The UN’s got the money, the UN’s got
the water by Judi McLeod, 10/24/14, Canadafreepress.com
No one, and most especially
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, should be surprised that two United Nations
lawyers came to town to scold city officials for cutting off water to delinquent
customers, sanctimoniously describing the water shut-offs as a “human
rights” violation.
The United Nations
virtually owns cities and towns of North America like Detroit. They’re
just not usually that open about it.
The UN
ownership of cities and towns is called Agenda 21.
The best definition
of Agenda 21 comes right from the UN itself. In 1993, the UN
published ‘Agenda 21: The
Earth Summit Strategy to Save Our Planet’: “Agenda 21 proposes
an array of actions which are intended to be implemented by every person on
earth…it calls for specific changes in the activities of all
people…Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation
of all humans, unlike anything the world has ever experienced.
“And if you think they
are kidding in this Science Fiction-type definition of ‘The Agenda That
Really Wasn’t There’, ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability)
proves otherwise. (Canada
Free Press,
Aug. 20, 2012 )
“Nothing in Orwell’s
1984 can match the full horror of Agenda 21. It is serfdom by stealth.”
“In addition, some
178 countries are now pushing Agenda 21 but these are only the countries we
know about. “
Meanwhile, you can
bet whatever coins you have left in your cookie jar that the two representatives
with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights,
whose visit to Detroit lasted three days, during a time when the city is desperately
working to bail itself out of bankruptcy, did not go without water or any
other creature comfort.
“It is contrary to
human rights to disconnect water from people who simply do not have the
means to pay their bills,” Catarina de Albuquerque, one of the two representatives,
said Monday at the conclusion of their visit. (FoxNews, Oct. 21, 2014)
“I heard testimonies
from poor, African American residents of Detroit who were forced to make
impossible choices—to pay the water bill or to pay their rent.”
Decades of Democrat
rule left the once thriving city of Detroit high and dry, and that was before
a man called Barack Hussein Obama came along to nationalize the American
car industry back in 2008.
Were it not for the
human suffering in Democrat-hobbled Detroit, it would be downright comical
reading about how Alexis Wiley, Mayor Duggan’s top aide, said the city is
“very disappointed” with the “one-sided” UN
review of the city’s water problem.
“They weren’t interested
in the facts,” she said. “They took a position and never once [before Monday]
reached out to the city for data.”
The UN
doesn’t need to reach out to your city for data, Ms. Wiley. They already
have it, along with the data of some 600 and growing other American cities.
Cities in the know
should be “very alarmed” rather than “very disappointed” with a UN
that collects cities for its insidious Agenda 21 chokehold on society like
some have to collect pogey in declining economies.
Many babies were born
in the nine months it took the UN to hit town to weigh in on
the 27,000 Detroit water shut-offs from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30.
In a concerted
effort to collect on the more than $115 million in delinquent water and
sewer department payments, Detroit officials shut off water to both businesses
and residents who either are 60 days past due or owe more than $150 on their
water bills.
“Most shut-offs were
halted for several weeks this summer to give residents an opportunity to
enter a payment plan, but they have resumed with 5,100 shut-offs in September alone.
“Detroit officials
have defended the decision, arguing that customers collectively owed more
than $115 million in delinquent water-and-sewer department payments before
the city took action and that their efforts are improving the situation.
“The department said
it collected about $2.5 million in 2012 and 2013 and about $3.7 million in
the first nine months of this year.
“Ordinary residents
aren’t the only ones subject to the policy. Service was shut off to one city
council member. And an investigation by a local news organization found
city officials have collected on the more than $80,000 owed by the Joe Louis
Arena, home of the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings, and roughly
$55,000 past due from Ford Field, where the NFL’s
Detroit Lions play home games.
“Wiley also said
Detroit is helping residents by improving customer service, getting
33,000 people in the payment plans and cutting residential calls for
water assistance by more than 50 percent.
“De Albuquerque and
the other representative, Leilani Farha, visited Detroit after activists
appealed to the UN for assistance. Among them was the
American Civil Liberties Union, whose Michigan director Kary Moss said:
“It’s unfortunate that, in the Great Lakes State, we need a visit from an
international body to remind us of our most fundamental obligation to
our citizens. Water is life.”
“The representatives
met with residents and with Duggan and water department officials for
about two hours Monday morning.
“De Albuquerque and
Farha, also known as UN special rapporteurs, cited such
other problems as the city’s drastic population decline, rising unemployment
and the utility passing on higher costs associated with an aging system.
“De Albuquerque said
she has seen shut-offs in other U.S. cities and developed nations, but nothing
like Detroit. “Our conclusion is that you have here in Detroit a man-made perfect
storm,” she said. “The scale of the disconnections in the city is
unprecedented.”
“De Albuquerque and
Farha say the mayor’s plan to help delinquent customers fails to help the
chronically poor and those who face shut-offs. Farha also said at least some
residents said their past-due bills were the result of city billing or
accounting errors.
“However, they called
their conversation with Detroit officials “constructive.” They also said
they can’t enforce recommendations but want to help the city and residents
resolve the situation.”
If the UN
‘special rapporteurs’ really wanted to help Detroit, they’d pay off the $115
million owed in unpaid water bills. The UN’s
got the money and some of it came directly from the no-water beleaguered people
of Detroit.
But over the years,
the cash-rich UN has not even paid its outstanding
parking bills to the City of New York.
Perhaps there is a
light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, with the light on the hypocrisy of
the largest bureaucracy on earth being shone in by Detroit, some day
leading to hundreds of towns and cities kicking themselves free from the
toxic tentacles of the UN’s invading Agenda
21 Army.
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