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TNC and NRSC Join Forces - Bad News for Constitutional Rights
The Sierra Times ^ | 02. 23. 05 | Nancy Levant

Posted on 02/24/2005 8:28:07 PM PST by hedgetrimmer

On February 18, The Nature Conservancy partnered with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, which is a division of the United States Department of Agriculture. This is another “partnership” with immense powers and no public input, whatsoever – no knowledge, no discussion, no opinion, no vote, nothing. The Nature Conservancy is a non-profit. That is laughable. TNC is a multi-billion dollar “non-profit” biodiversity conservation organization with assets nearing 3 billion dollars. They are a global land acquisition group up to its eyeballs in U.N. global governance missions and Agenda 21 implementation, and it partners with anyone who will further its agenda to acquire more and more and more land. Over 15 million acres in the United States (probably much more) and over 102 million acres in the rest of the world, this “non-profit” owns nearly 120 million acres of land. If that doesn’t scare you, and the news of their constant, daily attempted land grabbing doesn’t scare you, then their partnering with the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service sure as heck better.

"Together, the Conservancy and NRCS have set a new standard, one that will influence conservation nationwide. The Memorandum of Understanding that was signed promotes the sharing of conservation practices, strategies and scientific expertise," said Mark Rey, USDA's Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment.

"The agreement supports our mutual goals and will help more private landowners be aware of NRCS conservation programs that are available. This new partnership is what the President refers to as cooperative conservation. We need cooperative conservation like this to achieve our collective national conservation goals."

Well, Under Secretary Rey, you failed to tell, we, the people, to whom you report, anything whatsoever about your intention to partner with TNC, the NRCS’s goals, the “new standard,” the TNC/NRCS’s conjoined goals, or your collective national conservation goals. When was that press release that the entire nation missed?

As a citizen of this country, I don’t like you signing a “Memorandum of Understanding” when I am clueless about your missions, goals, intentions, or reliability. You work for the people of this country, and you are wheeling and dealing behind our backs and without our consent. In fact, you have entered into the business of illegal land acquisition based upon any conservation assertion that you and TNC can find. It is theft because you do not have the permission of the people you work for to partner with anyone who does not follow the laws and rights of the people in this country. We are your employers. You cannot use “memorandums” to plan the continued take-over of privately held land and water. You need our prior knowledge, our input, and our vote, or you are not acting legally or as a public servant.

Got it?

According to Steve McCormick, President and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, "The Conservancy has worked closely for years with NRCS staff around the country. This new agreement will encourage our organizations to collaborate even more closely. Together we will strive to develop effective conservation strategies and learning opportunities that will help advance the goals of voluntary private land and water conservation."

Mr. McCormick, I would like to know what the “goals of private property” means to you. I know what private property means to me, but since you have decided to take it upon yourself to “help advance the goals of voluntary private land,” I would like you to lay those goals out on the table. I want your definition of “voluntary private land and water.” What, in God’s name, does that mean? I want you to talk to the American people about the “goals” of The Nature Conservancy that have anything whatsoever to do with private property.

In fact, I demand that you do since your organization now miraculously trumps the constitutional rights of American citizens. When did that vote take place?

It is the belief of this writer that TNC/NRCS partnership, and others like it, created without public knowledge or vote, will institute further and massive land and water acquisitions based upon their manipulated strategies of choosing. These strategies will further the eco/global-education of American school children, and continue the global governance missions of the U.N. and it’s implementation plan, Agenda 21. That is the 2-sentence truth, and both sentences are self-explanatory.

Websites for truth and integrity: www.eco.freedom.org and www.sovereignty.net. These are very, very important websites for American people. You need to read the articles that they post because you are losing your country.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda21; development; environment; esa; fedgov; landgrab; natureconservancy; nrcs; propertyrights; publicprivate; sustainable
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120 million taxfree acres in a public/private partnership with the federal government. Why don't Americans see that this is a corrupt practice that will guarantee the eventual loss of property rights for all but the most wealthy among us?
1 posted on 02/24/2005 8:28:09 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
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To: take; Fiddlstix; Wonder Warthog; christie; PersonalLiberties; dasboot; Spann_Tillman; Mr. Mojo; ...

PING


2 posted on 02/24/2005 8:34:40 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
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To: hedgetrimmer

What can we do??


3 posted on 02/24/2005 8:37:03 PM PST by Just A Nobody
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To: hedgetrimmer; No phonys allowed

BUMP Even with "citizen boards" we are in trouble, because the ones who gravitate to and serve on these boards are the ones of whom we have be (and should be) worried.


4 posted on 02/24/2005 8:39:41 PM PST by Libertina (Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: hedgetrimmer
That is what the ruling class have in store for us. Most of the nation is consumed with what is on Survivor and which Toto or piercing is in style right now. Fat cows being led to slaughter without a care in the world. Happily paying their taxes as long as they keep getting some service out of it or the feelgood notion of paying their fair share. So, what are we to do. Protest gets you nowhere. Letters to congress get you put on a kook list. Voting for the other party does no good because they are all shoving it up our moons. Violent revolution gets you shot. We already have no real property rights. Wait for the eminent domain case to go through the Supreme Court. We will see just how fast the rest of our rights to private property disappears. How can we really have private property when we can lose it to a government for not paying our taxes. We need to do something to keep the lecherous bastards off our soil.
5 posted on 02/24/2005 8:40:23 PM PST by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: satchmodog9

that would be tattoo.


6 posted on 02/24/2005 8:40:59 PM PST by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: Justanobody

Start exercising the power of your vote. If elected officials won't work for us, we don't re-elect them period. We will try someone new. In essence, we can mandate term limits. Either they vote the will of the constituents who put them there or they are gone after one term.


7 posted on 02/24/2005 8:50:18 PM PST by Wolfhound777 (It's not our job to forgive them. Only God can do that. Our job is to arrange the meeting)
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To: Justanobody

Public/private partnerships are unconstitutional.

Starting locally work with your local officials and let them know you don't want them to support any more federal purchases of land that will go to NGOs like the Nature Conservancy. Tell your friends not to donate money to these groups. You will have to get others to go to meetings that the NRCS holds and let them know that you will hold them to the US Constitution.

This website has some ideas.
http://www.learn-usa.org/

The fact of the matter is, is that citizens must work with other citizens to restore Constitutional government. It can be done, it won't be easy. If Al Gore can tell Americans we must undergo a wrenching transformation to the socialist America he envisions, why can't we wrench the country back to where it belongs?





8 posted on 02/24/2005 9:07:37 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
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To: Libertina

Yes, most of the meetings are held by consensus.

If citizens attend these meetings they must insist that Roberts Rules of Order be followed. NO MORE will Americans tolerate their government stolen by facilitators and the consensus process.


9 posted on 02/24/2005 9:08:55 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
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To: hedgetrimmer; SierraWasp
Over 15 million acres in the United States (probably much more) and over 102 million acres in the rest of the world, this “non-profit” owns nearly 120 million acres of land.

15 million acres is over 23,400 square miles, which is larger than many eastern states, or more than 1/7 of California. Enough is enough.

10 posted on 02/24/2005 9:36:44 PM PST by eldoradude (When all else fails, vote from the rooftops.)
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Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
11 posted on 02/24/2005 10:47:16 PM PST by farmfriend ( Congratulations. You are everything we've come to expect from years of government training.)
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To: satchmodog9
So, what are we to do. Protest gets you nowhere. Letters to congress get you put on a kook list. Voting for the other party does no good because they are all shoving it up our moons.

Vote libertarian party even if you know they dont have a chance of winning it beats the hell out of holding your nose and voting for the slightly lesser of two evils that you knowfor a fact wil take away your rights and increase the size of goveremnt at a slightly slower pace then the dems

12 posted on 02/24/2005 10:55:57 PM PST by freepatriot32 (Jacques Chirac and Kofi Annan, a pantomime horse in which both men are playing the rear end. M.Steyn)
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To: hedgetrimmer

I appreciate your updates on the nefarious schemes and alliances of the land/water grabbers. The unconstitutional accomplishments of evil-doers such as these are mind-bogling. We, the victims had better wake up and take control of our country before we lose it.


13 posted on 02/24/2005 10:58:08 PM PST by Dixielander
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To: Dixielander

Ping your friends. This article has some facts that everyone should know that tell us how deeply the public/private partnerships have corrupted our political system and weakened our rights.


14 posted on 02/24/2005 11:10:48 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
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To: hedgetrimmer; lodwick; ruoflaw

ping


15 posted on 02/25/2005 2:28:30 AM PST by Dixielander
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To: hedgetrimmer

The thread title says "NRSC" not "NRCS".


16 posted on 02/25/2005 2:50:31 AM PST by happinesswithoutpeace
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To: farmfriend

BTTT!!!!!!


17 posted on 02/25/2005 2:59:34 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: hedgetrimmer

The author hit the nail on the head in ppg 5 when she said she was clueless.


18 posted on 02/25/2005 5:30:27 AM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: freepatriot32

Unless we can get more people to vote libertarian a vote cast for them is useless. We need more people to vote libertarian and we need to educate them so they do so. That is the hard part.


19 posted on 02/25/2005 7:04:38 AM PST by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: hedgetrimmer
The fact of the matter is, is that citizens must work with other citizens to restore Constitutional government. It can be done, it won't be easy. If Al Gore can tell Americans we must undergo a wrenching transformation to the socialist America he envisions, why can't we wrench the country back to where it belongs?

Because we can't get any cooperation or agreement on getting rid of the New Deal. The drug war has made the right complicit in the abuse of the Commerce Clause, and the "social conservatives" are so convinced of the absolute necessity of the end they refuse to even consider the unintended consequences of the means.

20 posted on 02/25/2005 7:21:41 AM PST by tacticalogic
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