By Jan Michael
Jacobson
January 15, 2006
Do not ask a miracle from Congress – No Member of Congress walks on water
very well.
So, why are we asking Congress to fix the Endangered Species Act (ESA)?
After decades of effort by bureaucrats, a swarm of scientists from
academia, and a host of chanting, demonstrating Non-Governmental Organization
(NGO) members, not to mention umpteen billion dollars of taxpayer money
flushed down assorted Black Footed Ferret holes, rat holes, and turtle holes,
the rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland seems tame in comparison.
If all we were doing was spending our descendents' money, Jefferson's
warning might be ignored at both our own peril, and our descendents' peril.
But to waste our money, and the money of future Americans is unjustifiable and
unforgivable. And, the ESA is truly a prodigious waste.
But, ESA has successfully transformed much of America from a Republic,
wherein the citizen owned and managed his land, into a crypto-socialist
society.
Here are three quotes which are central to understanding how our
Inalienable Rights, as well as our property, our money, and our descendents'
money, got flushed down the ESA hole:
W. Z. Foster, National Chairman,
Communist Party, USA. 1932.
Gus Hall, National Chairman, Communist
Party, USA., 1960.
Peter Berle, Chairman, National Audubon
Society The common thread running from Hall through Berle is the deliberate
conversion of America from a society of private ownership and management of
land, to government ownership and/or control of land. Now, all across America,
we regularly encounter some 'crat holding meetings for
"stakeholders" to express themselves about private lands (lands the
stakeholders don't own) which the nice 'crat wants turned into government
lands.
But, the problem has spread throughout academia as well. The academic
community now relies on federal and state agency funding for research.
Unfortunately, the job description of all-too-many academic departments is
producing "environmental science" majors, under a variety of names.
Those students and their parents have come to expect to find jobs upon
graduation, so the academic community supports government ownership of land,
because expanded agencies means jobs for their graduates. New government lands
need to be "managed" and "researched" – just ask the
nice professor.
Worse yet, government-owned lands are less productive than private lands,
whether one is counting trees, birds, animals, or just about anything, except
government employees. But, government lands are surpassing good at supporting
a bumper crop of 'crats.
Eco-socialism in America has as its flagship project the Everglades
Restoration programs. Reduced to its basics, all of South Florida (excepting
only the small, densely-populated coastal strips) will be condemned and made
either state or federal lands, and managed as "Wilderness," where
only a handful of researchers may ever enter.
That's is the good part. This "Wildlands Project" is a part of
what should be called the "Great Socialist Swamp Scam," because it
requires all humans to be crowded into "urban enclaves" of only some
10 percent of the total land in Florida. And, the agencies will control the
agricultural and other uses of the remaining 40 percent of Florida.
In brief, these socialism-addicted, bureaucratic "bachelor's
children" plan to take direct, or indirect control of 90 percent of
Florida. And, they have already actualized much of this evil scheme.
Here's the bad part. The fact is that the Wildlands Project has spread into
every state in America.
In your own state, there are people, spending your tax dollars, planning
and actualizing the imposition of socialism in your state. For the good of the
environment, they claim.
But all over America, and in Everglades National Park especially, if an
organism can swim, walk, or fly – they swam, walked, or flew away from the
federally owned and managed lands in Everglades National Park. Expect the
debacle to continue to happen in your state, as long as private ownership and
management is replaced with government ownership and management of land.
The clear and unambiguous message from the habitats and organisms is that
socialism is not tolerable, by either man or beast. Return America to a nation
of private land owners, by selling off government lands.
Summation: