When the fight started against
Agenda 21, those of us working to expose it were largely ignored by the main
stream media and even the established Conservative movement and its media. Too
far out there, they said, to be taken seriously.
Then, as more and more Americans
began to experience the dire effects of Sustainable Development in their daily
lives, suddenly our message began to take hold. Today, thousands of Americans
have taken up the fight. And anti-Agenda 21 activists are storming planning
meetings, demanding answers. State legislatures and even some county and city
governments are passing legislation against it. It seems the Agenda 21 fight is
everywhere.
So, now, proponents of the
Sustainable Development policy are alarmed and working feverishly to counter
our claims that such controls over local development and energy policy have
their roots in international policy. In particular, our claims that these
planning policies come from the UN’s Agenda 21, that was introduced to the
world at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992.
Their most often used description of
Agenda 21 is an “innocuous, 20 year old document that has no enforcement power.”
Continuously we hear that local planning programs, especially from such groups
like the American Planning Association (APA) have no connection to Agenda 21 or
the UN. It’s all local – or as the APA says in its document, Glossary for the
Public, “There is no hidden agenda.” In its “Agenda 21: Myths and Facts”
document found on the APA website, the group goes to extreme measures to
distance itself and its policies from Agenda 21, specifically saying “The
American Planning Association has no affiliation regarding any policy goals and
recommendations of the UN.”
Well, then it would be interesting
to hear the APA explain this information found in one of its own documents from 1994. The document was an APA newsletter to its members in the
Northern California (San Francisco Area). The article was a commentary entitled
“How Sustainable is Out Planning, by Robert Odland. It was written just two
years after the UN Earth Summit at which Agenda 21 was first introduced to the
world. The document can be viewed here.
The fifth paragraph of the article
says, “Vice President Gore’s book, Earth in the Balanceaddressed
many of the general issues of sustainability. Within the past year, the
President’s Council on Sustainable Development has been organized to develop
recommendations for incorporating sustainability into the federal government.
Also, various groups have been formed to implement Agenda 21, a comprehensive
blueprint for sustainable development that was adopted at the recent UNCED
conference in Rio de Janeiro (the “Earth Summit.”)
In one paragraph, this document
brings together the APA, Agenda 21, the UN’s Earth Summit, Al Gore, Sustainable
Development, the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, NGO groups
with the mission of implementing Agenda 21 and the description of Agenda 21 as
a “comprehensive Blueprint” for Sustainable planning. It sounds like it came
verbatim from one of my speeches!
A couple of paragraphs higher in the
article, it says, “A common misconception is that sustainability is
synonymous with self-sufficiency; on the contrary, sustainability must
recognize the interconnections between different levels of societal structure.”
That “societal structure” is “social justice,” as described in Agenda 21. A
visit to the PlannersNetwork.org,
which the APA is a member, will find in its Statement of Principles this quote:
“We believe planning should be a
tool for allocating resources…and eliminating the great inequalities of wealth
and power in our society … because the free market has proven incapable of
doing this.”
The United Nations blatantly
advocates that Capitalism and private property rights are not sustainable and
pose the single greatest threat to the world’s ecosystem and social equity.
And, while sometimes using different words, the APA is helping
communities across the nation enforce these ideas, while swearing it is all a
local idea, designed from local input.
As George Orwell masterfully put it
in his epic novel “Animal Farm,” it’s become difficult to see the difference
between the pigs and the farmers – or the APA and the UN.
Sustainable Development is not
implemented in the open, as the APA claims, but in back rooms filled with the
proper NGO organizations, which surround your elected officials and pressures
their actions. In that way it is changing our American society and form of
government, making government more powerful and more invasive in our daily
lives. Sustainability is anti free enterprise, anti private property, and anti
individual – and that’s why we oppose it.
Source: American Policy.org- Tom DeWeese, June 5th, 2013 See more at: http://americanpolicy.org/2013/06/05/here-it-is-the-smoking-gun/#sthash.IjQU6j6A.dpuf
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