Post by AtomHeartMother on Oct 3, 2004 4:39:49 GMT -5
INVASIVE SPECIES: THE NEWEST THREAT TO PROPERTY RIGHTS
By Peyton Knight September 25, 2004
NewsWithViews.com
If you have foreign weeds, grass, trees, or shrubs on your property (and you most certainly do), you're in trouble. Under "Invasive Species" provisions currently sitting in the Senate's version of the Federal Transportation Bill (S. 1072), your property could quickly become the target of radical environmentalists and bureaucrats.
Imagine the Endangered Species Act on steroids. Now multiply its devastating effect on property rights by one million. That should give you a pretty good idea of what "Invasive Species" legislation will mean for property owners in every state, county, city and suburb in the nation.
"Invasive Species" is the radical Greens' and international socialists' key to controlling every square inch of land in the United States.
This nightmare all began when Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 13112 in 1999, creating an "Invasive Species Council" to monitor and control "alien species." What are alien species? According to Clinton's Order, "alien species means, with respect to a particular ecosystem, any species, including seeds, eggs, spores, or other biological material capable of propagating that species, that is not native to that ecosystem."
Most agricultural crops and animal species 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. Indeed, this is all the Greens and their allies in the federal government need to control all land in the U.S.
Think the Invasive Species monster can't get any worse? It already has. In 2001, the Invasive Species Council issued a management plan that states: "Council member agencies will work with [the] Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) and other relevant bodies to expand opportunities to share information, technologies, and technical capacity on the control and management of invasive species with other countries, promoting environmentally sound control and management practices."
And just what is the Global Invasive Species Programme? A quick trip to the GISP website reveals it is:
It must be stopped. There is no time to lose.
Both the Senate and the House have already passed their respective versions of the Federal Transportation Bill, and are currently conferencing to put forth a single bill. Fortunately, the House version of the Federal Transportation Bill does not include any Invasive Species language, but the Senate version does.
S. 1072 contains provisions that allow for government to control your land using Invasive Species policy. Specifically, it would give the Department of Interior the power to decide which plants, animals, fish, birds and insects are "invasive." Once it's discovered your property is home to an invasive species, the feds will have all the justification they need to oversee, manage, and regulate your property.
This is why we must make absolutely certain that the House version is the one that emerges from conference, not the Senate's!
Here is the action to take:
[/ul]Our nation's Founding Fathers wrote a Constitution that protected property rights, understanding that it is the keystone of our economy. If the Invasive Species program becomes the law of the land, it will spell the destruction of property rights.[/b]
© 2004 Peyton Knight - All Rights Reserved
www.newswithviews.com/Knight/peyton1.htm
By Peyton Knight September 25, 2004
NewsWithViews.com
If you have foreign weeds, grass, trees, or shrubs on your property (and you most certainly do), you're in trouble. Under "Invasive Species" provisions currently sitting in the Senate's version of the Federal Transportation Bill (S. 1072), your property could quickly become the target of radical environmentalists and bureaucrats.
Imagine the Endangered Species Act on steroids. Now multiply its devastating effect on property rights by one million. That should give you a pretty good idea of what "Invasive Species" legislation will mean for property owners in every state, county, city and suburb in the nation.
"Invasive Species" is the radical Greens' and international socialists' key to controlling every square inch of land in the United States.
This nightmare all began when Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 13112 in 1999, creating an "Invasive Species Council" to monitor and control "alien species." What are alien species? According to Clinton's Order, "alien species means, with respect to a particular ecosystem, any species, including seeds, eggs, spores, or other biological material capable of propagating that species, that is not native to that ecosystem."
Most agricultural crops and animal species 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. Indeed, this is all the Greens and their allies in the federal government need to control all land in the U.S.
Think the Invasive Species monster can't get any worse? It already has. In 2001, the Invasive Species Council issued a management plan that states: "Council member agencies will work with [the] Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) and other relevant bodies to expand opportunities to share information, technologies, and technical capacity on the control and management of invasive species with other countries, promoting environmentally sound control and management practices."
And just what is the Global Invasive Species Programme? A quick trip to the GISP website reveals it is:
It must be stopped. There is no time to lose.
Both the Senate and the House have already passed their respective versions of the Federal Transportation Bill, and are currently conferencing to put forth a single bill. Fortunately, the House version of the Federal Transportation Bill does not include any Invasive Species language, but the Senate version does.
S. 1072 contains provisions that allow for government to control your land using Invasive Species policy. Specifically, it would give the Department of Interior the power to decide which plants, animals, fish, birds and insects are "invasive." Once it's discovered your property is home to an invasive species, the feds will have all the justification they need to oversee, manage, and regulate your property.
This is why we must make absolutely certain that the House version is the one that emerges from conference, not the Senate's!
Here is the action to take:
[/ul]Our nation's Founding Fathers wrote a Constitution that protected property rights, understanding that it is the keystone of our economy. If the Invasive Species program becomes the law of the land, it will spell the destruction of property rights.[/b]
© 2004 Peyton Knight - All Rights Reserved
www.newswithviews.com/Knight/peyton1.htm