Joe:
It is long past the time for us to look to America’s interests. Perhaps this is a little off topic, but I just got back in from a Tea Party generated meeting of conservatives here in the Bitterroot Valley. The presenter was a man named Shaw and he presented on Agenda 21.
I became aware of Agenda 21 ten years ago when I ran across an outfit in Santa Cruz, CA called Freedom Advocates. Agenda 21 is a U.N. website that reports on the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero in 1992.
At that meeting the method of eliminating private property world wide was decided. Enviromentalism was the tool. Today the Rocky Mountain West is increasingly coming under government control. Here in the Bitterroot zoning regulations have ignited a war between local government and land owners.
I have been fighting for years to make people aware of what is behind all of the wildlife corridor and riparian area regs proposed by the County Commissioners. I have been a thorn in their side. Tonight Michael Shaw gave me information I did not have before. It is enough to make your blood run cold.
I said that this is off topic, but our national interest is under assault and has been for a long time. If this sounds conspiratorial it is because that is exactly what it is. Our concerns about troops around the world, perhaps inappropriately, is a legitimate concern. So is the massive assualt on America by members of both political parties. If you find the time I suggest that you check out Freedom Advocates.com. Got to go. I have to do a search on an organization named I.C.L.E.I.
I have been aware of Agenda 21 since the early '90s, and have watched as the 'rewilding' of America has fulfilled part of that plan.
The time schedules talked about in those days are horribly (from their viewpoint) late. I think that is the reason we have Obama, who is breaking all the rules to catch up with that and other programs.
Despite the multifaceted assault on American Liberty, from both (yes, both--there are individual exceptions, but overall, both parties are complicit) parties, with nearly as many excuses and a completely complicit media, America has resisted the plan to encompass and absorb it into a global socialist tyranny.
Repeatedly, the UN has failed to get our willing compliance with the Kyoto accords, with global small arms control, and a host of other plans.
So, despite the objection of aware people, the pieces are being set in place anyway, through regulations with the weight of law, published in the Federal Register and quietly permitted to take effect by a populace too preoccupied with feeding their children, egos, or greed ('poor' people can be greedy, too).
The amount of the West unfettered by the most stringent of regulations on land use has continued to shrink, regardless of who is in power, the rights of the individual have steadily evaporated, and our ability to extract our nation's mineral wealth has been significantly hampered. In addition, dangerous predators have been 'reintroduced' to populated areas, further increasing the difficulty in utilizing private property, with a tangle of serious consequences and regulations which make it difficult for those who live there to defend life and limb without risking the forfeiture of all else they own, including their freedom.
Those who live in cities have willingly, by virtue of their location, often abdicated the rights those of us who live in rural areas take for granted--or at least took for granted.
At that meeting the method of eliminating private property world wide was decided. Enviromentalism was the tool.
When the riparian rights which were granted with the land to landowners and their descendants were repealed in the state of my birth, I saw the writing on the wall. Those Rights had been part of the English Common Law and went with the land, land, in my ancestor's instance which was also purchased from the Nanticoke and Powhatan tribes who had been warring over it--the chipped stone remnants of that conflict evident in the tobacco fields of my youth as arrow heads.
It wasn't stolen, nor were the right to hunt, fish, harvest shellfish, etc.--although we were now required to have a license to do the latter, and anyone could camp in front of our house as long as they were below the 'mean high water mark' in the tidewater.
To have otherwise was an affront to the 'peace and dignity of the state', with no regards for the rights, nor peace and dignity of those who had helped build it from the start and who owned the land.
In my mind, it started then, although it actually started much earlier in places where eminent domain had been used to push people off their land to build WPA projects in the Appalachians and elsewhere.
Now, the West, already more than 50% Federally owned, is finding out (again) that Great (Half-)White father indeed speaks with forked tongue.
Today the Rocky Mountain West is increasingly coming under government control. Here in the Bitterroot zoning regulations have ignited a war between local government and land owners.
Fight the good fight. We have stymied some local efforts to turn go-back land into "wilderness area", one of which presented a series of a dozen parcels which, when plotted on the map, controlled access to a far greater area and effectively would have placed that area off-limits to the ranchers and farmers who had lived there for over a century.
The battle has to be won in a thousand local venues, and that means we need for more people to get involved in more places.
Anyone only a few tens of miles from any designated park or other Federally 'protected' area is in for a scrap as the Government seeks to impose 'park rules' on private land through the use of buffer zone regulations, especially when those regulations can effectively control far greater parcels of land.
If you could control 100,000 acres of land, you could control the whole country, provided those acres were patches of rail line and highway junctions. They know this, and will use that concept to control as much private property as possible.
Keep fighting, and make as many like minded people as aware as you can. Many won't want to listen, that is normal. Give them the website of the UN's Agenda 21 pages, let them dig for themselves. It is hard to deal with at first, and some won't want to. Let them come around on their own. It will sink in and they will either be in denial, despair, or they will want to fight.
Gather the latter and hit every hearing, write letters to the Editor, hit any hearing with the facts, and take it to the people as much as you can.
It is especially hard with the Socialist educated generations which follow us older guys, people who have been taught from kindergarden on that anything but communal ownership is bad, or who have no personal desire to carve out a living with hard work nor understanding of it, because their self-respect has been replaced with the cheap imitation of self-esteem.
God help us all. It is late in the game and it's going to be a long, hard, fight.