Sustainable Development--the "Why" behind Everything that is destroying America

TEA Parties and "End the Fed" Protests cannot win back the Republic without this information!

Many Americans appear to be awakening from their slumber of apathy as government forces are making their move for total control of our lives. Massive TEA Party protests on April 15th, followed by more than 1000 again on Independence Day, show a growing movement of concerned, dedicated Americans. But there is a major component missing from those protests. There is a nearly universal lack of understanding of the issue of Sustainable Development and the dangers it poses to our liberty. Consequently, that issue is being left out of the protests.

Meanwhile, as thousands attend the TEA Parties and protest the Federal Reserve, taxes, and out of control federal government, inside their local city halls, international forces are busy turning the communities into little soviets.

I have been traveling the nation over the past few months sounding the alarm that we cannot win this battle to restore our Republic if we don’t understand that what we face is not a bunch of random issues -- but a complete agenda of control -- Sustainable Development. Cap N Trade, global warming, population control, gun control, open borders and illegal immigration, higher taxes, higher gas prices, refusal to drill American oil, education restructuring, international IDs, natural health supplement control, food control, farming "reform," control of private property, NAIS and UN Global Governance are all part of the Sustainable Development/Agenda 21 blueprint.

To that end, I am focusing this entire issue on Sustainable Development to give activists all the ammunition they need to fight back. I am also including a list of more than 500 cities that are currently enacting Sustainable Development policies.

http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=1387&region=NA If this is happening in your town (and it is), I urge you to challenge your local city council and mayor to stop these polices. The battles now must be fought on the local level. Remove Sustainable Development from every community and policies out of the federal government will be neutralized. And only then can we be on our way to restoring the American Republic. ------ Tom DeWeese

In his book, Earth in the Balance, Al Gore warned that a "wrenching transformation" must take place to lead America away from the "horrors of the Industrial Revolution." The process to do that is called Sustainable Development and its’ roots can be traced back to a UN policy document called Agenda 21, adopted at the UN’s Earth Summit in 1992.

Sustainable Development calls for changing the very infrastructure of the nation, away from private ownership and control of property to nothing short of central planning of the entire economy -- often referred to as top-down control. Truly, Sustainable Development is designed to change our way of life.

In short, it’s all about wealth redistribution. Your wealth into a green rat hole.

During the Cold War, communists tried to get us to surrender our liberties and way of life for the wisdom of Karl Marx. Americans didn’t buy it.

But now, they have taken the same clap trap and wrapped it all in a nice green blanket, scaring us with horror stories about the human destruction of the environment -- and so we are now throwing our liberties on the bon fire like a good old fashioned book burning -- all in the name of protecting the planet.

It sounds so friendly. So meaningful. So urgent. But, the devastation to our liberty and way of life is the same as if Lenin ordered it.

We now have a new language invading our government at all levels. Old words with new meanings fill government policy papers. The typical city council meeting discusses "community development," "historic preservation," and "partnerships" between the city and private business.

Civic leaders organize community meetings run by "facilitators," as they outline a "vision" for the town, enforced by "consensus." No need for debate when you have consensus! People of great importance testify before congressional committees of the dire need for "social justice."

Free trade, social justice, consensus, global truth, partnerships, preservation, stakeholders, land use, environmental protection, development, diversity, visioning, open space, heritage, comprehensive planning, critical thinking, and community service are all part of our new language.

What are they really talking about? What mental pictures come to mind when those words are used? George Orwell realized that those who control language and manipulate key phrases can control policy.

The language is being changed and manipulated to quietly implement a very destructive policy. Whenever you see or hear these words, know that, in every case, they are defining one thing - the implementation of Sustainable Development.

Rather than good management of resources, Sustainable Development has come to mean denied use and resources locked away from human hands. In short, it has become a code word for an entire economic and social agenda.

I have spent most of the past 12 years studying every facet of this new political agenda which is fast becoming a revolution -- touching every aspect of our businesses, our public education system, our private property, our families and our individual lives.

Interestingly, it is not a Republican or Democrat issue. It’s not liberal or conservative. It is being implemented on a purely bipartisan basis. It is now the official policy of the United States, put in force by literally every department of the government. It is the official policy of every state government, and nearly every city, town and county in the nation.

But, I warn you, accepting the perception that Sustainable Development is simply good environmental stewardship is a serious and dangerous mistake.

So what is Sustainable Development? The Sustainablists insist that society be transformed into feudal-like governance by making nature the central organizing principle for our economy and society.

To achieve this, Sustainablist policy focuses on three components; global land use, global education, and global population control.

Keep in mind that America is the only country in the world based on the ideals of private property. But, private property is incompatible with the collectivist premise of Sustainable Development.

If you doubt that, then consider this quote from the report of the 1976 UN’s Habitat I conference which said: "Land. . . cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principle instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth, therefore, contributes to social injustice."

According to Sustainablist doctrine, It is a social injustice for some to have prosperity if others do not. It is a social injustice to keep our borders closed. It is a social injustice for some to be bosses and others to be merely workers.

Social justice is a major premise of Sustainable Development. Another word for social justice, by the way, is Socialism. Karl Marx was the first to coin the phrase "social justice."

Some officials try to pretend that Sustainable Development is just a local effort to protect the environment -- just your local leaders putting together a local vision for the community. Then ask your local officials how it is possible that the exact language and tactics for implementation of Sustainable Development are being used in nearly every city around the globe from Lewiston, Maine to Singapore. Local indeed.

Sustainable Development is the process by which America is being reorganized around a central principle of state collectivism using the environment as bait.

The best way to understand what Sustainable Development actually is can be found by discovering what is NOT sustainable.

According to the UN’s Biodiversity Assessment Report, items for our everyday lives that are NOT sustainable include: Ski runs, grazing of livestock, plowing of soil, building fences, industry, single family homes, paved and tarred roads, logging activities, dams and reservoirs, power line construction, and economic systems that fail to set proper value on the environment (capitalism, free markets).

Maurice Strong, Secretary General of the UN’s Rio Earth Summit in 1992 said, ". .. Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class -- involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable."

Are you starting to see the pattern behind Cap and Trade, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and all of those commercials you’re forced to watch about the righteousness of Going Green? They are all part of the enforcement if Sustainable Development.

And one of the most destructive tools they use to force it on us is something called the "precautionary principle." That means that any activities that might threaten human health or the environment should be stopped -- even if no clear cause and effect relationship has been established -- and even if the potential threat is largely theoretical.

That makes it easy for any activist group to issue warnings by news release or questionable report and have those warnings quickly turned into public policy -- just in case.

Many are now finding non-elected regional governments and governing councils enforcing policy and regulations. As these policies are implemented, locally-elected officials are actually losing power and decision-making ability in their own communities. Most decisions are now being made behind the scenes in non-elected "sustainability councils" armed with truckloads of federal regulations, guidelines, and grant money.

According to its authors, the objective of Sustainable Development is to integrate economic, social, and environmental policies in order to achieve reduced consumption, social equity, and the preservation and restoration of biodiversity.

The Sustainablists insist that society be transformed into feudal-like governance by making Nature the central organizing principle for our economy and society. As such, every societal decision would first be questioned as to how it might effect the environment. To achieve this, Sustainablist policy focuses on three components; land use, education, and population control and reduction.

The Sustainable Development logo used in most literature on the subject contains three connecting circles labeled Social Equity; Economic Prosperity; and Ecological Integrity (known commonly as the 3 Es).

As stated, Sustainable Development’s Social Equity plank is based on a demand for "social justice." Today, the phrase is used throughout Sustainablist literature. The Sustainablist system is based on the principle that individuals must give up selfish wants for the needs of the common good, or the "community." How does this differ from Communism?

This is the same policy behind the push to eliminate our nation’s borders to allow the "migration" of those from other nations into the United States to share our individually-created wealth and our taxpayers-paid government social programs. Say the Sustainablists, "Justice and efficiency go hand in hand." "Borders," they say, "are unjust."

Under the Sustainablist system, private property is an evil that is used simply to create wealth for a few. So too, is business ownership. Instead, "every worker/person will be a direct capital owner." Property and businesses are to be kept in the name of the owner, keeping them responsible for taxes and other expenses, however control is in the hands of the "community." That policy is right out of the Socialist handbook.

Sustainable Development’s economic policy is based on one overriding premise: that the wealth of the world was made at the expense of the poor. It dictates that, if the conditions of the poor are to be improved, wealth must first be taken from the rich. Consequently, Sustainable Development’s economic policy is based not on private enterprise but on public/private partnerships.

In order to give themselves an advantage over competition, some businesses -- particularly large corporations -- now find a great advantage in dealing directly with government, actively lobbying for legislation that will inundate smaller companies with regulations that they cannot possibly comply with or even keep up with. This government/big corporation back-scratching has always been a dangerous practice because economic power should be a positive check on government power, and vise versa. If the two should ever become combined, control of such massive power can lead only to tyranny. One of the best examples of this was the Italian model in the first half of the Twentieth Century under Mussolini’s Fascism.

Together, select business leaders who have agreed to help government impose Sustainablist green positions in their business policies, and officials at all levels of government are indeed merging the power of the economy with the force of government in Public/Private Partnerships on the local, state and federal levels.

As a result, Sustainable Development policy is redefining free trade to mean centralized global trade "freely" crossing (or eliminating) national borders. It definitely does not mean people and companies trading freely with each other. Its real effect is to redistribute American manufacturing, wealth, and jobs out of our borders and to lock away American natural resources. After the regulations have been put in place, literally destroying whole industries, new "green" industries created with federal grants bring newfound wealth to the "partners." This is what Sustainablists refer to as economic prosperity.

"Nature has an integral set of different values (cultural, spiritual and material) where humans are one strand in nature’s web and all living creatures are considered equal. Therefore the natural way is the right way and human activities should be molded along nature’s rhythms." from the UN’s Biodiversity Treaty presented at the 1992 UN Earth Summit.

This quote lays down the ground rules for the entire Sustainable Development agenda. It says humans are nothing special -- just one strand in the nature of things or, put another way, humans are simply biological resources. Sustainablist policy is to oversee any issue in which man interacts with nature -- which, of course, is literally everything. And because the environment always comes first, there must be great restrictions over private property ownership and control. This is necessary, Sustainablists say, because humans only defile nature.

Under Sustainable Development there can be no concern over individual rights -- as we must all sacrifice for the sake of the environment. Individual human wants, needs, and desires are to be conformed to the views and dictates of social planners. The UN’s Commission on Global Governance said in its 1995 report: "Human activity... combined with unprecedented increases in human numbers... are impinging on the planet’s basic life support system. Action must be taken now to control the human activities that produce these risks"

Under Sustainable Development there can be no limited government, as advocated by our Founding Fathers, because, we are told, the real or perceived environmental crisis is too great. Maurice Strong, Chairman of the 1992 UN Earth Summit said: "A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally-damaging consumption patterns. The shift will require a vast strengthening of the multilateral system, including the United Nations."

The politically based environmental movement provides Sustainablists camouflage as they work to transform the American systems of government, justice, and economics. It is a masterful mixture of socialism (with its top down control of the tools of the economy) and fascism (where property is owned in name only -- with no control). Sustainable Development is the worst of both the left and the right. It is not liberal, nor is it conservative. It is a new kind of tyranny that, if not stopped, will surely lead us to a new Dark Ages of pain and misery yet unknown to mankind.

Tom DeWeese is president of the American Policy Center (www.americanpolicy.org) and editor of The DeWeese Report.

If you focus on one tree, you risk losing sight of the forest. Any particular leftist label can easily be abandoned (i.e. thrown under the bus), without impeding the leftist destruction of everything good and decent about western civilization.

There is no "one" particular leftist program, or policy, or group, or agenda item, that is any more or less diabolical or supreme than all the others. They all share the common enemies of individual freedom and constitutional rights, but they are loosely connected by a wide variety of mind-mush studies of a wide variety of collectivist ideas and characters.

Their intention is to inflict death by a thousand cuts to freedom, and they fully intend to destroy our constitutional republic. They understand only power, and mainly the power to confiscate other people's wealth (since they don't produce any themselves).

I just call them all communists; it's simple and it's appropriate. You could just as easily call them marxists, collectivists, anarchists, Democrats, or any one of dozens of labels. That's just personal preference.

In our time, we just have to expose them as destructive elements and groups, and educate enough of the voting populace to defeat them, either at the ballot box, or on the battlefields.

"This is not my government and he is not my president".

To whom is this fine quote attributable? Who are the local militias? If they exist and were to "bust a move," would it be deemed to be "taking the law into their own hands?"

The conventional answers to these questions are "of course they are," and even using the terms "defiant,""militias,""unconventional" and even "10th Amendment" can open one and even the whole site up to suspicion and intense scrutiny with all sorts of evil motives imputed to said individuals and the whole site by Lieberal fiends and snitches!!!

So our precious "freedom of expression is always clouded by the suspicions and assumptions of the politically correct leftists that scour sites such as FR. One must remember both halves of the ancient chinese curse:"May you live in interesting times and may you come to the attention of powerful people!" Ahhhh Sooooo!!! Very scruitable!!!

Each state has it's own rules and laws when it comes to forming a militia. The RAT party in office to today would make you thing the militia is evil but the militia is really the only thing we have going for us in order to get rid of the corruption in our government. We were warned about the evils that can take place and that why they set rules for a militia but our government would turn on anyone that would go after them because it's been drummed into the heads of American that a militia is evil.
The constitution calls for the corruption to be removed, they must call for their party members to step down or resign but only the Republican party does that. The Liberal,communist RAT party doesn't call for the removal of the criminals in office, instead they elect judges,and chair persons that can protect the criminals in office.
The RATS must call for Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Charlie Rangle, Waters, Schumer, along with a few others. These people MUST BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE NOW, IT SHOULD have happened years ago.
According to the Constitution, JUST HOW LIGAL IS OUR SENATE OR OUR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. POLOSSI AND RIED ALONG WITH THEIR FELLOW RAT PARTY ARE ILLEGALLY HOLDING UNTO THEIR SEATS. THE CORRUPTION MUST BE REMOVED FROM OUR GOVERNMENT. Any BILL THEY PASS IS NOT LEGAL. They low life Judge they just approved is not binding. The American people should DEMAND that no Supreme Judge or Senator can be sworn into office because they are not legally holding on to those seats.
Acorn played a big part in getting these RATS into office and that's why the bozo in the White House is paying them billions of dollars.
What's happening today is the makings of the Republican party. They KNEW that Election Fraud was out of control when the Clintons were running and they REFUSED to go after Clinton, they refused to challenge the election, they were all running scared. Many people were beaten up, became victims of the IRS or they were killed, MURDERED and they all got away with it.
Look at the Impeachment trial for Clinton, that was the JOKE of the Century. Clinton should have been removed from office and tried for TREASON along with many other crimes he,Hitlary and his RAT party were guilty of. What happened behind closed doors, the Republican party had the VETO POWER and for some strange reason Trent Lott turned the veto power over to the low life SCUM Daschel. Why? and just how could that happen with out some dirty deal or blackmail to take place.
Judge Rehnquist,can't remember the correct spelling of his name, this Judge knew ABSOLUTLELY NOTHING ABOUT CONSTITUTION LAW. I called that gavel than, a bloody gavel that could cost us our lives one day. Now we have the BOZO’s in office along with the SAME scum that was part of the Clinton administration, Clinton would have done much of what the bozo is doing but couldn't because he had a REPUBLICAN party in power at the time, and they stop him short more than once. Clinton and Rubin and Greenspan would have bankrupted this country years ago and they wanted to, they couldn't get their hands on the money, they wanted to take over the Social Security fund and couldn't. Clinton and Russia and the dirty deals there, the space station, just like the bozo is doing now. That Golden GAVEL that didn't put Clinton and the rest of the RATS were the belonged may be dripping with the blood of millions of Americans it this bozo and the communist liberal rats are not stopped. NO lawyer or Judge or government committee is going to convict or remove any of them.
The CZARS WILL REPLACE THE SO CALLED ELECTED OFFICIALS and just WHO, yes WHO is going to stop them, only a militia that is formed by the rules and laws of each state, a militia that is intended for the good of all Americans.
They don't want us to have guns, WHY? because every American has the right to bare ARMS and protect and save this country and the American people, we must fight for our freedom and we must never allow the evil forces of a DICTATER to replace our Constitution or our bill of Rights.

I don't care to keep going over and over the same lies because their are people that really believe it.
We all have got Pres.Bush to thank, he went against Russia and the old treaty that Albright signed and put missile defense into place. We all need to be grateful that Pres.Bush and Chaney were in office or millions of Americans could have killed by now. The bozo in the White House is once again looking to endanger this country. If congress doesn't stop this bozo and the Clinton gang we will regret it.
Everything this bozo is doing is exactly what the Clinton an Bob Rubin were trying to do. Clinton was a FAILURE in the eyes of Russia and China. Remember one thing, we still don't know where Clinton was when he was behind the iron curtain. We do know he was in Russia after he was order out of England after rape charges were brought against him. Nobody was able to track Clinton, but one day he was just released from Russia and nobody knows why or how, so you have no choice but to wonder what deals were made and I'm sure the meeting between Russia and the bozo must have something to do with it. Clinton just handed over all what ever info for the space station to Russia. Clinton made two trips to LosAlamos and information started disappearing. Today the racist, low life Bill Richardson was PUT into the Governor seat to stop investigations into what happened there. They would have burned down the entire state to cover their butts and they didn't care if they burned every man,woman or child in the process, so do you honestly think the people of New Mexico would have voted for Richardson. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and their goons went to New Mexico to make sure Richardson was elected just like Acorn got Clinton into office and now this bozo, they have also been rigging the elections for the Senators that's how they took over the Senate. The Rat party is great for creating a DIVERSION, while they were busy blaming Pres.Bush and calling him names they were busy at work filling the house and Senate seats and Governor seats. Pres. Bush stayed focused and didn't care to get involved in dirty politics, he should have came right back at them and exposed them for what hey really are, oh well too late now.
Clinton and the RAT party at one did sign a bill saying this country could not defend itself unless a missile had landed on our soil. When Gingrich left office he did expose the rat party and said we have no way of defending ourselves. Thank God for Pres.Bush and VP Cheney and because of them we are alive today.
Here we go again this bozo is going to full fill the duties of Clinton, he will scrap the our missile defense and don't be surprised if the missiles and launchers are not together again or can't be found.
We are sitting back waiting for the death and distruction of this country. There has to be a call for IMPEACHMENT and nobody wants to do it. It's either IMPEACHMENT or DEATH to America, This RAT party, Czars and bozo have already gone to far and still no call for Impeachment. It's hard to think that there is nobody in Congress that is willing to expose what is going on and Call for Impeachment but than if anyone goes against this bozo they will be attached and call racist.
BOZO'S DEATH PANELS WILL BE ANOTHER HOLOCUST, ONLY THIS HOLOCUST WILL BE CALL HEALTHCARE OR SHOULD I SAY OBOZOCARE.
NO MATTER WHAT THIS BOZO AND THIS RAT PARTY DOES EVERYTHING POINTS TO THE DEATH OF AMERICANS AND THE DISTRUCTION OF OUR COUNTRY. We may be looking at a new African Nation, our elderly put to death, our young children lying in dirt roads sick and hungry.

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