Posted on 02/06/2002 5:25:36 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
We should look to Conserve, not "preserve." There was no bell jar that surrounded the land before the White Man came, and it's only a society with technology and free capital that allows us to spend the money to maintain the wilderness, not from some governmental fraud planting fake fur from endangered species to cause even more restrictions on the government land.
Excellent article!
The public has been ill served by a media that take their environmental "stories" off press releases written by billion-dollar green organizations like the Sierra Club and National Wildlife Federation.
That same press has adopted the mindset and language of the environmental true believers. That same press spins tales about a "fragile" ecosystem and "endangered" species.
Those tales are often myths based on lies and half-truths, but they are related as the gospel by CBS, the Times, the Post, CNN and National Geographic. Yet seldom has the press bothered to question the lies, the manipulation, the half truths. Never do the media test what is claimed by the special interests.
When something is truly an environmental concern, the various groups are too busy hunting down easy targets or creating the next nightmare environmental scenario. Green is big business, and the mystery is that very few members of our elite power structure have discovered how dangerous and manipulative and full of lies that green business really is.
Diane Alden really pulls the last few years all together in this article. There also needs to be an investigation of these various 'Charitable Trusts' and the damage they do with their funding.
Ron Arnold is the guy for that one. You'll get all the bile you any choir could ever wish for.
The casualties are the environment, the rural poor and the rule of law. The late President Dwight David Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex. He could not have foreseen the foundation-multinational corporation-green machine-federal bureaucracy complex that now controls much of what happens to the citizens, economy and health of the land mass of the United States.
Good article. It was politicians, bureaucrats and colluding green-businesses that created a problem that need not exists in the first place.
Americans are unaware of just how "symphonically" their environmental opinions have been molded by big-money foundations that tell green groups what to do and how to do it, all with the help of bureaucrats providing federal grants and insider policy manipulation.This "iron triangle" of:
wealthy foundations,
grant-driven environmental groups,
and zealous bureaucrats
- cuts off natural resource extraction from America's federal lands, ending the supply of timber, minerals, food, and fiber you use every day.
- calls the gradual removal of resource workers from rural lands "transition," envisioning gentrification with upscale retirees, modem gypsies and rat-race refugees in a boutique economy.
- destroys the lives and jobs of rural resource workers, whose cries of anguish and anger are called "incivility" by the rich and powerful who are destroying them.
- tightens their regulatory grip on private property so you can't use what you own—and you can't get compensation for what you lose.
- increases the size of big government by taking more land for "nature preserves" even though government already owns nearly half the nation.
- widens the rural-urban prosperity gap. While cities enjoy a booming economy, rural communities suffer severe economic pain caused by the "iron triangle" through bans on logging, mining, ranching, farming, and all forms of natural resource extraction.
- perverts the media you rely on, rearranging your mind, making sure you believe what they want you to believe and crushing all opposing views.
- dismantles industrial civilization piece by piece.
This website follows the money and the power and the harm and takes you along.
That's what's wrong with guys like Ron. They don't know and DON'T care to fix it because they make a good buck rousing rabble. That just isn't going to cut it.
Total laissez faire leads to a "come and get me" mentality, governed by those with the money to fend off civil accountability. It didn't work either, which is what got us regulation in the first place. That's what is unique in what you have in my approach. It's an intrinsically stable system design by virtue of its elegant checks and balances. Yes, it's a lot of work to understand, in part because though it is simple, it is capable of manifesting the full complexity appropriate to the task at hand. All I can tell you is that it's worth the effort.
I think what they have not taken into consideration is all the Vets that will resist with firearms. They are guiding us to a civil war!
I wish the alleged "watchdog press" would give one-half the "TV face time" to this as they did Enron or Condit or Global Warming, or.... well, you name their favorite cause celebre'--
I wish I had a flatbed scanner handy- I have an old article by Walter Williams in my scrapbook of newsclippings detailing how the "Eco" movement has become the refuge of leftist & Marxist wannabes....
The only way that communists, socialists, fascists and watermelon enviralists can be successful is to have total control over the media!
These vile/lying people who hate America/Americans no longer have total control over the media as per this story!
The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets, last year started printing the truth about these lying enviral Nazis.
Last but not least, the power of Free Republic is become a real PIA for the envirals as per their failure to Rural Cleanse the farmers/ranchers and othes from the Klamath Basin last year.
A plea to all who hate these vile enviralists, to please post any good news that you may have. Also, please post any attempt these vile enviralists at more Rural Cleansing of America.
I have been waiting for someone to ask our limosine liberals why they are more concerned about saving the desolate invironment of the ANWR than they are the beautiful beaches of Long Island or Nantucket, where huge multi-million dollar homes are springing up like toadstools on the once pristine beaches.
LYNX BIOLOGISTS DID NOT PLANT FALSE EVIDENCE
WASHINGTON, DC, January 22, 2002 (ENS) - Forest Service employees who tested a lab's performance using planted lynx hairs did not do so with the intent to skew data, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has concluded.
In December 2001, the "Washington Times" ran a story about lynx biologists in Washington state. The story implied that a number of biologists employed by the USFS, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, had conspired to defraud the public by planting lynx hairs as part of a habitat survey.
The survey was attempting to assess the current range of the lynx, which is classified as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act.
The USFS and other experts have now determined that the biologists did not plant lynx hairs in the field, but did send samples that were not collected in the field to a laboratory. The laboratory was supposed to determine what species the hair samples came from.
According to the USFS, the control samples were submitted to test the accuracy of the lab. A number of biologists familiar with the survey had expressed concern that the lab was not set up to handle hundreds of hair samples without contamination, making errors and false positives possible.
The biologists did not try to hide the fact that they had submitted control samples. In each situation, the scientists noted in their station or field notes that so called "blind control samples" had been sent to the labs.
None of the control samples were used in any official surveys, where they might have led to the conclusion that more lynx were living in the habitat then were actually present.
Before agency scientists could respond, a number of politicians began demanding hearings, investigations and even termination of the scientists involved. A press release from Republican Representatives Scott McInnis of Colorado and James Hansen of Utah claimed, incorrectly, that the biologists had admitted to planting hair samples in the field, and called for their dismissal.
On Monday, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) notified the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior that calls to fire or reassign the federal scientists violate the Hatch Act, which prohibits the Secretaries from acting on those recommendations.
The Hatch Act, which guards against on the job partisan activities by federal workers, forbids members of Congress or their staff from making recommendations to agency leaders concerning any civil service personnel action, a term defined to include discipline, termination or reassignment.
The Act provides that if an agency head receives such a communication, he or she, "shall not solicit, request, consider or accept and such recommendation or statement; and shall return any such written recommendation or statement, appropriately marked as in violation of this section, to the person or organization transmitting same."
"This is a case of right wing politicians conducting a witch-hunt against agency scientists," said PEER field director Eric Wingerter. "The question now is whether Gale Norton and Ann Veneman will follow the law protecting the merit system from political interference."
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