One of the new additions
to the Republican Party platform is opposition to Agenda 21. In its section on
leadership in international organizations, the platform now reads, “We strongly
reject the U.N. Agenda 21 as erosive of American sovereignty, and we oppose any
form of U.N. Global Tax.” I’m glad they added this language to the platform,
but I wonder how many people who voted in favor of this addition know what
Agenda 21 is.
Agenda 21 is a plan put
forth by the United Nations that seeks to implement “sustainable development.”
Nebulous government-speak terms like “smart meters,” “smart growth,”
“sustainable communities,” “greenways,” and my personal favorite, “social
justice” all have to do with the U.N.’s Agenda 21. On the surface, sure they
sound good. Why would we not be in favor of “smart” things and
“sustainability?” Why would we not be in favor of “social
justice?” They sound like things we could be in favor of, but what do they mean
by them?
At the U.N.’s “Earth
Summit” in 1992, George H. W. Bush was one of 178 world leaders who signed the
Agenda 21 protocol and agreed with its goals. Maurice Strong was the Secretary
General at this conference. He stated 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.”
Agenda 21 is all about
environmental control. It seeks to ration natural resources in the same way
that Obamacare will ration healthcare. Energy will be rationed based on the
assumption that our government owns all resources including food, water and
land. Local Agenda 21 initiatives will mandate certain appliances and outlaw
others based on energy consumption, and your energy consumption will be
monitored so that you don’t “go over your limit.” Homes and buildings will have
to be built or rebuilt to meet new “green” building codes or else face hefty
fines. It seeks to transition citizens away from rural areas and into cities.
It wants to “wean” people off private vehicles (because of “dirty” fossil
fuels) and have them start using public transportation like high-speed rail.
Outdoor recreational activities will be restricted because those practices are
not “sustainable.”
“Social justice” means
the abolition of private property. Here’s an excerpt from a report published at
the U.N.’s Habitat I Conference in 1976: 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 and therefore
contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a
major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes. The
provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only be
achieved if land is used in the interest of society as a whole.
It’s not fair that individuals own
land or property. What will make it fair is if it is collectively owned.
The United Nations wants to mandate global communism. They just don’t call it
that. They call it “social justice.” And they’re going to execute “social
justice” through “sustainable development.”
These things are already
happening in our own country. Over 600 cities and counties across the U.S. have
become members of ICLEI (International Council for Local Environmental
Initiatives), “an international association of local governments as well as
national and regional local government organizations who have made a
commitment to sustainable development.” Check here to see if your town, city or county is a member.
In 1993, a year after
Bush Sr. signed the Agenda 21 protocol, President Clinton issued an executive
order that created the PCSD (President’s Council on Sustainable Development).
This group made Agenda 21 public policy and sought to implement its goals at
the local level through ICLEI. J. Gary Lawrence was an adviser to this council.
He advised that people should not know about Agenda 21 because if they knew
about it, they would be opposed to it:
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.
And this is why we don’t
ever hear about it. They control the language in media. Their agenda is
shrouded in vague terms that could mean anything, and people are naïve enough
to give them the benefit of the doubt. Since the creation of Clinton’s PCSD,
Obama has issued executive orders creating similar and more expansive
“councils” that work to further the U.N.’s agenda.
Tom Madrecki is a
spokesman for Smart Growth America, another one of those Agenda 21 type
organizations. He doesn’t like the fact that Agenda 21 is in the new Republican
platform. He said, “The fact
that it’s in the platform gives credence to something that just shouldn’t get
any.” He’s concerned that such a mainstream position opposing Agenda 21 will
only serve to stir dissent and will “continue halting beneficial conversations
about community planning.” There’s another one of those buzz phrases…”community
planning.”
It’s great that the
Republican Party has officially taken a stand against the United Nations and
its global communist agenda. I hope it stays in their platform, and I hope
Romney and other elected republicans will work tirelessly to expose the U.N.
for what they really are and to extricate the U.S. from the organization
itself, thus restoring our national sovereignty.
Source: Political Ourcast, August 31, 2012 by Philip Hodges
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