Liberty
Matters News Service
September 25, 2003
Sierra Club, US Communist Party Have Similar Goals
A
Sierra Club memo that detailed plans to oust President Bush in the 2004
presidential elections, the "Stop Bush/ Beat Bush in 2004" campaign, bears a
striking resemblance to the Communist Party USA campaign, "Push Bush Out the
Door in 2004." The Report to the CPUSA National Committee, June 28, detailed
how the Communist Party must align with a wide-range of special interest groups
to accomplish its goals. The Party condemns the administration for
"[U]ndermining laws providing clean air, clean water, and toxic waste cleanups
under the banner of 'healthy forests' and 'clear skies,' and advocates
capturing the 'environmental vote' to help defeat the "Bush right-wing agenda
in 2004." That rhetoric is similar to the Sierra Club memo that says the
environment is under siege from the Bush administration and; "[T]o stop the
Bush administration assault on the environment we have designed….a huge
public education and public mobilization effort." CPUSA says; "The argument
must be made that the greatest vote for peace and the environment is to defeat
George Bush." The Party plans to unite with "independent voters and
Greens….to defeat George Bush." The Sierra Club memo continues; "We do not
believe we will be able to defend the environment….unless…[we] work
together to stop Bush." The CPUSA website links to a number of environmental
organizations, which not only includes the Sierra Club, but eco-terrorists
organizations like Greenpeace as well.
Sierra Club
Agenda
Push Bush Out the Door in
2004
Yukon to Yucatan
Proponents of the Wildlands
Project (the plan to re-wild 50 percent of the United States) are beginning
their propaganda push to secure vast areas of the continental United States
from the Yukon in Alaska to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula as a migration corridor
for grizzly bears and wolves. Of particular concern are five areas it considers
especially threatening to wildlife, like Interstate 70 through central Colorado
and I-40 east of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Jan Clanahan, regional director,
explains that large carnivores need the space that humans now occupy and that
wildfires and floods will devastate large areas too. "It's a big plan …We
call it a 100-year vision," she said. "The first step is, you need to get out
there and talk to everyone, …[w]e're talking to [federal] agencies, the
landowners, other conservation groups, local community leaders." Clanahan hopes
the blueprint influences the planning of the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of
Land Management. The Wildlands Project is a radical plan whose website states;
"It is not enough to preserve the roadless, undeveloped country remaining. We
must re-create wilderness in large regions: move out the cars and civilized
people, dismantle the roads and dams, reclaim the plowed land and clearcuts,
re-introduce extirpated species."
Mexico-to-Yukon
Conservation Proposal Unveiled
Push for
Delmarva Wildlands Project Heats Up
400 Mile Journey, Not Unusual for Wolves
Wolf-recovery expert, Ed
Bangs, admitted it is common knowledge that lone wolves will travel great
distances to carve out their own territories. He revealed that information in
response to queries about the discovery of a dead male wolf in a soybean field
in Indiana last June. The lone wolf had an ear tag that showed it had been
reintroduced in central Wisconsin and had traveled 400 miles making its way
through southern Wisconsin farmland, around Chicago, through northern Illinois
and eventually winding up close to the western Ohio border. "It's a regular
part of wolf behavior," Bangs said. "Biologists call such travel 'dispersal,'
usually involving young males seeking out new territory and a mate." Wolves
were largely eliminated from the lower 48 states as settlers moved west. Early
settlers were smart enough to know wolves would decimate their livestock if
left unchecked. However, since the mid 1990's, the wolf population has exploded
thanks to Bruce Babbitt and the Clinton administration that initiated the
federal government's wolf recovery program and the severe penalties visited on
anyone who dares kill a wolf to protect his property. Kelle Reynolds, a
biologist for the Hoosier National Forest, witnessed a quick spread of wolves
through the Upper Peninsula of Michigan when she worked there and seems to have
a nonchalant attitude if they infested Indiana too. "I don't know what the
public would think about it," she said.
Experts Weigh Prospect Wolves
Could Return Here
Wolf Suspected In Sheep
Deaths
Energy Bill Includes Controversial Issues
Two provisions in the Energy
bill now in conference committee are causing property rights advocates and
certain members of Congress significant grief. The House-passed version
includes language that would enable power companies to exercise eminent domain
for construction of utility lines, but the Senate version of the bill does not
contain the provision. "I'm not real wild about that part of the bill, but when
you are talking about building these power lines across hundreds if not
thousands of miles, you can't have one property owner holding up the whole
thing," said Rep. Richard Pombo, (R-CA), Chairman, House Resource Committee.
The second problem in the Energy bill causing concern is the
administration-backed ANWR drilling provisions that have opponents threatening
to filibuster the bill. Unfortunately, to prevent the filibuster, both Sen.
Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-LA) have indicated a willingness
to include compromise measures that they've said might involve putting millions
of acres of land into "special protections." However, Domenici indicated the
ANWR provision may be dropped if he can't get the 60 votes to override a
filibuster.
Drilling In ANWR May Be In Energy
Bill
GOP
Puts Arctic Refuge Drilling Into Energy Bill
Provision In Energy
Bill Brings Unease In GOP