Another Obama stealth land grab: Salazar and the NCLS

Michelle Malkin ^ | November 22, 2010

[La Lydia]

The TSA isn’t the only one with grabby hands. I’ve been reporting on the stealth Obama land and ocean grabs for the past several months now — and there is another new, under-the-radar-screen development that deserves your attention. In August, I told you about the “Great Outdoors Initiative” to lock up more open spaces through executive order. This came on top on top of a separate, property-usurping initiative exposed by GOP Rep. Robert Bishop and Sen. Jim DeMint earlier this spring. According to an internal, 21-page Obama administration memo, 17 energy-rich areas in 11 states have been targeted as potential federal “monuments.” The Obama War on the West is a War on Jobs that extends from land to sea based on politicized junk science by executive fiat and czar evasion.

The latest power grab comes via Interior Secretary Ken Salazar — the unchecked, unaccountable data doctor and loathsome cowboy — who has just unilaterally elevated a government landscape conservation system to “directorate” status with no congressional debate, no witnesses, no testimony, no public input.

The full secretarial order is here (PDF).

From the announcement:

LAS VEGAS, NV – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today issued a Secretarial Order elevating the Office of the National Landscape Conservation System and Community Partnerships in the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to the level of a directorate within BLM.

“This action reflects the growing importance of the 27-million acre National Landscape Conservation System to local economies, to the health of communities, and to the conservation of some of America’s greatest landscapes,” Salazar said at the National Landscape Conservation System Summit in Las Vegas. “The BLM plays a special role in protecting America’s great outdoors for the benefit of all Americans – for it is the national conservation lands that contain the forests and canyons that families love to explore, the backcountry where children learn to hunt and fish, and the places that tell the story of our history and our cultures. Each of these places within the National Landscape Conservation System holds special meaning to the American people and is an engine for jobs and economic growth in local communities.”

This National Landscape Conservation System was established as an integral part of the Bureau of Land Management by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, a bipartisan initiative that responded to the critical need, as the population of the West increases, to conserve open spaces that are a unique part of America’s heritage. As an integral part of the BLM’s multiple-use mission, conservation is a long-term investment that provides quality of life and economic benefits for current and future generations. The system contains many of our Nation’s most treasured landscapes, including scientific, historic and cultural resources, wilderness and wilderness study areas, wild and scenic rivers, national monuments, national conservation areas, and scenic and historic trails, among others.

Salazar’s disingenuous pro-jobs spin belies the anti-growth, anti-prosperity, anti-jobs agenda of the green groups who are over the moon about the new maneuver...

[NTHockey]

>>The tree of liberty is dead. From drought.

America — a great idea, didn’t last.<<

Just like that? Without a whimper or a fight? Not from me. They want this country, they are going to have to get it the same way we did, with buckets of blood.

Our problem is that we obey the law and assume everyone else does. Everyone doesn’t!; so right there we are at a huge disadvantage.

Time to even the playing field. Time to walk the walk, instead of talk the talk. The Founding Fathers risked their lives, fortunes, family and health to give us this great nation, free and proud.

Will we be patroits and risk the same? Or are we already slaves to be slaughtered?

Soap box - No one will listen
Ballot box - Corrupted
Jury box - Meaningless when judges decide all
Cartridge box - ????

[La Lydia]

The only thing the World Heritage Site designations gets you is the right to brag that you are a World Heritage Site in your tourism literature. No funding, or anything else except a name on a list. The only way the UN could intervene is with its own army — or if Obama allows it to. While annoying, this is low on my ongoing list of concerns.

[sergeantdave]

“The only thing the World Heritage Site designations gets you is the right to brag that you are a World Heritage Site in your tourism literature.”

Congress, back in the 1990s, declared World Heritage Sites as persona non grata, no dice, no money for federal agencies to promote this UN bilge. If you see a sign promoting UN world heritage garbage, light a match and burn it.

[La Lydia]

I was speaking about the designation around the world. There are World Heritage Sites on all continents. The UN can’t stop sticking its nose in. The entire city I lived in in Mexico was a World Heritage site. But aside from the designation, it had no meaning whatsoever. My point is, it doesn’t mean squat.