Sovereignty Act Debate
Evokes An Attack On American Policy Center
Activist, Tom DeWeese,
says Rep. Hoeffel "Understands nothing about this vital piece of
legislation"
May 21, 1999
Herndon, VA (05/20/99, PM) -- An
activist, grass-roots think tank, the American Policy Center, came under
attack by Rep. Joseph Hoeffel (D-PA, 13th DST. who used a fund raising
letter to dispute the Center's support for Congressman Don Young's
"American Land Sovereignty Protection Act (H.R. 883) during debate
today. "Rep. Hoeffel," said the Center's president, Tom DeWeese,
"knows nothing about this vital piece of legislation which will
insure that the United Nations will not be able to exercise any control
over a single inch of the US landmass."
Reading from the American Policy Center
letter, Rep. Hoeffel denied DeWeese's assertion that "Liberals know
this bill will terminate United Nation's influence on 5l million acres of
U.S. national parklands" and that "Liberals know this bill will
gut the extremist United Nations' environmental agenda and will lead to
the end of international treaties and agreements that give the UN control
over development" throughout vast areas of the US.
Rep. Hoeffel said, "There are no
treaties." DeWeese responded saying, "This Congressman's
ignorance puts the entire nation's control over its own lands at risk. The
US is a signatory to the Biodiversity Treaty and the World Heritage Sites
treaty. Both permit faceless, unknown, UN bureaucrats the right to veto
any kind of change or development. This occurred when UN officials were
invited in by the Clinton Administration to stop the creation of a gold
mine in Montana based on the false assertion it would threaten Yellowstone
National Park. Those reserves of gold remain untouched because of UN
intervention."
DeWeese said that "Rep. Hoeffel is
obviously unaware that one of the UN World Heritage Sites he says doesn't
exist is Independence Hall in Philadelphia!" DeWeese added that
"These UN treaties are a threat to the right of this nation to
control its own lands and waterways. That right must be protected no less
than we were under attack by a foreign enemy."
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