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| THE LINK FROM THE UN TO YOUR BACKYARD |
Kristie Snyder, Editor Discerning the Times
" The IUCN is the perfect organization for implementing international policy at the local level. Not only are many of our Federal Agencies members of the IUCN such as; U.S. Fish &Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), but the IUCN permits them to huddle in private behind closed doors to develop their ecospiritual strategies with the Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, UNESCO,
UNEP, and UNDP, who are also members.
By secretly developing strategies to implement their ecospiritual agenda, the various tentacles of the IUCN control environmental policy at every level, international as well as local."
In a long list of alarming Executive Orders, President Clinton issued yet another, EO #13112, on February 3, 1999. Supposedly designed to control noxious invasive alien species, EO 13112 is not based on U.S. law, but on Article 8h of the Convention on Biological Diversity--a treaty that was never ratified by the U.S.
Like the biodiversity treaty, EO 13112 is very ambiguous. "Alien species", for example, is defined , "with respect to a particular ecosystem, any species, including its seeds, eggs, spores, or other biological material capable of propagating that species, that is not native to that ecosystem."
Under that definition, notes Tom McDonnell of the American Sheep Industry, "most agricultural crop and animal species would clearly fall within the definition of alien. Domesticated pets, many houseplants, and Kentucky bluegrass used in most lawns and golf courses would also be defined as alien species under this executive order."
Likewise, the EO defines an "invasive species" as, "an alien species whose introduction does or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health." Since the activities of any alien species causes unnatural disturbance, by default it causes "harm to the environment." The indeterminate language of this EO leaves it wide open to interpretations which could potentially have far-reaching consequences.
McDonnell was on the committee that drafted the EO. He and other members of the group repeatedly attempted to include language that would limit the scope of the EO to invasive species that are actually noxious. The federal representatives on the committee ignored these suggestions and kept the language very vague so it could be interpreted any way they choose. But why?
EO 13112 is but one of a plethora of presidential directives rooted in the global agenda and not U.S. law. Few Americans realize that for decades the international agenda has been implemented in their backyards through a single institution known as the International Union for the Conservation of Nature
(IUCN). First accredited by the United Nations in 1946 as a scientific advisor of the General Assembly, the IUCN presently has 895 state, government agency, and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) members in 133 countries. The mission of the IUCN is to
"influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable."
Despite the IUCN's billing as a scientific body, the Spring 1996 issue of the IUCN's Ethics Working Group's publication, Earth Ethics, suggests otherwise. The
IUCN, admits Earth Ethics, "promotes alternative models for sustainable communities and lifestyles, based in ecospiritual practices and principles." These ecospiritual practices are designed, according to this article to induce "a radical change in [humanity's] attitudes, values, and behavior through changes in "international law."
. The IUCN, for instance, originally wrote the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1982. During the 1980s
IUCN-member federal agencies, along with IUCN environmental organizations and IUCN UN agencies strongly promoted an ecospiritual "nature-knows-best" pseudoscience called conservation biology to provide the credibility it needed to justify the biodiversity treaty in the 1990s.
By being IUCN members, federal agencies help write international policy they then implement and enforce locally. In an internal working document dated August 6, 1994 the EPA blatantly outlined a multi-year plan to implement the biodiversity treaty even though the U.S. Senate had never ratified it, "Natural resource and environmental agencies... should... develop a joint strategy to help the United States fulfill its existing international obligations (e.g. Convention on Biological Diversity, Agenda 21)."
The EPA document even goes so far as to openly defy the U.S. Constitution by stating that federal agencies should "amend national policies to achieve international objectives." The Constitution specifically delegates the power to make national policy to Congress, not federal bureaucrats.
These bureaucrats seem to believe themselves to be wiser than Congress and the American people so they do an end run around Congress. EO 13112 represents just one of the myriad of international programs the EPA and other IUCN member federal agencies have been quietly implementing for decades.
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