E-Book Price Reduced Significantly

Several weeks ago I significantly reduced the price of the e-book from $9.99 to $5.99 in hope that it would be considered as a supplemental New Mexico history textbook. Your purchases since the price reduction are appreciated. Trespassers can be purchased from the publisher at Trespassersonourownland.com and from Amazon Books.

I Read Trespassers on Our Own Land--Hadn't Known there was a June 5, 1967 Connection With Israel

Alia D. Garcia-Ureste has left a new comment on your post "tresspassersonourownland.com":

I received your book entitled, "Trespassers On Our Own Land" today via UPS! I read chapters 15 & 22 which correspond to pg. 138 & 218, as you suggested. The links on your website are so informative and really prepared me with the background history to understand the chapters mentioned above. Chapter 17 brought me to tears. I had no idea that such a monumental moment in land grant history was occurring the very same day war broke out in 1967 when Israel fought to liberate Jerusalem from the hands of the Jordanians. This is a very good story for a conference, teaching opportunities, but most especially for our children. I shared this story in your book with my rabbi and he was really astounded! The story does interconnect with patterns and seasons that our Sephardic (Spanish-Jewish) ancestors experienced, as you have noted. I am grateful to the Valdez family and you for such a good book! Thanks be to The Almighty that you all documented all of the history because people like my family and I really need the information!

Alia D. Garcia-Ureste,
Ft. Stockton, TX



Posted by Alia D. Garcia-Ureste to Trespassers on Our Own Land at July 20, 2012 6:17 AM

It Is Time For All Western States To Get Their Land Back

Utah vs. the United States of America

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High Country News, Op-Ed - June 22, 2010by Ed Quillen

This spring, Utah governor Gary Herbert signed a law that authorizes the state's attorney general to file suits to condemn federal land.

The process is called “eminent domain,” and generally it involves acquiring private property for a public purpose, such as a new city reservoir. If the city can't come to terms with the property owners, it can use its power of eminent domain to force the owner to sell. In theory, the city pays fair market value, since the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

But federal land (nearly 65 percent of Utah's 84,916 square miles) is public property, not private, and the Constitution also states that "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof ... shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."

With the "supremacy clause" making it pretty clear about who's in charge, why is Utah challenging the feds on land ownership and usage?

There are two answers. One is that this is just a continuation of Utah's long struggle against the federal government. The other is that the state government wants to improve school funding without raising taxes.