Pombo for Congress

No doubt this is going to be a banner year for the election of freedom-cherishing, liberty-protecting men and women to the U.S. Congress.

I don't pretend to have the resources or knowledge to know who the very best candidates are in every race in the nation.

But I do have some familiarity with a few.

One of them is former Rep. Richard Pombo, running anew for California's 19th Congressional District seat held by retiring Rep. George Radonovich.

Do I know who else is running?

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No.

Do I care?

No.

Why?

Because there could simply be no better representation in that Northern California district than Richard Pombo. End of story.

I know Pombo well.

There is no one who stands taller for liberty and the Constitution than him.

He cannot be bought. He cannot be co-opted. He is not capable of falling under the spell of the Beltway insiders.

He's just the real deal – a Portuguese cowboy, fifth-generation California rancher who learned about federal attacks on property rights firsthand.

In fact, that's how I got to know him.

We collaborated on a book together about that very subject – "This Land Is Our Land." (Sorry, it's now a limited collector's item selling for $99 a copy – autographed, of course.)

Pombo was a tea partier before there was a tea party.

I've yet to find an issue on which I disagree with Richard Pombo.

So, if you like my ideas about how to take America back, I want to introduce you to Richard Pombo.

If you live in his district, or even nearby, it's time to volunteer your time and effort to get him elected.

If you live outside his district, you can still help to send Pombo back to Washington where he was the bane of Environmental Protection Agency and other land-grabbers in Washington.

How do you do that?

Send him a cash contribution. We need this guy in Congress more than ever. We've got a lot of cleaning up to do.

Maybe, you say, "Farah, if Pombo is that good, how did he get beat in 2006?"

The answer is simple: Pombo was targeted by millions of dollars from environmental extremist groups that wanted to rid Washington of their No. 1 enemy. Pombo spent most of his time in Washington trying to overhaul one of the most dangerous pieces of legislation in the history of our country – the Endangered Species Act.

Pombo knows his stuff on this critical issue – and it's good to have some experts on the issues. Nobody knows property rights better than Pombo.

This shouldn't just be a concern of ranchers and farmers and big landowners in the West. Property rights are the essential freedoms upon which all of our individual liberties are based.

Did you know that the Founding Fathers believed that freedom of speech and freedom of the press descended from the concept of property rights?

That's right. It is because we own our ideas and our conscience that we have the right to use them. The state no more controls our land – at least it's not supposed to – than it may control our thoughts. Once we as a people yield our God-given property rights to government, or accept that they are actually privileges and not birthrights – then we have not a leg to stand on in defending our free-speech rights.

"But, Farah," you say, "we have a First Amendment that protects freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion. How could they be attacked by government?"

Well, my friends, you might note we also have a Fourth Amendment, which protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures of their property, as well. Yet, that is happening every day in America today. We also, you might note, have a Second Amendment to the Constitution, which, unequivocally protects our right – nay, our duty – as citizens to bear arms. How many laws do we have on the books in Washington today that infringe upon that God-given unalienable right?

But it's hardly just Washington that is attacking property rights. The states are doing it. Local communities are doing it. And these attacks must be addressed by freedom-loving people before the masses accept the idea that government, at whatever level, is in control of everything.

Too many Americans are fat and lazy and ready to roll over any time a government agency tells them to do so. They've become conditioned to believe that government is there to be their helper, their nanny, their parent.

Government, instead, my friends, is the gravest threat to your freedom. It always has been and it always will be. It's the only force on Earth that can legally steal everything from you – your home, your property, your kids.

It's time to take government back – get it under control, force it to live under strict limits of authority and preserve freedom for future generations.

One of the ways to fight back is to send a real cowboy back to Congress. His name is Richard Pombo. And I did not get paid to make this political announcement.