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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Whose Heritage and Whose Land? (fwd)
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>The Phyllis Schlafly Report -- September 1997
>
>Whose Heritage and Whose Land?
>
> I recently revisited Independence Hall, the cradle
> of our republic where the Declaration of
> Independence was signed and the United States
> Constitution was written. Something new has been
> added since the last time I saw it: a large bronze
> plaque with a peculiar inscription under an
> unidentified insignia.
>
> "Through the collective recognition of the
> community of nations expressed with the principles
> of the convention concerning protection of the
> world's cultural and natural heritage, Independence
> Hall has been designated a World Heritage Site and
> joins a select list of protected areas around the
> world whose outstanding natural and cultural
> resources form the common inheritance of all
> mankind."
>
> Whew! Where did all that mumbo-jumbo come from?
> Obviously not from American history or our founding
> documents. "Common inheritance of all mankind"? No
> way. Our Declaration of Independence and
> Constitution are both uniquely American, written by
> identifiable Founding Fathers on American soil at
> known points in time.
>
> Independence Hall "joins a select list of protected
> areas around the world"? Who decided that
> Independence Hall should "join" anything? It is a
> unique American treasure. And who is protecting
> these "protected areas"? "Collective recognition of
> the community of nations"? It's obvious that all
> those foreign nations don't agree with our American
> Declaration or Constitution or the principles
> therein.
>
> Since it is impossible to relive history and give
> the "collective" or the "community of nations" any
> ownership in the historic events that made
> Independence Hall an American shrine, we can only
> deduce that some international entity is asserting
> a vested interest in the building. Who authorized
> that?
>
> After all, it would have been a nice accolade and
> not worthy of particular comment if the
> Independence Hall plaque merely said, "The United
> Nations honors the cradle of American freedom, the
> inspired words of the Declaration of Independence,
> and the genius of the United States Constitution
> that has nourished liberty in America for more than
> two centuries." But it didn't.
>
> We now find that at least 20 pieces of American
> property have been designated as "World Heritage
> Sites" and so identified with markers. These
> include Yellowstone and Yosemite national parks,
> the Grand Canyon, Thomas Jefferson's home
> Monticello, and, believe it or not, the Statue of
> Liberty. All of these markings took place without
> any publicity, without the American people knowing
> what was going on.
>
> The designation of these World Heritage Sites was
> authorized by the World Heritage Convention, a
> treaty signed by President Richard Nixon and
> ratified in 1973. The World Heritage Program is
> carried out by UNESCO, to which the United States
> doesn't even belong. President Ronald Reagan pulled
> us out of UNESCO because it was totally corrupt.
>
> The UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Program was
> created in 1970. The United States joined in 1974
> when our State Department signed a memorandum of
> understanding (not a treaty) to put us in the
> Biosphere Program and pledge that the United States
> will adhere to the Biosphere conditions and
> limitations laid down by UNESCO. Paragraph 44 of
> the World Heritage Operational Guidelines states
> that "natural" Heritage Sites (as contrasted to
> "cultural") can be interchanged with "core
> reserves" of the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere
> Program. These core protected areas are planned to
> be surrounded by highly regulated buffer zones, all
> for the sake of "biodiversity."
>
> At a conference in Spain in 1995 that culminated in
> the Seville Strategy, the Biosphere Program
> underwent a radical change in purpose. The first
> goal of the Seville Strategy for Biosphere Reserves
> is to "promote biosphere reserves as a means of
> implementing the goals of the Convention on
> Biological Diversity."
>
> U.S. State Department representatives agreed to
> this new framework of UNESCO-designated guidelines
> and objectives for the Man and Biosphere Program.
> So, even though the United States doesn't belong to
> UNESCO, and even though the U.S. Senate refused to
> ratify the Biodiversity Treaty, the United States
> is marching right ahead with UNESCO's Man and the
> Biosphere Program.
>
> Starting with Yellowstone National Park in 1979,
> UNESCO has designated 47 Biosphere Reserves in the
> United States covering 50 million acres. In order
> to designate sites and spheres under either of
> these UNESCO programs, the United States must agree
> to manage these lands according to international
> dictates and objectives.
>
> That's another way of saying that the United States
> has agreed to limit our sovereign power to manage
> our own lands any way we want in pursuit of our own
> national interests. The Clinton Administration's
> designation of Yellowstone Park as a World Heritage
> Site "in danger" has already been used to shut down
> a gold mine near (not even in) Yellowstone.
>
> The UN/UNESCO types have made no secret of their
> goals. Their next step is their Wildlands Project,
> a plan to designate one half of the United States
> as "protected areas or areas where special measures
> need to be taken to conserve biological diversity."
>
> Americans don't need or want any UN/UNESCO
> bureaucrats telling us how to "protect" our own
> land. We can jolly well handle our own protection.
>
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