Guerrilla wars: Get me the information!

Wherever I speak, people ask me, "How can I make a difference in the culture war? I'm just an Average American."

Ah, yes, but it was "just Average Americans" who stopped the United Nations' Wildlands project from sneaking into U.S. law. Wildlands would have had the effect of confining U.S. citizens to designated corridors of land while animal habitats and trails were returned to pre-Colombian purity. More about that in a moment.

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As journalist and a speaker, I have daily encounters with those who set public policy. Policy wonks perceive themselves as "change agents" on the front line of the culture war. This specialized species fill the halls of universities, foundations, think tanks and government offices. These folks are convinced that they control the process. They commission polls, interpret research, draft proposals and make recommendations to decision-makers.

Wonks do not understand themselves as serving the common good. No, they see themselves as guiding the masses toward a goal that the Average American is too dimwitted to desire.

Policy wonks know something else. They know you are too busy to fight back – you must make enough money to pay your taxes, keep shoes on the kids and gas in the car. If there is money left over, they hope you'll spend it at the movies or Disney World where the next generation of Average Americans will be seduced into abdicating basic reason on issues like homosexuality, private-property rights, gun ownership, ecology and sovereignty.

That's right – while you are pulling the wagon and coaching Little League, they are being paid (handsomely!) to fight off any resistance the Average American might offer. They have Harvard MBAs and Yale Ph.D.s, they have the grant money, the time, the tools – and they influence the media as "experts." It's no wonder so many of us have despaired of "making a difference."

But there are effective methods we can use to fight back. This is a guerrilla war for the survival of an authentic American society. One of the best tactics is to get the right information into the hands of the decision-makers. These are men and women who digest what the policy wonks feed them and darn little else, because – surprise! – they are too busy attending another budget meeting, another banquet, another shareholder confab, another press conference, another fund-raiser.

Bottom line: The decision-makers are often the victims of censorship, cronyism and time constraints. They frequently lack critical information necessary to make judicious decisions. It takes a dedicated lawmaker, doctor or corporate chief to do his or her own research. That's where we can make a difference.

This truth hit home for me last week when I heard three different decision-makers bark, "Get me the information!"

The first decision-maker I gathered data for was the Man of the House. (Now I am unmasked as a dedicated anti-feminazi.) In our household, it was time to re-evaluate insurance programs. Man of the House wanted to go with a program widely used by his cronies, but not best for us. He might be willing to entertain another option, but not willing to spend the time to investigate those options so he bounced the ball back, "Get me the information!"

Later in the week, a physician challenged my comment that there was a serious link between abortion and breast cancer. She dismissed such claims as "anti-choice scare tactics." When I persisted, citing studies and noting that "anti-life money-machines like Planned Parenthood are behind the spurious claim that the link is negligible," she became intrigued and yipped, "OK, OK, get me the information and I'll take a look at it."

Three days later, she spent 15 minutes discussing the data. "I'm persuaded that women should be told about these studies before they make their decision." Sadly, this physician has not been persuaded to support pro-life policies, but now she is a doctor willing to make sure a woman has all the information needed for an informed "choice."

Finally, an aide to a member of the European Parliament, who had helped me with a recent article, wanted to know why the Bush administration would not fund the United Nations Population Fund. When I replied that U.S. taxpayer monies could not be used to fund forced abortions and sterilizations, the aide scoffed, "You simply cannot believe that claptrap!" Informed that I do believe that China and Peru have used funds to savage family life in both nations, the aide demanded, "Get me the information!" It's too soon to know whether that data will land on the right desks, but there is reasonable hope that it will.

Judging by my e-mail, thousands of you have a spur under your saddle on at least one issue of national concern. Many of you find time between work and family to compile data that is not readily available to the casual reader. An astounding number of you are good analysts, too. But you are frustrated because you assume there is no outlet for your material. That's false.

In a dramatic and chilling exercise of "Average American" gumption, the members of the American Sheep Industry helped to derail a pernicious treaty just hours before a Senate vote in 1994.

The United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity, signed by Clinton and due to be ratified by the Senate, would have been implemented by a shadowy document called the Global Biodiversity Assessment. The GBA, section 13, outlined a U.S. Man and the Biosphere Strategic Plan. This Wildlands Project set aside vast areas of U.S. land for "core reserves" free of human habitation.

The U.N. denied that a map of such U.S. Wildlands existed, but research conducted by alarmed U.S. sheep and cattlemen associations provided the critical information for Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina. Sens. Hutchinson and Helms projected the Wildlands map on posters before the Senate vote, according to the Congressional Record.

There you have it – get the information! Get it into the hands of local, state and federal lawmakers, get it into the hands of corporate bigwigs, get it to local and national talk-radio hosts, raise awareness and force a debate. Join and inform professional associations (like the American Sheep Industry) and use the added clout of thousands of voices. Form your own associations (it's one of your rights under the Constitution) and get in gear. Spring for classy stationary and use it. We have a war to win.

Mary Jo Anderson is a contributing reporter to WorldNetDaily.