The battle over Agenda 21 is raging across the nation.
City and County Councils have become war zones as citizens question the origins
of development plans and planners deny any international connections to the
UN’s Agenda 21. What is the truth? Since I helped start this war, I believe it
is up to me to help with the answers.
The standard points made by those who deny any Agenda 21
connection is that:
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Local planning is a local idea.
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Agenda 21 is a non-binding resolution not a
treaty, carries no legal authority from which any nation is bound to act. It has
no teeth.
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The UN has no enforcement capability.
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There are no “Blue-Helmeted” UN troops at City
Hall.
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Planners are simply honest professionals trying
to do their job, and all these protests are wasting their valuable time.
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The main concern of Agenda 21 is that man is
fouling the environment and using up resources for future generations and we
just need a sensible plan to preserve and protect the earth. What is so bad
about that?
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There is no hidden agenda.
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“I’ve read Agenda 21 and I can find no
threatening language that says it is a global plot. What are you so afraid of?”
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And of course, the most often heard response –
“Agenda 21, what’s that?”
And after they have proudly stated these well thought out
points, they arrogantly throw down the gauntlet and challenge us to “answer
these facts.”
Well, first I have a few questions of my own
that I would love to have answered.
Will one of these “innocent” promoters of the
“Agenda 21 is meaningless” party line, please answer the following:
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If it all means nothing,
why does the UN spend millions of dollars to hold massive international
meetings in which hundreds of leaders, potentates and high priests attend,
along with thousands of non-governmental organizations of every description,
plus the international news media, which reports every action in breathless
anticipation of its impact on the world?
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It if all means nothing,
why do those same NGO representatives (which are all officially sanctioned by
the UN in order to participate) spend months (sometimes years) debating,
discussing, compiling, and drafting policy documents?
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If it all means nothing,
why do leaders representing nearly every nation in the world attend and, with
great fanfare, sign these policy documents?
Time after time we witness these massive
international meetings, we read the documents that result from them, and when
we question their meaning or possible impact on our nation, we are met with a
dismissive shrug and a comment of “oh, probably not much…”
Really? Then why? Why the waste of money, time,
and human energy? Could it be that the only purpose is to simply give
diplomats, bureaucrats, and NGOs a feeling of purpose in their meaningless
lives, or perhaps a chance to branch out of their lonely apartments? Or could
it really be that these meetings and the documents they produce are exactly as
we say they are – a blueprint for policy, rules, regulations, perhaps even
global governance that will affect the lives, fortunes, property and futures of
every person on earth? Which is it? You can’t have it both ways.
Part 2 coming soon…
Tom DeWeese is President of the American Policy
Center, Editor of The DeWeese Report, and author of the book, “Now Tell Me I
Was Wrong.” He has been an activist for the causes of limited government,
individual freedom, free enterprise and private property rights for more that
45 years. More information and writings by Tom DeWeese available on his
website, www.americanpolicy.org
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