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March 20, 2012 12:33 AM UTC

"Agenda 21" Paranoia Finds Willing Promoter In Scott Tipton

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  • by: Colorado Pols

As the New York Times reported in February:

Across the country, activists with ties to the Tea Party are railing against all sorts of local and state efforts to control sprawl and conserve energy. They brand government action for things like expanding public transportation routes and preserving open space as part of a United Nations-led conspiracy to deny property rights and herd citizens toward cities.

They are showing up at planning meetings to denounce bike lanes on public streets and smart meters on home appliances – efforts they equate to a big-government blueprint against individual rights…

The Washington Post’s Peter Galuszka writes today:

Their rallying cry is the so-called “Agenda 21,” which is a policy established by the United Nations back in the early 1990s promoting the ideals of “sustainable development.” Given that the document came from an international group representing countries of all income and development levels, it pushes such guidelines as grouping housing for the sake of efficient resource use.

Some in the anti-Agenda 21 crowd claim that the plan would undermine home ownership. It would supposedly end private farming and would apparently push people into Stalin-style collective farms, or somesuch. Placing smart electric meters in houses for more efficient use of electricity is seen as a part of a plot for mass surveillance by Big Government. Naturally, George Soros, the billionaire, left-leaning financier, has to be behind this.

With a nationwide campaign against “UN Agenda 21” in apparent full swing among more impressionable “Tea Party” supporters, the Houston Chronicle opined last week:

We’ll call this campaign against Agenda 21 exactly what it is: a misguided conspiracy theory that lowers the level of dialogue and distracts from real issues…Agenda 21 is a creature with no teeth, only policy recommendations. It falls upon local voters and governments to decide whether they want to implement any of its points. Concerns about Agenda 21 should be up there with worrying that fluoridation is a Communist plot.

If politicians are concerned about the effects of sustainable development, they should talk about it in terms of policy rather than secret schemes. [Pols emphasis]

These articles reflect a journalist and editorial consensus that the blowhard rage regarding “Agenda 21” being acted out against local governments around the country the last few months is a “misguided conspiracy theory.” The “Agenda 21” plan is simply a template of nonbinding recommendations on land use and economic planning. Like the so-called “United Nations Gun Grab,” in most cases we’re talking about policies meant for the developing world, not really for developed nations like the United States where solid land use regulations already exist. In some countries, “Agenda 21” represents a first real attempt at any kind of land use planning, where in the United States it’s a question of incremental improvements on existing policy.

Oh sorry, that’s how well-adjusted adults talk about these things!

Unfortunately, as the Delta County Independent reprinted from Rep. Scott Tipton’s press release last week on a town hall held there, residents of Colorado’s Third Congressional District are not currently represented by a well-adjusted adult.

[Tipton] opposes the United Nations Agenda 21 mandate. There is broad, bi-partisan opposition in Congress to the U.S. ceding any sovereignty to the U.N. on Agenda 21 or other issues.

Folks, what “mandate?!” How the hell do you “cede sovereignty” to completely optional model land use plans that local governments can accept, reject wholesale, take a little piece of, whatever? Like the belief that Hillary Clinton is about to appear on your doorstep with blue-helmeted stormtroopers to take your guns, it’s just laughable paranoid nonsense.

In this case, paranoid nonsense being spread by a member of Congress.

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  1. from the UN website ( http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agen… )

    32.5. The following objectives are proposed:

       (a) To encourage a decentralized decision-making process through the creation and strengthening of local and village organizations that would delegate power and responsibility to primary users of natural resources;

       (b) To support and enhance the legal capacity of women and vulnerable groups with regard to access, use and tenure of land;

       (c) To promote and encourage sustainable farming practices and technologies;

       (d) To introduce or strengthen policies that would encourage self-sufficiency in low-input and low-energy technologies, including indigenous practices, and pricing mechanisms that internalize environmental costs;

       (e) To develop a policy framework that provides incentives and motivation among farmers for sustainable and efficient farming practices;

       (f) To enhance the participation of farmers, men and women, in the design and implementation of policies directed towards these ends, through their representative organizations.

    This looks like the handiwork of Joe Stalin to me.

    2. he’s seriously negotiating and probably headed here.  Who’d a thunk?

      By the way, has the bicycle conspiracy undermined our freedom  much yet? Just checking.

      1. than encouraging people to ride bikes when they can.  I mean, thats almost THE DEFINITION of Stalinism !

        Give me some love Dave !  Back me up buddy.

          1. or collectivist or statist, in conservative political language it means we don’t quite understand these terms, but we frequently throw them out, because they are all really things to be scared of nonetheless !

            Kind of like Kevin James calling Obama an appeaser.  Sounded good until you had to explain what it actually meant.  

  4. Some people would take a statement like

    “Concerns about Agenda 21 should be up there with worrying that fluoridation is a Communist plot”

    completely the wrong way.

    2. Russian Commies drink vodka.

      Cuban Commies drink rum.

      Chinese Commies drink maotai.

      American Commies are extinct.

      French Commies are sleeping.

      Italian Commies are on strike.

      None of them “drink water” because they know the dangers of fluoridation.

    1. From the release, I’d say he was asked about it, not something he volunteered. I doubt this is at the top of Tipton’s issues, but why do local governments need the UN to “suggest” land use codes to them in the first place? Urban planners go to school for that.

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