Volume 2, Number 2 -- March 23, 1997
THE UNITED NATIONS TREATY ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY THAT OUR CONGRESS HAS BEEN ASKED TO RATIFY WOULD COMPLETELY RESTRUCTURE THE FABRIC OF OUR SOCIETY!
If you think the above statement is strong language, just read some of the language in the 1,000-plus page document drafted by the UN to outline its implementation plans for the 18-page treaty! Even without formal ratification, many of the provisions of this treaty are being implemented by fiat through regulations being written by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as recommended by Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development, recommendations taken virtually word-for-word from the more than 1,000 page UN document.
The document containing the provisions for the implementation of this treaty has been described by Michael Coffman, eminently qualified environmentalist and author of the book Saviors of the Earth?, as the most anti-human document he has ever seen.
It calls for the reduction of the population of the planet from its current 5-plus billion souls to from 1 to 2 billion, and the only alternative it offers to this reduction in population is a return to a feudal, agrarian economy in which all but a select few would be reduced to the status of peasants working the land for their lords.
It proposes to take half of the land mass of the United States and Canada and return it to wilderness bioregions in which no human activity would be permitted. We are already seeing such bioreserves being established. Even now a move is underway to evict many Kentucky and Tennessee residents from the "land between the lakes" and declare the area a bioregion that will be off-limits to human intrusion.
The Congress was very close to ratifying this land-grab treaty some months back. It had asked the United Nations for the "scientific study" that the treaty called for in Section 25, and which was to serve as the implementation mechanism. Our Congress was told no such document existed.
Eventually, just one day before the cloture vote was scheduled, Dr. Coffman was able to secure a copy of the 1,000-plus page document from the United Nations in Switzerland. When he presented this information to the Congress it effectively killed the ratification process for the moment.
This was a totally unexpected turn of events. Implementation instructions that anticipated ratification had already been drafted by the Clinton Administration, which is still pushing for ratification, and has not withdrawn implementation instructions.
Unless Americans are made aware of the dangers facing us from such globalists, we may well find ourselves evicted from our own land, slaves to a world government made up of the non-elected "elite" of the world.
If you doubt the possibility of such "wild" claims, ask the people near Yellowstone, the people in Kentucky and Tennessee. Ask lumbermen in the state of Washington and hundreds of individuals all across the nation who have felt the power of the bureaucrats who administer such programs as the Clean Waters Act, the Endangered Species Act and other environmental laws that have been mandated by United Nations actions.
Dr. Coffman and others worked for years studying the effects of acid rain and the claims of global warming. The results of their studies showed the problems promoted as reasons we must eliminate acid rain to be quite minor, instead of the major, life threatening issues they were being portrayed as. The claims of global warming, with its dire consequences, have very little scientific evidence to support them.
Most scientists do not believe global warming to be a threat. One of the top climatologists in the country, Dr. Patrick Michaels (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), has done a great deal of research in this area that pretty well debunks the alarmists' claims of global warming. He has published his findings in a book, Of Sound and Fury, the politics behind global warming.
The truth is that the leaders of the environmental movement have been using, at best, frightening rhetoric and, at worst, outright falsehood to condition the people to give up their rights to save an environment that is in very little danger of collapse.
That is not to say that we do not need to take any action. There are some problems with the environment, and we do need to be good stewards of what God has entrusted to us, but what we are being asked to do would be far more damaging to human existence than if we did nothing.
If you are one of those individuals who believes the lives of animals and creeping things are more important than human lives, you may discard this newsletter now. But if you believe that God favors humanity and created this world for human habitation, as we do, you need to join with us in trying to get the message out.
Most environmentalists (not environmental leaders) are sincere in their efforts and are working for a cause in which they believe strongly, but most of them, like most Americans, have been deceived concerning the magnitude of the problem.
Some of us have even made contributions in the past to such organizations as the Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy or the Wildlife Foundation. We now know that these organizations are very well funded from various foundations and that the officers, more often than not, are salaried in the six-figure range. As usual, if you will follow the money trail, you will find the motivation. It is to the immediate advantage of these professional environmentalists to keep the American public in the dark about the true facts and to keep them upset about pseudo-scientific claims of imminent environmental disaster.
When one examines past predictions of major calamity one finds the predicted events never happened. Not one single disastrous prediction has come about as predicted, and there have been quite a number of such predictions that were to have been manifest long before now.
In 10 counties in southern Kentucky and 7 counties in northern Tennessee there is a 68,800 hectare biosphere reserve, bounded on the east by Lake Barkley and on the west by Kentucky Lake. For years this area has been under the supervision of the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) and has proved a reasonable compromise between environmentalism and human utilization.
Now, it seems, the TVA wants to rid itself of the responsibility of administering this biosphere and the area has been placed under the control of a multinational committee. Our information indicates that hundreds, if not thousands, of residents within the area are being told they must sell their property (at a rate determined by others) and relocate.
A meeting had been scheduled for March 1, 1997, by the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to discuss the future of the Land Between the Lakes. This meeting was to take place at the Curris Center at Murray State University, but was canceled, supposedly because of bad weather.
Some of those involved have expressed the opinion the meeting was canceled because the subcommittee learned how many people were planning to attend. While a local paper estimated the number of those who showed up at 300, some who were there said their head count, as best they could determine, was closer to 2,400.
The designation of U. S. biosphere reserves goes back to 1976 when UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) designated reserve properties held by the National Park Service, The Forest Service, or the Agricultural Research Service as biosphere reserves.
Why the United Nations should be involved in designating United States properties as anything remains a mystery to us.
Now we come upon a new term -- "stakeholders" -- the "legal" term used for those who hold deeds to property that has now become part of a biosphere reserve. Landowner is somehow no longer appropriate, even though these stakeholders still must pay property tax on the land for which they hold the deeds.
Blacks Law Dictionary defines stakeholder:
Generally, a stakeholder is a third party chosen by two or more persons to keep on deposit property or money the right or possession of which is contested between them, and to be delivered to one who shall establish his right to it; and it is one who is entitled to interplead rival or contesting claimants to property or funds in his hands.
A person who is or may be exposed to multiple liability as the result of adverse claims. A stakeholder may commence an action or interpleader against two or more claimants.
A person with whom money is deposited pending the decision of a bet or wager(q.v.). His function is to receive the sums wagered and hold them against the determined event, whether that event be a horse race or otherwise, and then pay them over to the winner.
It is difficult for us to see how either of these definitions could be applied to a landowner.
You may wonder just what effect the dispute in Kentucky and Tennessee has to do with you. There is a large region of the Appalachian Mountain chain that is now proposed as a biosphere reserve. It covers parts of West Virginia, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. The map to the right shows the area in Alabama that would be involved. We have not differentiated between "core" areas and "corridors," since both are off-limits to humans for all practical purposes.
ACCORDING TO THE U. N. BIODIVERSITY TREATY AND THE WILDLANDS PROJECT, EVENTUALLY 50% OF THE LAND MASS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA WILL BE CONVERTED TO BIOSPHERE RESERVES.
Several members of our Committee recently had the privilege of attending a conference in Arlington, Virginia, conducted by an organization called "Sovereignty International, Inc."
We heard from a number of well known and well qualified speakers, including Dr. Michael Coffman, Phyllis Schlafly, Dr. Patrick Michaels, Henry Lamb and others. We have obtained a taped interview between Dr. Coffman and the host of a talk show, "The Truth as I see it," Terry Canady. We will be happy to make this tape available, on loan, to anyone in the Birmingham, Alabama area who might be interested in a group screening. Other's interested in getting a copy of this video should write: Sovereignty International, Inc., 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, ME 04401.
We also have video tapes of some of the speeches from the conference. We will be happy to make these available for the cost of reproduction and mailing.
Anyone interested in copies of the videos may direct email to us at: themustardseed@mindspring.com.
Some quotes from U.N. sources: