Government Land Grabs, from ‘Natural Asset Companies’ to Agenda 2030: Margaret Byfield
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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“They’re trying to create this new asset class ... and they get to arbitrarily decide how much they are valued. So, it’s not that the marketplace is going to value them. It’s going to be a bureaucrat sitting in a room saying that the air you breathe is worth X, and the air I breathe is worth Y.”
Margaret Byfield was raised on a 7,000-acre ranch in Nevada. For nearly 30 years, her family fought the federal government to maintain ownership of their property and its resources. But ultimately, the government prevailed.
“The federal government was never supposed to own the land. In fact, that was one of the big conflicts after our Revolutionary War,” says Ms. Byfield.
Today, she is executive director of American Stewards of Liberty, working to protect the production of food, fiber, minerals, and energy from agendas that seek to erode individual property rights.
“Agendas like 30 by 30, well it’s going to really harm our food production. How are we going to feed our nation and the world? Well, that’s not a problem to them because their belief is there are too many of us and therefore this is just the way to get rid of part of us through starvation,” she says. “Either you have the right to own property, or you are property.”
We discuss Natural Asset Companies, ecosystem services, the United Nations’ sustainable goals, and other government land grabs being carried out in the name of conservation and protecting the environment.
“Fifty percent of the West is owned by the federal government. So, the East is privately settled, which is how our country was supposed to be settled,” says Ms. Byfield.
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| 0:00.0 | hate yourself and you're 14 and you can be a different person with a different name and a different |
| 0:04.6 | pronoun and a different body and nobody will ever be able to refer to the old you. |
| 0:09.4 | It's a very beguiling, alluring thought. |
| 0:13.0 | And so these kids fall for it. |
| 0:15.0 | As a young girl, Stella O'Malley believed for years that she should have been born a boy. |
| 0:20.0 | I would definitely easily have met the criteria that would now be called a diagnosis of |
| 0:25.6 | childhood onset gender dysphoria. Horrible experience but I came through it |
| 0:29.9 | and ultimately became comfortable in my own skin and ultimately became a mother which is the thing I'm most proud of and |
| 0:36.8 | most connected to in my life. |
| 0:39.3 | Today she is a practicing psychotherapist and founder of Gen Specte, which promotes a non-medicalized approach to gender distress. |
| 0:47.5 | She is author of many books, including most recently, when kids say they're trans, a guide for parents. This is American Thought Leaders and I'm |
| 0:56.0 | Yanya Kellick. |
| 0:57.0 | Estella O'Malley, such a pleasure to have you on American thought leaders. |
| 1:02.8 | Thank you very much. It's great to be here. |
| 1:04.8 | I'm very happy to have you in that seat. |
| 1:06.9 | You know, many people I've spoken to that are fighting what we might call gender ideology have spoken of you in a very favorable light. |
| 1:16.7 | They've mentioned that through GenSpeck, your organization you've provided quite a bit of guidance to them. |
| 1:23.7 | And you know you've written some absolutely fascinating books |
| 1:27.4 | when kids say they're trans is one. |
| 1:31.6 | Before we jump into the details, tell me a little bit about your story, |
| 1:36.0 | which I find actually quite fascinating as well. |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah, little did I know I'd be thinking about my childhood so much when I was a fully grown adult. |
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