Department of Aquatic Fear

Richard Baumer: Sunrise Over Snake Island ~Enlarge

Put the two words "United Nations" in any domestic policy discussion and you inflame the fears of those concerned about a conspiracy to create one world government spying on us all. That applies even when the issue -- the effect of the Obama Administration's task force on ocean and Great Lakes policy -- comes with this third-party disclaimer: 

"Obama has said he will not override protections put in place by Presidents Clinton and Bush that established recreational fishermen as a special class.

"But critics still worry about the Obama administration’s ties to environmental groups that espouse 'anti-use' policies that put some habitats out of reach even for rod and reel fishermen, who take only 3 percent of America’s landed catch every year."

Oh, those supremely powerful environmental groups -- no doubt a secret auxiliary of the U.N.

This is clearly an attempt by some with a political agenda to divide the conservation and environmental communities. Let's hope it doesn't succeed at a time when the combined might of the two communities is needed to have any chance on issues like the Clean Water Restoration Act.

UPDATE:  More on the myth here.