AMERICAN POLICY CENTER » AGENDA 21 IN ONE EASY LESSON
Awareness
of Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development is racing across the nation as
citizens in community after community are learning what their city planners are
actually up to. As awareness grows, I am receiving more and more calls for
tools to help activists fight back. Many complain that elected officials just
won’t read detailed reports or watch long videos. “Can you give us something
that is quick, and easy to read that we can hand out,” I’m asked.
So
here it is. A one page, quick description of Agenda 21 that fits on one page.
I’ve also included for the back side of your hand out a list of quotes for the
perpetrators of Agenda 21 that should back up my brief descriptions.
A
word of caution, use this as a starter kit, but do not allow it to be your only
knowledge of this very complex subject. To kill it you have to know the facts.
Research, know your details; discover the NGO players in your community;
identify who is victimized by the policies and recruit them to your fight; and
then kill Agenda 21. That’s how it must be done. The information below is only
your first step. Happy hunting.
What
is Sustainable Development?
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. Sustainablists insist that every societal decision be based on
environmental impact, focusing on three components; global land use, global
education, and global population control and reduction.
Social
Equity (Social injustice)
Social
justice is described as the right and opportunity of all people “to benefit
equally from the resources afforded us by society and the environment.”
Redistribution of wealth. Private property is a social injustice since not
everyone can build wealth from it. National sovereignty is a social injustice.
Universal health care is a social injustice. All part of Agenda 21 policy.
Economic
Prosperity
Public
Private Partnerships (PPP). Special dealings between government and certain,
chosen corporations which get tax breaks, grants and the government’s power of
Eminent Domain to implement sustainable policy. Government-sanctioned
monopolies.
Local
Sustainable Development policies
Smart
Growth, Wildlands Project, Resilient Cities, Regional Visioning Projects, STAR
Sustainable Communities, Green jobs, Green Building Codes, “Going Green,”
Alternative Energy, Local Visioning, facilitators, regional planning, historic
preservation, conservation easements, development rights, sustainable farming,
comprehensive planning, growth management, consensus.
Who
is behind it?
ICLEI
– Local Governments for Sustainability (formally, International Council for
Local Environmental Initiatives). Communities pay ICLEI dues to provide “local”
community plans, software, training, etc. Addition groups include American
Planning Council, The Renaissance Planning Group, International City/ County
Management Group, aided by US Mayors Conference, National Governors
Association, National League of Cities, National Association of County
Administrators and many more private organizations and official government
agencies. Foundation and government grants drive the process.
Where
did it originate?
The
term Sustainable Development was first introduced to the world in the pages a
1987 report (Our Common Future) produced by the United Nations World Commission
on Environmental and Development, authored by Gro Harlem Brundtland, VP of the
World Socialist Party. The term was first offered as official UN policy in
1992, in a document called UN Sustainable Development Agenda 21, issued at the
UN’s Earth Summit, today referred to simply as Agenda 21.
What
gives Agenda 21 Ruling Authority?
More than 178 nations adopted Agenda 21 as official policy during a signing ceremony at the Earth Summit. US president George H.W. Bush signed the document for the US. In signing, each nation pledge to adopt the goals of Agenda 21. In 1995, President Bill Clinton, in compliance with Agenda 21, signed Executive Order #12858 to create the President’s Council on Sustainable Development in order to “harmonize” US environmental policy with UN directives as outlined in Agenda 21. The EO directed all agencies of the Federal Government to work with state and local community governments in a joint effort “reinvent” government using the guidelines outlined in Agenda 21. As a result, with the assistance of groups like ICLEI, Sustainable Development is now emerging as government policy in every town, county and state in the nation.
THE FOLLOWING QUOTES OF THOSE BEHIND
AGENDA 21 REVEAL THEIR TRUE INTENTIONS. LIKE ANYTHING THE LEFT DOES, THEY
GIVE AGENDA 21 PLANS WONDERFUL SOUNDING TITLES WITH THE INTENTION
OF HIDING THEIR REAL INTENTIONS.
Revealing
Quotes From the Planners
“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… ” Agenda 21: The
Earth Summit Strategy to Save Our Planet (Earthpress, 1993). Emphases – DR
Urgent
to implement – but we don’t know what it is!
“The
realities of life on our planet dictate that continued economic development as
we know it cannot be sustained…Sustainable development, therefore is a program
of action for local and global economic reform – a program that has yet to be
fully defined.” The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide, published by ICLEI,
1996.
“No
one fully understands how or even, if, sustainable development can be achieved;
however, there is growing consensus that it must be accomplished at the local
level if it is ever to be achieved on a global basis.” The Local Agenda 21
Planning Guide, published by ICLEI, 1996.
Agenda
21 and Private Property
“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
principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth, therefore
contributes to social injustice.” From the report from the 1976 UN’s
Habitat I Conference.
“Private
land use decisions are often driven by strong economic incentives that result
in several ecological and aesthetic consequences…The key to overcoming it is
through public policy…” Report from the President’s Council on Sustainable
Development, page 112.
“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.” Maurice Strong,
Secretary General of the UN’s Earth Summit, 1992.
Reinvention
of Government
“We
need a new collaborative decision process that leads to better decisions, more
rapid change, and more sensible use of human, natural and financial resources
in achieving our goals.” Report from the President’s Council on Sustainable Development
“Individual
rights will have to take a back seat to the collective.” Harvey Ruvin,
Vice Chairman, ICLEI. The Wildlands Project
“We
must make this place an insecure and inhospitable place for Capitalists and
their projects – we must reclaim the roads and plowed lands, halt dam
construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to
wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres or presently settled
land.” Dave Foreman, Earth First.
What
is not sustainable?
Ski
runs, grazing of livestock, plowing of soil, building fences, industry, single
family homes, paves and tarred roads, logging activities, dams and reservoirs,
power line construction, and economic systems that fail to set proper value on
the environment.” UN’s Biodiversity Assessment Report.
Hide
Agenda 21’s UN roots from the people
“Participating
in a UN advocated planning process would very likely bring out many of the
conspiracy- fixated groups and individuals in our society… This segment of our
society who fear ‘one-world government’ and a UN invasion of the United States
through which our individual freedom would be stripped away would actively work
to defeat any elected official who joined ‘the conspiracy’ by undertaking LA21.
So we call our process something else, such as comprehensive planning, growth
management or smart growth.” J. Gary Lawrence, advisor to President
Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development.
Article # 2 from the American Policy Center, 2012
Comments
Agenda 21 has been updated as Agenda 2030 to transfer our wealth
from the US to third world countries. That will mean the end of US
financial strength and US sovereignty.
Google UN Agenda 21 to see the many articles about this plan for a
one-world government under the UN.
NTL Conservative BlogDecember 28 2012
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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