AUGUST 24, 2001
THE SUCKER FISH OR THE FARMERS ?
IF KLAMATH 'FALLS,' WE CAN FORGET PROPERTY RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES!
What we see is not new. There have been other, similar actions in the past. The spotted owl (never an endangered species) was declared an endangered species as a means of shutting down much of the timber industry in the United States.Other "endangered species" are being used to force people to give up their ranches, their farms, their livelihoods. The term being bandied about by some conservative writers/reporters is "rural cleansing," a movement to move the people from the rural areas into crowded urban communities and to return half of the land of America to the wilderness state that existed at the time Columbus first sailed to these shores. The "Wildlands Project" is the official name given to this movement.
The Wildlands Project has been around for a long time. It just seemed so preposterous that all but a few "alarmists" have ignored it. It is showing itself to be one of those things that you ignore at your peril.
The real source behind all of this is the United Nations and the push for world government, a sermon we have been preaching for nearly a decade... mostly to deaf ears.
The Endangered Species Act dates back to 1973, just one year following the first UN Environmental Conference, held in Stockholm, Sweden June 5-16, 1972, from which it originated. It was essentially at that first Earth Summit that the environmental issue was chosen to be the weapon with which U.S. sovereignty and the U.S. Constitution could be overcome.
To advance the cause of world government it has been necessary to weaken the United States and reduce its power to sustain itself. We had to become dependent on a world economy or we could never be co-opted by the globalist agenda, and without us the globalist agenda would fail, just as the League of Nations failed after World War I.
A conspiracy theory? Hardly, conspiracy requires secrecy and most of the plans that were laid out were made public. People just didn't listen. Americans could not believe their government officials could be involved in any scheme that would destroy the freedoms they had come to take for granted. They still can't. They still refuse to listen, though a few are beginning to wake up. Not enough, not soon enough!
At the time of this writing it is already too late for many in the Klamath Basin. Some had borrowed money to plant their crops which then evaporated when the water was cut off in early April, 2001. Without crops to harvest and sell, payments could not be made and banks foreclosed. Property values that were roughly $2,800 per acre in March, sank to one-tenth or even one-hundredth of that value. The work of a lifetime was wiped out in one fell swoop of governmental bureaucracy.
Unless you happened to tune in to the Fox news program "Lost Rights II, Who Owns America" you probably never even heard of the plight of these 1,400 Klamath Basin farm families, or if you did see something on one of the major media sources they were probably portrayed as "red-neck" farmers who hate the government.
These are honest, hard-working men and women, many of whom toiled very hard to build a fertile farming area from an arid wasteland at the request of the government that has now turned its back on them. They now have a perfect right to hate that government, which promised them and their heirs water rights "forever," only to decide the sucker fish was more valuable in the final analysis.
Because you do not farm or operate a ranch do not think the same cannot happen to you. The Clean Waters Act will eventually give the "Watershed Committees" that are cropping up all across the nation the power to dictate to you what you may and may not do on your own property, and these committees will not be composed of elected officials who can be voted out of office, they will be appointed officials whose allegiance will be to their own ideas of what is right and fair. Many will be selected from the ranks of the ultra-environmentalists, and we know where they stand.
Wrapped in the blanket of "conservation," we are seeing increasing attention being given to "Forest Legacy" programs that are designed to lock-up privately owned forest lands so that trees may not be cut and development can be stopped. Owners are being offered cash to sign on to these programs that give the government final say over how the lands may be used in the future. The owner still owns the land and still pays taxes on it, but any future efforts to use it for profit or recreation will have to have the government's OK.
"Urban boundaries" are being established around cities and towns (it's called SMART GROWTH). Development is being restricted to specified areas within those boundaries. Maintenance of facilities (such as roads, sewerage, water, fire protection, etc.) will no longer be permitted outside those boundaries, causing property values to plummet, while property inside the boundaries will skyrocket. The city of Portland, Oregon is a prime example.
Now, we understand, the Clean Air Act is being brought into the picture. It seems the environmentalists are claiming we are polluting the air in the vicinity of national parks to the extent that regulations are needed in the areas bordering those parks to protect them from our polluting ways. Just eliminating most of the roads from within the parks is not enough, now we must restrict those in the surrounding areas. If you are still unaware, the United Nations has been given regulatory authority of a sort over our national parks. Note the UN insignia on this snapshot from Mammoth Cave. Also note the "International Biosphere Reserve" designation.
All of these laws and regulations and these efforts to move people off their lands and concentrate them in congested urban communities have their origins in the United Nations. A free people occupying lands that can be farmed and on which livestock can be raised, is a people that cannot be easily controlled. Take away their ability to sustain themselves through unrestricted use of their lands and you can herd them like cattle into pens where they can easily be controlled.
As one visitor to a recent "watershed committee" meeting in Cullman, Alabama said as the meeting was drawing to a close... "I own quite a bit of property in Winston County, they're a bit further along than you are here. They're taking my property from me. Enjoy your freedom while you still have it. You won't have it much longer!"