An Editorial
Clinton's New Land Grab...
Clinton Plans A New Land Grab In The Western States
BY JON CHRISTIAN RYTER,
AUTHOR: "THE BAFFLED CHRISTIAN'S HANDBOOK"
After incurring the wrath of western Senators and Congressmen in 1996 when he created a 1.7 million
acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument out
of 1/7th of the State of Utah, Bill Clinton has declared war on the West again. This time he plans to ban private use of some 5 million acres of public lands in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Montana and Utah.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has already begun using what the Administration calls its legal regulatory authority to halt all mining, grazing, logging, and oil and gas exploration in the designated areas. On May 22 the National Journal quoted
Babbitt as saying: "We've switched the rules of the game. We're not trying to do anything legislatively."
The land use ban would affect 2.6 million acres in Utah and 1.5 million acres in Alaska which would be set aside as wilderness "study areas;" 505,000 acres in Arizona as a national monument, and several miles along the Upper
Missouri River in Montana as a national park, conservation area, or wildlife refuge. In addition, there will be a two-year moratorium on mining activity on 165,000 acres in Colorado, 5,000 acres in Missouri, and 429,000 acres in Montana.
When the announcement was made, the White House was flooded with protests from GOP legislators from the affected areas. Republican lawmakers from Missouri protested to Babbitt, declaring that the proposed withdrawals were both "...unnecessary and
inappropriate."
Orrin Hatch, who is watching his State being slowly gobbled up by the Clinton Administration, and who is one of the biggest globalists in Congress (and therefore part of the problem and not the solution) said: "There is no question they are trying to
stick it to us, and it's really sad. These are pioneer families who made the West, and they feel robbed." (I wonder if Orrin feels their pain?) Where was the outrage? Where was the declaration of war against Clinton, and a promise that every piece of
Clinton sponsored legislation would languish forever on the floor of the Senate until Clinton backed down from his promised land grab to placate the utopian UN-World Heritage backed environmentalists who are stealing America one country at a time?
In a joint letter to Babbitt, Senators Christopher Bond and John Ashcroft and Congresswoman JoAnn Emerson wrote: "It appears the administration has launched an orchestrated campaign to preclude mining on vast acreages of public lands governed by
multiple-use laws and to do so without consulting Congress and without soliciting public input or independent scientific review..."
Montana Senator Conrad Burns declared that he is concerned with the lack of discussion with those whose livelihoods will be directly affected by Clinton's new mandate. "There is no doubt they have chosen to make an assault on the West. We may as
well be operating under a czar."
Laura Skaer, Executive Director of the Northwest Mining Association said it best: "I think they have quietly declared a new war on the West."
The GOP lawmakers cited above have introduced a new piece of legislation designed to close the loopholes in the Antiquities Act that allowed Clinton to nationalize 1/7 of the State of Utah in 1996. Clinton spewed most of the politically correct
buzzwords in 1996, using the Grand Canyon in Colorado as a backdrop, suggesting by his presence there that the breathtaking sight behind him was the land he was setting aside as a national reserve when, in fact, it was one state removed from it.
As it turned out, it appears that the real reason Clinton nationalized the Grand Staircase area of Utah had less to do with protecting the environment and more to do with repaying the Indonesian Riady family for the generosity in 1993 when they funded
his first run for the White House. Buried beneath the soil in the Grand Staircase-Escalante area is one of the world's largest deposits of low-sulfur coal. (With all of the new emissions standards, factories throughout the industrial world are almost
obligated to burn low-sulfur coal.)
Coincidentally, the Riady family controls most of the low sulfur coal production in the world. Clinton's action all but forces the industrial plants in America to buy coal from the Riady family, and gives them a virtual global monopoly on anthracite
coal.
While many of those watching this latest land grab by Clinton feel the environmentalists are merely trying to turn the public lands of the United States into a dioramic museum where everyone is on the outside looking in, it goes much deeper than
environmentalism.
Environmentalism is, and always has been, simply the excuse. There are two reasons. First, in a socialist society the abrogation of land rights--particularly rural lands, which represents the natural wealth of a nation and its people, and is the
first step in controlling all of that nation's wealth--including that nation's human capital--the people themselves. Second, the wealth contained within the land is held in abeyance only until the invisible power behind governments wants to utilize it.
At that time, special "concessions" are made and the mineral wealth is then exploited to profit those within the oligarchic structure of power.
If you disagree, look at the Trading With The Enemy
Act of 1917. When America entered WWI, legislation was
enacted that, in the public mind, would prevent industrial privateers from profiting from the war. Only a waiver was inserted in the Act that allowed the President (Wilson) to grant exemptions to powerful industrialists who continued to supply Germany
as American dogfaces shed their blood in faraway places with strange sounding names. One of biggest profiteers during WWI was Standard Oil.
Roosevelt did the same during WWII. Some of the largest corporations in the world--and the central banks of Europe--supplied and financed both sides of the conflict and grew into some of the largest transnational corporations in the world during the
Cold War. Today those corporations proudly declare they owe no allegiance to any nation. They are the founding stones of the one-world government global movement.
The land taken from the citizens of the various nations of the world will ultimately be owned by them since they, in the purest reality, own the governments that are seizing the land for "future generations to enjoy."
