Bingo.
I spent years writing on landuse issues in the OHV world. The sad part is that we knew all this stuff in the late 90s...some of us even before. And people refuse to believe it when you put the freaking documents in their face...it’s too insane for them to take seriously. They think it’s a ‘whack job right wing fantasy”.
It’s not.
It’s not.
Unfortunately. I live close to a biodiversity zone. Almost in my back yard.
I'm in an overlap zone and some day in the not too distant future my whole neighborhood could face the prospect of being forced out of out homes.
It's mostly old folks nowadays so it shouldn't present many problems to the PTB. /sarcasm
I wonder if that's code for "collective farming"??
The frog is almost boiled.
The greatest tool our adversaries have is ridicule. The more outrageous the act, the less likely it is to be believed, and the easier it is to decry the people who attempt to expose it as "whackjobs".
There is little solace in having people come back to you and apologize ten or fifteen years later because "You were right. Now what do we do?"
It is this reason, having been on the cutting edge, that I decry the summary policy of some around here to denigrate instead of analyze claims of outrageous acts or plans by the government, or anyone else, for that matter.
Unsustainable claims will remain so in the face of scrutiny, anything else should not be simply tossed for being 'too outrageous', because that is the first line of defense used by those who intend to destroy this Republic.
The Buffalo Commons people were out here (from New Jersey), back when, about the time the Sierra Club (et. al.) was trying to impose "Wilderness" designation on some go-back homestead land which would have effectively cut off tens of thousands of acres of ranching, agricultural, and (now) oil-producing land by blocking access.
The dozen parcels they wanted to convert were presented in small units, mixed up, but when plotted on a map, produced a continuous barrier to land between them and the Little Missouri River. It was pointed out to various local associations, hunters, ranchers, and oilfield interests, and defeated.
That was in the 1980s, and later when Agenda 21 was raised, some people still refused to see it for the land-grab it is.
The North American Trade Corridor ("NAFTA Highway") fits into the program, too.
'They' (whoever is behind this stuff) don't want people to be able to access the back country, not on motorized transport, not on horseback, and few can for any distance on foot.
Even the carrot of GPS in your vehicle for navigation and emergency use can be used against you as the stick to beat you with should you try to transit 'forbidden' areas. Your cell phone can give you away, too. If you are 'connected', you can be/are detected.
Now that might sound a little flaky to people who seldom don't drive on paved roads, but for those of us who live and work well away from the pavement, it is reality. Every possible benefit of many of the devices we take for granted can be offset by a potential for governmental (totalitarian) abuse.
The crusade to deny access to huge portions of America continues...