Agenda 21 - Part II, The Concept

If you have not read my earlier post on "Agenda 21 - The Basics" posted last month, October 2011, may I suggest you go back and read it first so you get a general understanding of what this movement is all about. In this post we build on that basic knowledge and begin to dig deeper into the weeds to discuss how this was established and who is taking this movement forward.

As stated in “Agenda 21 – The Basics” there are many names for these programs that are being pushed on you.  Rep Joseph Neal, Richard & Sumter County, SC preaches about one, Vision 20/20, a program as he states is there to "determine who will profit and who won't," and to "create high density villages of high value where everyone will live and outlands where no one lives and has land of little value..."  This is our future as designed by these programs that were born of Agenda 21.

Over the next many weeks we are going to look at the details of what got us to where we are and how we got wrapped in Agenda 21.  We will look at how it all began as well as the strategy and then the plan that ultimately resulted in what we know today as Agenda 21 and then finally ideas as to what we can do about it as it is assumed most everyone wants to retain their private property rights and individual liberty that this program intends to eliminate or at a minimum, severely restrict.

The Concept:

In 1974 the UN General Assembly wrote a new International Economic Order (UN 10/res/5-6/3201-197) that was authored exclusively by the developing nations.  The developed nations (the West) largely ignored it but an overwhelming number of delegates of the UN took these ideas and concepts with them as they went on to other UN conferences where they might be able to implement them under another name(s).  What were some of these "economic" ideas and concepts:

- Regulate & Control all multi-national corporations

- Authority to nationalize foreign property

- Authority to establish commodity monopolies exempt from international sanctions

- Transfer of technology and technical assistance with no strings attached

This document clearly showed that the UN General Assembly believed that government should completely control the economy and that equity was the primary objective.

In 1976 the United Nations had a Conference on Human Settlements - Habitat I.  From its Preamble one can get an understanding of where it wanted to go.

"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..."

This clearly set the stage for an additional 65 pages of very specific land use recommendations such as:

A-1. Redistribute populations in accordance with resources

B-1. Government must control the use of land to achieve equitable distribution of resources

D-2. Control land use through zoning & land use planning

D-3. Excessive profits from land use must be recaptured by government

D-4. Public ownership of land should be used to exercise urban and rural land reform

D-5. Owner rights should be separated from development rights which should be held by a public authority

From just these few recommendations sighted above it is more then enough to establish the direction of the rest of the UN recommendations.  The US agreed with this program having Carla Hills, Sec HUD and William Riley, President of the Conservation Fund authorized as designated signers.  William Riley later became the administrator of the EPA.  Also attending this conference were nine other agencies of the federal government, the Sierra Club, National Audubon Society, National Resources Council, Friends of the Earth, Conservation Foundation (William Riley), League of Women Voters, and dozens of other environmental and social justice organizations. 

Notice that no where during this time has the term "Sustainable" been used.  The term "Sustainable Development" was first introduced to the world in the pages of a 1987 report (Our Common Future) produced by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development, authored by Gro Harlem Brundtland, VP of the World Socialist Party.  Today, it is found and used in ever facet of US public policy.  We will speak more about this in Part III, The Strategy.

                                             (content primarily taken from www.sovereignty.net)