We read glowing reports and articles about "Sustainable Agriculture." It is difficult to create an awareness of the potential harm because the verbiage and slogans used sound so benevolent. The reality is that foodshed regulations will give environmental groups and government agencies control over all means of production of the food consumed by the American people. Through increased taxation and regulation, American citizens will be stripped of their wealth and property and all resources will be redistributed as government sees fit.
As Tony the Tiger says, “Sustainable Agriculture” sure sounds “GRRREAT!“ We read glowing reports and articles about “Sustainable Agriculture.” It is difficult to create an awareness of the potential harm because the verbiage and slogans used sound so benevolent, “buy local.” Add that to the fact that we are concerned about our food supply due to global control by mega agri-business and the issue comes into better focus. (At the end of this article are links to the tri-fold brochure that helps explain sustainable agriculture’s ultimate goal and an online video that supplements this article.)
The new agricultural system has these changes and more:
1. Each community will grow its own food on individual and/or community-owned farms that form a boundary around the community.
2. All farming will be sustainable and eco-friendly. Organic farming will be certified and monitored by a farm stakeholder committee. This will ensure that food labelled “Organic” is authentic.
3. Constant measurements will be taken to guarantee that the sustainability and eco-friendly BMPs (best management practices) parameters are maintained.
4. Organic farming will be productive without the use of pesticides or unnatural fertilizers.
5. Industrial farming will no longer be allowed to damage the earth.
6. Importing foreign food products will be reduced in order to increase local production and help the local economy.
This sure sounds good—but is it really a win-win situation? Let’s take a close look at the points raised. After all, there are usually more than one side to an issue. The first point actually raises several issues:
1. Each community will grow its own food on individual and/or community-owned farms that form a boundary around the community.
We need definitions to understand what this says.
“Each community” of course refers to a “sustainable community.” Washington State University School of Architecture has a definitive description of “sustainable community.”
“A sustainable community is one which provides all of its own needs for air, water, land (or food and fiber), and energy resources within the confines of its own site.” 1
Obviously, creating and maintaining a “sustainable community” has implications that stretch beyond a system of “sustainable agriculture.”
Here is the University’s graphic—it is quite intuitive:
Sustainable Agriculture - A Relatively New Globalization Process
The circle around the community is generally referred to as an “Urban Growth Boundary”1a (UGB) or a “Utility Service Area.”
Here is an easy to understand definition from the State of Minnesota:
“A UGB is an established line beyond which urban services such as public sewer and water and transportation improvements will not occur.”
It sounds wonderful until you stop to think about what this will do to property values outside of the UGB. Who would buy property where power, road maintenance, and modern conveniences are not permitted? That’s right—nobody!
The free market system is replaced by an official policy that promotes a system of sustainable communities/agriculture. The new system will create a shortage of desirable real estate. As you know, a shortage, created naturally or by government edict, will destroy the average income earner’s ability to own a parcel of land.
“Community owned farms” are also referenced here. The USDA provides an interesting definition. In bureaucratic speak—government double talk—a “community owned farm” is CSA—”Community Supported Agriculture.”
In basic terms, CSA consists of a community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation so that the farmland becomes:
* Legally or spiritually the community's farm,
* Growers and consumers provide mutual support and share the risks and benefits of food production.2
What this means exactly will be determined by the bureaucrat who wrote it. I venture to say that “spiritual ownership” of a private farm is a concept that best fits a plot on Twilight Zone.
Another point to consider is the concept that farms will form a boundary around the community. This is often referred as the “foodshed”3 or “foodcircle.”4 The concept is confirmed in the graphic from the Washington State University program. Oh—I forgot to mention that they named their process “A Comprehensive Urban Regenerative Process.” Remember that EVERYTHING consumed in the community is produced in the community. So the concept of a “foodshed” or “foodcircle” fits right in. Local governments across the country are adopting this concept.
The bull's eye from Clackamas County, Oregon5 is a fair indicator of its general acceptance. The urban center is surrounded by the Metropolitan Foodshed. Food produced in the “foodshed” is intended to be consumed in the “urban center.”
The outer ring is the Foundation Lands Woodshed. This is where “Value-Added Forestry”6 products will be produced. Do you see the point? A “value-added tax” system is being introduced. For instance; the price for agricultural products grown or produced outside the “foodshed” does not include the full cost of the “food mile.”
What are “food mile” costs? I don’t know all of the cost associated with the “food mile” concept, but see the “food mile” poster: (Footnote7 provides a link to the information relating to it.)
Sustainable Agriculture - A Relatively New Globalization Process
Some, but not all of the external costs are: transportation, soil degradation, irrigation-related groundwater depletion, and pesticide and fertilizer misuse.8
These costs will ultimately be calculated by a “governance” system. Note that “governance” is not government, it is: “the framework of rules, institutions, and practices that set limits on the behaviour of individuals, organizations and companies."9
The “institutions” that set the rules will be a collection of “stakeholders.” Stakeholders are those who are recognized as having a degree of responsibility for determining the cost of a “food mile” and local government entities. The true cost, after factoring in ecological damage to the earth, will include “social justice.”10
What is “social justice?” Here is a quick rundown. It involves:
* progressive taxation,
* income redistribution,
* property redistribution,
* equality of opportunity, and
* equality of outcome.
More broadly speaking social justice can be defined as the system of justice predicated on the central dispensation of "rights" to various groups at various times. These rights are granted in accordance with the policies and procedures thought necessary to advance the central authorities latest iteration of “common good.” This is in contrast to the uniquely American notion of equal rights.
Equal rights require the establishment of a judicial system that protects individual rights. Equal rights support true diversity — a respect for the independence and unalienable rights of the individual and genuine tolerance for individuality. Equal justice puts a checkmate on mob rule.
In summary:
Foodshed Regulations will give these environmental groups and government agencies control over all means of production of the food consumed by the American people. This combines a Marxist system of justice with a fascist system of economics. It is control of all means of production through abolition of private property. In the name of “Social Justice” all food production, distribution, and consumption will be controlled by government. Through increased taxation and regulation, American citizens will be stripped of their wealth and property and all resources will be redistributed as government sees fit.
When this happened in Russia under Stalin, eleven million people who were seen as resisting socialism were intentionally starved to death. (Look up 'Kulaks' on Google.)
Food, or lack thereof, can be the ultimate weapon and the ultimate control.
Thus far we have only responded to the first item defining “sustainable agriculture.” It has consumed the space currently available and involves a number of rabbit trails we have had to go down.
We don’t want to overburden you with this initial effort, so we will take the advice of a nine year old nephew. He asked his mother a simple question about the birds and bees and she referred him to his father. Dad, being a proper father, informed his son about things as completely as he could. Sometime later, Mom asked the boy if his Dad answered his question. The boy responded, “He sure did! I think I got a lot more than I really wanted to know.”
Here’s the link to a tri-fold brochure you can print and share with friends and others who need to know and care:
http://www.freedomadvocates.org/images/pdf/acr_sustainable_farming_brochure.pdf
I have uploaded a video presentation titled: The Art of Transitioning Society at: http://www.vimeo.com/7602634. In the presentation I include a segment that explains “sustainable agriculture” in greater detail than the tri-fold brochure. The remaining subject matter of the presentation focuses on “local globalization,” which has been dubbed “glocalization.”
I uploaded the following text with the video. It is a descriptive intro in an effort to entice individuals with varying interest to watch the video:
* “Are you aware that “food citizenship” is on the horizon?
* Are you aware that your behavior will very likely positively or negatively affect your "food citizenship?"
* Are you a "locavore?"
* If not, why haven't you made the commitment?
* Are you paying the full cost associated with your “food miles?”
* Will your “foodshed” be sufficient to put a “sustainable and nutritionally adequate diet” on your table?
* Are you pro-permaculture?”
These are but a few of the pressing questions regarding society’s new paradigm. Social change is happening—don’t be caught off guard—your place in the new modern society depends on it.
If you would like a copy of the DVD The Art of Transitioning Society, please send me your mailing address plus $3.00 for material and mailing. My mailing address is: 1129 1st Avenue, Pleasant Grove, Alabama 35127.
Thanks,
Don Casey
Footnotes
1. http://www.arch.wsu.edu/09publications/sustain/modlsust.htm
1a. http://www.mnplan.state.mn.us/pdf/2000/eqb/ModelOrdWhole.pdf
2. http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/pubs/terms/srb9902terms.shtml
3. ibid
4. ibid
5. http://web12.clackamas.us/alfresco/download/direct/workspace/SpacesStore/fa8597da-c264-11dd-a620-5fa507d8ef06/20080624.pdf
6. http://www.conservationdistrict.org/sheds/
7. http://www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org/fep/foodmiles.html
8. http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009093.html
9. United Nations “Human Development Report” - 1999
10. European Foundation Centre
By Don Casey
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Tester Tests the Waters and Forests of Montana for Sustainable Development with his Destruction of Forest Jobs and Recreation Act
Senator Jon Tester of Montana introduced S. 1470 in July, known as the “Forest Jobs and Recreation Act of 2009.” Regretfully the first two words of the title of the Bill, “Destruction of”, were left off.
The Bill was written with “collaborative groups”1 excluding the general public and resource development groups from input during the writing of the bill and then afterward during public meetings. (As is the case with most partisan2 legislation, this bill is but a small part of a much larger goal.)
When citizen and local government groups asked to hold an open and public debate on the proposed bill in Missoula, neither Senator Tester nor any other group supporting the legislation sent a representative. In fact, any supposedly “public forum” that he would be willing to attend would be orchestrated by him or his cohorts and would be made up of mostly or wholly supportive audiences.
Let’s look at the Bill itself now that we have reviewed how it was put together, by whom it was written, and how it is being fed to the general public. The jobs in Tester’s bill are limited to a few exclusive “green” jobs plus destruction of access roads and logging of dead standing timber in very limited areas for a maximum of 10 to 15 years.
One of the things to take into consideration when reading this bill is that Montana’s forests are being decimated by pine beetle infestation. Conservative estimates of the forest area that is already infested or dead range from one-third to one-half. It is impossible to have a hard estimate because a heavily infested tree can take up to a year to turn red; so many trees appear healthy when in fact they are infested and dying.
The only real jobs in Tester’s bill will be a few government “green” jobs studying wilderness (or what is left of it when the beetles are finished in Montana).
Removal of the access roads (one of the above listed jobs) will make firefighting in these areas impossible and, with millions of acres of diseased timber surrounding these wilderness designations, catastrophic wildfires will be almost guaranteed. But we must remember that the true goal of this bill and other governmental actions is to remove humans from the designated wilderness areas of the U.S., and the wildfires would be the perfect mechanism to achieve the objective – an Act of God. So we can understand that firefighting is not an activity that is desired with the Bill; that is why any reasonable firefighting efforts are being discouraged.
As this is being written the Copenhagen Summit is going on and the world leaders are trying to find ways to reduce CO2. Fires produce enormous amounts of CO2, thus one would think that they would desire to keep forest fires to a minimum, but we already know of the hypocrisy behind this bill so this is just another reminder for us to look at what is meant, not what is said.
As to watersheds, they will not be protected under this Bill. In fact it is quite the contrary: hundreds of thousands of acres of dead standing timber make for very poor watersheds and will result in a significant degradation of water quality. And after wildfires storm through, the areas will increase water pollution and soil erosion hazards as well. One naturally wonders why any human being would want this to happen. I propose that it is to chase out the strong and defiant humans who wish to remain in their homes that have been in their families often for four or five generations. It would be difficult for the burned out families to get clean water for some time, thus they would have to carry it in; and being in a designated wilderness area they would be prevented from using any motorized vehicle to do this – an onerous task with motive power; a herculean one without.
To top everything else off, all mineral resource development in this area will be completely prohibited. To understand why this is so outrageous, you need to understand that the original motto of Montana was "Oro y Plata," gold and silver. Montana has an abundance of minerals from coal and oil to gold and sapphires.
Montana’s coal money goes to supporting Montana’s Native American tribes. But, let us ignore the great coal reserves in Montana and focus on oil. According to John C. Street,
“The United States of America has more ‘recoverable’ oil reserves within its contiguous border (i.e., not counting known off-shore reserves) than all the other proven reserves worldwide. In just one of these known and recoverable reserves, the Bakken, that stretches from Montana to North Dakota and on up into Canada, there are an estimated 500+ billion barrels, enough crude oil, according to both government and industry estimates, to meet this nation’s fuel requirements for over 2,000 years.”3
In the 1960s, Montanans were at the top of the per capita income scale because back then they were allowed to use their own natural resources from the timber to the mining to the wheat fields. Now they are near the very bottom of the income scale. The mines and lumber yards are shut down. Eco-tourism (a so-called “Green” industry that is very destructive to the ecology) was going to be the replacement industry but it produces only minimum wage service jobs – bed-making and food-serving to the tourists.
We must keep in mind that Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act of 2009 is not about jobs or recreation; it is about removing Montanans from Montana. Then the globalists can get on with the business of bringing to fruition the Wilderness Plan. Knowing that Montanans are self-reliant, the globalists smartly figure that if they deal with Montana the rest of the West will follow. In other words, take down the strong and defiant and the weak and meek will fall in line, simpering while caving.
*Note:
Among other tactics, i.e. using legislation to take land out of public use, condemning private citizens’ land, or getting unknowing citizens to donate their lands to land trusts who then commit the land to Wildland designation which means no resource extraction and no tax base, there is a far more egregious tactic that NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) have used for decades – what we call “Stealth Lawsuits.” These are suits cooked up between government officials (often Fish and Wildlife or EPA) and NGOs of the Green persuasion. How it works is together they decide what they want to accomplish (say, for example, ban roads in a certain area) then the NGO sues the government under some pretext, perhaps claiming the area is habitat for some endangered species. But before the case gets to a court, the government “caves” to the charges, changes the law to what the NGO had asked for, and then, to add insult to injury, the government pays the NGO’s legal fees. Besides all this, there is no paper trail to expose any of this because it NEVER GETS TO COURT.
Footnotes
1. The collaborative groups consist of major environmental organizations and globalists who have a special interest in moving forward the Wildlands Project.* (see Note above)
2. Inferring to special interest groups rather than Republicans or Democrats.
3. Street, John C., Angling for the future — Hunting for the truth: Understanding Sustainable Development - Agenda 21.
Dan Happel and Kathleen Marquardt
The Bill was written with “collaborative groups”1 excluding the general public and resource development groups from input during the writing of the bill and then afterward during public meetings. (As is the case with most partisan2 legislation, this bill is but a small part of a much larger goal.)
When citizen and local government groups asked to hold an open and public debate on the proposed bill in Missoula, neither Senator Tester nor any other group supporting the legislation sent a representative. In fact, any supposedly “public forum” that he would be willing to attend would be orchestrated by him or his cohorts and would be made up of mostly or wholly supportive audiences.
Let’s look at the Bill itself now that we have reviewed how it was put together, by whom it was written, and how it is being fed to the general public. The jobs in Tester’s bill are limited to a few exclusive “green” jobs plus destruction of access roads and logging of dead standing timber in very limited areas for a maximum of 10 to 15 years.
One of the things to take into consideration when reading this bill is that Montana’s forests are being decimated by pine beetle infestation. Conservative estimates of the forest area that is already infested or dead range from one-third to one-half. It is impossible to have a hard estimate because a heavily infested tree can take up to a year to turn red; so many trees appear healthy when in fact they are infested and dying.
The only real jobs in Tester’s bill will be a few government “green” jobs studying wilderness (or what is left of it when the beetles are finished in Montana).
Removal of the access roads (one of the above listed jobs) will make firefighting in these areas impossible and, with millions of acres of diseased timber surrounding these wilderness designations, catastrophic wildfires will be almost guaranteed. But we must remember that the true goal of this bill and other governmental actions is to remove humans from the designated wilderness areas of the U.S., and the wildfires would be the perfect mechanism to achieve the objective – an Act of God. So we can understand that firefighting is not an activity that is desired with the Bill; that is why any reasonable firefighting efforts are being discouraged.
As this is being written the Copenhagen Summit is going on and the world leaders are trying to find ways to reduce CO2. Fires produce enormous amounts of CO2, thus one would think that they would desire to keep forest fires to a minimum, but we already know of the hypocrisy behind this bill so this is just another reminder for us to look at what is meant, not what is said.
As to watersheds, they will not be protected under this Bill. In fact it is quite the contrary: hundreds of thousands of acres of dead standing timber make for very poor watersheds and will result in a significant degradation of water quality. And after wildfires storm through, the areas will increase water pollution and soil erosion hazards as well. One naturally wonders why any human being would want this to happen. I propose that it is to chase out the strong and defiant humans who wish to remain in their homes that have been in their families often for four or five generations. It would be difficult for the burned out families to get clean water for some time, thus they would have to carry it in; and being in a designated wilderness area they would be prevented from using any motorized vehicle to do this – an onerous task with motive power; a herculean one without.
To top everything else off, all mineral resource development in this area will be completely prohibited. To understand why this is so outrageous, you need to understand that the original motto of Montana was "Oro y Plata," gold and silver. Montana has an abundance of minerals from coal and oil to gold and sapphires.
Montana’s coal money goes to supporting Montana’s Native American tribes. But, let us ignore the great coal reserves in Montana and focus on oil. According to John C. Street,
“The United States of America has more ‘recoverable’ oil reserves within its contiguous border (i.e., not counting known off-shore reserves) than all the other proven reserves worldwide. In just one of these known and recoverable reserves, the Bakken, that stretches from Montana to North Dakota and on up into Canada, there are an estimated 500+ billion barrels, enough crude oil, according to both government and industry estimates, to meet this nation’s fuel requirements for over 2,000 years.”3
In the 1960s, Montanans were at the top of the per capita income scale because back then they were allowed to use their own natural resources from the timber to the mining to the wheat fields. Now they are near the very bottom of the income scale. The mines and lumber yards are shut down. Eco-tourism (a so-called “Green” industry that is very destructive to the ecology) was going to be the replacement industry but it produces only minimum wage service jobs – bed-making and food-serving to the tourists.
We must keep in mind that Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act of 2009 is not about jobs or recreation; it is about removing Montanans from Montana. Then the globalists can get on with the business of bringing to fruition the Wilderness Plan. Knowing that Montanans are self-reliant, the globalists smartly figure that if they deal with Montana the rest of the West will follow. In other words, take down the strong and defiant and the weak and meek will fall in line, simpering while caving.
*Note:
Among other tactics, i.e. using legislation to take land out of public use, condemning private citizens’ land, or getting unknowing citizens to donate their lands to land trusts who then commit the land to Wildland designation which means no resource extraction and no tax base, there is a far more egregious tactic that NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) have used for decades – what we call “Stealth Lawsuits.” These are suits cooked up between government officials (often Fish and Wildlife or EPA) and NGOs of the Green persuasion. How it works is together they decide what they want to accomplish (say, for example, ban roads in a certain area) then the NGO sues the government under some pretext, perhaps claiming the area is habitat for some endangered species. But before the case gets to a court, the government “caves” to the charges, changes the law to what the NGO had asked for, and then, to add insult to injury, the government pays the NGO’s legal fees. Besides all this, there is no paper trail to expose any of this because it NEVER GETS TO COURT.
Footnotes
1. The collaborative groups consist of major environmental organizations and globalists who have a special interest in moving forward the Wildlands Project.* (see Note above)
2. Inferring to special interest groups rather than Republicans or Democrats.
3. Street, John C., Angling for the future — Hunting for the truth: Understanding Sustainable Development - Agenda 21.
Dan Happel and Kathleen Marquardt
Agenda 21 Alert: Schwarzenegger's 'True Lies' in Copenhagen
Mainstream media has again failed to identify Agenda 21 Sustainable Development, with goals to depopulate the planet, concentrate people into cities for more control and abolish private property, as the master plan behind pushing the man-made global warming (MMGW) lies that will result in economic devastation at best, and totalitarianism at worst.
The globalists' battle for complete control over all populations is from "global to local." This is why Arnold was brought to speak at the Copenhagen Summit. He truthfully revealed the power that state and local governments, which he called "sub-national governments," have in accomplishing carbon reduction goals which are based in lies, the transfer of wealth to poor countries and Public-Private Partnerships. Because state and local governments do have so much power, mayors were specifically targeted at the summit.
Arnold acknowledged the growing number of people who doubt MMGW, and its cost, but then encouraged his followers to push back against the dissenters, using muscles, and disparaging the dissenters as only caring about money.1
States can enact their own carbon emission reduction laws and Cap and Trade schemes – it is not necessary for international treaties and federal regulations to be passed.
In fact, Arnold bragged about California being the first state to do this! Assembly Bill 32 passed in California in 2006 and is being prepared to be fully implemented by 2012 (the same time that the Kyoto Treaty expires). This is the model for carbon regulations and permitting along with the new Cap and Trade industry intended for the rest of the nation. Especially, the partners of the Western Climate Initiative that includes California, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, Utah and Montana, as well as the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.
While California may seem hopelessly caught in the web, there is a chance that the law could be repealed, which would require massive awareness and education.
Additionally, you must take back your local government; AB 32 states (page 26):
"Local governments are essential partners in achieving California’s goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They have broad influence and, in some cases, exclusive authority over activities that contribute to significant direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions through their planning and permitting processes, local ordinances, outreach and education efforts, and municipal operations. Many of the proposed measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions rely on local government actions."2
In the video link, Arnold admits that 50% to 80% of climate change action is taken on the regional and local levels and requires many people to support it for its "success."
While in Copenhagen, mayors were treated to discussions about the benefits of Public-Private Partnerships (this is when governments accept money from private corporations, foundations and NGOs); bankrupt governments are very susceptible to being bought out by PPPs. The benefit goes to the money partner in the form of influence and power, tax breaks, governmental enforcement of policy, etc., and is the foundation of fascism.3
In a strange way, we can appreciate Arnold on some level for disclosing the strategy of the collectivists in implementing Agenda 21 Sustainable Development, when he reiterated the importance of the state and local governments, with attention on the mayors for pushing carbon reduction/Cap and Trade on the city level.
The good news: action taken locally is effective! And everyone lives locally. You can do the following to either deter this from your state and hometown:
1. Start at the most local level and educate your mayor and city council on how to recognize Agenda 21 Sustainable Development and the power of their office.
2. Educate your county commissioners/supervisors.
3. Educate your governor and state legislators – e-mail this article to them.
4. If in California, work to repeal AB 32, and get businesses that will be affected involved.
It's your future, your life and your home – are you worth the energy to take the action?
References:
(1) Video - Arnold in Copenhagen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=827HzztUoiY
(2) AB 32 Document (adopted scoping plan): http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/scopingplan/document/adopted_scoping_plan.pdf
(3) Video - Joan Veon explains Public-Private Partnerships: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsLD7W-l_FM
Cassandra Anderson
The globalists' battle for complete control over all populations is from "global to local." This is why Arnold was brought to speak at the Copenhagen Summit. He truthfully revealed the power that state and local governments, which he called "sub-national governments," have in accomplishing carbon reduction goals which are based in lies, the transfer of wealth to poor countries and Public-Private Partnerships. Because state and local governments do have so much power, mayors were specifically targeted at the summit.
Arnold acknowledged the growing number of people who doubt MMGW, and its cost, but then encouraged his followers to push back against the dissenters, using muscles, and disparaging the dissenters as only caring about money.1
States can enact their own carbon emission reduction laws and Cap and Trade schemes – it is not necessary for international treaties and federal regulations to be passed.
In fact, Arnold bragged about California being the first state to do this! Assembly Bill 32 passed in California in 2006 and is being prepared to be fully implemented by 2012 (the same time that the Kyoto Treaty expires). This is the model for carbon regulations and permitting along with the new Cap and Trade industry intended for the rest of the nation. Especially, the partners of the Western Climate Initiative that includes California, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, Utah and Montana, as well as the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.
While California may seem hopelessly caught in the web, there is a chance that the law could be repealed, which would require massive awareness and education.
Additionally, you must take back your local government; AB 32 states (page 26):
"Local governments are essential partners in achieving California’s goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They have broad influence and, in some cases, exclusive authority over activities that contribute to significant direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions through their planning and permitting processes, local ordinances, outreach and education efforts, and municipal operations. Many of the proposed measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions rely on local government actions."2
In the video link, Arnold admits that 50% to 80% of climate change action is taken on the regional and local levels and requires many people to support it for its "success."
While in Copenhagen, mayors were treated to discussions about the benefits of Public-Private Partnerships (this is when governments accept money from private corporations, foundations and NGOs); bankrupt governments are very susceptible to being bought out by PPPs. The benefit goes to the money partner in the form of influence and power, tax breaks, governmental enforcement of policy, etc., and is the foundation of fascism.3
In a strange way, we can appreciate Arnold on some level for disclosing the strategy of the collectivists in implementing Agenda 21 Sustainable Development, when he reiterated the importance of the state and local governments, with attention on the mayors for pushing carbon reduction/Cap and Trade on the city level.
The good news: action taken locally is effective! And everyone lives locally. You can do the following to either deter this from your state and hometown:
1. Start at the most local level and educate your mayor and city council on how to recognize Agenda 21 Sustainable Development and the power of their office.
2. Educate your county commissioners/supervisors.
3. Educate your governor and state legislators – e-mail this article to them.
4. If in California, work to repeal AB 32, and get businesses that will be affected involved.
It's your future, your life and your home – are you worth the energy to take the action?
References:
(1) Video - Arnold in Copenhagen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=827HzztUoiY
(2) AB 32 Document (adopted scoping plan): http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/scopingplan/document/adopted_scoping_plan.pdf
(3) Video - Joan Veon explains Public-Private Partnerships: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsLD7W-l_FM
Cassandra Anderson
It is Time to See the Future and Change Course Before it Becomes Too Late
America is in the final stages of the political economic changes necessary to secure the age old thrust for a central global dominion. The nation’s original principles, already in shatters, have been prepped to become totally disregarded. The transformation we are experiencing is designed to negate the political recognition of your right to life, liberty and the use and enjoyment of property.
Today, courts around the country routinely dispense living and dynamic rules, so-called social justice principles, designed to obliterate the American concept of equal justice predicated upon the political recognition of unalienable rights.
America’s transformation has been energized by the legislatures. They have authorized the anointment of ‘partnerships’ between government or collectivist entities and favored and compliant business people. This model has been developed with widespread global and universal local applications. The purpose of this change is to overwhelm free enterprise and abolish private property in the process.
And of course our nation’s presidency has become the Chief Executive, Office of the Despot – Whatever authority he wants he takes. Whether the chief is labeled ‘right’ or ‘left’ liberty loses.
Right and left are tools used by globalists. The tools are designed to negate the checks and balances originally built into the American system.
Our political economics is diseased. The disease has overwhelmed:
* Our institutions of government (national, state and local),
* Academia; from preschool to post graduate, and
* Business; operating as multinationals and by local business willing to ‘partner’ with government.
Where is this heading?
Either we are in an unending slide into the collectivist world designed as Agenda 21 Sustainable Development or we are on the verge of renaissance where the rise of the spirit of liberty will be built upon an understanding of who we are and what it is that ails us.
Let’s start with questions. Why are we nearly subsumed by globalist political economic forces like the World Bank, the World Trade Union, the Bank of International Settlements, Codex Alimentarius, the United Nations and more? What is the nature of our monetary system? Can such a system spring or infiltrate a political surprise designed to centralize control over all humanity?
What I, and others, can say is this: Agenda 21 Sustainable Development is the global to local action plan that is designed, funded and being implemented in every county in America in order to institutionalize a change in our nature as humans. Do a worldwide search on “Agenda 21” to get a broad insight into the massive number and depth of its tentacles.
The job of the freedom fighters at Freedom Advocates has been to provide neighborhoods and broader communities the tools necessary to understand Agenda 21 and its local infiltration. These tools come as building blocks. The information needs to be spread. We must not support Agenda 21 by doing nothing. Spread the word in your family, neighborhood and community.
Check into our website for the latest information and tools. For instance, today our homepage displays the “ICLEI Primer.” What a beginning tool if you live in an ICLEI town! Many do, few know. You can always download the pamphlet Understanding Sustainable Development - Agenda 21 for a quick overview.
The battle for America’s future is waging at the local level. This presents challenges and possibilities.
The federal government participates in the ‘global to local’ Agenda 21 attack. Congress has illustrated that they will not defend liberty without a demand by the people themselves. A viable defense can be achieved by fighting back – in our neighborhoods, towns and counties. Locally is where the attack on America is focused. Evidence of this includes local implementation of centralized land use planning, educational indoctrination, and ever expanding laws and other tools for subjugation.
America needs a new crop of candidates who understand Agenda 21 Sustainable Development and the premise that supports America’s founding.
Once enough people understand how Sustainable Development is operating in your community your defense will have been formed. When enough local communities have formed successful defenses against the local application of Agenda 21 then States and finally the federal government will be won over to individual liberty and equal justice.
When viewed from today’s porch liberty’s victory will be born during difficult economic times. Today’s monetary system is likely to be collapsed by those in control of the world-wide fiat money system in order to advance world government operating on a local level - Agenda 21. Under this ‘new order’ human beings become mere chattel of ruling elite. This accounts for Sustainable Development’s written policy call for massive population reduction.
Ordinary people cannot defend a funny money system designed to implode. We though, can seek and have implemented a monetary system that is sound and honest. A reasoned monetary system does not interfere with or conspire against the premise that each person’s life is their own. Regardless of the upcoming economic difficulties under the present tyrannical and interim monetary system the mission worthy of our effort is the restoration of liberty. Success in reasserting the principles of liberty ultimately will require the establishment of an honest money system.
Generational mistakes in this fight must be acknowledged. We did not get into this mess overnight and it won’t be easy to get out. But get out we must; our ancestors cry out while our descendants are at risk of never being. This is one reason why the porch of the future will celebrate the restoration of liberty.
Michael Shaw,President of Freedom Advocates
Today, courts around the country routinely dispense living and dynamic rules, so-called social justice principles, designed to obliterate the American concept of equal justice predicated upon the political recognition of unalienable rights.
America’s transformation has been energized by the legislatures. They have authorized the anointment of ‘partnerships’ between government or collectivist entities and favored and compliant business people. This model has been developed with widespread global and universal local applications. The purpose of this change is to overwhelm free enterprise and abolish private property in the process.
And of course our nation’s presidency has become the Chief Executive, Office of the Despot – Whatever authority he wants he takes. Whether the chief is labeled ‘right’ or ‘left’ liberty loses.
Right and left are tools used by globalists. The tools are designed to negate the checks and balances originally built into the American system.
Our political economics is diseased. The disease has overwhelmed:
* Our institutions of government (national, state and local),
* Academia; from preschool to post graduate, and
* Business; operating as multinationals and by local business willing to ‘partner’ with government.
Where is this heading?
Either we are in an unending slide into the collectivist world designed as Agenda 21 Sustainable Development or we are on the verge of renaissance where the rise of the spirit of liberty will be built upon an understanding of who we are and what it is that ails us.
Let’s start with questions. Why are we nearly subsumed by globalist political economic forces like the World Bank, the World Trade Union, the Bank of International Settlements, Codex Alimentarius, the United Nations and more? What is the nature of our monetary system? Can such a system spring or infiltrate a political surprise designed to centralize control over all humanity?
What I, and others, can say is this: Agenda 21 Sustainable Development is the global to local action plan that is designed, funded and being implemented in every county in America in order to institutionalize a change in our nature as humans. Do a worldwide search on “Agenda 21” to get a broad insight into the massive number and depth of its tentacles.
The job of the freedom fighters at Freedom Advocates has been to provide neighborhoods and broader communities the tools necessary to understand Agenda 21 and its local infiltration. These tools come as building blocks. The information needs to be spread. We must not support Agenda 21 by doing nothing. Spread the word in your family, neighborhood and community.
Check into our website for the latest information and tools. For instance, today our homepage displays the “ICLEI Primer.” What a beginning tool if you live in an ICLEI town! Many do, few know. You can always download the pamphlet Understanding Sustainable Development - Agenda 21 for a quick overview.
The battle for America’s future is waging at the local level. This presents challenges and possibilities.
The federal government participates in the ‘global to local’ Agenda 21 attack. Congress has illustrated that they will not defend liberty without a demand by the people themselves. A viable defense can be achieved by fighting back – in our neighborhoods, towns and counties. Locally is where the attack on America is focused. Evidence of this includes local implementation of centralized land use planning, educational indoctrination, and ever expanding laws and other tools for subjugation.
America needs a new crop of candidates who understand Agenda 21 Sustainable Development and the premise that supports America’s founding.
Once enough people understand how Sustainable Development is operating in your community your defense will have been formed. When enough local communities have formed successful defenses against the local application of Agenda 21 then States and finally the federal government will be won over to individual liberty and equal justice.
When viewed from today’s porch liberty’s victory will be born during difficult economic times. Today’s monetary system is likely to be collapsed by those in control of the world-wide fiat money system in order to advance world government operating on a local level - Agenda 21. Under this ‘new order’ human beings become mere chattel of ruling elite. This accounts for Sustainable Development’s written policy call for massive population reduction.
Ordinary people cannot defend a funny money system designed to implode. We though, can seek and have implemented a monetary system that is sound and honest. A reasoned monetary system does not interfere with or conspire against the premise that each person’s life is their own. Regardless of the upcoming economic difficulties under the present tyrannical and interim monetary system the mission worthy of our effort is the restoration of liberty. Success in reasserting the principles of liberty ultimately will require the establishment of an honest money system.
Generational mistakes in this fight must be acknowledged. We did not get into this mess overnight and it won’t be easy to get out. But get out we must; our ancestors cry out while our descendants are at risk of never being. This is one reason why the porch of the future will celebrate the restoration of liberty.
Michael Shaw,President of Freedom Advocates
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Unalienable Rights verses Globalism
Have we abandoned the uniquely American concept of the political, legal and educational recognition of unalienable rights? If so, is there a political movement to restore the core purpose and principle of the American Declaration of Independence?
As documented in Understanding Unalienable Rights, the dictionary meaning of unalienable rights has been corrupted. School children are no longer instructed about this most basic element of the Declaration of Independence. Leading liberty minded legal and “think tank” organizations often fronting the freedom movement, treat or label the seeking of unalienable right protections as outdated. They argue a system of “civil rights ” as the appropriate man- made replacement. Think tanks of most stripes quietly argue that the idea of unalienable rights is flawed and indefensible. Correspondingly, the idea has been largely abandoned by academia and intellectuals.
The question then becomes: Can the American experiment in freedom continue without a foundation predicated on the notion that each person possesses a life that is their own? I conclude that without the political recognition of unalienable rights it cannot be assured that the political system will recognize that your life belongs to you.
This is not a moot issue. At the root of the globalist movement is Agenda 21 Sustainable Development. This worldwide program agreed upon by 178 nations, including the United States, reveals the directive that human population is to be decreased by 85 % (United Nations; Global Biodiversity Assessment Report, page 673). This policy has appealed to many who argue “overpopulation”. Accordingly, says the consensus, everyone’s “right to life” must be discarded in order to achieve globalist objectives.
Further investigation of contemporary political philosophy demonstrates how our government has abandoned the notion of individual liberty. The freedom to speak has become subject to an increasing array of laws and politically correct mores. Travel is becoming monitored and increasingly restricted as the rules and infrastructure of Agenda 21’s land use element take effect. The intended consequence is to limit our mobility and use of resources. These are primary objectives in implementing Agenda 21. The global warming hysteria is being used to force people into ‘human settlements,” in order to contain and control human action. Man caused global warming fraud therefore serves the implementation of Agenda 21 and the destruction of liberty.
The abolition of private property is the first level of attack in the destruction of unalienable rights and the implementation of Sustainable Development. Following the Supreme Court’s Kelo decision, policies that sublimate private property to “public-private partnerships” have been secured under the law and many more have been and will be legislated. An example arises out of San Jose, California. There ordinances have subjected 1/3 of the private housing stock to the exercise of eminent domain on the basis that the city requires so called Smart Growth “redevelopment”.
What has been lost is the understanding that private property is not simply the ownership of something. Private property is the relationship between a person and a thing. It is a person’s use and enjoyment of something that reflects the essence of the ideal of private property. Your continuing use of what you think is yours, is now, for everyone, un-assured and unprotected. Private property is being abolished.
A system of private property rests on the economic system of free enterprise. Free enterprise means that the citizens own the means of production. This is not to be confused with the general definition of capitalism. The term “capitalism” was coined by Karl Marx to describe 19th mid-century European political-economics which then, as now, is dominated by a fiat money system. Webster’s unabridged 1988 dictionary describes capitalism as, “The economic system… originally under fully competitive conditions… and its later phase by the growth of great corporations, increased governmental control, etc.” This transformative conversion was made possible through the public-private partnership system of fiat money which was adopted in the U.S. in 1913.
When freedom warriors defend the system of modern capitalism they often undermine the principals of free enterprise, secured by the ideal of private property. This happens as the “defenders” often play into globalist hands by virtue of furthering public-private partnership economics. Public-private partnership is the “new economy” brandished by the agents of modern globalism under Agenda 21.
The succeeding effort to abolish private property is the primary cause for the continuing collapse of freedom in America. George Washington warned; “Private property and freedom are inseparable.” As freedom fades, along with American sovereignty, the notion of unalienable rights will become erased from American consciousness. We cannot let this happen!
Public-private partnerships and Sustainable Development are in your community. This is why the study of Agenda 21 Sustainable Development is vital if our posterity and we are to enjoy a life of our own. Today, without public awareness of Agenda 21, the prospects for free enterprise and for freedom do look bleak.
Public-private partnerships (formerly known as economic fascism) must be exposed and disbanded before unalienable rights can again become recognized by the American government, maintained by our courts, and taught in schools.
A resumption of the American promise of a life that is truly your own is accomplished:
• When the environmental movement first values all human life,
• Where the law protects and guarantees individual liberty, and
• Where the right to the use of property is secured.
Reaffirming unalienable rights is our call to duty. You can contribute to this accomplishment most effectively by defending unalienable rights and by understanding and informing others of our government’s suicidal commitment to the ‘global to local’ program of Agenda 21 Sustainable Development.
Michael Shaw, President, Freedom Advocates
As documented in Understanding Unalienable Rights, the dictionary meaning of unalienable rights has been corrupted. School children are no longer instructed about this most basic element of the Declaration of Independence. Leading liberty minded legal and “think tank” organizations often fronting the freedom movement, treat or label the seeking of unalienable right protections as outdated. They argue a system of “civil rights ” as the appropriate man- made replacement. Think tanks of most stripes quietly argue that the idea of unalienable rights is flawed and indefensible. Correspondingly, the idea has been largely abandoned by academia and intellectuals.
The question then becomes: Can the American experiment in freedom continue without a foundation predicated on the notion that each person possesses a life that is their own? I conclude that without the political recognition of unalienable rights it cannot be assured that the political system will recognize that your life belongs to you.
This is not a moot issue. At the root of the globalist movement is Agenda 21 Sustainable Development. This worldwide program agreed upon by 178 nations, including the United States, reveals the directive that human population is to be decreased by 85 % (United Nations; Global Biodiversity Assessment Report, page 673). This policy has appealed to many who argue “overpopulation”. Accordingly, says the consensus, everyone’s “right to life” must be discarded in order to achieve globalist objectives.
Further investigation of contemporary political philosophy demonstrates how our government has abandoned the notion of individual liberty. The freedom to speak has become subject to an increasing array of laws and politically correct mores. Travel is becoming monitored and increasingly restricted as the rules and infrastructure of Agenda 21’s land use element take effect. The intended consequence is to limit our mobility and use of resources. These are primary objectives in implementing Agenda 21. The global warming hysteria is being used to force people into ‘human settlements,” in order to contain and control human action. Man caused global warming fraud therefore serves the implementation of Agenda 21 and the destruction of liberty.
The abolition of private property is the first level of attack in the destruction of unalienable rights and the implementation of Sustainable Development. Following the Supreme Court’s Kelo decision, policies that sublimate private property to “public-private partnerships” have been secured under the law and many more have been and will be legislated. An example arises out of San Jose, California. There ordinances have subjected 1/3 of the private housing stock to the exercise of eminent domain on the basis that the city requires so called Smart Growth “redevelopment”.
What has been lost is the understanding that private property is not simply the ownership of something. Private property is the relationship between a person and a thing. It is a person’s use and enjoyment of something that reflects the essence of the ideal of private property. Your continuing use of what you think is yours, is now, for everyone, un-assured and unprotected. Private property is being abolished.
A system of private property rests on the economic system of free enterprise. Free enterprise means that the citizens own the means of production. This is not to be confused with the general definition of capitalism. The term “capitalism” was coined by Karl Marx to describe 19th mid-century European political-economics which then, as now, is dominated by a fiat money system. Webster’s unabridged 1988 dictionary describes capitalism as, “The economic system… originally under fully competitive conditions… and its later phase by the growth of great corporations, increased governmental control, etc.” This transformative conversion was made possible through the public-private partnership system of fiat money which was adopted in the U.S. in 1913.
When freedom warriors defend the system of modern capitalism they often undermine the principals of free enterprise, secured by the ideal of private property. This happens as the “defenders” often play into globalist hands by virtue of furthering public-private partnership economics. Public-private partnership is the “new economy” brandished by the agents of modern globalism under Agenda 21.
The succeeding effort to abolish private property is the primary cause for the continuing collapse of freedom in America. George Washington warned; “Private property and freedom are inseparable.” As freedom fades, along with American sovereignty, the notion of unalienable rights will become erased from American consciousness. We cannot let this happen!
Public-private partnerships and Sustainable Development are in your community. This is why the study of Agenda 21 Sustainable Development is vital if our posterity and we are to enjoy a life of our own. Today, without public awareness of Agenda 21, the prospects for free enterprise and for freedom do look bleak.
Public-private partnerships (formerly known as economic fascism) must be exposed and disbanded before unalienable rights can again become recognized by the American government, maintained by our courts, and taught in schools.
A resumption of the American promise of a life that is truly your own is accomplished:
• When the environmental movement first values all human life,
• Where the law protects and guarantees individual liberty, and
• Where the right to the use of property is secured.
Reaffirming unalienable rights is our call to duty. You can contribute to this accomplishment most effectively by defending unalienable rights and by understanding and informing others of our government’s suicidal commitment to the ‘global to local’ program of Agenda 21 Sustainable Development.
Michael Shaw, President, Freedom Advocates
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Speeding Down the Fabian Freeway
How Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is paving the way:
The globalist movement adopted a Fabian socialist philosophy long ago. They are in their final push, racing in the open amidst the current chaos in order to take cover under a new and totalitarian political regime. The globalists’ control of the monetary system has given them control over the political system, the state-run academic system, most news and entertainment venues and more.
Our nation has been hijacked by an agenda that serves the interests of global bankers, multinational corporations including so-called NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations) and political elites. The consequences of Sustainable Development are designed to end any political recognition of an individual’s unalienable right to life, liberty and property.
Their goal is to create a one world government through the Action Plan of Agenda 21/Sustainable Development. This U.N. initiative has been adopted as the official policy of the United States. Few, even those in government, understand its full nature or the extent of its policy, but all government agents effectively endorse its Action Plan.
Viewed broadly, Agenda 21/Sustainable Development includes three Action Plans:
*
Abolish Private Property. This is being advanced step by step through the Wildlands Project and through urban Smart Growth initiatives.
* Educate global citizens. Our schools have been transformed. Recent grads are reported to evidence a majority support for global governance.
* Population control and reduction. Many think we are moving closer toward Martial Law.
Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is based on Three E’s: Equity, Economics and Environment:
*
“Equity” means transforming America’s justice system from “Equal Justice” which is the system of law that recognizes the existence of each individual’s unalienable rights, to a system of “Social Justice” where rights are allocated based on group association. This negates the political recognition of unalienable rights recognized by the Declaration of Independence.
*
“Economics” means “Public/Private Partnerships” between government and business, including multinational corporations. This is economic fascism. This is a design to destroy free enterprise and abolish private property. Agenda 21/Sustainable Development also seeks economic equalization within and between nations. This “change” is accelerating.
*
“Environment” is not about protecting the public water, the air or your property from pollution caused by another. The true purpose of the environmental movement is to advance the equity and economic objectives of Agenda 21/Sustainable Development.
You need to understand that Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is designed to:
*
Reduce population dramatically and quickly.
*
Deny all people the right to live their own life.
*
Abolish private property.
There is very little time left to prevent this. We all must act to preserve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The best preparation for “the change” is predicated on the idea that it is practical to prepare for the worst and work for the best.
You must take certain steps to prepare:
* Eliminate or reduce debt. A debt-free home will dramatically increase your security if that is possible for you. Eliminate all personal debt such as credit card debt to avoid getting yourself into a situation where you become the chattel of your creditor or of the state. Personal debt is the most important form of debt to eliminate as you prepare.
* Obtain commodity currency. Having a stock of silver and or gold will provide you with an ease of mind. This will assist your ability to facilitate trade when it may require a wheelbarrow of dollars to buy a loaf of bread.
* Create or find access to food and water sources. Learn to grow a garden. Work with others so that alternate sources of food and water are prearranged. Have a supply of dehydrated foods to carry you through a difficult time.
Once prepared and informed, you will be ready to act on exposing the threat of Agends 21/Sustainable Development to others. Take action in the mutual interest of restoring and preserving freedom. Recognize unalienable rights.
With this information you can begin to prepare for the planned “change” and assume a role in defeating the grandest assault on human liberty ever devised.
In the end, the prospect for American survival and individual human freedom depends on defeating the Agenda 21/Sustainable Development philosophy and policy.
Michael Shaw, President, Freedom Advocates
The globalist movement adopted a Fabian socialist philosophy long ago. They are in their final push, racing in the open amidst the current chaos in order to take cover under a new and totalitarian political regime. The globalists’ control of the monetary system has given them control over the political system, the state-run academic system, most news and entertainment venues and more.
Our nation has been hijacked by an agenda that serves the interests of global bankers, multinational corporations including so-called NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations) and political elites. The consequences of Sustainable Development are designed to end any political recognition of an individual’s unalienable right to life, liberty and property.
Their goal is to create a one world government through the Action Plan of Agenda 21/Sustainable Development. This U.N. initiative has been adopted as the official policy of the United States. Few, even those in government, understand its full nature or the extent of its policy, but all government agents effectively endorse its Action Plan.
Viewed broadly, Agenda 21/Sustainable Development includes three Action Plans:
*
Abolish Private Property. This is being advanced step by step through the Wildlands Project and through urban Smart Growth initiatives.
* Educate global citizens. Our schools have been transformed. Recent grads are reported to evidence a majority support for global governance.
* Population control and reduction. Many think we are moving closer toward Martial Law.
Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is based on Three E’s: Equity, Economics and Environment:
*
“Equity” means transforming America’s justice system from “Equal Justice” which is the system of law that recognizes the existence of each individual’s unalienable rights, to a system of “Social Justice” where rights are allocated based on group association. This negates the political recognition of unalienable rights recognized by the Declaration of Independence.
*
“Economics” means “Public/Private Partnerships” between government and business, including multinational corporations. This is economic fascism. This is a design to destroy free enterprise and abolish private property. Agenda 21/Sustainable Development also seeks economic equalization within and between nations. This “change” is accelerating.
*
“Environment” is not about protecting the public water, the air or your property from pollution caused by another. The true purpose of the environmental movement is to advance the equity and economic objectives of Agenda 21/Sustainable Development.
You need to understand that Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is designed to:
*
Reduce population dramatically and quickly.
*
Deny all people the right to live their own life.
*
Abolish private property.
There is very little time left to prevent this. We all must act to preserve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The best preparation for “the change” is predicated on the idea that it is practical to prepare for the worst and work for the best.
You must take certain steps to prepare:
* Eliminate or reduce debt. A debt-free home will dramatically increase your security if that is possible for you. Eliminate all personal debt such as credit card debt to avoid getting yourself into a situation where you become the chattel of your creditor or of the state. Personal debt is the most important form of debt to eliminate as you prepare.
* Obtain commodity currency. Having a stock of silver and or gold will provide you with an ease of mind. This will assist your ability to facilitate trade when it may require a wheelbarrow of dollars to buy a loaf of bread.
* Create or find access to food and water sources. Learn to grow a garden. Work with others so that alternate sources of food and water are prearranged. Have a supply of dehydrated foods to carry you through a difficult time.
Once prepared and informed, you will be ready to act on exposing the threat of Agends 21/Sustainable Development to others. Take action in the mutual interest of restoring and preserving freedom. Recognize unalienable rights.
With this information you can begin to prepare for the planned “change” and assume a role in defeating the grandest assault on human liberty ever devised.
In the end, the prospect for American survival and individual human freedom depends on defeating the Agenda 21/Sustainable Development philosophy and policy.
Michael Shaw, President, Freedom Advocates
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Attack on Private Property Institutionalized
SUMMARY:
In a powerful 50 minute presentation, abundance ecologist Michael Shaw described the nature, origin, structure and pace of the implementation of Sustainable Development/Agenda 21 in Santa Cruz and across the nation to residents of Auburn, California. The presentation incorporated examples from the Sierras, including a proposed Auburn City Tree Ordinance that dictates what a homeowner can do with trees on their own two acre lot. A report from this event (from the Auburn Journal) follows, with annotation by Freedom 21 Santa Cruz [now Freedom Advocates].
FULL TEXT:
(Adapted from Ryan McCarthy, "Proposed tree law is too radical, group says," Auburn Journal [With editorial comments in brackets by Freedom 21 Santa Cruz ){[href="http://www.freedomadvocates.org/">now Freedom Advocates]])Auburn's proposed tree ordinance represents Santa Cruz-style [political] environmentalism [an Auburn citizen's group] heard in early July."I can see an example of Santa Cruz right here in Auburn," Michael Shaw, [co-]founder of Freedom 21 Santa Cruz [now Freedom Advocates], told Auburn area residents.
He cited the Auburn tree ordinance applying to landowners of two or more acres as an effort to isolate some property owners from others. "When we abandon our neighbor's right to private property we have lost our own freedom," Shaw said.
[For property to be private, the owner must be free to put the property to the use that he or she designs, whether the property is one's land, car, tree... or person and provided that the equal rights of another are not violated in the process.]
If government can control plants," he added, "We become government's chattel."
The group Shaw [co-]founded (Freedom 21 Santa Cruz [now Freedom Advocates]) is critical of what it sees as environmental over-regulation and celebrates the self-governance and individual liberty that inspired the U.S. Constitution.
Many environmental measures are promoted with warm and fuzzy words but are the antitheses of liberty, he said. Auburn could be less than 10 years away from Santa Cruz-style measures and politics, Shaw said after his talk. Auburn City Council-woman Alice Dowden said that, "The city is working diligently to balance the need for growth and development with the need to protect our trees."
[Councilwoman Dowden seems to not understand the essential nature of liberty, responds Shaw. In determining who can cut down a tree on their own property, she seems to presume that her knowledge exceeds the combined understanding of everyone else. Liberty requires that government protect the lives and the rights of people. Fundamental rights include the right to the free use of your property as long as you don't infringe on the rights of others. A collectivist movement seeks to strip people of the use of private property; in this case under the guise of protecting trees, he said.]
"In drafting the ordinance the council has made several allowances to ensure that it can be implemented on a fair and equitable basis," Dowdin said. The updated tree ordinance is targeted at larger scale development rather than a homeowner who wants to cut down a tree to put in a swimming pool, she added.
[Does Ms. Dowden assume that because she was elected she has a special capacity to be equitable in allocating rewards and takings? Shaw asks. Does the Constitutional administration of government provide such power to an elected person?
Tyranny occurs when those who direct the force of government presume such omnipotence - just like becoming drunk after consuming too much alcohol. Lord Acton put it this way: "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," he adds.
Methods for government to assume control of land include gaining direct or indirect authority of the plants and/or the water, Shaw continues. When government controls a nation's land or the land's resources, that nation is no longer a "land of the free" people. Government control of the land is necessary for - and a precursor of - state collectivism. This is why the Auburn City attack on private property begins the process of eliminating private property and the freedom that private property supports, he says.
Ms. Dowden speaks as though she can get away with taking away the unalienable rights of a few because she presumes the support of an unrestrained majority, Shaw says. Today, she seeks to control reasonable use of land by landowners of two or more acres. Tomorrow she may target another minority group - or even you. Will someone be there to protect you?
A rapid expansion of government control of the American landscape is occurring. The adoption of the Auburn tree ordinance is one small new chip in the battered ideal of private property and individual liberty, he adds.]
Auburn resident Ken Menzer, a consulting arborist, said the City Council asked for a revised tree measure after a developer in 2000 removed all but two trees out of 700 to 800 when building a subdivision.
[The issue is not about a shortage of trees in the Sierras! The real issue is who decides the fate of individual human action - the individual or the state? One response leads to a raising human condition in a nation or world of increasing abundance and the other leads to a declining human condition in a world of increasing shortages. The City of Auburn seeks to 'protect trees' by taking control over that which is not theirs. These ideas are not new. History shows that left alone, a government will routinely attempt to expand its power and control over people, he says.]
Menzer said he is a pro-business Republican who doesn't want someone to come into the community and replace hundreds of trees with twigs. "It will take generations to restore the lost trees," he said. "I won't live that long; none of us will."
[The logic behind the objection to replacing trees with family homes because "twigs" will arise ignores the individual, commercial, societal, and environmental benefits that come with the provision of market housing, Shaw responds. Increasingly, to be pro-business does not mean that one is pro-private property. After all, some businesses support the idea of partnering with government. Government/private partnerships make it easier to control the action of the rest of us because these partnerships expand the use of government force by favoring the compliant businessman who, in return, often receives protection against free enterprise. There is an increasing occurrence of "consensus" between the "pro-environment" and "pro-business" factions. These agreements routinely take away reasonable uses of someone else's property and or place limitations on other people's reasonable actions.Citizens at large have detected a newly identified syndrome affecting many elected officials and recipients of government largesse - The Twig-Logic Deficit Disorder! Those who seek to control others with such reasoning are being discovered in alarming numbers. The attack on private property is becoming institutionalized. And with it, the attack on freedom itself. As George Washington said, "Private Property and freedom are inseparable," he says.]
Freedom 21 Santa Cruz [now Freedom Advocates] [co-]founder Shaw said that in the city of Capitola in Santa Cruz County, anyone in the community can designate anyone else's tree as a heritage tree. once so designated, an environmental review is required before the landowner can even prune the tree, he said.
He also criticized efforts in the state to create what he termed a "phony water shortage".
"If you control the water you control the people," Shaw said.
Michael Shaw is an Abundance Ecologist. He can be reached at michaelshaw@libertygarden.com .
The Journal's Ryan McCarthy can be reached at ryanm@goldcountry-media.com .
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml]
Michael Shaw, Pesident, Freedom Advocates
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