Showing posts with label fake polls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fake polls. Show all posts

Thursday, August 18, 2016

Who Plays the Chess Game Best, Conservation Lands Foundation or Rep. Bishop?

Letter sent to Park Record 8/18/16 in response to Jay Meehan's article "Bishop’s gambit declined" (http://www.parkrecord.com/opinion/columns/bishops-gambit-declined/)

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/