- At Yellowstone National Park, United
Nations' delegates who surveyed the area last year, called for a "buffer
zone" around the Park. So, the Park Service is choking off the local
economy by refusing to maintain certain highways and by buying up any property
available. Of course, there will be plenty available as more and more owners
are denied the use of their own private property which causes businesses
to shut down and the economy to show.
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- Inside Yellowstone, the Park Service
is shutting down campgrounds as the park is being prepared to become the
core of a huge biosphere reserve, as part of the United Nations global
plan. Once established, no human activity will be permitted in the area.
This represents fulfillment of plans outlined in the United Nation's Biodiversity
Treaty - which, though still unratified by the U.S. Senate, is being implemented
by the Clinton Administration.
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- The way it is done is illustrated by
what happened to the owners of the Crown Butte New World gold mine, which
is OUTSIDE Yellowstone National Park. After being threated with non-stop
litigation that could have lasted decades, the mining company finally agreed
to a deal which leaves at least $650 million of known gold reserves in
the ground. In exchange, the mining company was given the right to explore
other federal lines for mining purposes and paid $65 million dollars ($21
million of which must be used for "environmental cleanup."
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- Another recent example was Clinton's
declaration of Kaiwoporwits non-polluting coal reserves in Utah a "National
Monument" by executive order. This "monument" will cost
the Utah Public School system alone $60 BILLION in lost education fees.
It will cost the future economy of Utah over a TRILLION dollars. The "monument"
consists of 1.5 million acres of Utah land which the people of Utah not
only did not KNOW was about to be snatched by Clinton as a key part of
a future United Nations "biodiversity" area, but were vehemently
opposed to.
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- Other United Nations designations as
"biodiversity" areas include the following National Park Service
lands:
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- Biosphere Reserves:
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- * Big Bend National Park, Tx. (801,163
acres) * Big Thicket National Preserve, TX (85,750 acres) * Congaree Swamp
National Monument (SC (22,200 acres) * Death Valley National Monument,
CA (2,067,628) * Denali National Park and Preserve, AK (6,500,000 acres)
* Everglades National Park and Fort Jefferson National Monument, Fl. (1,
571,199 acres) * Gates of the Arctic Naitonal Park and Preserver, AK (7,523,888
acres) * Glacier National Park, Mt (1,013,572 acres) * Glacier Bay National
Park and Preserve, AK (3,283,168 acres) * Great Smoky Mountains National
Park, TN/NC (520,269) * Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, HI (229,177 acres)
* Isle Royale National Park, MI (571,790 acres) * Joshua Tree National
Monument, CA (559,954 acres) * Kings Canyon National Park, CA (461,901
acres) * Mammoth Cave National Park, KY (52,708 acres) * Noatak National
Preserve, AK (6,574,481 acres) * Olympic National Park, WA (922,651 acres)
* Organ Pipe National Monument, AZ (330,689 acres) * Redwood National Park,
CA (110,232 acres) * Rocky Mountain National Park (265,727 acres) * Sequoia
National Park, CA (402,482 acres) * Virgin Islands National Park, VI (14,689
acres) * Yellowstone National Park, WY (2,219,791 acres)
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- World Heritage Sites
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- * Carlsbad Caverns National Park, NM
(46,766 acres) * Grand Canyon National Park, AZ (1,217,158 acres) * Mesa
Verde National Park, CO (52,122 acres) * Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
and Preserve and Preserve, AK (13,188,325 acres) * Yosemite National Park,
CA. (761,236 acres)
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- Whose Heritage and Whose Land? The Phyllis
Schlafly Report September 1997 http://pages.map.com/bkpowell/heritageland.html
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- I recently revisited Independence Hall,
the cradle of our republic where the Declaration of Independence was signed
and the United States Constitution was written. Something new has been
added since the last time I saw it: a large bronze plaque with a peculiar
inscription under an unidentified insignia.
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- "Through the collective recognition
of the community of nations expressed with the principles of the convention
concerning protection of the world's cultural and natural heritage, Independence
Hall has been designated a World Heritage Site and joins a select list
of protected areas around the world whose outstanding natural and cultural
resources form the common inheritance of all mankind."
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- Whew! Where did all that mumbo-jumbo
come from? Obviously not from American history or our founding documents.
"Common inheritance of all mankind"? No way. Our Declaration
of Independence and Constitution are both uniquely American, written by
identifiable Founding Fathers on American soil at known points in time.
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- Independence Hall "joins a select
list of protected areas around the world"? Who decided that Independence
Hall should "join" anything? It is a unique American treasure.
And who is protecting these "protected areas"? "Collective
recognition of the community of nations"? It's obvious that all those
foreign nations don't agree with our American Declaration or Constitution
or the principles therein.
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- Since it is impossible to relive history
and give the "collective" or the "community of nations"
any ownership in the historic events that made Independence Hall an American
shrine, we can only deduce that some international entity is asserting
a vested interest in the building. Who authorized that?
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- After all, it would have been a nice
accolade and not worthy of particular comment if the Independence Hall
plaque merely said, "The United Nations honors the cradle of American
freedom, the inspired words of the Declaration of Independence, and the
genius of the United States Constitution that has nourished liberty in
America for more than two centuries." But it didn't.
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- We now find that at least 20 pieces of
American property have been designated as "World Heritage Sites"
and so identified with markers. These include Yellowstone and Yosemite
national parks, the Grand Canyon, Thomas Jefferson's home Monticello, and,
believe it or not, the Statue of Liberty. All of these markings took place
without any publicity, without the American people knowing what was going
on.
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- The designation of these World Heritage
Sites was authorized by the World Heritage Convention, a treaty signed
by President Richard Nixon and ratified in 1973. The World Heritage Program
is carried out by UNESCO, to which the United States doesn't even belong.
President Ronald Reagan pulled us out of UNESCO because it was totally
corrupt.
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- The UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Program
was created in 1970. The United States joined in 1974 when our State Department
signed a memorandum of understanding (not a treaty) to put us in the Biosphere
Program and pledge that the United States will adhere to the Biosphere
conditions and limitations laid down by UNESCO. Paragraph 44 of the World
Heritage Operational Guidelines states that "natural" Heritage
Sites (as contrasted to "cultural") can be interchanged with
"core reserves" of the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Program.
These core protected areas are planned to be surrounded by highly regulated
buffer zones, all for the sake of "biodiversity."
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- At a conference in Spain in 1995 that
culminated in the Seville Strategy, the Biosphere Program underwent a radical
change in purpose. The first goal of the Seville Strategy for Biosphere
Reserves is to "promote biosphere reserves as a means of implementing
the goals of the Convention on Biological Diversity."
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- U.S. State Department representatives
agreed to this new framework of UNESCO-designated guidelines and objectives
for the Man and Biosphere Program. So, even though the United States doesn't
belong to UNESCO, and even though the U.S. Senate refused to ratify the
Biodiversity Treaty, the United States is marching right ahead with UNESCO's
Man and the Biosphere Program.
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- Starting with Yellowstone National Park
in 1979, UNESCO has designated 47 Biosphere Reserves in the United States
covering 50 million acres. In order to designate sites and spheres under
either of these UNESCO programs, the United States must agree to manage
these lands according to international dictates and objectives.
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- That's another way of saying that the
United States has agreed to limit our sovereign power to manage our own
lands any way we want in pursuit of our own national interests. The Clinton
Administration's designation of Yellowstone Park as a World Heritage Site
"in danger" has already been used to shut down a gold mine near
(not even in) Yellowstone.
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- The UN/UNESCO types have made no secret
of their goals. Their next step is their Wildlands Project, a plan to designate
one half of the United States as "protected areas or areas where special
measures need to be taken to conserve biological diversity."
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- Americans don't need or want any UN/UNESCO
bureaucrats telling us how to "protect" our own land. We can
jolly well handle our own protection.
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