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1997 when then President Bill Clinton announced the American Heritage Rivers Initiative. This Presidential Proclamation which many lawmakers called unconstitutional brought 10 of America’s major rivers under Federal control and was later expanded to 14. Many saw this move by the President as a way for his administration to expedite the provisions of the 1992 United Nations Convention of Biological Diversity Treaty which the United States Senate refused to ratify. Seeing that this former President just opened up hi new LIE-brary; I am looking for some more information & discussion on this issue. DOes anyone have more information and its repurcussions?This former President was seizing control over one source of our Nations prosperity —our rivers.
1 posted on 11/19/2004 4:52:19 AM PST by ruready4eternity
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I thought the Dems could not possibly nominate a more repulsive, vile and morally bereft candidate than Clinton. Then they nominated Kerry.

I used to think the world could not possibly nominate a more incompetent dolt, a bigger America-hater, and a stronger advocate for antisemitism than Kofi Friday...
2 posted on 11/19/2004 5:01:53 AM PST by Ragnorak
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From the "For What It's Worth" department....It's been awhile, but if memory serves me this initiative gives the federal government control over such things as construction allowed along the river itself, population density...and, possibly more importantly, it gives the government control over feeder streams/creeks, run-offs, as well as associated wetlands. This initiative has impact upon commerce and agriculture. In my opinion, it's a bad idea.


3 posted on 11/19/2004 5:08:46 AM PST by Hornet19 (Somthin' about a purse and a sow's ear)
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Several old FR articles can be found here:

FR Search: American Heritage Rivers Initiative

4 posted on 11/19/2004 5:10:27 AM PST by Constitution Day
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I recall that the idiot Clinton asked that communities across Amereica submit rivers for designation as an American Heritage River.

Local nitwit politicians, and their eco-fascist masters, submitted a list to the slimeball in the whitehouse. (I forgot which left wing jackass was running this federal scam.)

Anyway, several rivers were designated as American Heritage Rivers. I believe the Detroit River was one. Naturally, private landowners along the rivers were never consulted - typical of the arrogant fascists infesting the Clinton whorehouse.

The whole damn thing was an illegal theft of private property, because federal regulations on federal land always seems to spill over onto private property. It was about control, and creating de facto government nature preserves on private property without paying compensation.

Clinton, in my book, was the biggest land thief since Lenin.


10 posted on 11/19/2004 6:44:36 AM PST by sergeantdave (More liberal turkeys will be steamed this month than real turkeys baked.)
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They ought to fly the UN flag at the library; that's where his true allegiance lay.


11 posted on 11/19/2004 6:46:40 AM PST by Dionysius
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If either Clinton gets a chance at the U.N. they will make Whitewater look like a Sunday School picnic and the Oil For Food scandal will no longer be the world's largest case of embezzlement. Either Clinton would end up owning the whole d*mn world if they could.


12 posted on 11/19/2004 6:51:32 AM PST by jamaly
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