III.
Dogmas & Canons.
The Environmental and Animal Rights Movement is responsible for dramatic
changes going on all around us. The need to carefully consider the basis
for and origin of this Movement and a description of the Movement were
discussed previously in Parts I. (Introduction) and II. (The Movement).
These previous Essays are available at http://jimbeers.blogster.com
.
This Essay will attempt to describe some of the most basic tenets of the
Environmental and Animal Rights Movement. That is, those things that are
assumed by those who labor to restrict and eliminate animal ownership and
use in all forms and those that work to restrict and eliminate rural
residents to establish vast human-free areas with minimal human presence.
The visible means, such as increasing power and authority in one ultimate
government authority or the use of protected predators or claims of species
endangerment to destroy rural economies or the distortions of
purposely-weighted "science" to justify the unjustifiable or claims of
the
"iconic" status of horses or the "inhumane" tradition of
cockfighting etc.,
are not what I am referring to here. By basic tenets, I mean those
accepted
beliefs on which the visible means are based. While those campaigning to
"save" horses from slaughter or sitting in a tree to "save"
a redwood or
voting for a new "Wilderness Area" would deny they espouse all of
these
things (they just espouse one part) that is like the German train engineer
circa 1942 or the Russian schoolteacher circa 1934 saying they only did and
believed in only one small part that made sense of a whole that was wrong or
evil. They are all soldiers in a Movement and responsible even more than
"the good men" that "say nothing".
The best analogy for my list of beliefs that dictate action is something
akin to The Ten Commandments in the Judaeo-Christian culture. It is
generally accepted that the daily actions of Christians and Jews, insofar as
the individual is striving to live as a Christian or Jew, are performed with
knowledge of The Ten Commandments and what they say. Just as there are
these Ten Commandments, I submit that there is a similar list of basic
dogmas that underpin what the Environmental and Animal Rights Movement is
about. Granted they are not written anywhere but I would say that nearly
every subscriber to the Movement agrees with them and in private would
eventually agree that they are true and where we should all
"eventually"
evolve.
This list is certainly not as comprehensive as I might make it were I to
have unlimited time but it does, I believe, encompass a sufficient overview
of the basic assumptions for the purposes of this series of Essays. While
they are numbered (like The Ten Commandments) this is not meant to infer
orders of magnitude or importance, only a means of rationally separating the
subjects while picturing them as a whole.
A Listing of the Dogmas of the Environmental and Animal Rights Movement:
1. Man is but one of many animals, therefore all
animals should have
the same inherent rights as Man.
From this flows things like:
- animals are not property and
therefore may not be "owned",
- animals should not be
"trained" or "modified" or used or eaten,
- wild animals should not be
hunted or fished or trapped,
- domestic animals from pets to
livestock should be freed,
- animals should not be managed
for any human good,
- animals should never be
constrained,
- animal products like fur or
jewelry should be forbidden,
- animal business like ranching
and farming and circuses should be
outlawed,
- animals should be allowed to
affect each other uninterrupted by
humans,
- animals are inherently benign,
- when animals harm humans it is
nearly always the human's fault,
- humans should not live near or
"affect" wildlife habitat,
- government should ultimately
protect all animals from humans,
- there is no difference between
domestic and wild animals, and
mankind's place vis-à-vis animals should be subject to Environmental and
Animal Rights power elite judgments and pronouncements.
2. There are too many people in the world.
Levels of human population
and the location of human habitation should be determined by Environmental
and Animal Rights principles and mandated by government fiat world-wide.
From this springs things like:
- human populations should be
reduced and maintained at levels
dictated by "science",
- human populations should not
exceed what those in charge say the
"world can support",
- humans should not have the
advantage of oil or gas or coal or
nuclear power or dams or channelized rivers or drainage or cars or roads
because it is an unfair advantage over "nature",
- human populations can use wind
and solar power temporarily but
eventually allowable human population levels will be based solely on
available amounts of solar power and recycled garbage and waste levels plus
as yet to be discovered benign energy sources,
- and human birth control and
abortion programs as well as
euthanasia and government birth and death policies dictate cooperation with
and support of these movements.
3. Humans should be relocated dramatically into
designed urban centers
from rural areas to conserve "resources" and "wild places"
and give all the
animals the "habitat" they deserve.
This dogma has spawned such things as:
- Wilderness romance and
designation,
- "Wildlands" schemes
and philosophy to expand Wilderness and
government lands,
- Endangered Species claims
ploys from spotted owls and wolves to
whales and elephants,
- steady government land
purchases and easements that encumber land
uses,
- the multi-billion dollars tax
support machinations by
government/private organizations like The Nature Conservancy and others to
buy and control rural land world-wide,
- government-mandated urban
transportation methods and density and
space requirements inherent in government support-funding,
- and the constant restriction
on use and management of public
lands.
4. As with animals, "the entire
ecosystem" should be returned to
"nature" in "pristine" condition meaning no human presence
and the "correct"
species mix.
This principle gives us things such as the following:
- while "science" will
tell us which species belong where (i.e.
Native v. Non-Native) Environmental and Animal Rights leaders will also tell
us which species are "Invasive" and thus slated for priority
elimination,
- "Native" species
determination will be set by scientists based on
Movement assertions as in pre-1492 in North America and Pre-Roman in Europe
and perhaps 1950 in Africa or 1500 in South America,
- areas outside the designated
urban centers for humans will be
purged of not only all humans and human activities but also all
non-acceptable plants and animals,
- and "Restoring Native
Ecosystems" that will take centuries is
every bit as important as establishing rights for animals and controlling
the human population.
5. No means are prohibited in order to achieve the
goals of the
Movement.
This widespread belief is evident from:
- the violence and intimidation
that is a hallmark of the Movement,
- the lack of honest dialogue
surrounding any issue du jour,
- the destruction of
Constitutional rights over the past 35 years,
- the subversion of government
agencies and the authorized purposes
for past government land purchase and control,
- the dramatic growth of Federal
power in this area at the expense
of State authorities and private property rights,
- the disregard for the loss of
human life to government-protected
wildlife,
- the disregard for the
destruction of human property from pets and
crops to livestock and gardens,
- the perversion of
"science" and "scientists" into tools of
propaganda for bankrupt schemes and programs,
- the manipulation of State and
Federal politicians to incrementally
change the basic freedoms and protection of American citizens for their own
political advantage,
- the disgraceful education of
our young in these matters that
rivals communist schools and medias and reeducation camps,
- the printed and broadcast
media distortions that both mislead and
endanger citizens,
- the demolition of opponents
and the discrediting of any questions
about proposed actions,
- and the use of government
funds like hunting and fishing excise
taxes to destroy hunting and fishing or Federal tax dollars to subvert State
agencies to make them simple tools of Federal policies being implemented at
the behest of the Movement.
6. All other religious and ideological belief
systems must (like
government) be subjugated by or incorporated into the Environmental and
Animal Rights Movement or be eliminated by new laws or court decisions.
This is self-explanatory and self-evident to all but the most casual
observer.
7. A world-government espousing Environmental and
Animal Rights values
is absolutely necessary and inevitable. Local, State (in the US), and
national governments must be subsumed by and into a single, all-powerful
authority with the power to force all of the changes necessary to accomplish
the "enlightened" world-order set out by the Environmental and Animal
Rights
Movement.
Subsequent Essays will look at the origin and evolution of theses dogmas,
those that dictate the dogmas, and suggest how to address this challenge in
the future.
Jim Beers
24 September 2006