TROJAN HORSES

The Greek legend about the Trojan Horse and the fall of Troy is being replayed with increasing frequency in the United States today. The only difference is that today the Horse is the environmental and animal rights’ laws and Treaties and instead of Greeks spilling out of the Horse at night, radical bureaucrats and extremist organizations spill out armed with lawsuits and task forces to eliminate our rights and our form of government. All of these laws and Treaties were presented as a gift to the nation (like the Trojan Horse) and all of them hide other agendas and the seeds of our destruction in their bowels.

The Endangered Species Act was sold as a necessity to save plants and animals from extinction. After passage, the listing of thousands of little groups of plants and animals has only resulted in a handful of recovered species. Instead, the real result has been the prevention of dam building, road building, logging, energy development and an outright assault on ranchers, farmers, fish and wildlife management, trappers, hunters, and rural Americans in general.

The UN Convention on Threatened and Endangered Species was sold as a necessity to prevent the extinction of international wildlife populations. While it reduced and eliminated much sport hunting and commercial uses of animals, its’ real result has been unmanaged populations of elephants and whales and many other species that would benefit from management and use. The impact of these species on third world people and international fisheries has been devastating. Perhaps of greater interest to us though are the results here in the US where the taking of private property and the elimination of the Constitutional authority of States to manage fish and wildlife and plants have been eroded and may disappear entirely. This is being done under the Constitutional provision that Treaties become “the Supreme law of the land”.

The Wilderness Act was sold as a necessary step to save remnants of native habitats. In fact it has resulted in growing unmanaged public land units that are fire threats and where game species are disappearing and human access and uses are reduced dramatically to no good purpose. Today the Wilderness designation is a tool to, for instance, set aside all unutilized or undesignated public lands in Nevada and soon all other States will be similarly denied access and use of Federal lands within their borders under this legislative anomaly.

The Animal Welfare Act was sold as a necessary step to “protect” lab animals from horrors that were greatly exaggerated. Today it is the tool to shut down animal agriculture, medical testing, dog breeders, declawing of cats, tail bobbing dogs, ear clipping, dog training, trap testing, and many other uses of animals. Tomorrow it will be used to shut down hunting and trapping and fishing and rodeos and circuses.

All of these Acts and Treaties are changing our form of government for the worse. The Federal government is assuming the powers and broad roles found in European nations and if this continues, analogies with Russian and Chinese governments will be more appropriate. Individual rights, States rights, and Constitutional separation of powers and a defined and limited Federal role are disappearing.

There are two new Trojan Horses being pushed up to our gates.

Federal Invasive Species legislation and UN cooperation are sold as the means to restoring the “ecosystem” that we Europeans “destroyed”. Pre-1492 conditions are presented as some sort of stable Eden that we can make up for losing, by destroying alien or “Invasive” plants and animals. The results will be a Federal power spurt beyond the combined steroid-like spurts of Federal power growth mentioned above. The impact on individual rights and Constitutional government will be catastrophic; the costs will be phenomenal; and the results will be a never-ending government program of fits and starts that accomplishes nothing.

The UN meeting scheduled for 2006 to consider an International Treaty on Small Arms and Ammunition is being sold with tales of African coups (not the ability of oppressed Africans to defend themselves as in western Sudan) and the “need” to “control” small arms and ammunition internationally. The immediate result will be the total destruction of the 2nd Amendment. The Treaty will supercede the US Constitution and from that moment on gun registration, gun possession, gun purchase and storage, and which (if any) guns and how many you may possess will be a function of Federal bureaucrats and their regulations and enforcement. As with the Endangered Species Act that has gone unauthorized for decades because it is so bad but also so controversial that it continues to grow and get funded, gun control will only get worse until all guns are confiscated unless you are one of the “right kind of people”. If you think the bureaucrats and politicians will behave any different than they have with the above mentioned Acts and Treaties you have either been asleep for the past thirty years or you must have some Trojan blood in you.

Jim Beers
31 December 2004

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