Viewpoint - America Foreclosed - Follow The Money Trail - Part II
The environmental movement has accomplished two major goals since the 1960s. It has been effective in driving domestic mining, oil, and timber companies off the resource base and into international entities which also represent holders of massive amounts of US debt obligations.
If one were to attempt establishing a birth date for the modern environmental movement, evidence clearly points to the early and mid 1960's. Almost overnight we went from the long-held premise the world and its resources were created for benefit of man and private ownership of resources was best to insure resource conservation and renewal, to accepting the dogma that resources of and by themselves have some mystic value and only collective control of resources under government can adequately protect them.
Another event of world significance occurred as the modern environmental movement was being formed. That event was collapse of the Bretton Woods agreement. The synergism of these two events has had greater impact on the constitutionally protected rights of Americans than any other two events in the nation's history. Under the guise of protecting endangered species, wild rivers, old growth timber, clean water, clean air, and a host of other frauds: property, wealth, and personal freedom is being confiscated by government at an ever accelerating rate.