Instead, with a little commentary, we are going to offer you some resources to learn for yourself. Because at the end of the day, we can talk until we're blue in the face - but each one of us has learned this concept not because of the teachings of others, but because we have researched it extensively on our own, and come to the conclusions inividually.
We've talked before about U.N. Agenda 21, which is implemented by alphabet soup agencies like DNR, DEQ, planning commissions, zoning departments. Using tactics like regulations and regionalism, these agencies encroach upon your property rights, and they do it as a coalition...or "partnership" of organizations, acting in consort...often for additional points on grant applications.
Many of them don't know exactly what they are doing as it relates to the death of your property rights; instead, they realize that they hold a position within the community where they can do good things. What doesn't sound good about some of the catchy phrases used in the sustainable "Agenda 21" lingo arsenal?!
I mean come on - sustainable, vibrant, green, smart growth....what could go wrong?
Click here for a really easy to understand and SHORT Agenda 21 primer:
http://www.912communique.com/page/agenda-21#axzz2pxkiy8Mu
Agenda 21 uses environmentalism as a way to snatch up land, holding it out of the grasp of private property. One very simple way is through land trusts or conservancies. Just today, a wonderful article was published on this very subject in Maine.
"While FSM and environmental groups claim conservation and economy building can go hand in hand, the language they use to describe directing human settlements along existing transportation corridors is the language of “Smart Growth,” “Sustainable Development” and, in turn, Agenda 21.
“As a land trust, the one that we are ready to deliver—and are good at—is conservation easements,” Hutchinson said. “When a landowner is bumping into some kind of a struggle, I think easements have proven that they can provide an incredibly valuable piece of the puzzle.”
Coffman couldn’t disagree more.
“Recent global research has clearly shown that wealth cannot be created without private property rights,” he said. “Conservation easements gut property rights, and the systematic tightening of environmental regulations may take what is left. Land withdrawal creates scarcity, which always increases cost."
Click here to read the entire article:
http://www.themainewire.com/2012/08/land-trust-missions-conform-united-nations-%E2%80%9Cagenda-21%E2%80%9D/
These conservancies and land trusts are everywhere. Some are public (DNR Trust Fund's land acquisitions) and some are private (The Nature Conservancy). It all sounds like they are interested in nothing more than to preserve the land for future generations. But be warned - it is not.
When I was younger, I wish I had had the knowledge of Agenda 21 that I have now...but I did not. Otherwise I would have questioned why Gladwin County's Economic Development Corporation (EDC) hired a Conservationist, who worked for public land trusts, to write a comprehensive report about our fair County.
The report is called The Lackey Report, and it was done in 2006/2007 by Susan Lackey on behalf of the EDC.
Click the link to see it for yourself:
http://www.northerntransformation.org/uploads/3/2/7/9/3279058/lackey_report_gladwin_county_final_draft2006.pdf
It basically lists goals for our community. There are many, read it for yourself. And pretty much every one of them helped us to implement provisions and recommendations of the UN Agenda 21. Just two short years later, with this report, and a Master Plan, in place - we qualified for federal money through the Economic Stimulus to continue implementing these policies. To be sure, everything recommended by the Lackey Report, and everything called for in our Master Plan, and nearly every stipulation of federal grant money aligns us perfectly with the principles of Agenda 21.
It all seems good at the time, but this is how the game of Agenda 21 is played - the players' roles are scripted by larger organizations, making them seem more legitimate. And for each of their roles, they will receive a paycheck, or a per diem, or a raise, or a street sign, or a pat on the back and perhaps just the assurance they are doing to right thing. And if they continue, there will be more and more grant money given for the measures they have taken to build a sustainable community.
You see, Agenda 21 implementors - the true implementors - are insidious in their skills. They prey on the hubris of communities, and the desire to leave a positive legacy on their communities; they prey on the environmentalist and their desire to leave a legacy of land to the future; but most of all, they rely on the ignorance of people like you and me...people they want to stay asleep or tuned into the TV.
There is a blue print, folks - it's been around for a long time now...and without many among us knowing it, we are following it. All across this country, and in other countries, we are following it. We are shaping our communities to the principles that will eventually lead to the final nail in the coffin of property rights, and ultimately to global governance.
If you value life as we know it here in Gladwin County, it is imperative that we begin examining the people that our alphabet soup orgs like EDC, EMCOG, and other unelected planning boards - especially those that govern land use - start bringing into our community.
Will they transform our way of life in a way that is not sustainable in the long term? Will they continue to hamstring us on stipulations of grants that require us to go that one step further....? Will they convince us to turn over public land or call for easements of private land to create zones, trails, or greenways?
You know, it is all right to throw them out.....
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