Posted on 06/14/2004 8:36:03 PM PDT by TexasCowboy
"It is mind boggling, the billions of dollars that are squandered annually in the name of "protecting the environment".
Nor are these millions, and billions, devoted to just the U.S. environment. They are just as often given away to foreign nations, many of which have a track record of corruption.
If Turner were any more Green, he'd glow in the dark. He represents a vast Fifth Column of Greens that are everywhere in our government, having been attracted by fellow travelers, like Al Gore and Bill Clinton.
They are in many agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Interior, and, like Turner, even in the State Department.
The title of his speech was, "Uncle Sam: An Environmentalist."
Who can argue with that? Easily, a third, or more, of all federal laws and regulations are devoted to the environment. This was accomplished in a relatively short time since the first Earth Day in 1970.
And it began when a Republican President, Richard M. Nixon, signed into law the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and arguably, one of the worst pieces of environmental legislation, the Endangered Species Act.
Turner proudly told his colleagues in Stockholm that the federal government owns lots and lots of the American landmass, citing the 84.5 million acres of our national park system, and the 460 million acres that the government manages as wildlife reserves, refuges, wilderness areas, and marine sanctuaries.
Americans who live in the West know well how much land the U.S. owns, but most Americans remain unaware of the relentless efforts of the federal government, using taxpayer dollars, to provide funds to the States to purchase more, and more, private property.
The U.S. government is engaged in one of the biggest land grabs in history, and they are doing it in collusion with a matrix of so-called environmental and conservation non-government organizations.
They are doing it using your money!
If successful, there will be fewer, and fewer, places for people to live, create new businesses, ranch, farm, or use our natural resources in any fashion, i.e., mine it, drill it, or log it.
This what the Greens call, "sustainable development". If they were honest about it - which they never are - they should call it, "no development".
What makes the Bush administration's environmental programs so bizarre are the millions being spent on projects such as the Congo Basin Forest Partnership.
"The United States will contribute $53 million over four years to create the training programs, infrastructure, and management and enforcement regimes necessary to make a vision of a system of protected areas a success", said Turner.
He bragged that, "In total, we have the potential of developing as many as 27 national parks, and protecting more than 10 million hectares". In the African Congo![emphasis mine]
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
The U.S., noted Turner, will let some countries reduce their debt by agreeing to "protect valuable tropical forests".
Peru, for example, won't have to pay what it owes us, in return for preserving 12.5 million hectares of rain forest. What Turner doesn't mention is that logging is one of the ways Peruvians have of making a living, and depriving them of that, much as was done to many American logging communities in our Northwestern states, will destroy an important element of that nation's economy.
It was a long speech filled with similiar examples, where American tax dollars either are paid out, or foreign debt written off - in the name of saving the environment.
And you wonder why this nation has a huge deficit?
Money that should be used to support our military, returned to the States to build highways, renovate old schools, fix up local parks and recreation areas, fix sewage systems, and so much more, is going to the Congo, and who knows where else!
I can't, however, let go of Turner's speech without noting his view of the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, otherwise known as the global warming treaty.
Mind you, the Senate unanimously passed a resolution rejecting it. Clinton never even submitted it for consideration, and Bush let it be known that it was "seriously flawed" in terms of bogus science.
But, John F. Turner of the U.S. Department of State told his audience that: "We remain active in the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, and support it's ultimate goal: the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate."
NO, WE DO NOT!
This is not the policy of the United States, unless Turner knows something that the Congress, and the White House, does not.
And, apparently he does. Turner noted that "the United States has cemented 13 formal bilateral relationships with both developed, and developing, nations to address climate change."
Here's the kicker! "What's more, the U.S. spends 1.7 billion annually on climate science and related science, more than the rest of the world combined."
It gets worse!
"Over the next five years, the United States has pledged 1.7 billion to develop clean, hydrogen-powered automobiles." That's billions - with a "B" - for an automobile that nobody wants, or needs.
The waste of tax dollars in the name of the environment is beyond comprehension, but it illustrates just how totally infiltrated the federal government is, with both legislators and civil servants, who feel free to ignore the best interests of Americans.
In the process, they are destroying the key element of our economy: private property, and, in the name of "sustainable development", seeking to thwart every manner of development."
"Environmentalists are green leeches.
They are sucking the blood out of our nation."
Yeah, what you said.
Another big reason to keep the Democratic idiots out of power!
November's coming, and I'm burning up the ether with e-mails...
Well said, Big Guy!!
They should call it "Communism", which is the endstate of the EPA and Green wackos. Private property is disappearing before our eyes.
GANG-GREEN!!!
There is a network whose tentacles spread all over the globe, and it is working toward the destruction of our society.
A little research into our environmental policies should scare any American to death.
I researched it when four firefighters burned to death because the helicopters couldn't pick up water from a stream with "endangered" salmon.
We won't be safe until the ESA is defunded and the EPA disbanded.
The Constitution does not give the federal government the right to acquire land for environment purposes.
Yup. And how does the government pay for this land that they acquire? They either use money collected from its citizens or equally terrifying they simply print off more money. When we allow elected officials the ability to make their own money and then sit idly by while they use this money to buy from private citizens, we are doing ourselves and the ideals of our nation a disservice.
Don't like enviro-whackos, I know about the hundreds of thousands that contract malaria because the watermelons (green oustide, red inside) jerks work to restrict/eliminate minuscule uses of DDT...but I do believe the gov. has some role to play in reducing the really icky things that indsutry/agriculture can leave behind.
I'd really just as soon not have a a plant reducing PbS next to my house without controls.
Control begats control.
This is not the federal government's job.
This is the job of the States.
In principle, that's fine. But what if your state is immediatly downstream from another state which has zero controls over effulent?
If the Enviral Whacko Jihadists were honest, the above would be their flag, symbol and logo!
This has nothing to do with the protection of people's lives or the environment and everything to do with control.
There are a growing number of city governments, school districts, etc. that mandate that Green design policies be incorporated into new builing projects. It is a total farce and mandated fraud.
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