“Who owns our national parks?”
Feather River Bulletin 1/25/12 Community Perspective
“Who owns our national parks?” by Lynn DesJardin Plumas-Sierra Tea Party Patriots
Think the US Forest Service is alone in its unconstitutional land grabs and denying US citizens access to our national forests? Heard those weird stories of “eminent domain” being imposed for shopping malls? Jaws dropped, eyes popped, foreheads wrinkled at a recent Plumas-Sierra Tea Party Patriots meeting when it was said that the United Nations, not the United States, owns/controls many of our national parks and sites.
Think not? From The National center for Public Policy Research, June 2000, Publication No. 294, by John K. Carlisle, director of The National Center for Public Policy Research’s Environmental Policy Task Force:
“A U.N. World Heritage Site is an internationally protected landmark of historical, cultural or natural significance that the U.S. government pledges the world body it will protect. When the U.S. signed the 1972 World Hertitage Treaty…the U.S. legally obligated itself to maintain our national treasures in accordance with standards set by the U.N., not the U.S. The U.S. has also dedicated millions of acres of American land to U.N. Biosphere Reserves. …A Biosphere Reserve is an area set aside for conservation and scientific study, which the U.S. promises to manage according to U.N. standards.”
This, folks, is the European theory of land use, where kings and monoarchs owned the land and the people were only allowed to use it at the rulers’ discretion. All of it flies in the face of our Constitution and the concept of private land ownership. And guess what? The executive branch of the U.S. government can select any site without congressional approval and political advocacy groups can petition the U.N. independently without informing the local populace. From citizenreviewonline.org
1. The preamble to the U.N. Conference on Human Settlements, land use section, says: “Land…cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market….Public control of land use is therefore indispensable.”
2. The U.S. State Department entered into an agreement with UNESCO in 1979 to launch a U.S. Man and the Biosphere Program. Congress was not consulted, nor was any state legislature consulted, as 47 U.N. Biosphere reserves were quietly designated in the United States.
3. The administration adopted an Ecosystem Management Policy, and used the Antiquities Act to designate “monuments,” so expansive as to give government control of land well beyond the so-called monument. The “Roadless Initiative” and the effect of removing people from wilderness areas by denying access.
4. The “Clean Water Initiative” gave the federal government jurisdiction over private lands adjacent to streams, broadening the scope of the earlier “wetland” policy. Heritage designations, conservation easements and “open space” are now favorite tools used to expand government control of land use.
5. “Critical Habitat,” authorized under the Endangered Species Act, has become a favorite device for government control of private property. Nearly 2,000 species have been listed as endangered or threatened; government has only to declare an area to be “critical” to the species, then the government can dictate how the land may be used. (Note: in the Central Valley of California the federal government has shut off the water to protect the smelt, causing extremely high unemployment and bankrupting many farmers.)
6. The Forest Service is actively developing “corridors” to connect wilderness areas. All of these measures work together to achieve the original goal of the Man and the Biosphere Program: to conserve most of the planet for wildlife, forcing people into “sustainable communities.” This objective has now been codified into international law in the form of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
7. The Transformation of America is well under way, without public debate, or congressional approval. From watershed, to ecosystem, to village, to city, to multicounty regions, to transboundary biospheres—the U.N. agenda is being systematically implemented—with the help of elected officials, paid for with the taxes of American citizens.
One can argue the merits of conservation, biodiversity, saving the planet, clean water and air, preservation of wildlife, et al. Nevertheless, who gave permission for our Constitution to be vandalized and control of U.S. land/properties turned over to the U.N.? And why is the American taxpayer on the hook for so much of the cost worldwide?
How do we save our country from being chopped into pieces to satisfy a “world body” that “sets standards” we don’t get to choose (or even know about), or at least give Americans the opportunity to exercise their constitutional rights in the use of our country’s resources? Ever-vigilant citizens must educate themselves on these land grabs and hold their local, state and national representatives accountable. You can only protect your Constitution and rights if you fight for them. Stay informed and question with boldness.
Our Founding Fathers must be turning in their graves!
Consider the words of Omar M. Ahmad, founder of CAIR: "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant." ... "The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America , and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
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