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Rare Lynx Hairs Found in Forests Exposed as Hoax
Washington Times ^ | 12/17/01 | Audrey Hudson

Posted on 12/17/2001 6:34:17 AM PST by anniegetyourgun

Edited on 07/12/2004 3:50:06 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Federal and state wildlife biologists planted false evidence of a rare cat species in two national forests, officials told The Washington Times.

Had the deception not been discovered, the government likely would have banned many forms of recreation and use of natural resources in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and Wenatchee National Forest in Washington state.


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To: editor-surveyor;forester;Carry_Okie
If you judge the book by the web-site info alone, you will be deprived of one of the most inspired genius ideas to turn the whole pile of pagan bull scat upside down. It's hard to believe, but he's got it boiled down to one page, nestled in the center of a meaty book like a gem that resembles the Hope Diamond!

It's not written for everybody with a bit of an academic tone, but brother does it ever have a patentable core idea!!!

He set it up with a scenario that I've endured here in the Sierra in public life. That was especially hard for me to wade through, but others need the bizzare experiences layed out.

Then he pulls the trigger and spells out the private sector (profitable) solution to making this a "good natured" society again, that doesn't have to be forced to "Spray, Scrape & Burn," or "Shoot, Shovel & Shut-up" and seethe under the heavy handedness of government enviro-thugs. IMHO

After investing in the book, you'll probably want to join me in raising the investment capital to launch the entities to truly protect God's handywork and shrink the government's worthless role!

121 posted on 12/17/2001 7:15:37 PM PST by SierraWasp
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To: editor-surveyor
The spotted owl hoax fell apart when one was found living in the sign of a closed KMart (Rush said "But it was an OLD KMart!") Babbitt had the idea years ago for a national biodiversity survey, where people would come onto your property without notice or asking for permission, and not compensate you or even tell you what they did - are those people/that idea still around?
122 posted on 12/17/2001 7:58:38 PM PST by 185JHP
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To: SierraWasp
"you'll probably want to join me in raising the investment capital to launch the entities to truly protect God's handywork..."

That point is truly where I get hung up: I know better than to believe that man can, or should protect the Lord's 'handywork.' - Nowhere in his word does he ever even hint that we should, in fact he rebukes those who do.

I can see that Mark is a brilliant man, but I suspect that in the end his plan still plays into the hands of the Earth worshippers. - The Lord gave us no limits on the use of Earth's resources, and to assume limits on our own steps over the line.

123 posted on 12/17/2001 8:47:44 PM PST by editor-surveyor
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To: anniegetyourgun
Thanks for the ping. Planting evidence is ok for the envirowhackos apparently, and the Seattle papers are giving them a free ride. Disgusting...JFK
124 posted on 12/17/2001 9:20:49 PM PST by BADROTOFINGER
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To: BADROTOFINGER
The previously unreported Forest Service investigation found that the science of the habitat study had been skewed by seven government officials: three Forest Service employees, two U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials and two employees of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

I want names and jail sentences, dammitt!!!...JFK

125 posted on 12/17/2001 9:26:23 PM PST by BADROTOFINGER
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To: editor-surveyor
"The Lord gave us no limits on the use of Earth's resources, and to assume limits on our own steps over the line."

I understand where you're coming from. I just despise the arrogant pagans so much that I'd love to see the day a great idea would strip them of their obscene power derived from such a massive deception of the greatest nation on earth.

I keep hoping there will come a day, before time passes, and the world judges them harshly for the error of their mysticism and foolishness. Their evil, destructive influence against the God given inventive genius of pioneering Americans is an abomination to the nation!!!

126 posted on 12/17/2001 9:34:44 PM PST by SierraWasp
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To: editor-surveyor
I can see that Mark is a brilliant man, but I suspect that in the end his plan still plays into the hands of the Earth worshippers. - The Lord gave us no limits on the use of Earth's resources, and to assume limits on our own steps over the line.

I don't suppose it would make any difference to you that the process of writing this book taught me of the significance of God's Tenth Commandment, but then, you never asked (until now :-). You are mistaken in assuming that I am trying to "limit" man's use of ecosystem assets. No, I am proposing to optimize them. I suggest that we fulfill our mandate to value, understand, and build upon ALL of God's creation in a responsible and accountable fashion by employing an honest means to account for the totality of interactions among individuals, and price them honestly. The political/legal morass humans have created to regulate that account isn't an honest system to do that. Through not a little prayer and frustration (that I could not solve the problem by myself), I can honestly say that the principles underlying the system I propose were revealed. The articulation of those truths and the design of that system were mine, thanks be to God and His gifts and support in getting it done. How it all ends up manifesting in the world is anybody's guess, but I trust that if we hold to those principles )what I regard as equivalent to natural and therefore God's Law), that His creation will fluorish and with it so will we. All we have to do is to trust in that Creation as the sufficient, no endless playground of discovery and production that He has provided. Best that we treat it and each other with respect enough to take honest measurements.

What dismays me here is your apparent lack of sufficient curiosity and trust in a fellow human being making an honest effort to ask a question or request clarification. Frankly, I would expect a person of your intelligence to be sufficiently intrigued to have done so two instead of passing judgement on partial information.

Does that address your considerations?

127 posted on 12/17/2001 10:22:25 PM PST by Carry_Okie
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To: Jeff Head; OKCSubmariner
Eco-Scientists Deny Amazon's In Any Danger

The 'rainforest' myth - Exclusive: Joseph Farah exposes long-standing crock of ecobunk

Clubbing of salmon unleashes outrage
Photos

Salmon Insanity

Man: The Endangered Species
"Near Bakersfield, California, a farmer was arrested in 1994 by Fish and Wildlife officers for inadvertently killing five Tipton kangaroo rats while plowing his own field. His tractor and plow were seized as “murder weapons.” Under the ESA, he faced heavy fines and three years in prison."

"Until such time as Homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along."
David Graber - a biologist with the U.S. National Park Service.

"The ending of the human epoch on Earth would most likely be greeted with a hearty ‘Good Riddance.’"
Paul Taylor - Philosophy Professor at City University of New York

The Spring Pond Beavers

"...The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can't let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the U.S. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are. And it is important to the rest of the world to make sure that they don't suffer economically by virtue of our stopping them." - Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund

"Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs." - John Davis, editor of Earth First Journal

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." - H.L. Mencken

"Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation." - Lyall Watson, The Financial Times - July 15, 1995

"Protecting the environment is a ruse. The goal is the political and economic subjugation of most men by the few, under the guise of preserving nature." - J.H. Robbins

"Global sustainability requires: the deliberate quest of poverty....reduced resource consumption...and set levels of mortality control." - Professor Maurice King

"The environmentalist's dream is an Egalitarian society based on rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally." - Aaron Wildavsky

"A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect." - Richard Benedict, State Dept./Conservation Foundation

"Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun." - Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University

"The secret to David McTaggart's(early officer in Greenpeace) success is the secret to Greenpeace's success: It doesn't matter what is true...it only matters what people believe is true...You are what the media define you to be. Greenpeace became a myth, and a myth-generating machine." - Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace.

"Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover the source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it." - Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute

"We've got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing--in terms of economic policy and environmental policy." - Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator(D-Colorado)

"We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects....We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land." - David Foreman, Earth First

"The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans." - Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project

"As radical environmentalists, we can see AIDS not as a problem, but as a necessary solution." - Miss Ann Thropy(pseudonym), Earth First Journal

"The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing....This is to say that the rise of human civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much help to the world in the long run." - Economist editorial

"I suspect that the politicians and businessmen who are jumping on the environmental bandwagon don't have the slightest idea of what they are getting into. They are talking about emission control devices on automobiles, while we are talking about bans on automobiles." - Dennis Hayes, Eart Day Agenda

"The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation-states, and its promotion by the UN is in clear contradiction to all that we, the Group of 77, and the UN Charter itself consider inalienable, namely national sovereignty and security." - Pranab Mukherjee, India's Minister Of Commerce- Earth Times, Oct.15,1994

"It's(the prospect of cheap fusion energy) the worst thing that could happen to the planet." - Jeremy Rifkin

"If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels." - Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund

"Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian Religious tradition." - Peter Singer, the father of Animal Rights

"In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day." - Dr. Jacques Cousteau

"I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems." - John Davis, editor of Earth First Journal

"We reject the idea of private property." - Peter Berle, President of National Audubon Society

"People are the cause of all the problems, we have too many of them; we need to get rid of some of them, and this(ban of DDT) is as good a way as any." - Charles Wurster, Environmental Defense Fund

"This is a political game. It has nothing to do with science. It has nothing to do with health and safety." - Sherry Neddick, Greenpeace

The Something Undermining Our Nation

EPA Says "We haven't decided on the rules but we will prosecute you anyway."

DOES ANYBODY CARE? - They Are Coming For You - Ocie

"Lesson No. 1: If a bureaucrat, or a soldier sent by a bureaucrat, comes to knock down your door and take you someplace you don't want to go because of who you are or what you think-- kill him. If you can, kill the politician who sent them. You will likely die anyway, and you will be saving someone else the same fate. For it is a universal truth that the intended victims always far outnumber the tyrant's executioners. Any nation which practices this lesson will quickly run out of executioners and tyrants, or they will run out of it.

Lesson No. 2: If a bureaucrat, or a soldier sent by a bureaucrat, comes to knock down your door and confiscate your firearms-- kill him. The disarmament of law-abiding citizens is the required precursor to genocide.

Lesson No. 3: If a bureaucrat tells you that he must know if you have a firearm so he can put your name on a list for the common good, or wants to issue you an identity card so that you may be more easily identified-- tell him to go to hell. Registration of people and firearms is the required precursor to the tyranny which permits genocide. Bureaucrats cannot send soldiers to doors that aren't on their list.

Lesson No. 4: Believe actions, not words. Tyrants are consummate liars. Just because a tyrant is "democratically elected" doesn't mean that he believes in democracy. Reference Adolf Hitler, 1932. And just because a would-be tyrant mouths words of reverence to law and justice, or takes a solemn oath to uphold a constitution, doesn't mean he believes such concepts apply to him. Reference Bill Clinton, among others. The language of the lie is just another tool of killers. A sign saying "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Makes You Free) posted above an execution camp gate doesn't mean that anybody gets out of there alive, and a room labeled "Showers" doesn't necessarily make you clean. Bill Clinton notwithstanding, the meaning of "is" is plain when such perverted language gets you killed. While all tyrants are liars, it is true that not all political liars are would-be tyrants-- but they bear close watching. And keep your rifle handy.

Lesson No. 5: Our constitutional republic as crafted by the Founders is the worst form of government in the world, except when compared to all the others. Capitalism, as well, is a terrible way to run an economy, except when compared to all other economic systems. Unrestrained democracy is best expressed as three wolves and a sheep sitting down to vote on what to have for dinner. The horrors of collectivism in all its forms-- socialism, communism, national socialism, fascism-- have been demonstrated beyond dispute by considerable wasteful trial and bloody error. Leaders such as Bill Clinton who view the Constitution as inconvenient and ignorable are harbingers of tyranny.

Lesson No. 6: While nations do not always get the leaders they deserve, they always get the leaders they tolerate. And anyone who tells you that "It Can't Happen Here" is whistling past the graveyard of history. There is no "house rule" that bars tyranny coming to America. History is replete with republics whose people grew complacent and descended into imperial butchery and chaos. Dictators count on the assistance of people who are complacent, fearful, envious, lazy and corrupt. While there is no "Collective guilt" to the crimes of a regime (all such crimes being committed by specific criminal individuals), there is certainly "collective responsibility"-- especially for those who watch the criminals at work without objecting or interfering. A French journalist of the last century wrote: "I must speak out for I will not be an accomplice." Evil tyrants require, indeed they depend upon, willing and unwilling accomplices-- good people who would never think of harming a soul themselves. Lenin called such people "useful idiots". DeTocqueville observed that "America is great because America is good. When America ceases to be good, she will cease to be great." As related in the Old Testament, God judged nations based upon the immorality and criminality of their leaders. Entire peoples were scourged because of their failure to remove corrupt leaders. As we move from the Twentieth Century into the Twenty-First, we should take care to remember the ancient story of Sodom and Gomorrah. If we wish to avoid the butchery of the Twentieth Century and the righteous judgment of the God of our antiquity, we would do well to keep our Bibles, our Constitution and our firearms close at hand."

Will Americans Vote For Communists, or Socialists, Or Fascists For NWO? - Of Course They Will

The Communist Manifesto Planks

THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

1. Abolition of property in land and the application of all rents of land to public purposes. (zoning laws are the first step to government property ownership)

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. (need we say anything !)

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. (read inheritance taxes)

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. (read the accused, not the convicted - Asset forfeiture laws, DEA, IRS, ATF etc...).

5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. (read Federal Reserve Bank, Fiat Paper Money and fractional reserve banking)

6. Centralization of the means of communications and transportation in the hands of the State. (read DOT, FAA, FCC etc...)

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. (read "controlled" rather than "owned", or subsidized)

8. Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. (read Minimum Wage and slave labor. You know like in China, our Most Favored Nation trade partner. Can you figure out why we are partnered with communists ?)

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of population over the country. (read forced relocations and forced sterilization programs, you know, like in China.)

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production. (so that all children can be indoctrinated and inculcated with the government propaganda, like "majority rules", and "pay your fair share". I defy you to show me the words "fair share" anywhere in the Constitution, Bill of Rights or the Internal Revenue Code (Title 26). ANYWHERE !! The whole philosophical concept of "fair share" comes from the Communist maxim, "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need ! The very concept is pure socialism.)

The people and politicians who believe in these things gladly pass more and more laws implementing these ideas are traitors to the American Constitution.

Green Cross International

"We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between mankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility"
Mikhail Gorbachev
President of Green Cross International

There's a reason #1 is #1 in the Communist Manifesto.

"The agencies are working with the environmental interests -- and they want it all. In fact if you look at things like the Wildlands Project, you can see that their appetite is unlimited. Buffalo Commons, wildlife corridors -- those are ideas that are out there. So if you want an idea of goals, for the biggest goal I say look at the 'Wildlands Project.' The people who put that together -- they're talking about massive relocations of people, the concentration of people into the suburbs and removing humans from the rest of the continent. That's the goal."

128 posted on 12/18/2001 12:32:09 AM PST by Uncle Bill
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To: Beamer
Around 6:30 PM or so.
129 posted on 12/18/2001 1:20:54 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: anniegetyourgun
"It destroys the credibility of the hard work we are trying to do to track these animals," said one retired Forest Service employee.

That's the shame in all of this. There are some good people who are honestly trying to preserve endangered species and are actually trying to further cohabitation, not sole habitation by the lynx or what have you. If it's true, this move only acts to paint all environmentalist and animal rights activists as extremist and hurts the cause of cohabitation.

130 posted on 12/18/2001 4:05:55 AM PST by dwbh
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To: Uncle Bill
... and here it is in action ... today ... in heartland America.

The Stand at Klamath Falls

That's what that situation is really all about and we need a LOT more folks standing on the firing line.

131 posted on 12/18/2001 5:36:23 AM PST by Jeff Head
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To: anniegetyourgun
I agree with you, whole heartedly. This is an outrage. I want to know the names of the federal employees, who were involved in this fraud. I think that since we are paying these con-artists, we deserve to know their names and the institutions with which they are associated. My guess is that they are from local state funded schools of higher learning and might be in danger of losing their jobs if their work reflects badly on the university. Maybe we can find a list of all the people who worked on the study .
132 posted on 12/18/2001 6:40:46 AM PST by Eva
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To: Eva
See dandelion's posts at the bottom of the other thread.

Here

133 posted on 12/18/2001 6:48:57 AM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: editor-surveyor
What the right has failed to notice about the environmental freaks is that "environmentalism" has become a cult. Mother Nature is their god, and all morality is relative except that which alters the environment. The only evil is that which harms animals or the environment or infringes on the pleasures of the left. Indoctrination is taking place daily in our public schools, public institutions and mass media through the mind-control of political correctness.

Enviro-freaks are every bit as fundamentalist about their beliefs as any "Born-Again" Christian. We need to expose the fraud of the politically correct thought-control if we are going to break the pull of this movement.

It sounds like a "vast ___ wing conspiracy" that we all laughed about when the shoe was on the other foot, but this is real and maybe that is why Hillary thought of it, in the first place. You know the old saw, "It takes one to know one."

134 posted on 12/18/2001 6:58:09 AM PST by Eva
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To: Carry_Okie
"What dismays me here is your apparent lack of sufficient curiosity and trust in a fellow human being making an honest effort to ask a question or request clarification."

Isn't that what I did back at #111? - and in reply you indicated that you had too much invested in the publishing to say any more. - You seem to be in defensive mode.

"Frankly, I would expect a person of your intelligence to be sufficiently intrigued to have done so two(sp?) instead of passing judgement on partial information."

Again, I feel that this goes back to #111, but I am not attempting to pass judgement anyway; I am trying to determine whether we are pulling in similar directions.

"Does that address your considerations?"

Let me put this in as few words as possible:
I do not believe that man has any power, or responsibility, over the survival, or lack thereof, of any living species, and I am compelled to resist with all resources available, any movement, plan, or agenda that has as it's basis the idea that we do. - Either you have similar motives, or you do not, and that was all that I was looking for. - OK?

135 posted on 12/18/2001 7:22:38 AM PST by editor-surveyor
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To: dwbh
" If it's true, this move only acts to paint all environmentalist and animal rights activists as extremist and hurts the cause of cohabitation."

Are you another Wiccan? - or are you sleeping?

All environmentalist and animal rights activists are extremists, and what the he!! is "the cause of cohabitation" but a bunch of pagan barf?

136 posted on 12/18/2001 7:41:56 AM PST by editor-surveyor
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To: Madame Dufarge
Fox reported the story tonight.

Encouraging.

137 posted on 12/18/2001 7:50:23 AM PST by Nephi
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To: Beamer
It was on Brit Hume's show at 1500.
138 posted on 12/18/2001 8:10:46 AM PST by blackie
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To: editor-surveyor
Are you another Wiccan? - or are you sleeping? All environmentalist and animal rights activists are extremists, and what the he!! is "the cause of cohabitation" but a bunch of pagan barf?

Gosh, I barely know where to begin with you.

First, do you want to explain to me how supporting anything less than total anti-environmentalism makes me a wiccan/pagan? Where's the religious connection here?

Second, are you saying that there is absolutely no way you can support animal rights and/or environmentalism and not be an "extremist", "wacko", or whatever else you can come up with?

Finally, if you want to know what "cohabitation" means, get a dictionary.

139 posted on 12/18/2001 8:23:44 AM PST by dwbh
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To: dwbh
Hey space cadet, it's survival of the fittest; it's nature's law...

Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!

The Right Of The People To Keep And Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed !!

An Armed Citizen, Is A Safe Citizen !!

No Guns, No Rights !!

Molon Labe !!

140 posted on 12/18/2001 8:24:07 AM PST by blackie
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