In the recently concluded
107th General Assembly of the Tennessee Legislature, by large majorities in
both chambers, House Joint Resolution 587 denouncing United Nations Agenda 21
on Sustainable Development was passed.
This resolution identifies and condemns Agenda 21 as a
"comprehensive plan of extreme environmentalism, social engineering and
global political control" that threatens the private ownership of property
and national sovereignty.
Why are our Tennessee representatives so alarmed about Agenda 21?
In 1992, Agenda 21 was unveiled during the U.N. Conference on Environment and
Development, commonly known as the Rio Earth Summit, where more than 170
nations adopted Agenda 21. Maurice Strong, secretary-general of the Rio Earth
Summit, stated at the conference that "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."
Although Congress never authorized the implementation of Agenda
21, in 1993 President Bill Clinton established by executive order the
President's Council on Sustainable Development for the purpose of implementing
Agenda 21 in the United States.
Agenda 21 has two primary action plans — Smart Growth and the
Wildlands Project.
Sometimes called "comprehensive planning" or
"growth management," Smart Growth policies include transportation
plans that reduce the freedom of mobility. The long-term goal essentially is to
eliminate "unsustainable" single-family dwellings and force humanity
into densely packed, rigidly controlled cities.
The Wildlands Project calls for the elimination or restriction of
human activity on much of American land. Examples of how the Wildlands Project
is being implemented include road closings and the adoption of U.N. Biosphere
Reserves and World Heritage Sites. These areas are systematically being closed
to recreational use and have habitat "protection" impositions placed
on them.
Former Vice President Al Gore has said that sustainable growth
entails a "wrenching transformation" of American society. Just how
wrenching? Among the actions that are deemed unsustainable, contained in the
U.N. Biodiversity Assessment Report issued in 1995, are the grazing of
livestock, plowing the soil, fencing pastures, paving roads, building dams and
power line construction.
Agenda 21 is being implemented at the local level through the use
of so-called facilitated stakeholder councils, not by vote, and by the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development's Smart Growth grants through the
American Planning Association.
The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
communicates with local special interests to translate international policy
objectives into local and regional legislation through manipulative
"visioning" sessions.
School children are not being taught to be American citizens, but
citizens of a global village. Today's public education system is designed to
crush out children's vibrant eagerness to learn and mold them into easily
controlled vassals of an all-powerful state.
Source: 6/30/12, Douglas
and Vicki Freeman live in Knoxville TN.
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