March 21, 2006

By Julie Kay Smithson propertyrights@earthlink.net

The children's story tells of Little Red Riding Hood, who sought to take a picnic basket of goodies to her grandmother's house, and of the big bad wolf that accosted her and tried to use treachery to separate her from the goods. An apt analogy uses freedom as the basketful of goodies and two-legged wolves as the cloaked bad guys. In order to prevail over the enemy, one must learn to recognize him.

There is a snowballing rumble coming from states that have never seen huge Canadian wolves -- not even in the days when fledgling America was populated more by French-Canadian trappers and Spanish explorers than "settlers." States near the Great Lakes -- and as far distant as Kansas and Tennessee -- have citizenry daring to report that they've seen this large predator and others in their back yards and along their walking, jogging and bicycle paths. Between the "wolf opponents" and the media, a third, largely unreported and often unknown quantity exists: those breeding and releasing these large predators.

Language deception

It is easy to implement a plan if no one knows you are doing so. By the use of a simple procedure that changes the order of words and substitutes similar words for those actually meant, an agenda can be 'set in stone' long before anyone knows the slab left the quarry.

Using words that most of us have been taught to trust, such as "protect," "restore," "manage," etc., such plans as those that call for "rewilding" America are being implemented. Even the youngest schoolchildren are being taught to "howl at the moon" by choreographed events planned by parks. In Ohio, Dave Speas dspeas@erinet.com, takes his two Siberian Husky dogs into schools for children to pet and enjoy, while subtly delivering his message "...about the role wolves play in 'the balance of nature.'" Mr. Speas is a retired teacher, so is very capable of molding young minds to accept wolves by substituting domestic dogs. Language deception is a powerful tool. Change agents know this. Few others do.

A growing awareness

Openly -- but often surreptitiously -- Canadian gray wolves and cougars (i.e., mountain lions, panthers or pumas) are being given "homesteading rights." People like John and Paula Yuhas of Sterling, New York, had their beloved dog Rebel attacked and killed by a wolf: on their front porch! Rebel was a large dog, but dogs are no match for large predators that have been raised to expect people to feed them and are thus not afraid of approaching "human habitation" areas. Large predators that have not been born and raised in the wild have no fear of people. The cougar that dined on a California hiker -- and the one that had a Colorado mountain biker for its lunch -- saw a menu item, not a person to steer a path around. Conservation easements are another large predator.

It's not the big bad wolf

Two-legged change agents -- those who role it is to implement change -- are breeding the biggest 'large carnivores' possible and carting wolves, cougars, bears, wolverines, etc., hither and yon, siccing them on a still largely unsuspecting populace. As people become conditioned by Hollywood to think of "Grizzly Man" as some kind of romantic hero -- in tandem with thinking that all guns are "dangerous" -- the stage is set for the predator breeders and "releasers" to have a literal field day.

The states of Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New York, Tennessee, West Virginia and others now have officially published "reported sightings" of these large predators (if you don't see your state listed, it's just because there hasn't yet been enough public outcry that the media deigns to publish "reported sightings").

The Wildlands Project and Congress

As recently as June 16, 2005, a Director of The Wildlands Project submitted testimony to the House Energy and Minerals Resources Subcommittee. http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/archives/109/testimony/2005/kimvacariu.pdf (4 pages) The topic: "The impact of the Endangered Species Act on Energy and Mineral Development: The Wildlands Project." It is crystal clear, when reading this five-page testimony, that former Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton had help developing her "4 Cs of Conservation." The third heading on page 1 is: "The Wildlands Project's Collaborative Approach to Conservation." This statement on page 2 is a classic example of the use of language deception to paralyze the intellect and 'twang' the emotions: "No American wants to tell the next generation that it will never see wild salmon or grizzlies in their natural homes because we failed to care about our natural heritage." Shuffling words makes it difficult to argue with something that appears, at first read, to be true. However, fact says that wild salmon or grizzlies are something that few people actually see. Emotions are the target, and when the emotions are stirred, intellect falters. This is why people do things "in the heat of the moment" -- when their emotions are running at high tide. Page 3 does likewise: "The Endangered Species Act is a powerful tool to protect our natural heritage -- a heritage Americans clearly want protected. Although the Wildlands Project rarely litigates and does not lobby, we see the Act as essential to conservation and maintaining the quality of life in America." Who, exactly, is receiving the "quality of life" that is held out like a carrot to a hungry rabbit? Akin to this is the phrase "for future generations." Perhaps those using that phrase mean "future generations" of their families, but it is not used to signify future generations of people that are no longer "allowed" to visit such places, own or steward them. The ESA has been used -- if not originally designed -- to be a major tool in the change agents' toolbox. Page 4 touts, "The success of the Wildlands Project in promoting continental conservation through the design and implementation of Wildlands Network conservation plans has, as have all innovative new approaches to major societal challenges, garnered detractors." 

The Wildlands Project is a massive Resource Control Strategy, and it will succeed as long as folks think it is somehow good for them. The ESA and currentlytouted "invasive species" legislation are nothing more than "lions and tigers and bear, Oh, My!" -- on paper. To quote Wildlands Project implementers, this Control Strategy is "landscape scale." Be a "detractor" -- learn to recognize such change agents for who and what they are, planning to bring "major societal" changes to your country, your neighborhood and your way of life. It's not the big bad wolf wreaking havoc in America; it's the change agents in sheep's clothing, come to take everything in Little Red Riding Hood's picnic basket.

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