planned CANAMEX highway and to force as many people
as possible off of their land in furtherance of the North American Union
(SPP).
We estimate that anywhere from 15 million Americans to 20 million
Americans will be impacted the Air Force’s shenanigans and will suffer
greatly reduced property values or be forced off of their land entirely
WITHOUT COMPENSATION.
How is the Air Force going to do it? Is your property safe if you don’t
live in the immediate area adjacent to an Air Force base? How has the
Air Force become the prostitute of the globalists? These questions, and
many more will be answered in this article.
The Air Force Has Indeed Become the Prostitute of the Globalists
All across this country, in more than a dozen cases and growing, the Air
Force is busy forcing people off of their land in order to preserve the
profits of Lockheed Martin and other military industrial complex
organizations. The newer breed of Air Force aircraft (e.g. F-35) is far
too noisy to be compatible with nearby metropolitan areas. The Air Force
has become excessively underhanded in dealing with the public on this
matter.
The F-16, the backbone of the Air Force for decades, is loud ... very
loud. Cities in proximity to Air Force bases have barely been able to
coexist and in some cases they have not. The F-22 and the F-35 are
several times louder than the F-16. In fact, the two planes are 4-12
times louder than the F-16 depending on the type of maneuvers being
executed by the planes. The Air Force is lying when they tell you there
is no difference in sound. I have the original sound test studies
performed at Eglin Air Force Base by sound engineer, Bob Webb, who makes
these claims as part of an Air Force study that he headed. The
scientific studies demonstrate that the decibel levels of these planes
are consistent with an increase in strokes, heart attacks, hearing loss,
generalized anxiety disorder and a whole host of other ailments. So,
not only are the property rights of millions of Americans at risk, so is
their health.
The Air Force has been quick to enforce draconian rules which render a
property valueless and useless. However, in most cases, the Air Force
further restricts personal property rights through obtaining support
from local politicians, who in turn are coerced into passing laws which
ultimately force people off of their land. The Air Force accomplishes
controlling local politicians by telling them that they can arrange
Federal projects to be awarded to their area, resulting in a temporary
economic boom, in order obtain their unwilling cooperation. In exchange,
they only need to screw the rights of a minority of the people in their
community. All Air Force bases work off of the same playbook and
consistently tell the local leaders that if they do not cooperate, that
the base will close resulting in a loss of billions of dollars of lost
revenue to their area.
As an aside, when a base closes the profitability of the area goes up dramatically (Lowry AFB and Fitzsimmons bases in Denver).
The nearby Community Initiatives Team of each base then threatens to
ruin the political career of any uncooperative local leader by letting
their constituents know that their actions resulted in economic harm to
their area. Further, the Air Force organizes the retired military
personnel in proximity to the base to serve as their public relations
team which is trained to shout down all opposition. "Luke Forward" is
this group in my area. The Air Force subsequently tells the local
veterans that if they do not help the Air Force preserve and expand
their mission, they will lose access to their military medical and
shopping benefits. The veterans, mayors and city councils all form a
team created by the Air Force’s intimidation to force people off of
their land in order to make way for these new planes that are
significantly louder and incompatible with local developments.
The
Veterans groups then become the unified SWAT team which goes after
uncooperative local leaders. This is exactly what happened in El Mirage,
Arizona. The city presented the Pentagon with a $400 million dollar
bill for restricted property rights resulting in the loss of local
revenue. The forces of the media, the Air Force and the retired military
veterans sprang into action and forced a complete change in the
government of the city. And when the residents of the city begin feeling
the effects of the F-35, little did they realize that their properties
will be restricted resulting in financial ruination, as well as a
significant threat to their collective physical health. Today, the city
government of El Mirage is made up of people who have a financial stake
in the viability of nearby Luke Air Force Base.
What I have described here is going to repeat across this country 50-60
times in the next few years. Some of us who have already been through
this are here to tell the rest of the nation that you are about to be
invaded by the US Air Force.
How The Air Force Steals Your Land
The Air Force does not have to outright seize your property to have
committed an act of eminent domain which would require that full
compensation be paid to the homeowner. If the Air Force restricts your
land, or does harm to your land resulting in a lowering of property
values, under the law, they are required to pay the owner full value for
their property. This process is called inverse condemnation from which
the courts and most State Constitutions have determined is the same as
eminent domain. The Air Force has learned how to get around this legal
hurdle through the political intimidation process described in the above
paragraphs.
The most popular way that the Air Force steals your land has to do with
the permitting process. The Air Force Community Initiatives team will
coerce local governments to pass unconstitutional property rights
restrictions which ultimately forces people off of their property. For
example, in my community, we once had a permitting exclusion placed upon
our community which would not have allowed us to rebuild any portion of
our home if we experienced damage to our homes (e.g. fire, weather). If
our homes would have been damaged, we would have been forced to walk
away and suffer financial ruination courtesy of the Air Force and their
criminal local government partners.
By the way, the act of lobbying by a military body is expressly
forbidden under the Military Code of Justice. However, we are playing in
a game with no rules. When I confronted Rusty Mitchell, the director of
the Community Initiatives team at Luke Air Force Base, a man who never
met a lie he would not tell, he said we are only telling the politicians
what we need to complete our mission. It is lobbying and the Air Force
is breaking its own laws.
The Air Force Controls the Local Media
The Air Force also controls the media, who becomes their ally in the
subjugation of tens of thousands of properties. For example, at Luke Air
Force Base in the Phoenix area, the Arizona Republic vilifies any
individual or group who stands up.
My community formed a group called the Arizona Coalition to Protect
Personal Property Rights (ACPPR). I was the spokesperson and was in
charge of dealing with the media. Subsequently, my wife and I met with
the editorial board of the
Arizona Republic. We presented to them
an air tight case of how the Air Force and local politicians were
violating the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution as well prior case
law. The director of the board, Vaneta Hawthorne James, a throwback to
the demeanor of Angela Davis, leaned across the table and said “I
understand about your rights Mr. Hodges, but for the greater good you
need to get off your land”. I asked her if she meant without
compensation and she said, “Yes”!
The
Arizona Republic is owned by Gannet Broadcasting. Gannet is
owned by Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin manufactures the F-35. Need I
say more? From community to community, the corporate names change a bit,
but the same nefarious chain of corporate custody remains the same.
The Hodges Family and the Air Force
Eleven years ago, my wife and I purchased a 1.5 acre home in rural
Arizona. There are no streetlights, the nearest grocery store is 14
miles away, the nearest gas station is 10 miles away and we believed
that we had found paradise. There are 4 basic housing developments
spread out over thousands of square miles. We live in unincorporated
Maricopa County, the home of the famous Sheriff Joe, the toughest
sheriff in Arizona.
Our home was to be our retirement home, but we also thought it would be a
great place to raise a family because it was away from the gangs and
the graffiti of our former neighborhood. What we thought was our
paradise, became our nightmare.
A few months after we moved in, the permitting restrictions commenced.
This led to a seven-year battle with local politicians. There were a few
politicians who stood up for us. None of them are in office today as a
result of the Luke Air Force Base public relations SWAT teams. But
remember, the Air Force does not lobby. Our military likes to go into
other countries, why shouldn’t they do the same to American homeowners
when it fits their purpose?
As spokesperson for ACPPR, I attracted a lot of media attention and I
was frequently misquoted and made to look like I was anti-Air Force,
anti-war effort and anti-American. I suffered great loss to my
professional reputation. However, there was one man that liked what I
was doing - the late Pete Peterson, who at that time, owned KBSZ radio.
He gave me a local show from which I used to enter the media. Those of
you who have wondered where I came from, and have suspected me of being a
disinfo agent, owe me an apology. This is how I became engaged in my
fight against the New World Order. As I soon discovered, this fight was
not just about the profitability of Lockheed Martin and the advancement
of military careers. This fight is not just my fight, this fight belongs
to millions of Americans.
HERE IS THE BAD NEWS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE IN
PROXIMITY TO A BASE TO SUFFER THE LOSS OF YOUR PROPERTY. THE AIR FORCE
HAS A TRICK UP THEIR COLLECTIVE SLEEVES. THEY WILL PLACE AN INSTRUMENT
LANDING STRIP (ILS) IN YOUR AREA AND THE PLANES WILL SHOW UP AND DO
INSTRUMENT APPROACHES AND THEN THE AIR FORCE WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE
VIOLATING THE MISSION OF THE AIR FORCE. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO MY
COMMUNITY. IN PINON CANYON, CO, THE MILITARY IS CONDUCTING LIVE
MANEUVERS ON VIRGIN PRAIRIE LANDS OVER A 100 MILES AWAY FROM THE NEAREST
BASE. THIS IS DESTROYING THE RANCHERS LAND. WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS?
An Awakening
One late night, I was going over my notes and discovered that there were
four areas impacted by the Air Force in Arizona in terms of going after
individual property rights. The four areas were my area north of
Surprise, parts of Tucson, Gila Bend and Yuma. Adjacent to my notes, was
a news release telling Arizona how wonderful the CANAMEX Highway would
be for travel and profit when the construction was complete. I
discovered at that moment that the four areas under fire from the Air
Force identically matched the four planned CANAMEX routes into Arizona.
The CANAMEX is the transportation corridor of the Central American Free
Trade Agreement (CAFTA). CAFTA represents a free trade agreement which
has resulted in the loss of protective tariffs and the flight of
manufacturing and jobs to foreign markets in search of cheap labor.
Subsequently, another goal of the Air Force is to use its mission to
drive out homeowners in the vicinity of a CANAMEX corridor in order to
suppress property values. The land needed by the globalists for their
highway is funded 50% by state and local government and 50% by the
Federal Highway Transportation Administration. Their goal is to make
that land acquisition as cheap as possible.
The Air Force’s mission, to ensure the profitability of Lockheed Martin,
is also being used to make land acquisition along these planned CANAMEX
Highways as cheap as possible. I ran the odds of these four
coincidences being due to mere luck (I used to teach statistics at the
undergraduate level), and the odds were calculated at 65 million to one!
I
further discovered that CAFTA and NAFTA were about destroying American
sovereignty through the over-arching Security, Prosperity Partnership
(SPP). This is the North American Union. I learned very quickly that the
stories being told by alternative media writers and talk show hosts
about how a small group of men were attempting to control world finance
and wanted to eventually create a world government, were indeed true!! I
subsequently became engaged in this fight and have not looked back.
The CANAMEX and the NAFTA Superhighway will encompass 80 current
highway corridors in America. The millions of Americans along these
planned routes will have trouble with the military, not realizing the
real goal is the expansion of the North American Union. These free trade
agreements spell the death of America because of the loss of jobs and
the continued influx of millions of unskilled workers into America which
serves to break the backs of our infrastructure and is destroying the
wages of the American middle class.
And how did our fight turn out? My community is the only community who
stood up to the Air Force and made them back down. Through a series of
backroom deals, I got a public interest law firm to represent us and we
got as far as the steps of the courthouse . . . and the other side
blinked, at least temporarily. I am not naive enough to believe that
Rusty Mitchell and his Luke AFB Community Initiatives Team are done with
us. They will return. And millions of you are going to be facing the
same challenges as we have.
Conclusion
If you think this article is a personal narrative, you are incorrect and
have missed the point. I have fought the Air Force and have won a
temporary battle. They will be back. My warning to the American people
is twofold. First, your property is at risk if you live in proximity to
an interstate highway as they will all be converted to international
corridor status under these free trade agreements. Second, if you live
near a planned CANAMEX or NAFTA highway, you are in serious jeopardy
with regard to your property rights and financial future. Third, there
are communities in Vermont, Virginia Beach, Valparaiso, FL., Yuma, AZ.,
Gila Bend, AZ., Northwest Maricopa County, AZ., Georgia and many more
who are communicating because we know what is at stake. This threat is
widespread and real.
My group was guilty of spinning its wheels in the early days of this
fight. The key to winning this fight for our property rights is to
control our local politicians. Without the local politicians, the Air
Force is dead in the water.
In conclusion, if you live near an interstate or planned CANAMEX/NAFTA
highway, you are at risk. And if you live in America, you are at risk.
These free trade agreements spell the economic death of America.
I have enjoyed my time away from this fight, but after a conversation I
had with the Tucson leadership last night, I know that I am about to
become engaged again. I propose, my fellow Americans, that you do your
homework; and if you discover you are at potential risk, please contact
me and we will lock arms and meet the globalists at the gates of hell.
Dave is an award winning psychology, statistics and research
professor, a college basketball coach, a mental health counselor, a
political activist and writer who has published dozens of editorials and
articles in several publications such as Freedoms Phoenix, News With Views and The Arizona Republic.
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