Environmental Conservation or Land Grab?

Barbara H. Peterson

Recently environmentalists have applauded an action by Obama who used executive authority to expand a national marine monument in Hawaii to to the tune of more than a half million square miles. Does the federal government really need to add to a growing list of lands that it manages (owns) supposedly 'for the people?' This is not 'for the people, folks, no matter what is said in mainstream media. This is another massive land grab in the guise of protecting the environment. And people buy into this hype and will until the feds own every square inch of land and we have been compartmentalized into Agenda 21 stack and pack cubicles with barely enough room to move and breathe.

"Obama’s action Friday underscores the high priority he has placed on issues of conservation and climate change in his second term. The president has now used his executive authority under the 1906 Antiquities Act to protect more than 548 million acres of federal land and water, more than double the set-asides of any of his predecessors." (Washington Post)

If the president cares so much about conservation, how about curtailing the largest polluter on the planet - the military industrial complex? Nope, can't have that, now can we? Let's just hoodwink the people into servitude by grabbing more land in the name of conservation, blaming them for pollution caused by the military, and have them sequester themselves into unsustainable cubicles so we can have all the power and wealth. Yeah, that's how you do it.

Conservation is not the goal. Control is the goal. And once the feds control the land they can do what they want with it, including sell off the mineral rights to the largest polluters on the planet. Wake up, people.

©2016 Barbara H. Peterson