Posted on 07/08/2002 3:58:54 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Who could have guessed that South Florida's swamps would become the staging ground for what is shaping up to be the biggest battle for property rights this country has ever seen? The immediate target is the CERP – the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan. The bigger target is The Wildlands Project, but the real target is the basis on which land-use management regulations are formulated.
Land-management policy, once the exclusive domain of local elected officials, has been hijacked by environmental ideologues who have devised a new "collaborative" decision process to advance their conservation objectives, leaving the regulated community with no one to hold accountable at the ballot box.
When government agencies began condemning land, flooding farms, forcing conservation easements and, in general, displacing private land owners to make way for the Everglades Restoration Plan, the people most affected got together and decided that "we've had enough."
Some of these folks were not even aware that they are simply the latest victims of a national program to transform America into what is described as The Wildlands Project – an effort to convert "at least half" of America's land area into wilderness, off limits to humans, and put most of the remaining land under strict government control.
The people who live in the Klamath Basin know lots about The Wildlands Project. Federal agencies and environmental organizations used the Endangered Species Act as an excuse to shut off water to 1,400 farm families in an effort to force the land owners off their land.
The people in Ohio's proposed Darby Refuge area know lots about The Wildlands Project. The Nature Conservancy, and other environmental organizations attempted to drive out private land owners from nearly 50,000 acres of prime farmland to create a wildlife refuge.
All across the country, communities are facing the same kind of transformation, forcing private land owners off their land, to expand wilderness areas, corridors, or buffer zones – consistent with the objectives of The Wildlands Project.
In official parlance, The Wildlands Project is known as "ecosystem management," and "sustainable development." Scores of different techniques are used to slowly tighten government's grip on land use, either by outright acquisition of private land, purchase of development rights, conservation easements, zoning restrictions or in-your-face regulatory control.
For years, property-rights groups have been waging almost futile battles at the local and state levels. Several of these groups met in Alamogordo, N.M., in May to begin to develop a national strategy to combat the erosion of property rights, and stop the relentless spread of The Wildlands Project.
Jay Walley, of the Paragon Foundation, one of the sponsors of the Alamogordo meeting, met with several grassroots organizations in South Florida on June 29. These organizations are joining forces to create a statewide coalition of organizations, which will be supported by hundreds of organizations from all across America.
The Freedom 21 Campaign, meeting in Nashville, Tenn., on July 19-20, will refine the plans that were launched at Alamogordo. Among the issues to be addressed, is a strategy to stop the transformation of America into the wilderness vision presented by The Wildlands Project.
Early ideas favor revival of the "caravans" that brought thousands of people from across America to Klamath Basin, and to the Darby, to insist that government get out of the way and let the people live their own lives. A few weeks before the November elections, caravans from every corner of the country could converge in the swamps of Florida, bringing thousands of people not only to demonstrate solidarity with the Everglades victims, but to coordinate political strategies designed to bring land-use abuses to a screeching halt.
Throughout the summer, thousands of people are mobilizing to see that candidates are informed, and forced to declare their position on The Wildlands Project, and other measures that erode private-property rights.
The national grassroots plan of action is not limited to the Everglades, but is being constructed to address similar issues in every community. No longer will the environmental organizations go unchallenged. No longer will so-called "stakeholder" councils be dominated by professional environmental-organization employees and government-agency officials. No longer will the affected land owners be the last to know what others have planned for their land.
Collectively, the people of America are saying "we've had enough!" And their voices may be heard the loudest, echoing through the swamps of South Florida.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
So if my intuition is right, I think we will be busy within five years.
There will be more Enron's and World Com's to help build up hopelessness, the economy may well crash.
Then there will be something to make New York look like a picnic , causing the "masses" to run to big brother for help, just like he wants.
On February 1, 1992, president george herbert walker bush (pappa bush) stated:
"My vision of a New World Order forsees a UN with a revitalized peacekeeping function.
It is the sacred principles enshrined in the UN charter to which we henceforth pledge our allegiance."
So much for bushs' references to God, I believe he is talking to a different god than the One I believe in.
GET AMERICA OUT OF THE UN AND THE UN OUT OF AMERICA !
Peace
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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