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SEPARATING PEOPLE FROM THEIR
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By
Dr. Michael S. Coffman Ph. D.
January 22,
2004
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As the United Nations restructures itself
to become a world government vis-a-vis global governance, it is being
formed around the principles of sustainable development as defined by
Agenda 21. Signed by the U.S. during the Earth Summit at Rio de
Janeiro in 1992, Agenda 21 is a 40-chapter manifesto to reorganize
the world using socialist and pantheistic principles to protect Earth .

Agenda 21 represents a major
fundamental change in the role of government in social and land-use
policy. Under its concept of sustainability, the primary purpose of
government will no longer be to serve the people. Rather, the focus of
Agenda 21 is to protect nature from people. Governance will be by
consensus among "stakeholders and partnerships." The concept of elected
representation that holds the government accountable to the citizens will
be eliminated.

Agenda 21 requires that by 2000
"All States...have designed and initiated costed and targeted national
action programmes, and to have put in place appropriate institutional
structures and legal instruments” to implement Agenda 21. The
Clinton Administration responded creating the President's Council on
Sustainable Development which published its report entitled Sustainable
America in 1996. Chapter 18 of Agenda 21 requires that all
States implement integrated watershed management plans "for the protection
and conservation of the potential sources of freshwater supply, including
… protection of mountain slopes and riverbanks and other relevant
development and conservation activities.”

The Clinton Administration eagerly took
up the challenge. In the U.S. State Department's 1997 report on its
progress to the UN, the U.S. proudly stated, “Agenda 21 sets
ambitious objectives [for the United States to] … move toward integrated
water resource management, a holistic approach that treats water resources
as an integral part of the ecosystem.” Among the many programs spawned by
Sustainable America to fulfill the fresh water protection requirements of
Agenda 21 include the American Heritage Rivers (AHRI), and the
Clean Water (CWI) initiatives. Neither program was voted on by the U.S.
Congress. Instead, they are being implemented through executive
order.

The American Heritage Rivers (AHR)
program is designed to restore and protect rivers using non-elected
authorities within portions of, or "entire watersheds," potentially
including all of the Mississippi watershed. Over 50% of the entire U.S.
could technically come under the 1998
program.

Although both federal programs no longer
are front-burner issues, they nonetheless are sleeping giants designed to
gradually give the federal government power to control land use throughout
America. For instance, the AHRI also makes it clear that "entire
watersheds" are likely to be impacted by a designation of just a portion
of them as an AHR. Technically, the entire Mississippi River watershed,
covering 40 percent of America ? the breadbasket of America ? is now under
the AHR program! While no effort is presently underway to extend this
jurisdiction to watersheds upstream from the designated rivers, the option
remains for future bureaucrats to gradually extend their jurisdiction.

The CWI has had a far greater, and more
immediate impact. The CWI’s 1998 Clean Water Action Plan called for
obliterating 5,000 miles of roads each year on federal land, and setting
aside a whopping "two million miles of conservation buffers on
agricultural lands." The potential impact of this program is enormous.
Tens of thousands of miles of road have now been withdrawn from public use
on federal land. In just one consequence, many of the huge forest fires
experienced since 1998 were greatly magnified when firefighters and
equipment could not immediately access the fires using formerly existing
roads. These roads were typically closed by digging huge holes in the
roads called tank-traps, and ripping out bridges and culverts ? often
causing major erosion and siltation to the very streams the road closures
were supposed to protect.

The Department of Agriculture’s Stream
Corridor Plan called for conservation corridors to equal the 100 year
flood plain for a river in width, which could be many miles wide for some
rivers. While seemingly innocuous, even a 100 foot buffer strip along two
million miles totals a staggering 76,000 square miles (48 million acres),
an area equivalent to the entire state of Nebraska! Much of this land
contains some of the most productive land in America. In many cases the
corridors would have an enormous economic impact on farmers and other
landowners. Court challenges to this and other onerous provisions of the
clean water initiative finally forced the federal agencies to back down
when they realized they had no legal authority to force private citizens
to obey their arbitrary and capricious regulations.

Ostensibly done to protect water quality,
the road obliteration and river corridor plans create defacto wilderness
reserves and corridors very similar to the requirements of the Convention
on Biological Diversity. The treaty came within an hour of being ratified
in 1994 when Sovereignty International, an educational and UN watchdog
organization, provided irrefutable evidence to the U.S. Senate that the
treaty would have required up to one-half of America be put into
wilderness reserves and corridors!

Promoted as a plan to "reinvent
government," both the AHRI and CWI are touted as "ground up," "community
based" efforts under the control of local people called "River
Communities" and "Watershed Councils." In fact, each step is under the
"top down" control of the feds. By definition, a River Community under the
AHRI is "self-defined by the members of the community." In practice, River
Communities and Watershed Councils include anyone, especially
environmental NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations). They are
self-appointed, not elected. They are accountable to federal bureaucrats,
not local and state elected officials.

These sometimes special interest
non-elected entities are empowered to prioritize federal programs, and
therefore funding. In doing so, agenda-driven non-elected people within
the AHRI and CWI have the power to withhold monies from communities that
don’t toe the federal line, while rewarding those that do. History has
provided clear proof to the age-old adage of "he who controls the money
controls the people."

Protecting Mother Earth from use by
humans in this way is not God ordained stewardship. Rather, it is
regulation based on the desire to control people and their activities in a
misguided belief that Mother Earth's needs are more important than human
needs.

©
2004 Michael Coffman - All Rights Reserved

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Dr. Michael S. Coffman received his BS in
Forestry and MS in Biology at Northern Arizona University at Flagstaff,
Arizona and his Ph.D. in Forest Science at the University of Idaho at
Moscow in 1966,1967, and 1970 respectively. Since then he has become a
respected scientist and ecologist who has been involved in ecosystem
research for over twenty years in both academia and industry. He taught
courses and conducted research in forest ecology and forest community
dynamics for ten years at Michigan Technological UniversityCa leading
forestry school in the Midwest. While there, he published a book on forest
ecosystem classification in Upper Michigan and Northern Wisconsin, which
has become the standard for classification in the region. He also assisted
the U.S. Forest Service in developing an Ecological Land Classification
System for each of the National Forests in Region-9.

Until 1992 Dr. Coffman was a manager for Champion
International, a leading forest and paper products company in the United
States. During his tenure with Champion, he became Chairman of the Forest
Health Group within NCASI (National Council for the Paper Industry for Air
and Stream Improvement), a respected scientific research group for the
Paper Industry. In this, and other related responsibilities, he was
responsible for millions of dollars of research and became intimately
involved in such national and international issues as acid rain, global
climate change, wetlands, cumulative effects and biological diversity.
During this time he was a spokesperson for the Paper Industry for the
media.

Dr. Coffman is currently President of
Environmental Perspectives, Inc. He also serves as Executive Director of
Sovereignty International, Inc and the Local Environment and Resource
Network (LEARN). He provides professional guidance and training in
defining environmental problems and conflicts, and developing solutions to
specific issues as well as the hidden dangers of international treaties
and agreements that threaten our Constitutional protections, especially
property rights. He played a key role in stopping the ratification of the
Convention on Biological Diversity (Biodiversity Treaty) in the U.S.
Senate one hour before the ratification vote by anticipating and exposing
the unbelievable agenda behind the treaty. He has written three books
exposing the environmentalist phenomenon; The Birth of World Government,
Saviors of the Earth? The Politics and Religion of Environmentalism, and
Environmentalism! The Dawn of Aquarius or the Twilight of a new Dark Age?

In his present capacity as Exec. Director of
Sovereignty International, Inc. he is intimately involved with the science
that drives the issue of global warming and sustainable development and
global political agenda behind the effort to create global governance. Dr.
Coffman speaks to a variety of groups nationally who are interested in the
scientific truth and political agenda behind global warming and other
environmental issues to advance global governance.

LEARN provides knowledge to local citizens on how
to help local government attain equal powers with the federal and state
governments in implementing environmental laws in order to protect both
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"Agenda 21 represents a major
fundamental change in the role of government in social and land-use
policy. Under its concept of sustainability, the primary purpose of
government will no longer be to serve the people.

Rather, the focus of Agenda 21 is to
protect nature from people."