Submission by Kathleen Marquardt, American Policy Center
In his book Tragedy and Hope, Carroll Quigley wrote that the global elites’ “aim is nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system and run the world as a whole—the system in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert by secret meetings and conferences.”
The lie this time is called Agenda 21, or Sustainable Development.
Background
Thirty-three years ago, the power elite—the U.N., World Economic Forum, Council on Foreign Relations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, and others—shifted into high gear with the Rio Accord. Their deception became known as Sustainable Development/Agenda 21. Many people who read these documents were alarmed by their stated goals: taking over half of U.S. land, establishing regional governance, and reducing the human population by over 90 percent.
Yes, the global elite revealed their plan in pieces—through books, speeches, and even legislation—while simultaneously denying that they had ever said or written any of it. This was, literally, doublespeak.
Thirty-one years ago (1994), the Foreign Relations Committee voted 16–3 to recommend ratification of the Rio Biodiversity Treaty on June 29.
On July 19, several members of the Wise Use group—an organization of farmers, ranchers, miners, scientists, property owners, hunters, off-roaders, and others with valid reasons to protect property rights and the Constitution—gathered at my home in Washington, D.C., to prepare for meetings with as many lawmakers as possible. Some went to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration meeting to explain fishing issues that current laws failed to address. It was inspiring to watch them challenge environmental and animal-rights extremists and expose their unscientific and deceptive arguments.
Dr. Michael Coffman, Director of the Maine Conservation Rights Institute and a regional director for the Alliance for America, and Henry Lamb of Sovereignty International were at my kitchen table finishing the Wildlands Project map. They had come to Washington to meet with the staffs of Senators George Mitchell and Robert Dole to warn them that the Treaty’s implementation would advance the Wildlands Project—the hidden objective of the Treaty.
The American Sheep Industry (ASI) produced a 100-page analysis of the Treaty, released July 28. The study revealed a hidden draft of the Global Biodiversity Assessment (GBA) required by the Treaty and identified the Wildlands Project as the “whole lie” and primary mechanism for implementing it.
Tom McDonnell, Director of Natural Resources at the American Sheep Industry, and I were signatories to the Wildlands Map and the documents prepared by Dr. Coffman and Henry Lamb.
As recorded in the Congressional Record (S13790), Friday, September 30, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) rose on the Senate floor with Coffman’s maps and GBA text excerpts to oppose the Treaty. Senators Burns, Craig, Helms, Nickles, and Wallop also spoke against it.
Bob Voight, who had worked on one of Mitchell’s campaigns and had become friends with Mitchell and his staff, called Mitchell’s office the morning of September 30 in a final attempt to persuade him to withdraw the Treaty. Voight believed that if Mitchell knew the U.N. had lied about the existence of the GBA, he would act. Within an hour—and about an hour before the Senate debate—Voight received a call from Mitchell’s office confirming that the Treaty would be withdrawn.
Dr. Coffman played a key role in stopping the ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity (the Biodiversity Treaty) in the U.S. Senate—just one hour before the vote.
Yet today, many of us are still trying to wake the sleeping giant—the general public—while those who want to reduce the population by over 90 percent continue using new lies to seize property and bar the public from so-called public lands. After all, who is the “public”?
Today
Even though Coffman and Lamb’s map and analysis of the Wildlands Project clearly showed it was nothing but a land (and mineral) grab, the global elite—who began this drive over a century ago—are pursuing the Wildlands Project piecemeal once again. Today’s version targets three national forests in Eastern Oregon and southwestern Washington.
Rather than follow proper procedure through “coordination,” the Forest Service has formed an intergovernmental council of state, county, and tribal representatives. This plan affects an area encompassing 5.5 million acres. The previous plan was written in 1990 and is supposed to be updated every 15 years.
Although we stopped it long ago, believing the fight was over, they are back with new tactics and more firepower. If this illegitimate council proceeds without citizen participation, another chunk of our sovereignty will be handed over to an unelected body with no real interest in the land or the public.
The public is waking up. Now the government must be reined in. Remember, it is “of the people, by the people, for the people.” So where are the people’s representatives?
Closing roads and creating more wilderness or wild and scenic river designations are neither needed nor wanted by the people.
Because we have not yet educated enough city, county, and state officials, we are fighting fires across America—one at a time. Every time we are too late, or cannot make lawmakers understand the threat, we lose property and rights. For example: the Blue Mountains Forest Plan Revision. Worse, as Oregon has long served as a testing ground for Marxist ideas, this could easily become policy in all 128 National Forest regions—a clear sign of how persistent this deception is over time.
Whether you live in Alaska, Maine, Virginia, or Montana, it will affect you—and there will be no hearings in your state. This mechanism for property theft will be enacted without public input. Speak up now. Write to your county legislators and tell them that America is not going to be closed to “we the people,” and that they must answer to those who put them in office.
