What Is Agenda 21?

Most of my energy has been focused on domestic issues in our fight to restore our country back to its original values.  I have heard Agenda 21 mentioned in many forums including Facebook and Twitter, but I have not paid much attention to what this nefarious plan means to the future of America.  To be frank, many of the people who I hear mentioning Agenda 21 follow up comments with references to the Bilderbergs, CFR and Illuminati, which automatically turns me off.  But as I peel back the layers of this onion, I find that this plan is anything but a conspiracy.

Agenda 21 made its public debut in Rio back in 1992 at The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) or the Earth Summit and more than 178 nations adopted the plan including the United States.  Agenda 21 states that it ”is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken  globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System,  Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which humans impact on the  environment.”  To further secure the implementation of UNCED, the United Nations developed the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) in December 1992.  The use of the word sustainable should send chills down your spine when you think about the fact that Obama has chosen Eugenicists as members of his cabinet and that much of the world, particularly the Communist Chinese, believe that the earth is becoming overpopulated.  CSD was ”to monitor and report on implementation of the agreements at the local, national, regional and international levels.”  The goals of Agenda 21 were reaffirmed in Johannesburg in 2002.

Barack Obama declares on a regular basis that everyone needs to be on “fair” footing, that everyone needs to have shared sacrifice and that we need to bring about shared prosperity and spread the wealth.  This ideology is a core goal of Agenda 21.  This section of the document details combating poverty and states:

3.1. Poverty is a complex multidimensional problem with origins in both the national and international domains. No uniform solution can be found for global application. Rather, country-specific programmes to tackle poverty and international efforts supporting national efforts, as well as the parallel process of creating a supportive international environment, are crucial for a solution to this problem. The eradication of poverty and hunger, greater equity in income distribution and human resource development remain major challenges everywhere. The struggle against poverty is the shared responsibility of all countries.

It would be easy to relegate Agenda 21 to a powerless United Nations’ resolution.  Easy, if not for the fact that Agenda 21 has slowly been implemented right here in America and right here in the state of Florida where I live.  The United States signed onto Agenda 21, but it was never ratified by Congress.  One reason why I abhor Executive Orders is that it gives the President power never intended by the Constitution.  It allows the President to subvert Congress and erases checks and balances.  President Bill Clinton went forward with the plans first laid out by President George H. Bush by signing Executive Order 12852 in 1993, The President’s Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD).

I regularly reference what I have dubbed the Green Industrial Complex here on my blog and on my radio show.  Global warming has been used to implement the plans of the Green Industrial Complex and has been at the core of Agenda 21.  Other core principles of Agenda 21 have become a part of the vernacular since Obama was sworn into office: social justice, environmental justice, Cap & Trade, carbon footprint, smart grid and such.  Here in Florida, Agenda 21 has been implemented through various environmental projects that are basically cloaked land grab deals.

The Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM) along with The International Council for Local Environmental (ICLEI) travels around Florida declaring people’s private property as wetlands.  DERM never provides any evidence in the form of soil samples and the like to back their declarations of property as wetlands.  DERM is then able to order landowners to cease growing crops and mowing and issues fines and fees.  This article details much of the fight that has taken place in Miami/Dade.  Alex Newman and Gary R. Schor detailed plans in northern Florida:

Florida’s government has already acquired almost 6 million acres “that are managed for natural resource protection,” according to James A. Farr, the environmental supervisor at the Florida Division of State Lands. When combined with local and federal government holdings, almost 30 percent of Florida is strictly “conservation land.”

In an article titled ‘Florida’s Landmark Programs for Conservation and Recreation Land Acquisition,’ Farr also discusses the establishment of “land acquisition programs” by local governments.

“We were often criticized, perhaps fairly, for purchasing more land than we were able to manage,” wrote Farr, his department’s chief, Greg Brock, and Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee in the report they collaborated on.

Critics point to government mismanagement of land as one of the many reasons why it is better left in the hands of private owners with a vested interest in the property. One example commonly cited in Florida is the federal government’s waste of billions of dollars in an attempt to “drain” the everglades, then having to spend billions more to attempt restoration.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection boasts on its Web site of a new program to transfer control of land from the people to the government using the people’s tax money: the ‘Florida Forever Program.’

It will replace the “highly successful,” three-billion dollar “Preservation 2000 Program” which acquired almost two million acres over its 10 years.

“This new program is more than just an environmental land acquisition mechanism,” it says before assuring readers that eminent domain will not be used in “most circumstances.”

This is just one of Florida’s many programs or departments busily buying up land across the state.

In Alachua County, where the City of Gainesville flies a U.N. flag at city hall to celebrate U.N. day every year, and where the Sheriff is the chair of one of the local U.N. ceremonies, a land buying program similar to Florida Forever was approved in 2000.

It will manage over 5,000 acres of land and was involved in acquiring over 10,000. The ‘Alachua County Forever’ used a property-tax hike to raise $29 million which will fund the purchases, management and “improvement” of “environmentally significant lands.”

In Marion County, more and more land is also coming off the tax rolls and entering the realm of what propagandists call “public-private partnerships,” a union between big government and corporate interests that Mussolini appropriately named “corporatism.”

One of the immediate problems is that when this land is taken off the tax rolls, the burden is shifted by default to other home and business owners. Just last year the state government took ownership of more than 1,700 acres in Marion County, the second and final phase of a purchase near Silver Spring of almost 5,000 acres.

The move is part of a partnership between Marion County and The Nature Conservancy, an environmentalist group funded by wealthy foundations and government grants that buys up land for “conservation” or to sell to a government, often times for a lot more than it paid. It is supposedly to “protect the water quality” of Silver Springs – this in addition to land “owned” by the Greenways projects, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, national forests, state parks, and associated preserves.

Private property is also under attack with outrageous fees, regulations, and fines – like those proposed in Marion County last year under the guise of “springs protection,” say property rights activists.

Stories similar to these are appearing all over America.  Most recently with the flooding our country suffered in Missouri when the Army Corps of Engineers flooded thriving farmland ruining it and then later offering to buy the land they had purposefully destroyed.  Remember that this government never lets a crisis go to waste.  The government currently owns over 30% of the United State’s land.

Watch this video from Garland County Arkansas Tea Party: