The Ozark Land Grab
How one citizen group won the war on
property rights
About six years ago,
extremist environmental organizations, the United Nations, and the US
Department of State, tried to take over approximately the northern half of Arkansas
and the southern half of Missouri, plus small parts of Kansas and Oklahoma, to
create an Ozarks Biosphere Reserve.
The attempt was made through the Missouri Department of Conservation as
part of MDC's proposed Coordinated Resource
Management program which would have changed and dictated land use practices in
the two-states area.
Property rights activists fought and
won this battle, and the Bioreserve was dropped. That good news from Mo/Ar means that, yes, local people can and do win battles
such as the ongoing attack on farmers at Klamath Falls, Oregon. 'Tain't easy,
but it's do-able.
After the battle a government-financed
investigation was conducted to find out why the Bioreserve
nomination failed and how the proposal could be done better next time to ensure
success. That study, The
Ozark Highlands Man and the Biosphere Reserve: A Study of a Failed Nomination Effort, is still available on paper from the University of
Missouri in Columbia. It's about 80
pages long and well worth the time and effort to read. It provides a very detailed,
inside-government look at the way planning and preparation is done for
land-grabs such as the proposed Ozarks Bioreserve.
Green/government/UN assaults on private
property follow a general battle plan, with modifications to suit local
situations. The
following article from 1996, which was widely published in Mo/Ar newspapers and elsewhere, is an overview of the green
battle plan that has been and is being used throughout America. Knowledge of the way this assault is
being carried out helps people who are now under attack recognize and
understand what is happening and that their battle is one small part of the
much larger war on private property and the American Constitution that is being
waged by liberals at the United Nations, our own federal and state governments,
tax-exempt foundations, environmental organizations, and other precursors of
the Anti-Christ.
Bill Jud
Missouri
A PRIMER ON THE GAGS' OZARKS BIOREGIONAL WAR PLAN
(first published 10 January 1996)
William Jud
Green Advocacy Groups (GAGs) define a bioregion as a core
wilderness area which may occupy hundreds of square miles or more and
in which no humans are permitted to live, surrounded by a buffer zone
which may be tens of miles wide where a few humans may be allowed to live and
do permitted work, and usually further surrounded by an outer zone of
cooperation several miles wide where many people may live and in which
severe restrictions limit the kinds of work that may be done to earn one's
living. Adjacent Core Areas are
connected by corridors many miles wide and as long as necessary
to allow migration of animals from one Core Area to another without
encountering humans.
Designated Ozarks Core Wilderness
probably will include the entire range of the Ozarks Mountains from central and
northern Arkansas all the way north to central Missouri.
A Bioregional Council,
under federal/GAG management, will control all land and resources. If you live in a Buffer Zone or Zone Of
Cooperation, then before you may raise cattle or plant a crop or harvest timber
or repair your house or do anything else, even on land that you "own"
and pay taxes on, you first must get permission from the Bioregional Council.
The Ozarks are now under GAG attack,
but the Bioregion itself is not yet defined nor the Bioregional Council
appointed. At this time it is
impossible to say exactly which areas will be designated as Wilderness,
Corridors or Buffer Zones and where GAGs will and
won't allow humans to live.
Within the next five years (by 2001)
you can fully expect to see ecosystem management planning
activity going on in Ozarks counties.
The bioregional plan is likely to be in full operation and
moving people out of the Ozarks within 10 to 15 years (by 2006 to 2011). The Ozarks are a fairly high GAG
priority and relatively pristine. GAGs want to preserve as much as possible and prevent
development. The Natural
Streams Act failed. A
second effort is now beginning.
Watch for US Department of the
Interior's Ecosystem Coordinating Group to begin multimedia
enforcement on high-priority land.
Twenty-one participating federal agencies will descend on your
farm looking for violations of any law or regulation and will begin active and
immediate enforcement against all owners of all land they want to take.
A GAG will create a proposal to Save
the Ozarks by designating a green line buffer zone around
the Ozarks. As GAGs
have done in New York, Maine and many other places, Ozarks GAGs
will publish a little brochure with beautiful pictures of scenery and
animals. The GAG brochure promises
better recreation, improved economies, controlled tourism and a better life for
all, if only we citizens will wrap a protective buffer zone around our Ozarks
homeland and designate everything inside as a park, reserve or game
refuge.
The brochure has a mail-in card that
says "Would you like this beautiful thing to happen? Please return this card with $25 to help
us save the Ozarks."
Then the GAG develops a legislative proposal to create a park
which covers several counties and crosses state lines if possible. Returned cards prove that "People
want to create and expand this park."
Stakeholders then create a public/private
partnership governing council to manage the park because the park
exceeds a single County's (and State's, and Nation's, if possible)
jurisdiction.
The Council takes control of Park land
away from mayors, city councils, county commissioners and state legislators and
begins restricting the kinds of work permitted in the designated
Park and Buffer Zone so that people lose their livelihood and are
driven from their land. This is the
initial step toward creation of a Bioregional Council that will
govern land use within the entire Bioregion. Eventually, the entire world will be
designated as bioregions, much as it is now designated as Oceans,
Nations, States and Counties.
Final designation of the Ozarks, or
perhaps just parts of the Ozarks such as the Current and Jacks Fork Rivers, as
a World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve, and
ultimately a World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve "in danger,"
will remove control of the Ozarks from even the US Government and place the
land under control of United Nations World Government.
If your land is in an area that GAGs really want, they will first try to buy it. If you won't sell, they will offer a
deal, such as — here's cash now and all we want is a conservation
easement. Or they won't buy
your home, just your right to develop your land. Or they may say that if you donate
your land to a conservancy, you may live in your home for the rest of
your life and take an immediate tax deduction. If none of this works, GAGs may condemn your land and make you
leave.
GAGs will begin a flurry of designating Heritage Sites
and Natural National Landmarks. An old church or farm house and its
surrounding area may be designated as a cultural site which will prevent
the owner from altering, selling or doing anything with the property. That is the purpose of Heritage
Corridor studies now underway.
The GAGs' objective is to designate everything
that they possibly can to prevent any modification of the landscape. Not only is the site protected, but
everything within the viewshed of that
site is protected.
The Ecosystem Management Plan
will bring together the results of Heritage Group studies, Fish & Wildlife
group studies and all other studies of the various environmental organizations,
and then develop a master plan. A public/private partnership
of GAG organizations and institutions within the Ecosystem Management
Area will be created to implement the Master Plan.
The Master Plan will call for protecting
and restoring wetlands and wilderness areas. You need to be very careful about those
terms protecting and restoring. When GAGs say
to restore an area, they don't just mean clean it up and stop
pollution. GAGs
mean restoring and rehabilitating the land for the benefit of wildlife all the
way back to the condition of the land prior to the intrusion of man. This is explained quite explicitly in
the United Nations Global Biodiversity Assessment, which is the
foundation document underlying this gigantic, world-wide land-grab. To restore your land you
must move out. Quit farming. Get cattle off pastures. Stop all resource use. That's how GAGs
expect you to do it. Wherever you
see restoration areas on Management Plan maps, those are areas
where people will be strongly encouraged to move away.
Complete depopulation and conversion of
the Ozarks into full Bioregion status will take 50 to 100 years. GAGs expect it
will take two to three decades to make a significant dent.
GAGs and government officials won't start pressuring people to move
out right away. They won't just
drive up to your home one day and say, "We want your land. You gotta
leave." But when you see
meetings announced, workshops, or discussion about Ecosystem Management in your
county then you and all your neighbors must attend those meetings and probe for
the real agenda. Remember,
"The world is run by those who show up." Also remember, you can "Just say
NO!" to GAG proposals. They
can't rule you until you let them take over local government.
Local officials may be well-meaning but
uninformed. They may be sold on the
GAG environmental program and eager to go along with it. It is important that you know your local
officials and educate them on the GAG agenda, particularly the national and
United Nations environmental agenda that few people know is going on. If your local officials support GAG
programs, seriously consider replacing them.
Likewise Congress. Get their
attention. Fifty to sixty House
members are now fully aware and alarmed at the takeover of America by GAG
radicals and another 50 are becoming aware. But there are at least as many in
Congress who know what is going on and want it to go on, who are actually
helping this process along. People
like Al Gore, in particular, who was largely responsible for much of this when
he was a Senator and more so now that he is Vice President.
GAG takeover of America is
unconstitutional and illegal and is happening without Congressional law
authorizing Fish & Wildlife Service or Department of the Interior to do
these things. This is all done by
administrative policy, not valid legislation. Most congressmen have no clue as to
what's going on let alone what the ultimate objective is.
If you would like up-to-date
information on government landgrabs happening right
now in Southern and Western states, send an e-mail asking for information to Jay Walley.
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