I challenge the validity of the polls
that Jay Meehan referred to
recently. He stated, " In
the wake of statewide polls showing a majority of Utahans favoring a National
Monument designation for the Bears Ears region. . ." If he
thinks Bishop is off target, he should know that the polling of 600 Utahans was
even more askew. The attached map shows where those
surveyed live. The counties in blue were not surveyed. Also not one Utah
Native American was contacted. Neither was it mentioned that Pew Charitable Trusts conducted the slanted
survey and that the person who is the director is Mike Matz, who headed SUWA
from 1993-2000 & spent 6 years with the Sierra Club.
So you may question Rob
Bishop's motives, but we question the validity of any poll that fails to survey
those most directly affected by a decision. I am sure you know by now that the
unbridled power of the Conservation Lands Foundation, headquartered in Durango
Colorado, has masterminded this takeover of the West and Bears Ears is their
current target. They use money, manipulation, and the media to push their
agenda in every way shape or form. They and their pre-programmed followers
exaggerate, berate, and intimidate those who disagree and they dump millions of
dollars into these campaigns.
Their game of Chess often uses indigenous
people, the Antiquities Act, or visions of “desecrated” landscapes to spin the
need for National Monuments. Let’s see how their master plan works by
examining their 2014 board
meeting minutes. (All quotes below come from the Conservation Lands
Foundation or CLF Board Meeting Minutes San Francisco, CA. 24 Oct.
2014)
The illusion that this is a “bottom up” effort driven by
indigenous people who want a monument is false. The Native out-of-State
Coalition was organized by CLF associates. This is a Top Down
Organization and they are carefully watching all players from Secretary Jewell,
down to each tribe as illustrated in their October minutes. “Struggles
with Secretary Jewell, she is not being a strong advocate for the Antiquities
Act, but continues to show gradual improvement. With strong leadership from the
White House this has become less of a roadblock.”
Utah was duped into thinking she actually had come to
listen to local input. Not so, the CLF and the White House had over a year to
train her as their chosen Queen in this game.
CLF also uses
Native Tribes as pawns: One CLF member questioned the
heavy reliance on the Navajo Nation, and asked, “What happens if we separate
from them or disagree with them. Without their support the White House probably
would not act.” They are using coalition members as Castles in
this game of chess, and tribal members as pawns.
Obviously CLF has money. They have spent millions of dollars to fight
poor rural areas throughout the nation. Rich people in Park City may not care
that 1.9 Million acres is being targeted for a National Monument in San Juan
County. But if you live in rural Utah, you know the negative impact that more
Federal encroachment has on schools, businesses, and property rights, of both
Anglo and Native Americans.
Everyone has been affected by CLF’s "love
Nature, hate people policies" from important cabinet members,
congressmen, all states with public lands, down to the poorest counties and
reservations in the nation. The final question: To whom is the
United Stated indebted? Who has been paying our bills? Why is our
national debt at an all-time high of $18 Trillion and rising daily? Who has
something to gain by owning more and more lands in the United States when the
Federal Government can no longer pay their debts?
Read Sutherland Institute analysis of the poll: http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2016/08/15/latest-bears-ears-poll-transmits-a-false-sense-of-security/
Read Sutherland Institute analysis of the poll: http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2016/08/15/latest-bears-ears-poll-transmits-a-false-sense-of-security/
