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I want to know where the radical environmentalists are. Why is this alright with them?

Mexican Gangsters Converting America's National Parks Into Gigantic Marijuana Patches
By Brenda Walker

Vast tracts of our most treasured public lands, supposedly set aside in perpetuity for Americans, are no longer controlled by the United States government. Instead, they have been invaded and taken over by Mexico's violent criminal drug organizations to grow marijuana.

Even more shocking: Mexican cartels have been growing marijuana for at least 10 years in Sequoia National Park, one of the crown jewels of the system. Nature-loving hikers are compelled to accept that parts of Sequoia are "no go zones" during the growing season.

These Mexican marijuana messes are an ecological disaster. They are not innocent little plots that leave a minimal footprint. They are industrial grow sites, toxic stews where the gangsters use dangerous and illegal chemical herbicides, pesticides and growth hormones that result in long-lasting environmental damage.

National parks are supposed to be protected at the highest standard, preserving them for future generations in a pristine, unspoiled state. But he Mexican infestation has corrupted that idea to its core.

Drug czar John Walters testified to Congress in March that

"10 acres of forest are damaged for every acre planted with marijuana, with an estimated cost of $11,000 per acre to repair and restore land that has been contaminated with the toxic chemicals, fertilizers, irrigation tubing, and pipes associated with marijuana cultivation."

The Mexican gangsters (who are often illegal aliens) routinely cut down trees, divert streams with systems of PVC pipe and poach wildlife for food. Their operations are big business: In 2007, more than 20,000 plants were found in Yosemite National Park and 43,000 plants in Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park. The eradication operations cost the government millions of dollars, but today there is no money for the clean-up, so funds are either diverted from other projects or volunteers help out. Sadly, with budgets slim, park protection and maintenance do not rank high on Washington's priorities. The problem gets worse every year.

In an eradication photo-op in mid-October, John Walters remarked, "Some of these groups not only engage in crime and violence not only in Mexico and along the border, but they come across and kidnap, murder and carry out assassinations... These groups do not respect the border." [US official: Mexican cartels murder, kidnap in US, Associated Press, October 19, 2008]

Walters spoke in Sequoia Park, where plots were first discovered in 1998. Since it's tougher to smuggle pot post-9/11 because of increased border security and they can save money by eliminating transportation costs, the dealers grow pot stateside. The national forests have also been badly affected (see 2006 map).

In addition to the pollution, there is the danger to hikers of wandering into a booby-trapped pot grove guarded by Mexican thugs with full-auto weapons. Several law enforcement officers have been injured in altercations with growers. No hiker has been killed—yet.

This park destruction is reported every year, along with other harvest news. Camo-clad officers swoop down from military helicopters into hidden pot fields, arrest the caretakers and uproot the plants. Every summer-to-fall season brings the same predictable stories in the press:

2008 Mexican marijuana cartels sully US forests, parks [AP, October 9]

2007 Cartels grow pot on 'national treasures' [Washington Times, July 16]

2006 Pot farms ravaging park land: Big raid in Marin County hints at the extent of damaging techniques by growers [San Francisco Chronicle, September 6]

2005 War of the weed [Los Angeles Times, August 9]

2004 Policing runs gamut from poaching to dead bodies [San Francisco Chronicle, August 17]

2003 Park's Pot Problem Explodes [Los Angeles Times, May 14]

2002 Marijuana Found Thriving in Forests [New York Times, November 16]
And so it goes, in depressingly predictable fashion. The MainStream Media has actually done a decent job in shining a spotlight on the problem. But Washington has not reacted.

Citizens who know about the extent of the destruction (e.g. VDARE.com readers) ask: where the environmentalists are in organizing opposition to this fundamental affront to the conservation movement.

Unfortunately, the environmentalists who should be defending the parks don’t care that our natural heritage icons have been invaded and despoiled.

The flagship green organization, the Sierra Club, has said that it has "other priorities." [War of the Weed, By Joe Robinson, LA Times, August 9, 2005]

The Sierra Club was once a stalwart non-partisan defender of the planet and enemy of pollution. The organization's Mission Statement is a fine encapsulation of environmentalist values:

“To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth;
To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources;
To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.â€

Can anyone name one place in the world where Mexicans live or take over where they haven't turned it into a cesspool or drug and crime center?

Can anyone name one place in the world where Mexicans live or take over where they haven't turned it into a cesspool or drug and crime center?

Nope. Sorry to say. I know even here they are in the parks and even went into farm land. They've closed a bunch of our state parks because of no funding......can't wait to see what they discover if they ever re-open them.

Sierra Club Contact page:
http://www.sierraclub.org/contact/


I emailed them once at "General Information" asking why, while taking up environmental causes around the world, the Sierra Club did not protest the terrible destruction being done by the constant flow of illegal immigrants across our fragile desert regions along the US border with Mexico. I received a personal reply, but it was pretty much as outlined in this article: they believe environmenal consiousness must be "global" in order to be effective.