Tell it to the farmers, loggers, mill workers, powerplant builders and any other worker whose lives EPA edicts have touched.
Tell it to the farmers, loggers, mill workers, powerplant builders and any other worker whose lives EPA edicts have touched.
I'm sure you know the bikers' enemy is not JUST the EPA. So many people, governmental agencies, NGO's, and laws and regulations, and NGO's devoted to the same agenda of separating the American people from THEIR land. They'd like to reduce us peasants to walking or bicycling in our 'Smart Growth' communities, and leave the rural areas to them. It might be helpful for the bikers to know the rest of the story if they expect to be successful in their endeavor...........
1) The Earth-First "Death Manual" to fight Bikers http://www.off-road.com/vw/enviro/efdm.html
2) From the WildlandsProjectRevealed.org:
"Roads
Since roads provide human access to remote areas, perhaps it should come as no surprise that an organization has formed which has as its primary objective the closing and removal of roads on public lands.
The Road Removal Implementation Project (ROAD-RIP) grew out of The Wildlands Project's (TWP) vision with the primary purpose of laying, "…the groundwork for protecting and restoring wildland ecosystems by eliminating roads." This is necessary because in order to expand the system of reserves and corridors envisioned by TWP, large roadless are needed throughout the continent. Viewing connectivity as a key, ROAD-RIPpers ask, "…what bigger disrupter of connectivity is there than a road?" Therefore, according to an article in Wild Earth (Winter 1995/96) by Kraig Klungness and Katie Alvord Scarborough (co-founders of ROAD-RIP), ROAD-RIP, "…has the same ultimate goal as TWP: big wilderness as home for the unimpeded evolutionary journeys of North America's myriad native species." In January 1997, ROAD-RIP changed its name to the less abrasive Wildlands Center for Preventing Roads, Wildlands CPR. According to information released by the organization, "Our focus is specific: Wildlands CPR seeks the protection and recovery of large-scale wilderness and biodiversity by removing roads and preventing new road construction on public lands." The Wildlands Project and the Biodiversity Legal Foundation, "a non-profit organization which pursues aggressive legal strategies to preserve native wild plants and animals, communities of species ecosystems, and natural landscapes", lead the Wildlands CPR coalition.
Claiming that, "THE ROAD TO WILDERNESS RECOVERY…IS NO ROAD AT ALL," Wildlands CPR maintains that the best road density goal for maintaining and restring ecological processes is, "ZERO-NO ROADS AT ALL." Their definition of a road "includes everything from interstate highways down to two-track logging roads, off-road vehicle trails, and snowmobile routes." By using TWP vision maps, Wildlands CPR is targeting the roads necessary for closing in order to bring about large-scale North American wilderness recovery.
Believing that, "In order to assure the connectivity that TWP envisions, we need to close roads-lots of roads-…" Wildlands CPR maintains that a program like theirs is essential to the success of The Wildlands Project. Klungness and Scarborough write that Wildlands CPR, "will help make the grand vision of The Wildlands Project a reality, piece by roadless, interconnected piece."
To help activists close and remove roads ROAD-RIP published a series of guides in 1995 and 1996 collectively distributed as the ROAD-RIPPER'S HANDBOOK. The publication of these guides was made possible by the financial support of the Conservation Alliance and the Foundation for Deep Ecology. While one would naturally assume that there would be guides for Forest Service (FS), and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands since these have traditionally supported resource industries, there is also a guide for National Park Service (NPS) land. Since NPS lands are primarily intended for recreational and educational use, some might find it surprising that Wildlands CPR would object to access of these lands too.
In the 1999 January/February issue of The Road-RIPorter Bethanie Walder, Director of Wildlands CPR wrote, "As simple as it may seem, if we can stop the roads now, then we have a lot less timber sales, mines and motorized recreation to stop later." On the basis of that statement it is apparent that Ms. Walder considers motorized recreation (the most popular form of public land recreation) to be undesirable too. Indeed, one of the guides distributed in the HANDBOOK is titled, "The Road-Rippers Guide to Off-Road Vehicles."
In a Road-RIPorter article published in 1997, Marianne Moulton criticized non-motorized recreation as well, writing, "As more Americans find their way into the backcountry, the unknown risks to the natural world increases. The shocking truth is that trails have impacts similar to roads. (emphasis added)"............ http://www.wildlandsprojectrevealed.org/htm/roads.htm
More excerpts from the www.wildlandsprojectrevealed.org
.........."We have got to share this planet with the other living creatures, and sharing means not merely preserving them in zoos or National Parks, but setting aside huge areas. Whole regions perhaps that will be free of human interference. Ideally, I would like to see certain large areas of the planet set off-limits to human entry of any kind, even aerial over flights.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Edward Abbey-Deep Ecology for the 21st Century: The Natural Wonder: An Ecocentric World View. New Dimensions Radio, 1998.
"The only hope of the Earth is to withdraw huge areas as inviolate natural sanctuaries from the depredations of modern industry and technology. Move out the people and cars. Reclaim the roads and the plowed lands."........--Dave Foreman, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
"Does all the foregoing mean that Wild Earth and The Wildlands Project advocate the end of industrialized civilization? Most assuredly. Everything civilized must go..."-----------John Davis, editor of Wild Earth magazine
"The goal of the Wildlands Project is to set aside approximately fifty (50) percent of the North American continent (Turtle Island) as "wild land" for the preservation of biological diversity.
The project seeks to do this by creating "reserve networks" across the continent. Reserves are made up of the following:
Cores, created from public lands such as National Forest and Parks
Buffers, often created from private land adjoining the cores to provide additional protection
Corridors, a mix of public and private lands usually following along rivers and wildlife migration routes
The primary characteristics of core areas are that they are large (100,000 to 25 million acres), and allow for little, if any, human use.
The primary characteristics of buffers are that they allow for limited human use so long as they are "managed with native biodiversity as a preeminent concern."
Moral and ethical guidelines for the Wildlands Project are based on the philosophy of Deep Ecology.
The eight point platform of Deep Ecology can be summarized as follows:
All life (human and non-human) has equal value.
Resource consumption above what is needed to supply "vital" human needs is immoral.
Human population must be reduced
Western civilization must radically change present economic, technological, and ideological structures.
Believers have an obligation to try to implement the necessary changes.
The Wildlands Project itself is supported by hundreds of groups working towards its long-term implementation. Implementation may take 100 years or more.
The Wildlands Project has received millions of dollars in support [***ALL TAX DEDUCTIBLE***]from wealthy private and corporate foundations such as the [TED] Turner Foundation, Patagonia, W. Alton Jones Foundation, Lyndhurst Foundation, etc....[AND THE NATURE CONSERVANCY, A TAX-EXEMPT, TAXPAYER-SUPPORTED REAL ESTATE ARM OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE INTERNATIONAL BANKSTERS.]............
"Turtle Island
In 1969, California poet Gary Snyder published a collection of poems and essays entitled Turtle Island. Snyder explained this unusual title in the introduction:
"Turtle Island – the old/new name for the continent, based on many creation myths of the people who have been living here for millennia, and reapplied by some of them to "North America" in recent years. Also, an idea found world-wide, of the earth, or cosmos even, sustained by a great turtle or SERPENT-OF-ETERNITY." (Snyder, 1969, Turtle Island).................
For Snyder then, Turtle Island became symbolic of his own "back to the future" sentiment of how man’s relationship to the earth should be defined, and lived. It should be biocentric (nature centered) as opposed to anthropocentric (human centered), [notice God is not mentioned at all] while possessing a keen awareness of "place". The concept of place is difficult at first, but think of somewhere special to you. Perhaps it is a forest. Perhaps it is the house you grew up in, your school, or your church. Now imagine expanding that feeling to cover the entire biosphere. Once you appreciate the place where you are, Snyder thinks, you begin to treat life and the earth with reverence and respect, not to be exploited, as modern man has come to do. Therefore Snyder urges a reinhabitation of Turtle Island, and a new paradigm for mankind.
[*note yesterday the court in Calif. declared the Pledge of Allegiance to America unconstitutional.]
I pledge allegiance to the soil
of Turtle Island
and to the beings who thereon dwell
one ecosystem
in diversity
under the sun
With joyful interpenetration for all...........(Snyder, 1995, Deep Ecology for the 21st Century, Sessions. ed.)
"Do we all want to go back/forward to Turtle Island? What will life be like? Will we be happier? Healthier? These are fair questions to ask. To answer them, we must know more. For Snyder, Turtle Island became symbolic of the cultural and ecological rediscovery of North America, but for others Turtle Island has become the icon for the reinvention of North America: the Wildlands Project." http://www.wildlandsprojectrevealed.org/htm/turtle.htm.....
"Irregardless of how unlikely the Wildlands Project may seem, Wildlanders have an almost religious-like conviction that their plan must succeed. For Wildlanders, no less than the survival of life on Earth is at stake. Sophisticated beyond what many might expect, the Wildlands Project contains its own science, and its own philosophy, and if society's goal is to maximize biological diversity, to the exclusion of any other goal, it is a plan that merits discussion."
"The United Nations agrees, and the Wildlands Project was mentioned in their "Global Biodiversity Assessment" as a possible approach to preserving biological diversity. (See Section 13.4.2.2.3, page 993, "Global Biodiversity Assessment", Cambridge University Press, 1995)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The Wildlands Project is embodied in the UN's Global Biodiversity Assessment, Agenda 21 and The Earth Charter, a kind of Ten Commandments of and by pagans/idolators/socialists/communists making its serpentine path around the globe. See also The Earth Charter - Agenda for Totalitarianism.
Official website for The Wildlands Project.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
[In Genesis, God tells the serpent, (Gen 3:15) And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. The very next time the serpent is mentioned is in Gen. 49:17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. http://www.blueletterbible.org/tmp_dir/words/1025198549.html I saw in a book about the historical roots of American architecture, a small picture of an ancient Indian burial mound - 600 feet long and in the form of a serpent swallowing a turtle. The "Serpent" apparently had designs on this country long before the colonists arrived in Jamestown.
This is old news to most FReepers, but might be helpful to connect the dots for newer readers. The bikers battle are belong to (all of) us.