DETRIMENTAL RELIANCE AS TACTIC TARGETING RANCHERS

http://www.familyfarmer.org/awg13.pdf

I came upon an interesting book called: Amber Waves of Gain: Gene Ladd, 2005- Chapter Nine-Aligning With the Extreme Right. The publication goes to extremes to cast New Mexico ranchers and the Minute Men as ‘shadowy groups’ intent on terrorism and violence, intimidation of law enforcement and numerous illegal acts. This is an example of the use of detrimental reliance used by environmentalists to sway public opinion in favor of environmental land grabs and programs like wolf reintroduction. I have no proof but I suspect the incidents of violence and threats were orchestrated by the environmentalists themselves in an effort to portray them as victims of violence perpetrated against them by ranchers and the Minute Men. Read the incredulous accounts of how these environmentalists have been terrorized by shadowy groups of terrorists from the ranches of Catron County.

From Gene Ladd’s book: Amber Waves of Gain:

P. 3
“New Mexico is home to one of the original county-supremacy movements.
Catron County’s government was the first to adopt ordinances aimed at seizing control of federal land.”

P. 3-4
“Yet the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau said it was outraged by the police training manual’s reference to that movement and used its influence with the governor and state lawmakers to put pressure on the state police. The New Mexico farm bureau did not let up until the Department of Public Safety agreed to withdraw the manual and recall all copies. By defending its wise-use friends, the farm bureau may have deprived law-enforcement agencies of important information about potential terrorist activities. According to police, two recent attacks on the offices of environmentalists in Santa Fe, New Mexico, may have been linked to one of the militant organizations described in the training manual. On March 19, 1999, a potentially deadly pipe bomb was discovered in the mailbox of Forest Guardians, a group advocating protection of wildlife and public lands. The bomb failed to go off and later was detonated by a Santa Fe police bomb squad. Police say the ball-bearingfilled pipe bomb was powerful enough to kill or seriously injure anyone nearby. The next day, a drawing was mailed to Forest Guardians showing the name of the organization centered beneath the cross-hairs of a rifle scope. The drawing was signed with the initials M.M., which police believe to stand for the Minute Men. This shadowy group has claimed credit for other attacks, including a 1998 nighttime shotgun blast that shattered windows at the Santa Fe offices of Animal Protection of New Mexico.

Before that attack, Animal Protection received a letter also signed M.M. warning, “You are approaching a point where we will hurt you. We are going to make a concerted effort to kill any wolf reintroduced into the wild and poison bison as long as you interfere with wildlife issues.

Both targeted environmental groups have supported wolf reintroduction. Forest Guardians also has filed a number of successful lawsuits leading to curbs on grazing, logging and water use on public lands and better protection of endangered species. There is no evidence that the Farm Bureau has been involved with any of the militant anti-environmental groups. But some observers believe that the bureau’s extreme rhetoric may encourage attacks. “The Farm Bureau sows the seeds of violence with its hateful rhetoric and antagonistic stance on wildlife issues,” says Forest Guardians president Sam Hitt. “The Farm Bureau has created a bigoted and intolerant atmosphere in which acts of violence thrive.” And nowhere is that attitude more apparent than on the issue of predator reintroduction.”

These groups are using urban terrorist tactics commonly used by anti-war groups like the Weather Underground and the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), during the Viet Nam war in the late 60’s and into the 1970’s. Today’s environmental movement includes leftovers from the anti-war movement that have found a home in the environmental movement.

Gene Ladd’s book, Amber Waves of Gain, is described as: The Amber Waves of Gain, How the Government Makes Us Fat and The Spriritual Power to Lose It.
This is a perfect example of detrimental reliance and the propaganda many young people are fed on college campuses and in the environmental movement. Mr. Ladd portrays the residents of Catron County as ‘county-supremacists’, creating their own law and using violence to intimidate the courageous environmentalists and wolf release advocates.
I looked up Mr. Ladd’s book on Amazon. The book is currently unavailable. Mr. Ladd has a radio show on WTBQ-AM; The Only Independent Radio Station Serving All of Orange County and Northern New Jersey. Gene Ladd is nicknamed the ‘Herb Man’ and does his show from the Pleasant Stone Farm in Middletown, New York. Pleasant Stone Farm sells herbs, natural health and beauty products, homeopathic remedies and other herbal remedies and products. Mr. Ladd has a radio show to plug his green business and a book that portrays ranchers in New Mexico as terrorists. Once again we see an Eastern environmental fanatic getting his self-worth, and part of his income at the expense of Americans living in the American West.

The phone number to Pleasant Stone Farm is listed on the greenpeople.org website.
The number is: 888-578-4372. I’ll see if I can arrange a phone interview with Mr. Ladd.
I’ll also check into the crimes he alleges were committed and charged, in his book, to anti-wolf advocates and the Minute Men. Environmentalists and wolf release advocates read this blog; maybe they’ll give him a heads up and he’ll contact us.

Mr. Ladd can contact the blog at spottedeagleboy@gmail.com. I promise him I won’t blow up the phone line while he’s on the line.

EARLY COUNTY SUPREMACIST, BILLY THE KID.






















Excerpts from Amber Waves of Gain by Gene Ladd were found on Google, right out there in plain sight in the public domain.