A generation ago, federal public lands advocates across the western United States were on alert for “blue helmets” in black unmarked helicopters engaged in a secret plan, a conspiracy by the United Nations to control access to America’s vast federal lands.
That may have been bonkers, but the fear of a U.N. “takeover” of public lands in the United States persists, only this time, it’s not “blue helmets” in helicopters but accountants and global financiers with red pens who are allegedly undermining American sovereignty.
