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Sierra Club Puppeteer:: Long-Suspected Scandal Revealed



 
 
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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."

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