TEA Parties
and “End the Fed” Protests Cannot Win Back the Republic Without this
Information!
Many Americans appear
to be awakening from their slumber of apathy as government forces are making
their move for total control of our lives. Massive TEA Party protests across
the country show a growing movement of concerned, dedicated Americans. But
there is a major component missing from those protests. There is a nearly universal lack of
understanding of the issue of Sustainable Development and the dangers it poses
to our liberty. Consequently, that issue is being left out of the protests.
Meanwhile, as
thousands attend the TEA Parties and protest the Federal Reserve, taxes, and
out of control federal government, inside their local city halls, international
forces are busy turning the communities into little soviets.
I have been traveling
the nation sounding the alarm that we cannot win this battle to restore our
Republic if we don’t understand that what we face is not a bunch of random
issues – but a complete agenda of control – Sustainable Development. Cap N
Trade, global warming, population control, gun control, open borders and
illegal immigration, higher taxes, higher gas prices, refusal to drill American
oil, education restructuring, international IDs, natural health supplement control,
food control, farming “reform,” control of private property, NAIS and UN Global
Governance are all part of the Sustainable Development/Agenda 21 blueprint.
To that end, I am
providing this Special Report on Sustainable Development to give activists all
the ammunition they need to fight back. I am also including a list of more than
500 cities that are currently enacting Sustainable Development policies. If
this is happening in your town (and it is), I urge you to challenge your local
city council and mayor to stop these policies. The battles now must be fought
on the local level. Remove Sustainable Development from every community
and policies out of the federal government will be neutralized. And only then
can we be on our way to restoring the American Republic. ------- Tom DeWeese –
American Policy Center
Sustainable
Development: The Root of All Our Problems
In his book, Earth in
the Balance, Al Gore warned that a “wrenching transformation” must
take place to lead America away from the “horrors of the
Industrial Revolution.” The process to do that is called Sustainable Development
and it’s roots can be traced back to a UN policy document called Agenda
21, adopted at the UN’s Earth Summit in 1992. Sustainable Development calls for
changing the very infrastructure of the nation, away from private ownership and
control of property to nothing short of central planning of the entire economy
– often referred to as top-down control. Truly, Sustainable Development is
designed to change our way of life. In short, it’s all about wealth
redistribution. Your wealth into a green rat hole.
During the Cold War,
communists tried to get us to surrender our liberties and way of life for the
wisdom of Karl Marx. Americans didn’t buy it. But now, they have taken the same
clap trap and wrapped it all in a nice green blanket, scaring us with horror
stories about the human destruction of the environment – and so we are now
throwing our liberties on the bonfire like a good old fashioned book burning --
all in the name of protecting the planet.
It sounds so friendly. So meaningful.
So urgent. But, the devastation to our liberty and way of life is the same as
if Lenin ordered it.
We now have a new language
invading our government at all levels. Old words with new meanings fill
government policy papers. The typical city council
meeting discusses “community development,” “historic preservation,” and
“partnerships” between the city and private business.
Civic leaders organize
community meetings run by “facilitators,” as they outline a “vision”
for the town, enforced by “consensus.” No need for debate when you have
consensus! People of great importance testify before congressional committees
of the dire need for “social justice.”
Free trade, social
justice, consensus, global truth, partnerships, preservation,
stakeholders, land use, environmental protection, development, diversity,
visioning, open space, heritage, comprehensive planning, critical thinking, and
community service are all part of our new language.
What are they really
talking about? What mental pictures come to mind when those words are used?
George Orwell realized that those who control language and manipulate key
phrases can control policy.
The language is being
changed and manipulated to quietly implement a very destructive policy.
Whenever you see or hear these words, know that, in every case, they are
defining one thing - the implementation of Sustainable Development.
Rather than good
management of resources, Sustainable Development has come to mean denied use
and resources locked away from human hands. In short, it has become a code
word for an entire
economic and social agenda.
I have spent most of the
past 12 years studying every facet of this new political agenda which
is fast becoming a revolution -- touching every aspect of our
businesses, our public education system, our private property, our families and
our individual lives.
Interestingly, it is not a
Republican or Democrat issue. It’s not Liberal or Conservative. It is being
implemented on a purely bipartisan basis. It is now the official policy of the
United States, put in force by literally every department of the government. It
is the official policy of every state government, and nearly every city, town
and county in the nation.
But, I warn you, accepting
the perception that Sustainable Development is simply good environmental
stewardship is a serious and dangerous mistake.
So what is Sustainable Development?
The Sustainablists insist that society be transformed into feudal-like
governance by making nature the central organizing principle for our
economy and society.
To achieve this,
Sustainablist policy focuses on three components; global land use, global
education, and global population control.
Keep in mind that America
is the only country in the world based on the ideals of private
property. But, private property is incompatible with the collectivist
premise of Sustainable Development.
If you doubt that, then
consider this quote from the report of the 1976
UN’s Habitat I conference
which said: “Land …cannot be treated as an
ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures
and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a
principle instrument of accumulation and concentration of
wealth, therefore, contributes to social injustice.”
According to the
Sustainablist doctrine, it is a social injustice for some to have prosperity if
others do not. It is a social injustice to keep our borders closed. It is a
social injustice for some to be bosses and others to be merely workers.
Social justice is a major
premise of Sustainable Development. Another word for social justice, by the
way, is Socialism. Karl Marx was the first to coin the
phrase “social justice.” Some officials try to pretend that Sustainable
Development is just a local effort to protect the environment -- just your
local leaders putting together a local vision for the community. Then ask your
local officials how it is possible that the exact language and tactics for
implementation of Sustainable Development are being used in nearly every city
around the globe from Lewiston, Maine to Singapore.
Local indeed. Sustainable
Development is the process by which America is being reorganized around a central
principle of state collectivism using the environment as bait. The best way to
understand what Sustainable Development actually is can be found by discovering
what is NOT sustainable. According to the UN’s Biodiversity Assessment Report, items
for our everyday lives that are
NOT sustainable include:
Ski runs, grazing of livestock, plowing of soil, building fences, industry,
single family homes, paved and tarred roads,
logging activities, dams and reservoirs, power line construction, and economic
systems that fail to set proper value on the environment (capitalism, free
markets).
Maurice Strong, Secretary General
of the UN’s Rio Earth
Summit in 1992 said, “…Current
lifestyles and consumption patterns of the
affluent middle class – involving high meat intake, use of fossil
fuels, appliances, home and work air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not
sustainable.” Are you starting to see the pattern behind Cap N
Trade, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water
Act, and all of those
commercials you’re forced to watch about the righteousness of “Going
Green?” They are all part of the enforcement of Sustainable Development. And
one of the most destructive tools they use to force it on us is something
called the “precautionary principle.” That means that any activities that might
threaten human health or the environment should be stopped -- even if no
clear cause and effect relationship has been established – and even if the
potential threat is largely theoretical.
That makes it easy for any
activist group to issue warnings by news release or questionable
report and have those warnings quickly turned into public policy – just in
case. Many are now finding nonelected regional governments and governing
councils enforcing policy and regulations. As
these policies are implemented, locally-elected officials are actually losing
power and decision-making ability in their own communities. Most decisions are
now being made behind the scenes in
non-elected “sustainability councils” armed with truckloads of federal
regulations, guidelines, and grant money.
The three
Es
According to its authors,
the objective of Sustainable Development is to integrate economic,
social, and environmental policies in order to achieve reduced consumption,
social equity, and the preservation and restoration of biodiversity.
The Sustainabalists insist
that society be transformed into feudallike governance by making Nature
the central organizing principle for our economy and society.
As such, every societal decision would first be questioned as to how it might
effect the environment. To achieve this,
Sustainablist policy
focuses on three components; land use, education, and population
control/reduction. The Sustainable Development logo used in most literature on
the subject contains three connecting circles labeled Social Equity;
Economic Prosperity; and Ecological Integrity (known commonly as the
3 Es).
Social
Equity
As stated, Sustainable
Development’s Social Equity plank is based on a demand for
“social justice.” Today, the phrase is used throughout Sustainablist
literature. The Sustainablist system is based on the principle
that individuals must give up selfish wants for the needs of the common
good, or the “community.” How does this differ from
Communism?
This is the same policy
behind the push to eliminate our nation’s borders to allow the “migration” of
those from other nations into the United States to share our individually created
wealth and our taxpayers paid government social programs.
Say the Sustainablists,
“Justice and efficiency go hand in hand.”
“Borders,” they say, “are
unjust.” Under the Sustainablist system, private property is an
evil that is used simply to create wealth for a few. So too, is business
ownership. Instead, “every worker/person will be a direct capital owner.”
Property and businesses are to be kept in the name of the owner, keeping them
responsible for taxes and other expenses, however control is in the hands of
the “community.” That policy is right out of the Socialist handbook.
Economic
Prosperity
Sustainable Development’s economic
policy is based on one overriding premise: that
the wealth of the world was made at the expense of the poor. It
dictates that, if the conditions of the poor are to be improved, wealth must
first be taken from the rich.
Consequently, Sustainable
Development’s economic policy is based not on private enterprise but on
public/private partnerships. In order to give themselves an advantage over
competition, some businesses -- particularly large corporations – now find a
great advantage in dealing directly with government, actively lobbying for
legislation that
will inundate smaller
companies with regulations that they cannot possibly comply with or
even keep up with. This government/big corporation
back-scratching has always been a dangerous practice because economic power
should be a positive check on government power, and vice versa.
If the two should ever become combined, control of such massive
power can lead only to tyranny. One of the best examples of this was
the Italian model in the first half of the Twentieth Century under Mussolini’s
Fascism.
Together, select business
leaders who have agreed to help government impose Sustainablist green positions
in their business policies, and officials at all levels of government are
indeed merging the power of the economy with the force of government in Public/
Private Partnerships on the local, state and federal levels.
As a result, Sustainable Development
policy is redefining free trade to mean centralized global trade “freely”
crossing (or eliminating) national borders. It
definitely does not mean people and companies trading freely with each
other. Its real effect is to redistribute American manufacturing, wealth, and
jobs out of our borders and to lock away American natural resources. After the regulations
have been put in place, literally
Equity
destroying whole
industries, new “green” industries created with federal grants bring newfound
wealth to the “partners.” This is what Sustainablists refer to as economic
prosperity.
Ecological
Integrity
“Nature
has an integral set of different values (cultural, spiritual and material)
where humans are one strand in nature’s web and all living creatures
are considered equal. Therefore the natural way is the right way and human
activities should be molded along nature’s rhythms.” From the
UN’s Biodiversity Treaty presented at the 1992 UN Earth Summit. This
quote lays down the ground rules for the entire Sustainable Development
agenda. It says humans are nothing special – just one strand in
the nature of things or, put another way, humans are simply biological
resources. Sustainablist policy is to oversee any issue in which man
interacts with nature - which, of course, is literally everything.
And because the environment always comes first, there must be
great restrictions over private property ownership and control.
This is necessary, Sustainablists say, because humans only defile nature.
Under Sustainable
Development there can be no concern over individual rights – as we must all
sacrifice for the sake of the environment. Individual human wants, needs, and
desires are to be conformed to the
views and dictates of social planners. The UN’s Commission on Global Governance
said in its 1995 report: “Human activity… combined with unprecedented
increases in human numbers… are impinging on the planet’s basic life
support system. Action must be taken now to control the human
activities that produce these risks”
Under Sustainable
Development there can be no limited government, as advocated by our Founding Fathers,
because, we are told, the real or perceived environmental crisis is too great.
Maurice Strong, Chairman of the 1992 UN Earth Summit said:
“A shift is necessary
toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.
The shift will require a vast strengthening of the multilateral system,
including the United Nations.” The politically based environmental
movement provides
Sustainablists camouflage
as they work to transform the American systems of government,
justice, and economics. It is a masterful mixture of socialism (with its top
down control of the tools of the economy) and fascism (where property is owned
in name only – with no control). Sustainable Development is the worst of both
the left and the right. It is not liberal, nor is it conservative. It is a new
kind of tyranny that, if not stopped, will surely lead us to a new Dark Ages of
pain and misery yet unknown to mankind.
Many Americans ask how
dangerous international policies can suddenly turn up in state and local government,
all seemingly uniform to those in communities across the nation and around the
globe.
The answer – meet ICLEI, a
non-profit, private foundation, dedicated to helping your mayor implement all
of his promises. Originally known as the International Council for Local
Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), today the group simply calls itself “ICLEI
– Local Governments for Sustainability.”
In 1992, ICLEI was one of
the groups instrumental in creating Agenda 21. The group’s mission is to push local
communities to regulate the environment – and it’s having tremendous success.
I have included a list of
544 American cities in which ICLEI is being paid with tax dollars from city
councils to implement and enforce Sustainable Development. ICLEI is there to
assure that the mayors keep their promises and meet their goals. Climate
change, of course, is the ICLEI mantra.
Here’s just some of the
programs ICLEI provides cities and towns, in order to spread their own
particular political agenda in the name of “community services” and
environmental protection, they include:
Software
programs to help set the goals for community development – which leads to
taking control of your private property;
Access to
a network of “Green” experts, newsletters, conferences and workshops – to
assure the indoctrination of city employees is complete;
Toolkits,
online resources, case studies, fact sheets, policy and practice manuals, and blueprints
used by other communities – so you know you are not
alone;
Training
workshops for staff and elected officials on how to
develop and implement the programs -- wanna bet they never seem
to mention that thousands of scientists around the world now say
man-made global warming is a myth and none of these
programs are necessary? Probably doesn’t make it into the
workshop; And, of course, there’s Notification of relevant grant
opportunities – this is the important one – money – with
severe strings attached. ICLEI recommends that the community hire
a full Remove ICLEI - Restore the Republic! time
“sustainability manager,” who, even in small towns, can devote
100% of his time to assure that every nook and corner of the government
is on message and under control.
As I said, it’s not about
protecting the environment; it’s about reinventing government with a specific
political agenda. ICLEI and others are dedicated to controlling your locally
elected public officials to quietly implement an all encompassing tyranny over
every community in the nation. Like a disease, ICLEI (or others of its kind) is
entrenched in most American cities, dictating policy to your locally elected
officials, controlling policy and making sure they do not listen to your
protests. To truly see tyranny in action, one only needs to go to a city council
meeting and attempt to ask questions or discuss a sustainable development
program. Most who have tried it have been literally physically removed from the
chamber.
It’s time to remove ICLEI.
Look at this list of communities where they currently hide behind the curtain --
and take action to remove them. Now, before your community is run like a
soviet, where there is no debate, no regard for constitutionally-guaranteed
rights, no property rights, no free markets, no alternative thought.
Through ICLEI there is
only top-down control – just like a soviet. Remove ICLEI - Restore the
Republic!
Action to
Take:
ICLEI is one of the most
dangerous forces in the nation, particularly because so few people know of
their existence. But your mayor and city council know. They are in regular
meetings with them. They get memos on policy. They are told what to support and
who to silence. What they fear most is exposure. Now, we can turn the tables on
ICLEI by shining a bright spotlight on their activities in your community.
First, go to a
city council meeting and listen to the discussion. Are they talking about land
use, water control, development control? Are they using the language I have
described in this issue? If so, Sustainable Development is ruling your
community.
Second, begin
to ask questions. You may have to do it after the meeting, but if you can, ask
during… Ask where these policies they are discussing come from. Ask if your
community is now paying dues to a group called the International Council for
Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI). Once you have determined that ICLEI is
truly in your community, then the battle can begin. Remember, the list of ICLEI
cities on this page came directly from the ICLEI web page – so you already know
they are there.
Third, our
opposition to Sustainable Development is not oppositition to Environmental
Protection. We oppose the process which
replaces locally-elected representation with all-powerful non-elected boards,
councils and regional governments. That process eliminates input, discussion
and debate from community citizens.
Fourth, demand
that your locally-elected representatives stop paying dues to ICLEI and remove
the organization from making
policy.
(ICLEI member Cities and
Counties in GA include: Atlanta, GA, Chatham County, GA,
Decatur, GA, Fulton County, GA, Savannah, GA
All
other Cities and Counties in GA that have used the American Planning
Association or have a Sustainability Commission will have ICLEI policies in
their Master Plans.
The
Georgia legislature passed HB 1216 in 2008 authorizing appointed, unelected
Regional Councils to help us do things we’ve always done on our own. They also passed HB 277 authorizing the
T-SPLOST with projects approved by appointed, unelected Regional Councils to
control transportation project authorization.
This usurps city and county sovereignty and “home rule” in the Georgia
Constitution. They did this in order to
get federal transportation funds.)
The Four
Part Process Leading to Sustainable Development
So how is this wrenching transformation
being put into place?
There are four very
specific routes being used.
In the rural areas it’s
called the Wildlands Project. In the cities it’s called smart growth. In
business it’s called Public/Private Partnerships. And in government it’s called
stakeholder councils and non-elected boards and regional government.
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The Wildlands Project was
the brainchild of Earth First’s Dave Foreman and it literally calls for the “re-wilding”
of 50% of all the land in every state – back to the way it was before
Christopher Columbus set foot on this land. It is a diabolical plan to herd humans
off the rural lands and into human settlements. Crazy you say!
Yes. Impossible? Not so
fast. From the demented mind of Foreman, the plan became
the blueprint for the UN’s Biodiversity Treaty. So now the scheme is international
in scope.
But how do you remove
people from the land? One step at a time.
Let’s begin with a
biosphere reserve. A national park will do. A huge place where there is no
human activity. How about Yellowstone National Park? Then you establish a
buffer zone around the reserve. Inside the buffer only limited human activity
is allowed. Slowly, you squeeze until you squash that human activity.
Once accomplished, you
extend the area of the biosphere to the limits of the former buffer area – and
then you create a new buffer zone around the now larger biosphere and start the
process over again. In that way, the Biosphere Reserve acts like a cancer cell,
ever expanding, until all human activity is stopped. And there are many tools
in place to stop human activity and grow the reserve.
Push back livestock’s
access to riverbanks on ranches; 300 feet ought to do it. When the
cattle can’t reach the stream, the rancher can’t water them -- he
goes out of business. Lock away natural resources by creating
national parks. It shuts down the mines -- and they go out of business. Invent
a Spotted Owl shortage and pretend it can’t live in a forest where timber is
cut. Shut off the forest. Then, when no trees are cut, there’s nothing to feed the
mills and then there are no jobs, and -- they go out of business.
Locking away land cuts the
tax base. Eventually the town dies. Keep it up and there is nothing
to keep the people on the land – so they head to the cities. The wilderness grows
– just like Dave Foreman planned. It comes in many names and many programs.
Heritage areas, land management, wolf and bear reintroduction, rails to trails,
conservation easements,
open space, and many more. Each of these programs is designed to make it just a
little harder to live on the land – a little more expensive – a little more hopeless.
Now tell me how they can deny that the process is herding people into human
habitat areas?
In the West, where vast
areas of open space make it easy to impose such policies there are
several programs underway to remove humans from the land. Today, there are at
least 31 Wildlands projects underway, locking away more than 40 percent of the
nation’s land. The Alaska Wildlands Project seeks to lock away and control almost
the entire state. In Washington State, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, parts of North
and South Dakota, parts of California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming,
Texas, Utah, and more there are at least 22 Wildlands Projects underway. For example,
one project called Yukon to Yellowstone (Y2Y) – creates a 2000 mile no-man’s
land corridor from the Arctic to Yellowstone.
East of the Mississippi,
there are at least nine Wildlands projects, covering Maine,
Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia, Ohio, Virginia, Tennessee, North and
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Watch for names of Wildlands Projects like
Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Appalachian Restoration
Project and Piedmont Wildlands Project.
The second path is
called Smart Growth. After they herd you into
the city, they have more plans for you in regimented and dense urban
communities. They put a line around the city and tell you no growth can take
place outside that line. Urban sprawl, they say
disdainfully. They refuse to build more roads as a ploy to get you out of your
car into public transportation, restricting mobility.
Because there is a
restriction on space inside the controlled city limits there is a shortage of
houses, so prices go up. That means populations will have to be controlled,
because now there is a shortage of land.
Cities are now passing
“green” regulations, forcing homeowners to meet strict guidelines for making their
homes environmentally compliant, using specific building materials, forcing
roof replacements, demanding replacement of appliances, and more. In Oakland,
California, such restrictions with compliance demanded in just a matter of a
few years will cost each homeowner an estimated $36,000. The
Cap-N-Trade bill contains a whole section on such restrictions for the nation.
Third, inside
the human habitat areas, government is controlled by an elite ruling class
called stake holder councils. These are mostly nongovernmental organizations,
or NGOs, who, like thieves in the night, just show up to
stake their claim to enforce their own private agendas. The function of
legitimate government within the system will be simply to enforce the dictates
of the councils. The councils are unelected, but all powerful. They are
controlled by a small minority in the community, but they are all powerful.
They will make you ask permission (usually denied) for anything necessary to live in the community.
They destroy business.
They dictate the number of outlets a business may have in a community, no
matter what the population demands. For example, in San Francisco there can only
be seven McDonalds. Period. They can dictate the kind of building materials you
can use in your home – or whether you can build on your property at all. Then,
if they do grant a permit for building, they might not decide to let
you acquire water and electricity for your new home – and they may or may
not give you a reason for being turned down. They can dictate that you get the proper
exercise – as determined by the government. Again, San Francisco is building a
new federal building – the greenest ever built. The elevators will only stop on
every third floor so riders are forced to use stairs – for their own health, of
course. These councils fit almost perfectly the definition of a State Soviet; a
system of councils that report to an apex council and then
implement a predetermined outcome. Soviets are the operating
mechanism of a government-controlled economy.
The fourth path is
Public/Private Partnerships. Today, many freedom organizations are presenting
PPPs as free enterprise and a private answer for keeping taxes down by using business
to make a better society. In truth, many PPPs are nothing more than government-sanctioned
monopolies in which a few businesses are granted special favors like tax
breaks, the power of eminent domain, non-compete clauses and specific
guarantees for return on their investments.
That means they can charge
what they want and they can use the power of government to put competition out of
business. That is not free enterprise. And it is these global corporations that
are pushing the green agenda.
For example, using
government to ban its own product, General Electric is forcing the
mercury-laden green light bulb on you, costing 5 times the price of
incandescent bulbs. Such is the reality of green industry. PPPs are building
the Trans Texas Corridor, using eminent domain to take more than
580,000 acres of private land - sanctioned by the partnership with
the Texas government. And PPPs are taking over highways and local
water treatment plants in communities across the nation. PPPs
controlling the water can control water consumption – a major part of the
Sustainable Development blueprint.
The North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is the root of the “Free Trade” process
and the fuel for PPPs between international corporations and
government, thereby creating an “elite” class of “connected” businesses –
or what
Ayn Rand called “the power
of pull.” Success in the PPP world is not based on quality of
product and service, but on who you know in high places. To play ball
in the PPP game means accepting the mantra of Sustainable Development and helping
to implement it, even if it means going against your own product. That’s why
Home Depot uses its commercials to oppose cutting down trees and British
Petroleum advocates
reducing the use of oil. It is not free enterprise, but a Mussolini-type
fascism that will only lead to tyranny. And it’s all driven by the Agenda 21
blueprint of Sustainable Development.
Source: Tom DeWeese,
American Policy Center
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