From: Gene McAloon 

On Sun, 25 May 2003 12:01:19 -0500, "Glenn Meadows"
 wrote:

>Biosphere environment designations already in place with NO US treaty
>signed. Treaty rejected by senate, and Clinton implemented this with
>executive order.

You are making your usual mistake. You are taking what some far-right
columnist writing for a far-right publication claims as fact to be fact. 
It is not. The article is full of misinformation and what can only be
called lies. Or the columnist is really as dumb as his article seems to
suggest. The UN or any of its bodies are not in control of anything in any
state of this country.

This is more black helicopter junk. UNESCO has no enforcement powers and
the Convention on Biological Diversity assumes no regulatory powers
whatsoever.  On the contrary it expressly states that sovereign nations
have absolute control over how or whether any of the recommendations made
by UNESCO are implemented, while expressly urging that private property
rights be observed. The whole point
of the Convention is its stress on contractual rights as agreed upon
between each nation's governmental bodies and private interests.

That is far from what environmentalist wanted. They supported the treaty
only because it seemed better than nothing. They had hoped that a treaty
would be agreed upon that would take environmental regulation out of the
hands of individual governments and give it to an international body that
would be free of the local politicking so often dominated by private
interests and their money. The character who wrote the article would like
his readers to believe the
environmentalist achieved their goal. They did not.

 Of course the whole article can be read as simply another attack on Clinton,
which in fact is mostly what it is. That kind of thing may go over well
with far-right types, but impresses everyone else as pathetic.

Gene

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