Lesson 10: Stopping Agenda 21

Stopping Agenda 21This is the last lesson in a series of ten lessons on Agenda 21, commonly known as Sustainable Development. Today we will learn the…

Strategies that Will Help You Stop Agenda 21 from Destroying our Representative Republic

We can hope that the politicians, with no push from the people, will on their own find out, learn about, and address Sustainable Development through appropriate legislation. If hoping for something worked, we would all have won million dollar lotteries by now. No, hoping isn’t the answer. Only if enough Americans are educated to understand what Agenda 21 is, how it has been implemented, and then choose to engage our politicians in order to create enough “pressure” to force the politicians to stop passing Sustainable Development policies and to instead sponsor Anti-Agenda 21 Legislation, will we be able to throw off the shackles that are currently being created for the American people.

Pressure from the educated citizens can be applied on every level of government; local, state, and national. This will not be an easy task, nor a quick task, but if we as a nation wish freedom for ourselves and the generations to come, we must accept this challenge. But for this challenge to be successful, we must be smart about how we go about tackling Agenda 21, because if we make mistakes, we will at the least miss an opportunity to create positive change.

In order to make my point, I am going to read, with permission from the American Policy Center, headed by long time Agenda 21 activist, Tom DeWeese, an article titled “New Strategies in the Fight to Stop Agenda 21”.  Remember I am using Tom DeWeese’s words.

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…”I hear from an ever-growing list of activists working in their communities to stop Agenda 21. A revolution is certainly under way across the country.

However, as we are gaining success, we are also beginning to face stiffer resistance from the proponents of Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development. More than ever we are hearing their charges of “conspiracy theories,” “fringe nuts,” and “extremism.” It’s to be expected. We are openly challenging them and they are feeling the heat. That means, as we move forward, it’s vitally important that anti-Agenda 21 activist be very careful with how they approach local government to express their opposition.

I’m finding that there is a bit of a misconception in regard to one of the main proponents of Agenda 21, and it is hurting our ability to make progress in the fight. It is vitally important that we all get the following facts right when launching our attacks against ICLEI. Please listen carefully. The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) has been a main target by the anti-Agenda 21 forces. We targeted ICLEI because it has a clear United Nations connection, making it easier for us to make our case to elected officials about the UN connection to Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development policy. However, some have misunderstood the ICLEI role and have misrepresented who it is and what it does. The result, in some cases, is that our legitimate arguments have been be ignored and even laughed at.

What ICLEI is, and What ICLEI does

Let me try to set the record straight and provide some ideas on how to deal with the ICLEI situation. First, the following facts are certainly true and need to be understood by all anti-Agenda 21 activists: ICLEI is a UN NGO organization that helped write Agenda 21 for the 1992 Earth Summit and then set, as its mission, to bring Agenda 21 policy to every city in the world. It does this by meeting with local officials, signing contracts with them to set standards for energy and water use, building and development codes, farming policy, etc. It brings in training for city hall staff; soft ware to manage the programs; guidelines for legislation; networking with other communities, other NGO and Stakeholder groups and other agencies of state and federal government. They reach out to other public officials in the communities, including newspaper editors, school superintendents, local college presidents, and chamber of commerce leaders – all designed to assure everyone who helps make decisions and policy in the community are on board. And of course, ICLEI leads the officials to the most important ingredient to impose Agenda 21 – money – grant money that comes with specific strings to guarantee that Agenda 21 is enforced.

That grant money is like heroin in the veins. Once there, the addiction and dependence is in force. Once ICLEI has done its job, the community is hooked, and an entirely new attitude and community atmosphere of top-down control is enforced by the government. ICLEI’s influence basically creates an entirely new culture in the community where it becomes natural and basically unquestioned to expect local government to be involved in every aspect of your property, job, family and your whole life.

What to Do and Not Do When Dealing with ICLEI

Now, that’s what ICLEI does and that’s why we targeted it and why it is so dangerous. However, the manner in which we expose and oppose ICLEI is very important and I have heard some enthusiastic activist go about it in a damaging and ineffective way. First, ICLEI is NOT the United Nations, as I have heard some charge before city councils. It is a private organization with its own agenda – of course it is promoting Agenda 21. But to say the city council is paying dues to the UN is just not accurate.

Another misconception is that ICLEI IS Agenda 21 and if the community stops paying dues and ends their contract with ICLEI the battle is over. I am receiving messages from people who are dismayed to learn their community is still moving forward with Sustainable Development programs even after they ended the contract with ICLEI. The fact is ending the contract with ICLEI is just the first punch. From there you must be active in an effort to undo any programs ICLEI helped put in place. That includes…

1. …changing the very culture of City Hall and its ICLEI trained staff.

2. … It means an active campaign to dismantle non-elected boards and councils that are the prime source for enforcement of policy.

3. …It means removing your community from regional government councils.

4.  …And it probably means electing new officials who oppose the Agenda 21 policy and have the ability and courage to stand up to an assault by federal and state agencies who will not be happy that you are rejecting their agenda. And through all of that you will have to be prepared to counter the attacks from the entrenched NGOs and the lackeys down at the local paper. Withdrawal from the drug of Agenda 21 can be deadly.

Outsmart the Opposition by Employing Common Sense

Finally, I believe there is a more effective way to attack Agenda 21/ Sustainable Development polices in your community, at least initially. You may be fired up about the UN, but others are not. As I wrote a few months ago in my article “How to Fight Back Against Sustainable Development,” rather than rushing into city hall and immediately start accusing them of implementing a UN program, take some time to research the policy being proposed or implemented. Determine the effect it will have on the community or your property. Who else will be affected and how? These are the victims of the policy and the most likely to support you efforts to stop it. In that way, you will recruit new people to the cause. You will find it much more effective than sounding like a rabid bear growling about the UN.

For example, smart meters or energy audits affect everyone in town. What is the problem: government is dictating your energy use that you are paying for. It is a violation of your right to choose how much energy you are willing to buy. It denies you the right to determine how warm or cool your house will be. It denies you the choice of taking a hot shower or not. It even affects your health if you can’t get warm enough – or if you are denied access to hot water, allowing germs to grow.

I believe such an argument will gain more support for your cause across the city and across party and philosophical lines than rushing to bring up the UN? Yes, the policy certainly did originate in the bowels of the UN. But why are we opposed to it – because of what it does to us. And that is the place to start to oppose it. As people come to your side, if they want to know more, then will be the time to teach them the rest of the story about Agenda 21 and its UN origins.

So, focus on the victims and the impact the policy will have on the well-being of the community and you. Question how they intend to enforce the policy (such as having government agents come into your home). Make your officials explain that. They won’t want to. This will show the heavy hand of control required to make the policy work. Put the officials on the defensive over their enforcement efforts and watch them retreat as it’s exposed.

The same approach can be used effectively in dealing with plans to put meters on private wells, or in dealing with plans for historic preservation schemes that suddenly disallow private property owners to change or improve anything on their house because “Robert E. Lee didn’t see that change.” (You have to live in Virginia to understand that reference.)

Ask your County Commissioners this question: “name one thing I can do on my property without your permission.” To answer that question honestly will force them to admit that under these policies there is no private property. The important message here is to keep your fight local to stop their global agenda.

Agenda 21 is a vast, complicated structure. The organizations promoting it number in the thousands and include Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), public policy groups, federal, state, and local agencies, self-proclaimed “stakeholders,” Congress, the White House, 50 state houses, and your local officials. You can’t fight them all individually. Instead, fight the policy and watch them come out of the woodwork to challenge you. By attacking the policy you have made them defend it and you will have shaped the debate. Then we’ll see who is really wearing the tin foil hats.”

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Tom DeWeese gave some really excellent information and advice in this article-advice that will now be elaborated upon.  First, ICLEI has done what is typical for those pushing Agenda 21; it changed its name once people started questioning its actions. ICLEI originally stood for International Council for Environmental Initiatives, but while keeping its acronym, it changed the name to Local Governments for Sustainability. This is worth mentioning, because it is quite confusing. If you want to know if you town is a member of ICLEI, there is information available in the Lesson 10 supplemental materials to help you do that.

Regardless of whether you are trying to remove your town from membership in ICLEI or trying to stop your town from taking grants from regional governments, you must determine a strategy for success. It would be great if there was one way to move forward to fix this mess, and that way forward would guarantee success. Sadly, that is not the case. Every town and every issue will require careful thought on how to move through it to success. It will, in most situations, be easier if you can round-up the troops. If you can create a coalition of people from businesses, as well as average citizens, and the more the better, you can more easily delegate the work, have a greater pool of resources, and be able to create a greater show of force. This is the ideal situation. However, in a situation in which you find that there is not an ability to gather a larger group, a small group can make a big difference. It will require greater work on the part of each individual, and there will be no “show of force”, but there are still possibilities. A smaller group is indeed less intimidating. That may keep the officials from going on the defense-not a bad thing. It also forces the small group to create “relationships” with those in “power”. If you can keep cool, and argue using logic and facts, you may create key alliances with these folks. Once you have one or two of them on your side, they then become allies in influencing the remaining “non believers”. Further, you are a “lean, mean, fighting machine”. These situations can change on a dime, and if there are only a few of you engaged in stopping Agenda 21 policies in your community, you can make decisions and adjustments rapidly.

Regardless, before you can employ any strategies, you need to be educated  on the structure of your government and the key players in your government. For example, in my city of about 15,000 citizens, there is a mayor, city council, city administrator, full-time Planning and Zoning Director, a  Planning and Zoning board, a Planning and Zoning Appeals Board, a Parks and Recreation Board, a Water and Sewer Board, blah, blah, blah. You get the idea-lots of layers of government. You will need to decide which of these pieces-parts of the government you wish to monitor and effect.

You will be sitting in a lot of meetings, while you try to decide how to respond to the drama that plays out-and drama it is. I would say from personal experience, there is more drama in politics than any soap opera you have ever watched. Also, it is really important to stay for the WHOLE meeting. Just because nothing of importance seems to be going on early in the meeting, does NOT mean that a “big” event will not occur later in the meeting! If nothing else, those in charge of the meeting respect the citizen that “hangs in” for the whole meeting, which in turn allows the citizen to more easily build the required relationship with the officials in charge of community decisions.

One last point on local government. Do not forget your school system. Everything said so far applies to trying to put our school boards on notice. Lesson 8 on Education should have brought home the dire situation in which our children, through no fault of their own, find themselves. It is just as important, and it could be argued that it is more important, that we reform our schools. There is a saying that says “our children are our future”. If that is the case, our future is about to be determined by the decisions we make-or don’t make-to save our children today from a corrupt educational system.

In summary, think about where, education or government, you wish to put your time and resources. Then study their pieces-parts to decide a more specific target. Begin to go to meetings, talk to anyone who knows anything, and begin to build alliances and strategies to save our precious Republic. When you get discouraged, know, if George Washington and his men were able to survive through the winter in Valley Forge to eventually create the greatest free nation on earth, that we can do no less.

Congratulations! You have made it through all ten lessons-no small achievement. Please give yourself a pat on the back!

However, now the really important work must begin. Please go through the supplementals for Lesson 10, so that you may organize your strategy for how you wish to help stop this horrible freedom sucking train that is about to run rough shod over America. You may easily access the Lesson 10 supplementals by clicking on the links provided below.

Thanks  God-Good News

“One Page” How to Stop Agenda 21

John Birch Society-Stop Agenda 21

A Plan To Stop Agenda 21

U.S. Cities that Belong to ICLEI

How to Fight Back Against Sustainable Development.

Sherriff Mack: The County Sheriff America’s Last Hope

Sample Letter to the Editor

 

 

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