Time to lobby the federal government to pass fire protection laws to allow clearing of forests of dead trees and to pass IMD amendment to allow for more federal funding for mentally ill, as some of them have started fires.

By Dr. Orly Taitz, ESQ, President of Defend our Freedoms foundation

When I come to my office these days, I smell the smoke of massive fires. The sky over Rancho Santa Margarita is brown and red from smoke. About 9,600 acres were burned, 21,000 were evacuated.

Why is it happening? There are a few reasons.

1. California did not have so many fires and such extensive fires before. Dead Trees were cleared in the forests since those dead trees cause fires to spread quickly. However, recently laws were passed preventing clearing of the dead trees and brush. Due to those laws, there are now estimated 140 million dead trees in the forests of California. There dead trees are kindlings for humongous fires that engulf California today. California legislature is run by far left environmentalists who believe that the forests need to be left as they are in pristine condition and dead trees should not be cleared. They refuse to change those California laws that caused these massive fires.

In comparison, in Georgia, which is as hot as California, there are no fires. One of the reasons is that the dead trees are being removed. Georgia allows private companies to clear the forests, those companies are making a profit by reselling those dead trees for fuel and other uses, they pay taxes to the state treasury and it is a win win situation all around, as the state treasury of Georgia gets revenue and it does not have to spend thousands of dollars in putting down huge fires and people do not lose their lives and homes in fires.

Since Californa state assemby cannot be relied upon in doing something reasonable, as they are too far to the left, it is time for the federal government to pass national fire protection laws and sue California government if it does not adhere to those laws.

2. Second issue, is the fact that today there is a severe shortage of beds in mental hospitals. People with mental diseases are roaming the streets and some of them cause those massive fires and hurt others. Trabuco Canyon-Holly Canyon fire close to my office was started allegedly by Forrest Gordon Clark who reportedly has a history of involuntary hospitalization before due to mental illness. As a matter of fact, it is estimated that 90% of fires are started by people, either accidentally or intentionally. Clark was arrested recently. IMD federal laws that provide funding for mental treatment, limit the fundng only to hospitals with 16 beds. The hospitals cannot stay profitable with only 16 beds and they close, go out of business. Time for the federal government to amend those laws and allow for funding for mental patients for larger hospitals in order to take people like Clark of the streets and not to endanger people and property.

Please, call your congressmen, senators and President Trump and ask them to schedule emergency vote to pass fire protection laws which would require states to clear dead trees and prevent fires and ask them to vote to modify IMD (Institute for Mental Disease laws) to take mentally ill people of the streets so the don’t start fires and don’t hurt people.

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