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[....]   Utah House Speaker Becky Lockhart, R-Provo, was flanked by a dozen participants, including her counterparts from Idaho and Montana, during a press conference after the daylong closed-door summit. U.S. Sen. Mike Lee addressed the group over lunch, Ivory said. New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming, Oregon and Washington also were represented. The summit was in the works before this month’s tense standoff between Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and the Bureau of Land Management over cattle grazing, Lockhart said. "What’s happened in Nevada is really just a symptom of a much larger problem," Lockhart said. Fielder, who described herself as "just a person who lives in the woods," said federal land management is hamstrung by bad policies, politicized science and severe federal budget cuts. "Those of us who live in the rural areas know how to take care of lands," Fielder said, who lives in the northwestern Montana town of Thompson Falls.  [... FULL] Here's the bones for my new novel.  That, above,  might be chapter one.  The rest, purely fiction of course. 1 We were the greatest nation ever.   2 You know where we are today. Obama has administered the coup de grâce to our body, already gravely wounded by post Nixon government. 3 Two choices. a. Remain whole—all 57 states—and continue on this course.  Or— b. Expel from the union all states in the utter thrall of Liberalism, thus creating two nations; each free to trade with one another, but governed separately. 4 We are still the greatest people.  A new United States, strictly obedient to the original United States Constitution and Ten Bill of Rights will be reconstituted. 5 In due time the outcast Pox Amerika,  continuing their course of tyrannical government, and corrupting social experimentation, must suffer fatal moral and fiscal bankruptcy.  One by one, then, each will revolt.  One by one, each will apply for readmission to the Untied States. One by one each  will be evaluated. 6 In less than 100 years we will be whole, and free again.  And kick-ass. Aside.  The Communist Party's (CPUSA) utter infiltration of labor unions in Oregon and Washington, during the 1930s, have a lasting legacy that makes both less than good partners in any restoration.  There is, however, a good chance that,  faced with  the prospect of honest government, they would bolt to California.