…The despotic nature of these mandates undermines the entire concept of private property, a key goal stated prominently in Agenda 21 documents. It removes decision making latitude from both property owners and local governments, and ruins property values, while completely changing the complexion and character of rural counties. Add to this the sheer lunacy of requiring vast new housing projects when mortgage foreclosures are just beginning to recover from all time high rates. Construction companies like the guaranteed business these mandates insure, a big reason why they enjoy bi-partisan support. But at what cost to our communities, our Constitution, our very way of life?…
James Simpson
Gulag Bound
3/16/2011
The November elections marked a sea change in the political landscape at every level of government nationwide. Right now, all eyes are focused on the Wisconsin standoff between Governor Scott Walker and the public employee unions. But under the radar, completely overlooked by the mass media, is the unprecedented move recently taken by newly-elected Carroll County, Maryland Commissioners Richard Rothschild, Robin Frazier, Haven Shoemaker, Dave Roush and Doug Howard, who abolished the County’s Office of Sustainability. They then voted unanimously to drop out of the UN’s International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI). They are the first governmental organization to do so.
For those unfamiliar with the sustainable development agenda, this might not seem like much, but it is huge. If you have been following my recent series on the subject, you will know that local Sustainability offices, under the auspices of the ICLEI’s Local Governments for Sustainability, are the tiny, visible tip of the monstrous Agenda 21 sustainable development iceberg, the ultimate goal of which is to transform American society from the bottom up into a socialist ward of UN global governance. As of today, there areapproximately 600 local governments in the US who have signed on to this Trojan Horse.
Minus one.
All the commissioners are to be commended for this bold decision. Predictably, the left is up in arms. The commissioners have already been challenged to a debate on their decision and the other side wants to bring in heavy hitters from the EPA and the Maryland Department of the Environment in an attempt to discredit the commission’s earth shattering (figuratively) move.
I think they took some skin.
Richard Rothschild led the charge. He campaigned on this issue, framing it, appropriately, as a matter of private property rights. In an American Thinker article he co-wrote last summer with Scott Strzelczyk, he explained that: “Sustainability has less to do with the environment, and everything to do with economics. It is an attack on capitalism, and an attack on America’s middle class lifestyle.”…
The article, with video and graphics, continues at Gulag Bound.
In January CAJ presented Part 1 of Mr. Simpson’s Agenda 21 articles. Other related Agenda 21 Reports at Gulag Bound:
- Agenda 21: Part II: Globalist Totalitarian Dictatorship Invading a Town near You
- Agenda 21 UN: The History of Sustainable Development – Connecting the Dots
- Sustainable Communities – A Transformation of Virginia
- China’s Ghost Cities: A Result of Agenda 21?
Read also at Gulag Bound, AFGE the ICE Union Fires Back at Obama’s Immigration Subterfuge:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JUNE 23, 2011ICE Agent’s Union Speaks Out on Director’s
“Discretionary Memo”Calls on the public to take action
On June 11, 2010, ICE Union leaders around the nation issued a unanimous no confidence vote in ICE Director John Morton on behalf of ICE officers, agents and employees nationwide citing gross mismanagement within the Agency as well as efforts within ICE to create backdoor amnesty through agency policy. ICE Union leaders say that since the no confidence vote was released problems within the Agency have increased, citing the Director’s latest Discretionary Memo as just one example.
Any American concerned about immigration needs to brace themselves for what’s coming,” said Chris Crane, President of the National ICE Council which represents approximately 7,000 ICE agents, officers and employees,” this is just one of many new ICE policies in queue aimed at stopping the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws in the United States. Unable to pass its immigration agenda through legislation, the Administration is now implementing it through agency policy.”
Crane emphasized that agents, officers, employees and the Union had no input in these policies, “ICE and the Administration have excluded our union and our agents from the entire process of developing policies, it was all kept secret from us, we found out from the newspapers. ICE worked hand-in-hand with immigrants rights groups, but excluded its own officers.”
Agents say the policy is a “law enforcement nightmare” developed by the Administration to win votes at the expense of sound and responsible law enforcement policy…
Update: The Fascist Stealth of Agenda 21 at Emerging Corruption
Update 2: GOP Globalism: Grover Norquist Awaits Rick Perry’s Presidential Candidacy
…One can think of pseudoconservative organizers and operators such as Norquist as the Tweedledees on the right, to Tweedledums on the left such as George Soros and Maurice Strong.
We look forward to pointing out how Texas Governor Rick Perry is ensconced in the causes and effects of transnationalism and globalism, which wage clear and present warfare against the independent and constitutional American republic of sovereign and free Citizens.
And for now, we have a big tip-off about Gov. Perry, from Grover Norquist, as reported through Patriot Action Network….
Update 3: At Ironic Surrealism an excellent 94-minute video covering Agenda 21 from the Bay Area Tea Party. “The featured speaker at the Tea Party meeting, Rosa Koire, is a liberal Democrat who understands that Agenda 21 will destroy America as we know it. Rosa’s website, DemocratsAgainstAgenda21.com is also worth a visit.”
Common American Journal welcomes readers from TCUNation.
Welcome to readers from Tea Party Patriots–Sun City Roseville Chapter. This group has awesome coverage on some of the current Republican presidential contenders’ positions on Agenda 21. The site also has ideas on how to fight against the U.N.’s sustainable development plans.
Common American Journal welcomes readers from the Greater Phoenix Tea Party Patriots.
