Posted on 08/09/2003 6:44:00 AM PDT by George Frm Br00klyn Park
WorldNetDaily / Commentary
The Third Sector
Henry Lamb
Posted: August 9, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
A new mechanism of governance is emerging. Georgetown University calls it "The Third Sector." The United Nations calls it "Civil Society." The President's Council on Sustainable Development calls it "a new, collaborative decision process." Whatever it's called, it is a process to formulate public policy by non-elected individuals, unencumbered by the legislative process.
The process was developed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the United Nations. As the IUCN developed its land-management policy proposals, a network of "civil society" organizations, called BIONET, was created to promote the policy proposal and to lobby U.N. delegates. As the IUCN developed its climate change policy proposals, a network of civil society organizations, called Climate Action Network, was created to promote the policy proposals and to lobby U.N. delegates.
The same process created the Women's Environment and Development Organization; the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives; the International Action Network on Small Arms; and many other "networks" of special interest groups, largely funded by the U.N. and sympathetic governments.
The process has been incredibly successful at the international level. It is rapidly becoming equally successful in the United States.
In 1995, the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, a "network" of special interest groups, banded together to urge UNESCO to declare Yellowstone National Park a World Heritage Site "In Danger." The designation required a willing Clinton-Gore administration to impose additional land-use restrictions on private property beyond the park's boundary. Neither local, state, nor federal elected officials had any say in the matter.
Throughout the 1990s, the President's Council on Sustainable Development spawned hundreds of these "networks" to focus on specific issues, such as the Sierra Club's "Smart Growth" programs, and to work at the local and regional levels to generate visions of smart growth for nearly every community.
These special interest groups are often called "visioning" councils, or "stakeholder," or "watershed" councils. They are designed to appear to be representative of the affected community. Most often, however, they consist of individuals who are government employees or executives or staff of special interest groups, with only a token number of carefully selected elected officials and business leaders.
The process of consensus building to achieve "collaborative" decision making has been refined to an art. In a given community, the appropriate council is chosen and begins meeting to discuss the future of the community. When the council is fully formed, and a couple of "day-glow" big-wheels have been recruited, a public announcement explains how the wonderful "citizens'" vision will unfold.
At the public meetings, a paid facilitator leads the group to choose from several options in several categories transportation, zoning, education, economic development until a final set of proposals is developed, which is then presented to the governing body for adoption and implementation. Rarely do the elected officials have the necessary information, or the political will, to oppose this vision developed by the "citizens" of the community.
In reality, it is not a vision of the citizens of the community. Ordinary citizens are rarely even notified of the meetings. When they do show up to ask questions, they are often ridiculed, marginalized and dismissed. When complete, virtually every one of these plans contain the elements recommended in Agenda 21 and by the President's Council on Sustainable Development.
Councils created to represent trans-boundary jurisdictions have even less input by ordinary citizens or elected officials. When a multi-jurisdictional plan is developed, and presented to the various jurisdictions, they either adopt it, or risk political ridicule and even the loss of federal funds.
These special interest groups the Third Sector are deeply embedded in the policy-making process. The American Planning Association was funded by the government to produce model legislation for state governments. The Center for Civic Education has the exclusive authority to write the civics curriculum for federally funded public schools. The Nature Conservancy, and similar groups, are used by government to buy private property, which is then resold to the government for a profit.
This new mechanism of governance has become so prevalent that Georgetown University has developed a special Ph.D. program to train special-interest organization leaders to be even more effective.
The great danger in this emerging new system of governance is the absence of accountability. If citizens don't like the policies developed by these special interest groups, who do they un-elect?
A related article on this "new" "Public Private Partnership" to make laws to govern YOUR offspring:
The World Has Not Heard The Last Of The Third Way
TURD way.
Totak control.
Zero accountability.
Whenever I bring this point up I am summarily ridiculed, marginalized and dismissed and it is amazing the type of persons who have no idea of where this Third Way is taking them or has taken them, they dont want to hear the truth and about the aforementioned organizations and causes they think so noble, they feel good being a part of such. They have forgotten the preamble We The People of the United States....and let it become without a fight, We The People of the United Nations..........
Henry Lamb has with enormous fortitude and courage been...preaching to the choir. The Choir should now rise up and help this man as well as ourselves, preserve the Republic for which WE Stand.
O, NEVER!!! At least not since the Constitution with it's attendant amendments was ratified. The original Articles of Confederation did have government control by the elite with no redress.
The Third Way WAS one of Hitler's names for his form of socialism. It is also the governing factor in China today, and the former{?} Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Wherein Committees {komitat} behind closed doors dictate policy.
No, "The Third Way" is socialism pure and unadulterated. Rule by people who are NOT responsible to the general public, but to their own whims on any given day in time. In other words, pure evil as has been demonstrated time and time again over many centuries. Peace and love, George.
I call it fascism. The Democrat party has devolved from Liberalism to Socialist/Communist/Fascist control freaks. Fascism is the trade mark element of World Government and the Thirdway. Never forget it and repeat it as often as possible, Hillary and her Leftist movement are Socialist/Communist/Fascist Control Freaks.
Evil is not an overstatement either. We just had the Fish and Wildlife Commission walk into my area cripple the marine industry in the city of Cape Coral in the name of the Manatee. This is after thousands of people showed up and begged them not to do so at one of their public comment clown-shows where they pretend to care what the people think.
No elected officials and no redress whatsoever, just the wave of a finger by a group of jaundiced government employeees. Not a damn thing anyone can do about it.
This is not your father's America.
The Clinton years were all about Control - lies and Control. The operative words were "...we are going to do - thus and so" "we will do thus and so - for you" "...we Have done - thus and so - for the good of the people"
Great claims of money given to the states for health, education and general welfare which could never be traced beyond the 'front office' of any given department or entity. Teachers still lacked teaching tools from books to crayons; health care became more bloated and cumbersome; hungry families were the norm. However organizations that promoted diversity/globalism/socialism/Marxism were heavily endowed with taxpayer dollars. Hillary and Bills way of doing things with other peoples money and land is terrifying and far, far removed from a free society.
public policy by non-elected individuals,O, As the article mentions, the local "citizens" are denigrated to the point of tears, and then whatever monstrosity by the outside "citizens" is IMPOSED. Even to the point of "citizens of the world" imposing their mandates such as the Yellowstone debacle. These people were NEVER the next door neighbor citizens, but "citizens" from afar running "local" lives.These people used to be called citizens.
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It is something like the Supreme Court making laws and "interpreting" the written words of laws. 9 people imposing their whims of the day on the whole of the populace. Except, the "Court" does operate somewhat in the open. It is socialism no matter any pretty name it might be given. Peace and love, George.
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