- The Endangered Species Act justified the unfettered seizure of
State
authority by the central government of any plant or animal group the central
government claimed was decreasing in number or that they simply wanted to
use as a political power tool. The bald Eagle was a species that already
had all the protection it needed (the Bald Eagle Act) and the wolf was a
species that occurs widely and in abundance worldwide and was doing fine
under State authority in several States of the United States. This
chicanery was justified not on a Treaty as specified in the Constitution but
rather on a United Nations "Convention" that is neither revocable
nor
enforceable in other nations like the "Treaty" mentioned in our
Constitution
while becoming absolutely binding on us. This model has been tried with
a
UN "Convention" on Wetlands and is currently being geared up for an
attempted UN Treaty or Convention on Small Arms and Ammunition as a way to
undercut and eliminate the 2nd Amendment (the right to bear arms) in the
United States.
- The Marine Mammal Protection Act justified the total seizure of
authority over all marine mammals wherever they occurred within US
jurisdiction from State governments by the central government based on US
participation in "Commissions" like the International Whaling
Commission
(that was previously "stacked" by the incorporation of non-whaling
nations
bribed to participate by the new international environmental and animal
rights organizations) and specious claims by Federal bureaucrats,
professors, and environmental lawyers going to courts regarding new
international laws affecting oceans, manufactured estimates of population
drops, and interstate commerce interests. Today all marine mammals are
sacrosanct and unmanaged while they are causing enormous environmental and
social harm and the fields of marine mammal science or legal theory are
reserved for a few "experts" and the publicity about these matters
rivals
the one-sided coverage given sex education or gun issues in the public
media.
- The Wilderness Act clearly enabled the central government
agencies and
bureaucrats to implement their desires to establish, (unhampered by any
State claims), authority over all plants and animals on Federal property.
Wilderness appetite, that is never satisfied and is being steadily used to
close off all Federal lands in a steady shower of claims and
"needs", is the
basis for most Roadless Areas, road closures, grazing allotment elimination,
hunting use reduction, camping activities, hunting and fishing management
programs, and other use restrictions on Federal lands. The disappearance
of
natural resource management programs on Federal lands is simply a prelude to
"Wilderness qualification" and as a doctrinal basis for
"saving" this plant
or that animal community. Further it then becomes the propaganda basis
for
a myriad of other environmental schemes for land control such as the
Ivory-billed Woodpecker scandal in Arkansas (5.5M A.), the
"Highlands" land
control takeover in New Jersey, the "Wildlands" Project to clear
most of the
western US and Canada of rural communities and natural resource use and
management, and the "Borderlands" Project of land control and
seizure being
perpetrated where Connecticut and Rhode Island abut. The Wilderness Act,
while originally and legally justified as a simple attempt to leave a few
isolated corners of government ownerships in an unused state (to demonstrate
how wasteful that is? to demonstrate why management of natural resources is
much more efficient and economical and beneficial than burying our heads in
the sand? why?) has become a tool to strangle rural communities, private
property rights, state access and control, and expand Federal power by
coupling up with demands for Wild and Scenic Rivers, Scenic Roads,
"Corridors" (wildlife, hardwood, scenic, etc.), and any State
ownership or
specious claim of "the last stand of ___ in New England" or the
"last
population of the lower Columbia North slope gray squirrel" or any of a
million other such claims a thousand University professors are ready,
willing, and able to generate at a moments notice for the usual
remuneration.
- The Animal Welfare Act was based on interstate commerce claims
and waxed
poetic about stopping animal abuse. Only thing was, the abuse was always
to
other persons private property (my use of my dog or gamefowl or circus
animals or rodeo animals, etc.) or to publicly managed property (use of elk,
timber, trout, etc.) used as sound management, economic return, and
millennia of traditions dictated. At first the Animal Welfare claims
were
based on mostly staged pictures from medical labs and perjured claims by
zealots. Then the "committees" formed at Universities under
the Act and
groups like veterinarians and urban "welfare" groups switched the
focus to
trapping and dog breeders and hunting and circuses and rodeos and
cockfighting. Veterinarians and University professors, like their
biology
counterparts under the Endangered Species Act and marine Mammal Protection
Act, began to relish their newly-found authority and all the funding and
prestige it generated. Soon, certain dog breeders (puppy-mills??) came
under the Act and Federal Inspectors set out to eliminate them. Horse
owners were charged with new State "Welfare" laws that began to be
generated
to mirror and capitalize in Federal law. Today, the new overseers
propose
banning ear-cropping and tail-clipping dogs and use the legislation to ban
any sale or slaughter of horsemeat and even the Constitutional option of
State's allowing cockfights. An animal rights conference I reported on
years ago was the biggest mish mash of animal worshippers, socialists,
radical feminists, anti-capitalist, dangerous individuals, and international
radicals imaginable.
Through all of the above, Federal bureaucracies have grown exponentially and
become more and more remote from those they harm as they become more and
more indistinguishable from those they use to curry money and power from the
politicians. The politicians use all this as periodic justifications to
prove their "sensitivity" and "environmental support",
etc. as they ravage
private property and one small select group of Americans after another to
gain money and support for reelection from those opposed to any use or
management of America's resources or animals or private property.
Through
it all the Universities reap rewards and those affected, like Russian
political prisoners going to Lubianka or Siberia one little group at a time,
watch their property and rights disappear and wonder how it happened and
what they can do about it.
The fancy dog owners don't care about the dog owners that breed dogs for
pets or hunting that are disappearing. The duck hunter doesn't care
about
elk hunters being reduced by wolves. The guy that runs trotlines for
catfish doesn't care about the trout fishermen being eliminated for
"native
species" claims. None of them care about the steady restrictions on
the
logger or the rancher. The Texas farmer doesn't have time to even keep
up
with the problems of North Dakotans or Idaho irrigators. In this milieu,
the environmental and animal rights organizations have been implementing
their agenda of making the US more like the Russian or European or Chinese
or Zimbabwean government model wherein one remote central government makes
all decisions with no guaranteed rights for individuals and no more freedom
than what the leadership of today (and those that control them) allows you
to have.
So what about Invasive Species? You said you were going to tell us the
time
and you tell us how to build a clock! Not really. All of the
foregoing is
important if you are to understand what I am about to tell you about the
Invasive Species Authority agenda.
END PART I
Jim Beers
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