Agenda 21 part2

My recent tirade about Agenda 21 seems to have struck a sore spot in many people for some reason or other. I’ve heard comments that range from “not a bad article” all the way up to folks who are literally foaming at the mouth about the subject. Some were complimentary, some think I’m a nut for even talking about the subject, and one person that seems to think I’m some sort of traitor to humanity… or the environment… or something… In reality I’m an American who happens to believe in the promise of this great country. I’m also an American that believes in the maximum of individual freedom (and in shouldering the personal and civic responsibility that goes with that freedom). The proponents of global governance often wrap themselves in false patriotism, happily wave the flag, and claim they’re saving us from ourselves. They’re also trying to tell us how they are so much smarter or better than the rest of us, elitists for the most part, who think they should have total control of the world while all of us iggerant’ common folk can be their serfs and servants. Generally these are the kind of people I consider “control freaks”, folks who aren’t happy unless they’re busily telling everyone else how to run their lives (and who it seems, usually can’t run their own lives all that well).

I’ve never been much of a believer in the “Vast Government Conspiracy” theories, but the Agenda 21 program sounds like it could be the source of many of those theories. Environmental activist and attorney Daniel Sitarz is credited with saying "AGENDA 21 proposes an array of actions which are intended to be implemented by every person on earth... Effective execution of AGENDA 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced — a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources." He’s quite right of course, but he didn’t go nearly far enough. Agenda 21 will require nothing less than the complete reorganization of human society, as it cannot function in a free world that is not tightly controlled. It’s the global plan to change the way we "live, eat, learn, and communicate", but only because we must "save the earth" of course. Maurice Strong, Secretary-general of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio said that "Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat consumption and large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and workplace air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable. A shift is necessary which will require a vast strengthening of the multilateral system, including the United Nations.” In other words most of us “must” learn to live on the economic level of third world nations, but I also noticed there was no reference to what the super rich are supposed to give up either. For most of us it means not much use of energy sources, no air-conditioning and darn little heat, very little meat or preserved foods, pedi-cabs instead of cars, vacations (if any) in the back yard, severely limited water, and eliminating human access to most wildland areas for us poor folks. “No one would be free from the watchful eye of the global tracking and information system," according to Berit Kjos, author of ‘Brave New Schools’. It’s becoming apparent that the global government movement is determined these “sustainable controls” will be put into place one way or another, and of course the elitists of the global governance movement would be in charge.

The United States signed on to Agenda 21 in 1992 and 14 years later the American people still know next to nothing about it. If you ask someone in America today, "Have you heard of Agenda 21?" the answer would be an over-whelming "No". Why do we not know about this, considering that Agenda 21 severely impacts our life, our culture, and our government? Is it perhaps that if the American people are kept in ignorance, these rules and regulations will be easier to implement? Well, lets see…

Several years ago the UN called for the worldwide ban of individually owned firearms, as a means to eliminate ethnic cleansing, assorted rebellions, and civil unrest. Strangely enough, today the US Supreme Court is debating the meaning of our Second Amendment, and deciding if American citizens have the right to firearms ownership. As it’s rather difficult for any political entity (our federal government or the UN) to negotiate with our fifty sovereign states simultaneously, particularly so when we’re generally squabbling with each other (and the federal government) over nearly everything. If those states had little or no political clout, wouldn’t it be much easier for the federal government to implement Agenda 21 in this country? Perhaps that’s why the federal government is moving towards a “North American Union”, where our states would be little more than ceremonial assemblies. The Patriot Act strips us of many constitutional rights, and it very definitely does allow the federal government to declare any American citizen a suspected terrorist on nearly any pretense, whereby they can arrested and incarcerated indefinately. The weakening of our property rights laws (Kelo vs. New London) allows the government to seize your home, farm, business, or vacation cabin on any pretext, for any purpose, and you have no recourse. We complain that the schools are dumbing down our children, and we continue to follow federal school guidelines which promote agenda 21 and that dumbing down. Our President, without the advice and consent of Congress, recently signed into law the “National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive” that makes plans for "National Essential Functions" of all federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments as well as private organizations to continue functioning under the president's direction in the event of a national emergency… and guess who declares that a national emergency exists… The federal government is also expanding their efforts to collect DNA samples from everyone, currently those convicted of a crime, civil servants, military personnel, and immigrants, so that they can more easily identify “dangerous criminals”… or anyone else that’s in the federal database.

The prophesied collapse of the worlds’ environment, and global warming, are being touted as the reason our “Spaceship Earth” must be saved from humanity. Yet the scientists who make those dire predictions often based on questionable science, are the very same people who are completely dependant on government largess for their livelihood.

Writer Henry Lamb stated that “The world changed on 9-11. No longer can the world tilt at the windmills of a fantasized "global village." No longer can visions of "sustainable development" be justified in a world where "sustainable freedom" is the only possible solution to the economic and power vacuum that foments acts of terrorism. There is a better way. Nations can, and ultimately must, learn to live as neighbors, free from the web of "international laws" that dictate which activities are "sustainable" and which are xenophobic and unacceptable. Nation-to-nation relationships, just like neighbor-to-neighbor relationships, should be fashioned voluntarily, driven by mutual benefit.”

And, I might add, “by a free people”.