Ken Ivory: Liberal Goals with Conservative Window Dressing (Left or Right?)

I was recently browsing the left-leaning, establishment-controlled, media outlet Alliance for a Better Utah. After one of their employees subscribed to the Defending Utah list, it renewed my curiosity in what they’re up to.

So to our new liberal “Better Utah” reader who is likely to click on this article because I mentioned Ken Ivory, and to our long time Defending Utah audience, here’s something important for you to chew on, and to see that Defending Utah has never bee about left vs. right, but instead is about right vs. wrong.

Liberals don’t know they’re attacking their own champion.

Conservatives don’t know they’re voting for a champion of UN-inspired regional government and environmental communism.

The truth is always found outside the left vs. right matrix.

MANY IRONIES

I’m going to remind you of the truth that Defending Utah has reported on below, but first we’ll talk about Alliance for a Better Utah.

Alliance for a Better Utah published a hit piece in October on Ken called Ken Ivory’s WORST Hits.  In it, they attempt to rally the “left” community against Ken.  Ironically, as they blast him for not being good enough for a “Sustainable Future”, they seem totally unaware of our decade of reporting on how Ken’s actions have championed “left-wing” sustainability efforts that are moving the needle against farmers and ranchers today, adding state funding to various UN/NGO supported environmental projects (such as the Leray McAllister Critical Lands Conservation Fund), and with a few other legislators working together, they’ve built an entire framework to “Take lands back” from the feds and “give it to a regional government” (that’s right, not to the state of Utah – drop that sacred cow if that’s what you thought), and then create laws governing that land that are outside the reach of our sheriffs, so you can say goodbye to the sheriff being your “last stand” to protect our local farmers’ property rights or your own property rights for that matter (the executive branch Utah DNR becomes higher than the sheriff in the lands transfer regional compacts, as long as there’s anything related to wildlife on your property).  Currently the state of Utah is playing a chess game to end as many private water rights as they can, and this is a big piece of the puzzle.

Another irony is that we would agree with Alliance for a Better Utah that voting for Ken is not in Utah’s best interest, but for very different reasons.  We base our opinion on Ken’s well documented historical track record that conservatives seem to have completely forgotten.

And it’s ironic that Alliance for a Better Utah says Ken has engaged “in a scheme that defrauds taxpayers and misleads local officials”.  We fundamentally agree with this sentence.  But the best reason I could find they gave was that Ken took 100,000+ in salary from this organization.  Not the biggest deal on its face, if that’s his only job (which it’s not).  The “left” is making a very weak argument that only the newbie emotionally-triggered “left” will care about (if you’re a lefty and it worked on you, then you’re probably one of those newbies). Almost as if the establishment that controls Alliance for a Better Utah isn’t actually attacking him but helping him gain street cred with the actual voting base that is all on the “right”.

I’ll give you much better arguments. Perhaps it’s bad for the voters that the entire organization is set up to be dishonest about it’s end goal. Are we getting the lands back to Utah or getting the lands in the hands of a regional government?  Is it even the right thing for freedom to “Take our lands back” (we’ll tell you it’s not, the solution is much simpler). Are we forever spending tax payer money ($14 million dollars) given to a lawsuit that was set up to fail? A lawsuit that just makes you look like you’re doing something while funding somebody’s law firm with taxpayer money? Perhaps the America Lands Council (Ken Ivory’s organization referenced in both Alliance for a Better Utah and Defending Utah articles) is designed to forever keep the “lands battle” in the courts, because historically that’s how the federal government is guaranteed to always win.

Defending Utah published many articles exposing the holes in Ken Ivory’s lands transfer efforts, with his and his associates responses either ignoring the facts or admitting that we were right while making excuses that “we had to do it that way”.  I’ll link all the articles below with details, facts and sources so you can catch up if you’re new to this information.

(9/26/2013) Utah Lands Transfer – The Scam is Official
(3/5/2015) Taking our Lands Back or Agenda 21 Trojan Horse?
(6/10/2015) Ken Ivory Group Admits Lands Bil is Agenda 21 Take Over
(3/5/2015) How Two Utah Legislators Conspired Away Your Freedom, TWICE
(5/4/2015) Utah Counties Paying for Agenda 21 Trojan Horse
(11/4/2015) Ken Ivory is One of the Most Dangerous Legislators in the Country
(2/2/2016) Lavoy Finicum Warns Against Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing (America Lands Council / Ken Ivory)
(3/11/2016) Utah Legislature Moves to Remove Power of the Sheriff
(3/22/2016) Utah Leg: In Damage Control, Still plans to Strip Sheriff Powers
(1/23/2017) Political ‘Bait & Switch’ In the Utah Legislature

SERIOUSLY “CONSERVATIVES”?

Countless activists volunteered their time with the help of hundreds of Defending Utah supporters online over a 2 or 3 year period to get this information out about the “lands transfer” truth, all in a passionate movement to defend the constitution, protect local agriculture, and waste and wear out their lives to expose the hidden things of darkness. The people of Utah succeeded in making Ken and his legislative associates back off from their agenda, just to now vote him back in in 2024?

THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE FREEDOM THINGS

So Ken Ivory stepped out of the limelight a few years ago because enough people knew about his shenanigans and he had Steven Christiansen take his place.  Members of Defending Utah followed Steven around from day one, reporting on what they experienced, first observing that he seemed to have no real political opinions of his own but then slowly getting better at speaking the same views that Ken Ivory used to speak.  Including complete denial of the principle of Nullification.  Which is a guaranteed sign that a “Constitutionalist” either doesn’t know the constitution, or does know it and is intentionally working against it. There are no other explanations other than those two explanations. You can’t support the constitution and advocate against nullification.  By definition nullification is the enforcement mechanism of the constitution itself.  This is an unavoidable law of nature that exists in any constitutional framework.

Well, now that Steven has had many of his own failings and left office amid his own silly errors having accomplished nothing (thank goodness), we had a break from Ken for a few years and now Ken has come back. Relying on the institutional memory of Utah voters he has swindled the voters back into his corner with the support of Utah deep-state insiders like Gayle Ruzicka speaking highly of him, as our activist members have observed and reported back to us from various political meetings the last few years. No fake conservative in Utah gets very far without the permission of Gayle.  I hope all you newbies to Utah politics are paying attention.

LIBERALS ARE HELPING KEN WIN

Alliance for a Better Utah is just helping him, because the more it looks like the “liberals are attacking” it makes the conservatives rally behind him (welcome to how politics actually works).  That good old left/right political paradigm that keeps us all trapped is working great.  Thanks to Karl Marx for giving the gift of divide-and-conquer to the world.

SOLUTIONS – “TAKING OUR LANDS BACK?”

“Conservatives”…. repent of your ignorant vote and don’t forget….  we don’t need to take our lands back from the feds.  The state of Utah already has the constitutional authority to authorize or not authorize ANY lands that the federal government owns in our state.  The state legislature of any state must authorize any land the federal government owns in their state. This is literally how the constitution works.  It can be done instantly, Utah has all the power.  They’re not doing it because the agenda is not for the people, but for special interests and regional governments. If you didn’t know that, sorry you don’t know the constitution and you’re not capable of defending a document you don’t understand.  Let’s remedy that!  Stop wasting time where your valuable time is being wasted in support of the very causes you think you’re helping stop.

And “lefties”, you’re being played too. Most left-leaning organizations are using you just like most right-leaning organizations are using the “righties”.  There’s freedom for all of us together in understanding the actual founding documents of our country. The constitution is the people’s voice. Politicians are not.

So Utah…  time to learn the constitution.

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