Subject: The New American - Pressure From Above and Below - October 4, 1993
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This is a classic must read that Dr.
Crittenden references a number of times in his book "Two Studies of Public
Policy in Washington State".  Anyone in government
especially need to order "Trashing the Economy -How Runaway
Environmentalism is Wrecking America" and get smart on how  the radical
environmental movement and all those who support them are destroying this
country, our freedoms and our private property.   Think King County
and DDES on a national level.

It is time to remove this green cancer
from extorting and coercing  "U.S." and it is time to remove all those
in government who are pimping out our freedoms to stay in power.

Jack Venrick

Rural Property Owner

Enumclaw, WA

Fed Up With Government Pimping Out Our
Freedom To Radical Environmentalism

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Vol.
9, No. 20
October 4, 1993

More on Conspiracy
More
on Environmentalism

Pressure From Above and Below
by
William F. Jasper

The hefty new book, Trashing the Economy, by Ron Arnold and Alan
Gottlieb, is a heavy artillery broadside at the exposed flanks of the
environmental movement. Subtitled, How Runaway Environmentalism Is
Wrecking America, the 658-page tome is a veritable encyclopedia on all
of the major (and many of the minor) environmental groups, their leaders,
goals, depredations, and funding sources.

In compiling and publishing this detailed study, the authors, who are
leading activists and theorists in the "wise use" movement, have, in many
respects, rendered a singular service to America. And yet, on the other
hand, they have rendered a disservice as well. They seem oddly bent on
convincing the growing numbers of Americans who are beginning to realize
the design and orchestration behind the insanely destructive environmental
campaigns that they are chasing bogeymen and kooky conspiracy
theories.

According to Arnold and Gottlieb, "about the only thing the Communist
Party USA and the John Birch Society have in common is a seething,
irrational hatred of Trilateralism. Don't get caught up in that.
Conspiracy theories are almost always wrong.  Moreover, say the duo,
"To characterize the environmental movement as just a cabal of rich
capitalist Trilateralist One Worlders who control all environmental groups
from a hidden central point is perhaps a favorite war cry of commie pinkos
and redneck crackers who are not noted for their research skills ... but
it is no more true than that they are all a bunch of unwashed
weird-lifestyle radicals."

Decades of Documentation

Of course, it is always easy to dispose of a position by distorting it
to the point of caricature. While not presuming to speak for whatever
"commie pinkos and redneck crackers" the authors may have had in mind, the
present writer can confidently assert that the reductio ad absurdum
Arnold and Gottlieb offer as "conspiracy theory" bears no resemblance
to anything that has appeared in these pages. The staff of this magazine
and its predecessors, American Opinion and The Review of the
News, have long recognized that the "environmental movement" is a very
large and diverse entity involving hundreds of organizations and millions
of individuals, including many well-intentioned, ordinary folks. And,
among the green devotees, as in any militant crusade, there are divergent
viewpoints, quarrels, and cleavages among even true believers.

That notwithstanding, we have carefully documented over the course of
more than 20 years overwhelming evidence that many of the top leaders and
key players in this movement are advancing a hidden agenda: They are
struggling not to save the earth from ecological destruction as they
claim, but to concentrate political and economic power -- in their hands
and the hands of powerful elites who are bankrolling their fraudulent
campaigns.

The Trilateral Commission (TC) to which Arnold and Gottlieb refer is
but one of the elite power circles of Establishment Insiders involved in
this gigantic confidence game. Its sister organization, the Council on
Foreign Relations (CFR), is another. The titular head of both groups is
David Rockefeller, the epitome of Establishment power. The membership of
these two groups wield unparalleled power and influence in the federal
government, the banking world, multinational corporations, the major
media, and the tax-exempt foundations.

Admiral Chester Ward, a former judge advocate general of the U.S. Navy
and a member of the CFR for 16 years, denounced the Council as a coterie
of "one-world-global-government ideologists" dedicated to the "purpose of
promoting disarmament and submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national
independence into an all-powerful one-world government." From his own
experience in the group, Admiral Ward found that "this lust to surrender
the sovereignty and independence of the United States is pervasive
throughout most of the membership."

Classic Scissors Strategy

In the environmental movement these one-world Insiders have the perfect
instrument for realizing their revolutionary global government schemes.
They do not have to "control all environmental groups from a hidden
central point"; they need only control a few key organizations and shape
many others through strategic funding, strategic placement of selected
leadership, and control of access to the dominant media. By so doing, they
are able to apply what has been called the "scissors strategy": pressure
from above, pressure from below.

The scissors strategy works this way: 1) The Establishment's
eco-militants generate panic (pressure from below) by warning about an
impending "crisis" -- acid rain, ozone depletion, global warming, or
threats from asbestos, alar, PCBs, etc. -- which is either a complete
fraud or a gross exaggeration; 2) the CFR media and CFR politicians
(pressure from above) advocate "solutions" to the "crisis" that invariably
involves the expansion of government (more taxes and regulation) and the
diminution of personal rights and economic opportunity.

The ecology movement is not the only arena where this scissors strategy
has been applied. Indeed, the same Insiders have employed the
pressure-from-above-and-below gambit with the civil rights movement, the
student radical movement, the "peace" and disarmament movement, the
poverty movement, the pro-abortion movement, and many others. Of course,
an essential ingredient of this stratagem is always money -- lots of
money. That is no major problem: The Establishment's foundations shower
these anti-Establishment movements with fortunes. And Establishment
politicos help anti-Establishment revolutionaries tap into taxpayer funds.
During the 1940s and '50s this incestuous relationship between communist
organizations and the Establishment foundations became so blatant and
alarming that congressional investigations were launched. During one of
those investigations, in 1953, Ford Foundation President H. Rowan Gaither
admitted to Norman Dodd, staff director of the congressional Special
Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations, that he and his
foundation cohorts were following directives to "make every effort to so
alter life in the United States as to make possible a comfortable merger
with the Soviet Union."

Foundation Funding

The Ford Foundation continues to follow the same revolutionary
directives, and its grants to eco-fanatics advance the same treasonous
objectives. Population planning and environmental controls of every sort
were favorite causes of the Ford Foundation decades before "ecology"
became a household word, but it was Ford President McGeorge Bundy (CFR)
who opened the foundation's funding floodgates to finance radical
environmentalism in a big way in the 1960s and '70s.

In 1969, for example, to feed the "Population Bomb" hysteria, the Ford
Foundation distributed $3.5 million to the Population Council, the
Population Reference Bureau, the Urban Institute, and other
ecology/population groups hyping the overpopulation myth. It has poured
millions of dollars into the anti-capitalist, anti-private property
campaigns of the Nature Conservancy, the National Audubon Society, the
Environmental Defense Fund, the Conservation Foundation, the Sierra Club,
Friends of the Earth, and others.

The Rockefeller Foundations have shown a special affinity for the green
alarmists, and there is scarcely an enviro-activist or eco-cause they have
failed to fund. In the January/February 1974 issue of The Center
magazine, for instance, then-Governor Tom McCall of Oregon
approvingly reported: "The Rockefeller Task Force on Land Use ... has said
that, beginning now, development rights on private property must be
regarded as being vested in the community and its well being rather than
the fact of ownership." In 1975 they came out with The Managing
of Interdependence: The Planning Function, a conference report that
called for global central planning and "cartelization" of such functions
as "peacekeeping, the regulation of money, environmental monitoring and
protection, the development of an adequate food reserve system, and
management of the oceans."

In 1977, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund published its Environmental
Agenda Task Force Report, The Unfinished Agenda, a proposed
blueprint for transforming America into a centrally planned,
command-and-control society. Besides calling for an appointed "Economic
Planning Board" to rein over the U.S. economy, the report recommended
heavy taxes on gasoline and other carbon-based fuels, restrictions on the
ownership and use of automobiles, increased population controls, an end to
nuclear power development, and tightened controls over agriculture and
food and water distribution. All of which was hardly surprising since the
task force was comprised of top leaders from a dozen of the big
environmental groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council,
Friends of the Earth, the Wilderness Society, the Nature Conservancy, and
the Environmental Defense Fund.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, now the largest of
the foundations with over $3 billion in assets, has eclipsed Ford and
Rockefeller in green giving. In 1990 it lavished more than $23.3 million
on environmental causes. President of the foundation is Adele Smith
Simmons (CFR), who also serves on the board of directors (along with
fellow CFR member Kurt Gottfried) of the radical, far-left Union of
Concerned Scientists. One of the biggest influences on MacArthur's
eco-largess has been Dr. Murray GellMann (CFR) who for years chaired the
foundation's environmental grant-making committee.

"Research" and Leadership

Strategic leadership and "research" are provided to the environmental
movement by Establishment fronts such as the World Resources Institute
(WRI), Resources for the Future (RFF), and the Worldwatch Institute (WWI).
The president of WRI, and one of the green lobby's most influential
figures, is Dr. James Gustave Speth (CFR), who also sits on the board of
directors of the Environmental Law Institute and the Natural Resources
Defense Council. Vice president at WRI is Jessica Tuchman Mathews (CFR).
CFR members on WRI's board of directors include Matthew Nimetz (chairman),
Robert O. Anderson, Robert O. Blake, Alice F. Emerson, Curtis A. Hessler,
Thomas E. Lovejoy, C. Payne Lucas, Robert S. McNamara, Speth, and Russell
E. Train.

At Resources for the Future, the board of directors includes CFR
luminaries James R. Ellis, John H. Gibbons, Thomas E. Lovejoy, and Mason
Willrich. Isabel V. Sawhill (wife of John Sawhill, CFR) also sits on the
board. Former RFF board members include Robert O. Anderson and Laurence
Rockefeller. Between 1953 and 1968 the Ford Foundation gave over $8
million to RFF, which means, notes William H. McIlhany in his book, The
Tax-Exempt Foundations, "that this major source of ecological
propaganda was almost an exclusive Ford project from the beginning."

The Worldwatch Institute features Lester R. Brown (CFR) as president
and former Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman (CFR) as chairman.
Its annual serving of ecological fright-peddling known as the State of
the World report is quoted as gospel by both Establishment and
anti-Establishment alarmists. WWI acknowledges that "core funding" for the
publication (as well as for its other activities) comes "from the
Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Winthrop Rockefeller Trust."

Space permitting, hundreds of examples illustrating how this dangerous
"game" is played could be shown. Since we are all players, whether we like
it or not, and the stakes involve our property, our families, our freedom,
and our lives, it behooves us to learn the game plan. What is very clear
is that those who do not understand how the game is played cannot hope
ultimately to
win.

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