U.S. NATIONAL PARKS
TO BE OFF LIMITS TO AMERICANS
By Patricia Neill
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.
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.
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 threatened 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."
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.
Other United Nations designations as
"biodiversity" areas include the following National Park Service lands:
Biosphere Reserves:
- 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 National 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)
World Heritage Sites
- 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)
1972 Treaty Grants the
United Nations Control Over American Historical Landmarks
by
Melissa Wiedbrauk
When our Founding Fathers sparked the American
Revolution and signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, they sought
self-government for the American colonies and an escape from the dominance of
England.
The Founding Fathers would be shocked to learn
that some of their successors have given control of key American sovereign
territory to other nations.
Through an international treaty, the United
States is allowing the United Nations and its member countries access to and
control of American soil - in particular, our historic buildings and treasured
wilderness.
In 1972, our government signed the United
Nations' World Heritage Treaty, a treaty that creates "World Heritage Sites"
and Biosphere Reserves." Selected for their cultural, historical or natural
significance, national governments are obligated to protect these landmarks
under U.N. mandate.1 Since 1972, 68 percent of all U.S. national parks,
monuments and preserves have been designated as World Heritage Sites.2
Twenty important symbols of national pride, along
with 51 million acres of our wilderness, are World Heritage Sites or Biosphere
Reserves now falling under the control of the U.N. This includes the Statue of
Liberty, Thomas Jefferson's home at Monticello, the Washington Monument, the
Brooklyn Bridge, Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite, the Florida Everglades
and the Grand Canyon - to name just a few.
Most ironic of all is the listing of
Philadelphia's Independence Hall. The birthplace of our Republic is now an
official World Heritage Site. The very place where our Founding Fathers signed
both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution - the documents that
set America apart from other nations and created the world's longest-standing
democracy - is no longer fully under the control of our government and the
American people.
Protection of our treasured places is a sound
undertaking, but doing so by ceding control of our sovereign territory to a
foreign power is wrong and threatens our rights and freedoms.
In 1995, Crown Butte Mines in the New World
Mining District in Montana was forced to abandon a mine development project
after the U.N. listed Yellowstone National Park as a "World Heritage Site in
Danger."3 Crown Butte proposed to mine a medium-size underground operation on
private property three miles from the boundary of Yellowstone. The project
would have employed 280 people and generated $230 million in revenue.4
This mining project was not unique. The area had
been mined for 150 years before Yellowstone National Park was established.
Crown Butte had worked along with the U.S. Forest Service to ensure that all
of the necessary precautions were being taken to ensure that the project would
be environmentally responsible. Crown Butte had won an award for excellence in
1992 and was considered to be a "showcase operation."5
None of these factors mattered to the U.N.'s
World Heritage Committee. Citing the project as a potential threat, the U.N.
exerted its authority to force the abandonment of the project. It did not
matter to the U.N. that this violated Crown Butte's exercise of its private
property rights under the U.S. Constitution. Nor did the U.N. care that its
action also went against U.S. federal law prohibiting the inclusion of
non-federal property within a U.S. World Heritage Site without the consent of
the property owner.6
Although it has not happened yet, under the World
Heritage Treaty the U.N. has the legal right to someday restrict us, as
American citizens, from visiting our national treasures.
Many environmentalists believe that the mere
presence of humans disturbs the environment. As such, it is not farfetched to
wonder when the politically-correct U.N. will ban the American public from
Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, the Florida Everglades and other
precious natural wonders now visited annually by millions of tourists.
Ironically, banning generations of young people
from visiting our natural wonders would undermine the public's appreciation
for the spectacular gifts of nature, and undercut support for environmental
protection.
Unfortunately, the World Heritage Treaty is just
one of a series of government actions that is stripping away the gift of
freedom we received from our Founding Fathers.
To stop this erosion of sovereign rights, federal
legislation has been introduced to restore the rights of Americans against
this threat to freedom. The American Land Sovereignty Protection Act seeks to
preserve the sovereignty of the United States over public lands and preserve
the private property rights of private citizens. It would require
congressional oversight of U.N. land designations within the U.S.7
We should not turn our backs on the Founding
Fathers by surrendering the precious gift of sovereignty. We should treasure
and protect it.
Footnotes:
1 "World Heritage Sites and Biosphere
Reserves Fact Sheet," United States House or Representatives Committee on
Resources.
2 "American Land Should Be Controlled By Americans," press release, The
National Center for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C., February 24,
1999, available on the Internet at
http://www.nationalcenter.org/PRLandSov299.html.
3 Kathleen Benedetto, National Wilderness Institute, testimony before the
United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Washington,
D.C., May 26, 1999.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 "American Land Should Be Controlled By Americans."
Melissa Wiedbrauk is a research associate with The National Center for
Public Policy Research, a Washington, D.C. think tank.
END
National parks off-limits
U.N.-designated panel calls for increased 'buffer zones'
By Jon E. Dougherty
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com
| July 15, 1999
Last year a United Nations-designated panel,
at the behest of the Clinton administration, called for the creation of
uninhabited "buffer zones" around several U.S. national parks. Since
then roughly two dozen U.S. parks and preserves, covering millions of
acres of public land, have been included in the plan.
Now, however, new plans
to expand these zones are in the works, and the outrage has reached a
near fever pitch among experts who say these U.N.-designated sites are
merely attempts to "globalize" huge portions of the United States --
with taxpayers picking up the tab.
Henry Lamb of
Eco-Logic -- a
watchdog organization that monitors U.N. activities and U.S. sovereignty
issues -- told WorldNetDaily that one example -- at Yellowstone National
Park, where the creation of a larger buffer zone is well underway -- was
"just a sign of things to come."
"Inside Yellowstone,
the U.S. 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 biodiversity plan," he said. "Once established, no
human activity will be permitted in the area," even though U.S.
taxpayers must continue to fund the maintenance and upkeep of
Yellowstone and other popular outdoor tourist sites.
Lamb said that in order
to increase the buffer zone around Yellowstone, the Park Service drove
local businesses away by refusing to maintain access roads. When the
businesses folded as a result of heavy financial losses, the land was
bought with taxpayer money and a larger zone of inaccessibility was
created by default.
"Once they buy the
land, the government is obviously not going to resell it," he said, thus
creating permanently larger buffer zones.
"The purpose of
establishing sites as U.S. national parks was to have people in them
enjoying them," Lamb added. "But the Clinton administration has
completely bought into this U.N. notion that our land ought to be
their land, managed by them. And as such, it
ought to be uninhabited as well."
He said if most
Americans "knew what was going on (with their national parks), the
uproar would be deafening."
In the case of
Yellowstone, Lamb said the government's acquiescence to the U.N.'s
agenda cost a gold mining company about $30 million and in the end
prevented them from mining one ounce of known gold reserves, even though
the government indicated they initially would have allowed it.
"The owners of the
Crown Butte New World gold mine, which is outside
of Yellowstone National Park," he said, "were told by the government to
comply with a list of environmental requirements before they could move
in and begin mining."
But after being
threatened with non-stop litigation from environmental groups funded by
U.N. agencies that could have lasted decades, the mining company finally
agreed to a deal that leaves at least $650 million of known gold
reserves in the ground instead. That deal provided the company with
about $65 million dollars for "more exploration." Of that amount, the
government said about $21 million had to be used for "environmental
clean-up."
Lamb said that Congress
has consistently ignored Clinton administration orders and directives
designed to implement many of the U.N. mandates. Clinton, he said, is
implementing U.N. directives via executive order and presidential
directive "because then he doesn't have to worry about getting Senate
treaty ratification."
At present a
U.N.-sponsored biodiversity treaty, designed to limit U.S. public access
to so-called "World Heritage Sites" and "Biodiversity sites" is
languishing in the Senate. No action is scheduled on its ratification.
Lamb added that in the
course of the next several years, with no congressional oversight, the
addition of more U.S. parks to the "Heritage" and "Biodiversity" sites
lists will follow.
"It is a
well-documented fact that the U.N. is trying to gain control over vast
amounts of U.S. territories to herd more people into cities where they
are more manageable," Lamb said. "That can't be done without at least
tacit approval from Congress, regardless of the political agenda of any
administration."
Lamb said he has
"allies" in Congress that are opposed to the implementation of this, and
other, U.N.-mandated land use plans.
"But they're relatively
few and as such equally unsuccessful" in stopping such initiatives, he
added.
SOURCE:
National parks off-limits
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