Weekly Update - A publication of the Michigan Militia Corps
Volume 3 Issue 29
September 26, 1996

The Taking of America
by Karen Lee Bixman

  "Welcome to Death Valley International Biosphere." This sign, 
posted at the entrance of Death Valley National Park in the 
California desert alerts visitors that Death Valley is no longer a 
national park. Along with 48 other national park sites throughout 
the country, Death Valley has come under the guise and control of a 
United Nations advisory board that now supersedes the authority of 
the United States Park Service.
  If this scenario sounds like an Orwellian plot, too unbelievable 
to be true, realize that while the American people have busied 
themselves in the essentials of raising their families and earning a 
living, our politicians in Washington have literally "given away the 
farm."
   The Biosphere Reserve Program was the creation of the United 
Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO). 
Conceived in 1971, the objective of the program was to designate 
world-wide sites for preservation and to protect the biodiversity of 
chosen sites on a global level.
   As in the case of Death Valley, and other sites within the United
States, each biosphere is divided into three different sections:
(1) Wilderness zones (2) Buffer zones, and (3) Cooperation zones. 
The wilderness area is designed to be the habitat of plants and 
animals; human inhabitancy or human intrusion is forbidden. A buffer 
zone surrounds the wilderness area: limited access is permitted 
within this zone. The Cooperation zone will be allocated as the only 
site where humans will be allowed to live. The Sierra Club is but one
of the 126 environmental organizations that work hand-in-hand with 
the United Nations to enact the environmental-global agenda. UNESCO 
passed resolution 1296 in 1968, which grants consultative status to 
organizations like the Sierra Club which allows them to participate 
in UN environmental activities. In December 1972, UN Resolution 2997, 
which was adopted by the general assembly, created the United Nations 
Environmental Program (UNEP). This program has remapped the world 
into bioregions and is responsible for all of the environmental policy
changes that have occurred globally in the last 20 years. Ideas 
spawned by the "chosen" 126 environmental groups are advanced by the 
UNEP.
  It is the plan of the Sierra Club, the United Nations, and those
followers of the "Green Agenda," to actually re-structure our society, 
as we now know it, and to relocate the human population of the United 
States within these bioregions. The time estimate given for the 
re-structuring is 50 to 100 years. Therefore, when private citizens 
are robbed of their land, be it in the form of new legislation such 
as the Desert Wilderness Protection Act, or through land taking by 
the EPA, realize that the redistribution of the human population out 
of the "wilderness zones" has begun. [Ed. Note: It is not only begun, 
but is well advanced. According to a map in National Geographic, fully
1/3 of the land in the United States belongs to the federal 
government.]
   According to the plan, each of these 21 bioregions will be governed
by bioregional councils. Although in its infancy stage, the setting 
up of such a council is taking place in the U.S. South in conjunction 
with the Smoky Mountain National Park in Tennessee. In effect, when 
these councils come into play, local, state and national government 
will not be able to intervene with their enforcement. It will be 
under the strong arm of the UN that environmental organizations such 
as the Sierra Club, Natures' Conservancy and other green organizations
will be given the green light and will be the enforcement arm of 
these councils at the local level.
   Another hoax perpetuated against the American people has been the
implementation of the World Heritage Treaty signed by Richard Nixon 
on November 21, 1972, ratified by the Senate and entered into force 
on December 17, 1975, this UN treaty was drafted during the general 
conference of UNESCO in 1972.
  It addresses the cultural and natural heritage of lands throughout
the world and contends that they're endangered and are being threatened
by social and economic conditions. The treaty states, "Therefore, it 
is incumbent that the international community participate as a whole 
to use these heritage sites." Sites that qualify for protection under 
the title "Cultural Heritage" include any "monuments, archaeological 
works, buildings, and landscapes which have universal value from a 
historical, aesthetic or ethnological point of view." Sites that 
qualify for protection under the description "National Heritage" 
include "aesthetic views, geographical formations and acres of 
threatened habitat of species of animal and plants or natural areas 
of outstanding universal value from the point of science, 
conservation or natural beauty."
   The treaty language is so vague that any property in the world can 
be rendered a Heritage site if the governing committee so deems. The 
actual property does not need to be a historical site in the true 
sense of the word, but, if for example, the site is of exceptional 
beauty, such as The Lake of the Ozarks, in Missouri, or for that 
matter, Yosemite National Park in California, the site can be 
classified a Heritage site and removed from public use.
   Recently, an example of the World Heritage Committee flexing its
international arm of control, was felt when Yellowstone National Park
was selected as a World Heritage site.
   For the past two years, the Crown Butte Company, owner of The New
World Mine, had been undergoing an Environmental Impact Survey (EIS) 
in preparation of opening its gold mine outside the confines of 
Yellowstone National Park. According to Crown Butte owner, Joe 
Baylis, the mine was in compliance with all U.S. regulations. "In 
fact," stated Baylis, "new technology by the company actually serves 
to clean up the existing mine waste in the area."
   In July of 1995, however, a report by the Heritage Committee made
reference to several threats to the park, such as deforestation by a
religious group, tourism impacts and wildlife policies. Other concerns
mentioned were "tourists overcrowding and threatening grizzly bears."
   Bernard von Droste, Director of the World Heritage Committee 
states "Park managers in Yellowstone and elsewhere must also figure 
out ways to manage people who may otherwise love this park to death."
  In light of statements made by von Droste, popular recreation areas
and other national parks could soon find their way on the World 
Heritage Committee hit list. In September of 1995, fearing that the 
New World Mine would pass its EIS and be allowed to open, Secretary 
of the Interior Bruce Babbitt appealed to the Heritage Committee to 
declare Yellowstone a World Heritage site.
   In December of 1995, the World Heritage Committee complied. William
Perry Pendly, an environmental attorney with the Mountain States Legal
Foundation, stated in the February issue of The New American magazine 
that Yellowstone was threatened by the New World Mine.
   "One of the misconceptions promoted by the mine's opponents is that
it is right next to the park and that it would leave tailings and mine
residue nearby, which would defile the park. But it is separated from
Yellowstone by three mountain ridges. It is an area which has been 
mined since white men first went West and people have been smelting 
ore there since about 1870."
   As has been the norm with the establishment of International
Biospheres, the World Heritage Treaty also calls for the taxing of 
private property as well. In the case of Yellowstone, this argument 
is now being made by environmentalists that the ecosystem of 
Yellowstone extends far beyond the border of the 2.3 million acre 
park.
   Tony Bemosky of the Mountain State Resources Center at Montana State
University stated that there is general agreement that the ecosystem
encompasses parts of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, an area of 
between 14 to 18 million acres.
   The UN environmental agenda has been avidly supported and advanced 
by the Clinton administration. The Ecosystem Management Plan promoted 
by Vice President Al Gore, calls for 50 percent of the land within 
the United States to be returned to wilderness. Twenty federal 
agencies are being used to implement this plan and the EPA is the 
enforcer.
   Through executive order, Bruce Babbit and his Department of the
Interior, in September of 1993, created the Office of National 
Biological Survey. This survey will attempt to record the location of 
each species of plants and animals located throughout the United 
States. The end result will be a written record that will be used 
against the population whereby the EPA will then be justified in 
removing humans from areas where "endangered species" are located.
  Through UN treaties and government proposals, the American people 
are being robbed of their most precious freedom, the right to own 
land. One can only hope that the populous, once armed with the facts, 
will rise up and eject these unconstitutional treaties, along with 
any governing body who would propose such a massive threat to the 
sovereignty of our country

--Am. Surv. Guide, September 1996

UN "Reform" Not the Answer by John F. McManus

   In a flurry of activity that called to mind westward bound settlers
circling their wagons and preparing for the Indians to attack, 
supporters of the United Nations have stepped up their defense of the 
world body. On August 19th, a prestigious task force convened by the 
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) released a report warning that 
U.S. hostility to the UN was damaging both the UN and the best 
interests of the United States.
  It certainly appears that the Get US out! of the United Nations
campaigns aimed at alerting the American people to the dangers of the 
UN are enjoying much success. Consider that in its coverage of the 
CFR task force report, the pro-UN Houston Chronicle lamented: "Some 
Americans, including not a few members of Congress, mistakenly fear 
that the United Nations is the tool of an insidious conspiracy to 
institute a one-world government."
   The findings in the CFR report were drawn from discussions the CFR
sponsored in five American cities where over 80 diplomats, government
officials, professors, and journalists gathered to assess the current
perception of the UN. The report ultimately claimed that unnamed 
politicians in the U.S. and elsewhere had been covering up their own 
failures by misrepresenting recent UN actions in Somalia and Bosnia.
  These findings were released at a UN headquarters press conference
conducted by CFR senior fellow Morton Halperin, a former government 
official who for decades actively associated with a network of 
hard-core Marxist organizations, including the Soviet-connected 
Institute for Policy Studies. Halperin claimed that "poll data all 
show that the United Nations has much stronger support in the United 
States than... Congress or the Executive." Announcing that he planned 
to present the report to Congress and that he would brief its members, 
Halperin urged both Congress and the Administration to "come together 
with a realistic appraisal of the UN."
   Former Deputy Secretary of State, John Whitehead, who now serves 
as chairman of the United Nations Association of the United States, 
joined Halperin at the news conference to voice his support for the 
UN. Whitehead claimed that worldwide resentment toward the U.S. has 
"never been as high as it is today over United Nations issues," and 
that his rising tide of anti-Americanism stems from "our refusal to 
pay our [UN] dues [and] our rather brutal discarding of the 
Secretary-general."
   More evidence of growing antipathy toward the UN was provided by, 
of all publications, the September-October issue of The CFR journal 
Foreign Affairs. Therein Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), in an article 
entitled "Saving the UN," demanded either that the UN "reform" or 
that "I, for one, will be leading the charge for U.S. withdrawal."
   Helms, who had never before written an article appearing in the 
CFR journal, criticized the UN's "overgrown bureaucracy," its "vastly 
expanded" peacekeeping operations, and the threatening assertion 
given by Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali that "the time of absolute 
and exclusive sovereignty... has passed." He claimed, however, that 
the UN should get back to its original purpose of "helping 
nation-states solve problems."
   The calls for reform or repair of the UN reminds us of previous
claims that the Kremlin-led Soviet Union wasn't all bad and should 
merely be reformed. The United Nations was designed by its founders 
to be a world government, not a forum where nations could solve 
disputes. As far back as July 19, 1952, the Pro-UN Saturday Review 
told its readers what the underlying designs of the organization 
really were, touting the UN agency UNESCO; "If UNESCO is attacked on 
the grounds that it is helping to prepare the world's peoples for 
world government, then it is an error to burst forth with apologetic 
statements and denials. Let...by all means affirm it from the
housetops."
   In December 1985, World Federalist Association vice President John
Logue testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee: "It's 
time to tell the world's people not what they want to hear, but what 
they ought to hear. What they ought to hear is that it we really want 
to have peace and promote justice, we must reform, restructure, and 
strengthen the United Nations and give it the power and authority 
and funds to keep the peace and promote justice. The Security Council 
veto must go. One nation, one-vote must go. The United Nations must 
have taxing power or some other source of dependable revenue. It must 
have a large peacekeeping force...in appropriate areas, particularly 
in the area of peace and security, it must be able to make and enforce 
law on the individual."
   "Reforming" the world-government-to-be on New York City's East 
River will only serve to make it more efficient, or to quell the 
American people's concerns about the world body. How could it be 
otherwise, with the CFR shaping the debate for "reform?" The only 
course for America is to withdraw before national sovereignty has 
been completely swallowed up.

--The New American. Sept. 30, 1996


Don't Forget!!!!!!

  UN protest day in Lansing on October 24th. Everyone needs to get
involved so we can make this the BEST EVER. THE NATION IS WATCHING 
US! Let's be a GOOD example! Let's show them how it's done!

[The UN flag is being raised by the mayor of Lansing, Michigan (the 
capitol of our state) that day. We need all the people we can get 
there to protest this. Last year we had 500 people protesting, let's 
make it over 1000 this year!

e-mail Jeff S. or visit 
 our WWW page if 
you want further info.


Jeff S.
PFC
CMRM, 15th Brigade - Kent county

Central Michigan Regional Militia Home Page: http://mmc.cns.net

"...Stage III...would proceed to a point where no state would have 
the military power to challenge the progressively stregthened U.N. 
peace force ...The manufacture of armaments would be prohibited...All
other armaments would be destroyed..." -Department of State 
publication number 7277

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