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Truth wrote:
> Sierra Club Puppeteer - Long-Suspected Scandal Revealed
>
> http://www.vdare.com/walker/050202_sierra.htm
> February 3, 2004
>
> Just what is the cost to buy off the Sierra Club - once the most
> respected environmental organization in America?
>
> A low nine figure sum does the job according to the Los Angeles Times
> in its story last fall about David Gelbaum, one of the key funders of
> the 112-year-old environmental organization. ["The Man Behind the
> Land" by Kenneth R. Weiss, Oct. 17, 2004]
>
> A nice round $100 million was enough for Executive Director Carl Pope
> to toss the principles of honesty, democracy and conservation out the
> window.
>
> Many of us involved in the grassroots effort to restore population
> sanity to the Sierra Club were suspicious that the mysterious $100
> million in donations might have immigration strings attached.
>
> After all, the 1996 switch from common sense to political correctness
> was an abrupt change from the earlier position that the Club should
> work to "bring about the stabilization of the population first of the
> United States and then of the world."
>
> Our suspicions were correct. The LA Times article revealed that
> shadowy funder Gelbaum donated generously on condition that the
Sierra
> Club not address immigration as an environmental issue.
>
> Said Gelbaum, "I did tell [Sierra Club Executive Director] Carl Pope
> in 1994 or 1995 that if they ever came out anti-immigration, they
> would never get a dollar from me."
>
> The story continued:
>
> ( Gelbaum, who reads the Spanish-language newspaper La Opinión and
is
> married to a Mexican American, said his views on immigration were
> shaped long ago by his grandfather, Abraham, a watchmaker who had
come
> to America to escape persecution of Jews in Ukraine before World War
> I.
>
> "'I asked, 'Abe, what do you think about all of these Mexicans
coming
> here?' 'Gelbaum said. 'Abe didn't speak English that well. He
said, 'I
> came here. How can I tell them not to come?''
>
> "I cannot support an organization that is anti-immigration. It would
> dishonor the memory of my grandparents."
>
> Gelbaum's reasoning is patently anti-environmental. It assumes that
> this country can absorb millions of new foreign residents annually
who
> come with dreams of American level consumption.
>
> Thoughtful conservationists balance past values versus a future
> reality of a population explosion most imagine a hundred years ago.
>
> What if Grandaddy Abe had been a slave-owner, deeply worried about
who
> would pick the cotton come emancipation?
>
> And surely Gelbaum's grandfather could not have foreseen the invasion
> of millions of illegals, largely from Mexico. And if safety for Jews
> is still an issue as it was for Gelbaum's Ukrainian forebears, then
> the "strongly anti-Semitic" views of 44 percent of foreign-born
> Hispanics should be of great concern.
>
> Gelbaum may be unwittingly supporting the increase of anti-Semitism
in
> America which his grandfather sought to escape.
>
> But Carl Pope obviously answered with an immediate, "No problema!"
>
> As the Club's #1 honcho, Carl Pope is a well-paid fellow, receiving a
> salary of $141,704 and benefits of $16,995 as of a couple years ago.
>
> A firehose revenue stream assures the Sierra Club's financial
health
> and continued fat paychecks for Pope, so there is a personal benefit
> to this arrangement as well.
>
> Pope sits on the Board of Wildland Conservancy, which is also funded
> generously by Gelbaum and his brother Daniel. The LA Times article
> lauded Gelbaum's impressive purchases of land to be conserved,
1,179
> square miles of scenic country, and his contributions to conservation
> education so that poor children could see what wilderness actually
> looks like.
>
> So the Sierra Club's soul was sold for some very nice trees and
> mountains, and thousands of underprivileged kids got the outdoors
> experience so valued by hiking enthusiasts.
>
> That's may be a fine short-term bargain if you are essentially
corrupt
> anyway and have the political wheel-and-deal mentality in which
> everything has a price.
>
> But consider a different example of questionable money offered for a
> worthy cause.
>
> In 2001, a Saudi sheik presented $10 million dollars to Mayor Rudy
> Giuliani after the terrorist attacks. That money could have gone a
> long way toward rebuilding New York City. But the mayor felt the
moral
> cost was unacceptable and the money was refused. The honor of a great
> city was not for sale.
>
> In case there is any question, Pope is no Giuliani.
>
> Pope and his cadre have moved the Sierra Club to the left in
alignment
> with the Democratic Party, poisoning the bipartisan nature of
American
> support for environmental protection.
>
> For example, the Sierra Club has financially supported factually
> challenged filmmaker Michael Moore in his get-out-the-vote tour of
> college campuses.
>
> Pope has appeared with the chubby auteur.
>
> Pope was also one of the upscale D-Party brain trust who met at the
> Southhampton mansion of billionaire open-borders extremist George
> Soros to plot their regime change against G.W.Bush. One result of the
> high-powered confab was the formation of America Coming Together, a
> liberal organizational group, where Carl Pope is listed as Treasurer.
>
> What's up with these extramural activities? Does the Sierra Club no
> longer need a full time Executive Director?
>
> When it became clear to the Sierra Old Guard that population realists
> might take control of the Board, the mega-dollars of the hardball
> left-wing were brought in to defend the Gelbaum ideology-which
> conveniently coincides with many on the globalist left and the
> Democratic Party.
>
> The Gelbaum scandal has fatally compromised the management of the
> Sierra Club.
>
> Interestingly, Pope has written eloquently on the corrupting
influence
> of money in politics. As the motto goes: "Campaign finance for thee,
> but not for me."
>
>Pope must resign. Another weakling controlled by a Jew puppetmaster.

Hank

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