United Nations Agenda 21 - The Basics

More than 178 nations  adopted  Agenda 21 as official policy during a signing ceremony at the
Earth Summit.   Their signing was a pledge to adopt the goals of Agenda 21, as it is a voluntary program.  Various underpinnings of this program were being practiced under many names across the country in varying degrees but wasn’t "official" US policy until 1995 when President Bill Clinton, in compliance with Agenda 21, signed Executive Order #12858 that created 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 to “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 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.

The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) is behind the movement even though it is primarily known as Local Governments for Sustainability.  Communities pay ICLEI dues to provide “local” community plans, software, training, etc.  Additional groups involved 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.

However, they knew that this process would not go over well with the American public like it does in Europe in that Americans cherish their individual freedom and liberty.  So calling it Agenda 21 or exposing the UN roots were and are purposely hidden 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 UNA21. 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.

The following are revealing quotes from Planners across the country:

“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).

“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.

One of the primary efforts within Agenda 21 is to strip Americans of private land rights.  The U.S. is the only country, or one of very few, where the citizens can own their property outright.  All other countries have a caveat in their deeds, if they have one at all, that the government is the ultimate owner of the property.  Developers around the world have taken advantage of this aspect of ownership for years by convincing local politicians that a certain piece of land would be better suited for some project of theirs rather then its current use.  In 2005 the U.S. Supreme Court further placed their hat on the Agenda 21 bandwagon by moving us closer to the socialized world with their ruling in Kelo v New London.  Here they changed the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution by redefining  "public use" to mean "public benefit."  They took the private home of Ms. Kelo and gave it to a developer.  It marks the first time in American history a local government seized a newly renovated private property from an American citizen and gave it to a private developer for the welfare of the government.  Below are some quotes about land rights you may want to familiarize yourself with and let sink in:

“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 principle 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.

As stated above it is the local government through consensus building that is prescribed with the task to introduce and pass the laws to start the process of limiting property rights by restricting what you can do on your own land.  The federal government will do their part by providing the money to initiate the studies and experts that show this is the viable way to go.  Through services provided to local governments that seemingly appear to be good (but only by the uninformed, and unfortunately this is the case with most of our local city and county commissions) the process takes root.  They are told this is good for their municipality, so unknowingly or knowingly they go along.  The following quotes are part of the plan to move it forward: 

“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 of presently settled land.” Dave Foreman, Earth First.

As stated above, Sustainable Development was a term coined in 1987 within a UN report that was headed by a self-proclaimed and active socialist.  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.  Please reread that last sentence and note it is all about global control and then the last insidious element of it, population control and reduction.  Reducing the population is a major goal as they look at people as the problem on the globe.  This is perfect post-modern thought in that the strong or the elite in this case, will decide for the benefit of the collective.  Truth is what you say truth is, so if you think people are the problem then just devise a program that whittles down their existence.  Agenda 21 does this.  Please read more on the development of post-modern thought in the world so you can understand how it is easy for these people to believe they can make decisions that in effect exterminate large populations without any remorse.  Europe and the rest of the world is well on there way to being fully post-modern in their thought, America is halfway there.  As an example, a decade ago the head of Ethics at Princeton University told the country that babies aren’t really self-aware their first 28 days after birth so if they have some abnormality you don’t like you may want to or need to kill them, that’s OK.  Our current President when he was an Illinois State Senator had no problem voting for a bill stating, ...babies that somehow survived the abortion process had no right to life and were best left to die.  So don’t delude yourself into thinking that depopulation can’t happen – with post-modern thought it can and has in the past (Hitler is an example – following Nietzsche and his uberman).  You may find it revolting but unfortunately you are in the world minority but thankfully, still the majority in America.  This is a big part of the culture war we are engaged in today where the post-modern thinkers say man is the ultimate and whatever man says is law – while others say there is something greater then man and that is where our individual rights come as clearly stated in our country’s founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.  Two differing views of man, one where man is the truth and another where “natures God” is the truth.

Another part within this process is the downplaying of the private business sector or capitalism, where any individual can prosper based on their own initiatives.  This too was an American invention and remains the apex in the world where anyone can achieve success, not just the upper class or elite.  America did away with the class system for prosperity at its inception but today, many of the world elite want to bring it back through Agenda 21.  The post-modern or sustainable thought is that the “collective” is all important and economic prosperity should be regulated by government.  Here you find the growing use of Public Private Partnerships (PPP).  These are 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.  They are government sanctioned monopolies (To be transparent, this author worked within a PPP for several years.).  Coupled with the introduction of Social Equity or Social Justice, which is described as the right and opportunity of all people “to benefit equally from the resources afforded us by society and the environment” you get the belief in redistribution of wealth. Now, we have all heard President Obama discuss this, several times.  You also get the growing belief that private property is a social injustice since not everyone can build wealth from it and that national sovereignty is a social injustice but, universal health care is a social justice. All are part of Agenda 21 policy. 

Sustainable Development policies in your local market can be called many things.  Some of these programs are named: 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.   Be aware of what is going on in your city or county and get involved to push back on this initiative that is designed to take away your rights, your freedom your liberty and most important, your freely elected representation.

(content primarily taken from www.sovereignty.net)