Bump & George
Do you folks have any updates that need to be added here for travis to catch up on what happened to the Parks?
trav, these two posts should keep you reading for about a week by the time you open all the links.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a4fa4f73d20.htm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/571580/posts?
urg... I've spent the last 45 min going through all those links and some of the other ones people have posted. I've got to say, it is all not very satisfying.
One would think this sort of thing could be summarized in just a few pages. No one seems to know much about anything. I thought a story detailing the history of the national forest service was interesting and how it became corrupted.
I can see how people fear the UN heritage sites could become corrupted as well. But it looks to me like the UN has no actual soverignty over any of these sites. That is, the UN doesn't own the land, but only passes on complaints and recomendations to our federal agencies, which is an admittidly disturbing prospect, but anyone can attempt to do the same. There is definitly potential for abuse.
There is a lot of information, and I'll have to look through it some more. Right now it both smells fishy (some of the rhetoric and claims) and is disturbing at the same time. I can't make heads or tails of it. I do think we need to get out of the United Nations ASAP. Better safe then sorry. :)
I'll probably comment more after looking through it some more at a later date.