| The battle against Agenda 21 is really heating up across
the country as property rights activists are using the new American Policy
Center tactics that I’ve been supplying.
As a result, reports are coming in from activists and
elected officials across the nation of growing battles and even some outright
victories in the fight against Agenda 21. Finally we are able to stand up
against self-appointed stakeholder groups seeking to transform our nation
into their private agendas, contrary to the Constitution. Here are just a few
of the most recent reports I’ve received:
1. The Oklahoma House of Representatives passed the
Oklahoma Community Protection Act (HB 2807). The bill is designed to nullify
Agenda 21 and protect private property rights. I was privileged to help
provide some strong property rights language and definitions to make the bill
more effective.
The bill is now in the State Senate. It has passed out of
the Senate committee with just one vote in opposition. The full Senate vote
is coming up soon and it’s being viciously attacked by the usual NGO stake
holder groups who do not want private property rights protected. All
residents of Oklahoma need to call their state senators to urge support for
the Oklahoma Community Protection Act. Let’s end Agenda 21 in 2014.
2. In the Virginia Legislature, after a two year battle,
property rights proponents won a major battle with passage of the Boneta
Bill. Virginia SB51 was signed into
law, limited the authority to require permits for farmers. The law is the
result of Martha Boneta’s two year fight to stand up for her property rights
in the face of a county government, strongly influenced by the private
conservation group, the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC). The battle began
when the County threatened Boneta with a $5,000 a day fine for hosting a
little girl’s birthday party in her barn/farm store on her organic farm in
Fauquier County, Virginia. Martha refused to obtain such permit. As a result,
her farm store was closed. The PEC, which holds a Conservation Easement on
the farm, began to harass Martha with surprise inspections of the property
(even demanding to look in her private closets). She was then audited by the
IRS (Peggy Richardson, a former IRS Commissioner who lead the
Clinton Administration’s attacks on Conservative groups
serves on the board of the PEC). SB51 limits the ability of local governments
to use such permits to violate private property rights. Martha’s fight gained
national news coverage.
Most importantly, the successful battle to pass this bill
has given the property rights movement a significant new weapon and has sent
shock waves through the radical greens as they learn their power is no longer
absolute!
Here’s a song produced by Virginia Right, celebrating
Martha’s victory.
3. Good news in NE Ohio -- Another victory over Agenda 21
and Regional Planning:
This resolution passed last month in Geauga County, Ohio.
It rejects the Agenda 21 planning objectives put forth by The Northeast Ohio
Sustainable Communities Consortium (NEOSCC) and their potential
implementation by the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA)
Board of County Commissioners, Geauga County, Ohio
A RESOLUTION IN OPPOSITION TO THE INCORPORATION OF NEOSCC
ENDORSEMENT AND “VIBRANT NEO 2040” OBJECTIVES INTO NOACA PLANNING POLICY
DOCUMENTS
WHEREAS, the Geauga County Commissioners represent over
93,000 residents who have chosen to raise their families and operate
businesses in a rural environment governed in a minimally-intrusive way by
elected officials who believe in personal responsibility, economic freedom,
fiscal prudence, proper maintenance of public assets including
infrastructure, and preservation of our unique balance of farmlands,
large-lot residential zoning, and centers of private sector entrepreneurial
and industrial activity; and WHEREAS, while the concept of governmental
collaboration to achieve economies of scale can be beneficial in many cases
to reduce costs, the regional revenue sharing advocated by the Northeast Ohio
Sustainable Communities Consortium (NEOSCC) within the VIBRANT NEO 2040 plan
would invariably promote the transfer of resources from those communities
that have been prudent in their fiscal planning, handling of expenditures,
and maintenance of existing infrastructure to those
communities that have not consistently adhered to those
principles; and
WHEREAS, NEOSCC through the VIBRANT NEO 2040 initiative
promotes the limiting of new residential and commercial development to sites
within “established communities”, as well as the incorporation of
agricultural land preservation into long range planning, with a stated goal
to re-focus development into “existing downtowns” while discouraging economic
development and encouraging the prohibition of any future business or
population growth in rural areas such as Geauga County, through
prioritization of infrastructure investments through a process which would,
along with other methodology, “evaluate the social equity impact” of those
investments; and
WHEREAS, taken as a whole, the goals promoted by NEOSCC
under its “Vibrant NEO 2040” planning document stand largely at odds with the
principles of individual economic freedom and local government autonomy which
have stood this nation in good stead over the two hundred and thirty eight
years since our nation’s founding; and
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Geauga County
Board of Commissioners does hereby take strong exception and voice its
opposition to the statements made in a NOACA draft policy document which
advocates as part of the agency’s broad strategy that NOACA’s priorities and
projects be closely aligned to other federal, state, and regional
initiatives, including Vibrant NEO 2040, and further requests that any NEOSCC
reference be removed from NOACA policy documents.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Resolution becomes part
of the permanent record of the Board of Commissioners of Geauga County, Ohio.
Update: Just received this report today. The same
activists who got the Geauga County Board of Commissioners to pass the above
resolution against regionalism have succeeded to get a similar resolution
passed by the Lordstown, Ohio Council. The battle against regionalism in
North East Ohio is raging!!
As I said, these are just some of the battles that are now
raging across the country. Daily I am receiving calls from activists and
elected officials asking for my help in their efforts. I am providing
language for legislation and tactics for activists. And it’s working. Please
help APC to continue leading this vital effort to restore American property
rights. (http://americanpolicy.org/donate?mc_cid=46fad8e8bd&mc_eid=[UNIQID])
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Comments:
While we win small victories in some states and counties,
the federal government is arranging foreign ownership of our water, land, oil,
gas and internet. Note: the Georgia
Legislature failed to pass HB 195, to limit regional power over transportation
tax dollars. It also failed to protect
our water, land, lives, tax dollars and State sovereignty from regional
meddling and failed to block ObamaCare and Common Core.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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