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If you are a regular reader of our weekly Legislative Updates, you know that many of our lawmakers are very concerned about 'sustainable development' and its relationship to our private property rights and the United Nations Agenda 21. This has been an important issue for Tennessee Eagle Forum for many years and in the past couple of years more and more folks have become aware of the troubling aspects of the 'sustainable development' agenda and the impact it could have on our daily lives.
A number of bills have been introduced by legislators who understand the concern. These bills are designed to put some controls on governmental encroachment on private property. Rep. Kevin Brooks (R-Cleveland) has introduced a resolution that takes on Agenda 21 head on: HJR587. It will be on the House floor on Thursday morning. [If your representative is not a co-sponsor -- -- please contact your lawmaker asking him or her to support HJR587; goHERE to find your member.]
These bills have created such a stir, that the Nashville Chamber has now responded. However, some articles have appeared which either take the attitude of "Nothing to see here folks, just move along" or just denying any that there is anything to be alarmed about.
We will continue the effort to raise the profile of this issue and will continue to support the efforts to protect our way of life from government encroachment.
Nashville Chamber shifts position on zoning bills
After supporting a group of state zoning bills that came under heavy criticism from a growing chorus of critics, the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce has shifted its position to “neutral” and will work to resolve its concerns about the zoning process locally, the chamber said Tuesday. The organization also hopes the issues will be studied statewide in the next year.
“We have a redevelopment task force that has been meeting and identifying barriers to investment and job creation, and the purview of that group will be expanded to also include looking at the issues that were identified in these pieces of legislation,” said Marc Hill, the chamber’s chief policy officer.
“We would also fully support and participate in a statewide legislative study. We’re committed to solving the problems or identifying solutions to the problems. For us, it’s time to roll up our sleeves and work at the local level to solve as many of these as we can over this next year.” Read more here. |
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Property activists challenge planners
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Government officials fear legislation would take away zoning authority
March 5, 2012
 *NOTE: They interviewed our very own Karen Bracken for this article.
Looking out over the Castalian Springs community, Sumner County Executive Anthony Holt sees a historic area as rich as any in Tennessee.
To keep it that way, he and area residents have pushed for a new commission that would guide any new construction with one eye on aesthetics to make sure buildings don’t clash with or overwhelm Wynnewood, the state’s largest log structure, or Cragfont, an early 1800s mansion built by one of the founders of Memphis.
“If we do this wrong and this site slips away from us, it’s something we can never get back,” he said.
What Holt didn’t anticipate was that his local effort would get hung up in a much bigger fight, one that’s raging all over the country. It pits property rights advocates railing about “government creep” against two decades of what planners say is state-of-the-art thinking on how development should occur.
If the property rights advocates have their way, Holt says the future of Castalian Springs would be out of his hands.
The debate also has put Nashville Mayor Karl Dean at odds with the local chamber of commerce and triggered opposing but equally dire statements from groups as varied as the Williamson County Republican Party and the Metropolitan Historical Commission.
The one thing both camps agree on: The fight is epic, with core beliefs on the line.
Planners fear a huge rollback of laws and programs that would undermine their efforts to make sure development doesn’t run roughshod over the environment and historic areas.
Proponents of stronger property rights, meanwhile, see a plot in the decades-long sustainable development movement, which they trace to a United Nations program from the 1990s called Agenda 21.
“This is popping up like a big popcorn machine all across the United States,” said Murfreesboro activist Jake Robinson. “They got a 20-year head start, but they’ve got a hell of a fight on their hands now.”
The center ring is the state legislature, where more than a dozen planning and zoning-related bills proposed by Republicans are being debated, with another round of discussion scheduled for Wednesday. Read more here.
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UN Mischief from Durban to Rio
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by Phyllis Schlafly, November 30, 2011
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa opening on November 28, called COP-17, is one of a series of UN meetings working toward a specific goal. Advertising for this meeting features a long list of invited celebrities including Angelina Jolie, U2's Bono, Ted Turner, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Gore, and Michael Bloomberg.
The UN goal is to move the United States into global government by environmental regulations and a vast network of taxes. These newly-imposed taxes will give the UN a tremendous stream of money in addition to U.S. dues and congressional appropriations.
The plan for taxes was launched at the 1992 UN meeting in Rio de Janeiro, known as the Earth Summit, where Conference Secretary General Maurice Strong produced a 300-page document with 40 proposals called Agenda 21. The tax-seeking route then proceeded through UN meetings in Cancun in 2010, in Durban this November, and will be finalized next year at what is called Rio+20 (i.e., Rio de Janeiro after 20 years).
Agenda 21 is a comprehensive master plan to reshape and control the U.S. and lock us into the clutches of the UN under the innocuous phrase Sustainable Development. Along with 178 countries, President George H.W. Bush accepted Agenda 21 as "soft law" adopted by a new tactic called collaborative consensus building, instead of by treaty.
Bush popularized the term New World Order, but left it for others to define. Mikhail Gorbachev said the threat of an environmental crisis will be the international key to unlock the New World Order, and President Bill Clinton issued an Executive Order in 1993 creating the President's Council on Sustainable Development.
Advocates of Agenda 21 talk about the three E's of Sustainable Development: Economy, Equity, and Environment. Equity means replacing our American constitutional system with central planning and "social justice," which is a code word for redistribution of wealth, abolition of private property rights, and giving favored corporations tax breaks, grants, and use of Eminent Domain.
Economy means shifting from a private enterprise system to government-private-corporation-partnerships. That would be a giant step toward total government and UN control of our economy, with the ability to redistribute our goods and services to foreign countries.
Environment means giving animals and plants more rights or at least equal rights with humans. It also promotes worship of nature and Mother Earth.
To talk about Agenda 21, you will have to get used to a new vocabulary: green jobs, green building codes, going green, regional planning, smart growth, biodiversity, sustainable farming, growth management, resilient cities, sustainable communities, redistribution, urban growth boundaries, redevelopment districts, and consensus.
Agenda 21 wants to herd people into crowded communities, with limited housing space and limited parking spaces. This will promote the green goal of reducing our use of automobiles, allowing only electric cars that can't go very fast or very far, so people will have to walk and use bicycles and mass transit. Read more here.
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Tele-Town Hall Conference Call
Hosted by Sen. Rand Paul
Tuesday evening, March 13th
9:00 p.m. ET
to discuss his legislation, the Defense of Property Act or 2012 (S.2122)
You MUST go HERE to per-register to participate
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Some of the 'push back' articles:
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ICLEI: Linking Local Governments to the UN Agenda
National governments will probably not adopt a new United Nations legally binding greenhouse gas emissions treaty in Durban, South Africa, but that does not protect Americans from the UN's tentacles. The globocrats are employing its non-governmental organizations to entice local and regional governments to allow global bureaucrats to measure, report and verify their municipalities' greenhouse gas emissions.
The Durban Adaptation Charter, an initiative of ICLEI, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (http://www.icleiusa.org/), was signed this week by 114 mayors and other elected local leaders representing 950 local governments from around the world. ICLEI employs the same tactics to impose facets of Agenda 21 in hundreds of American communities (http://www.icleiusa.org/about-iclei/members/member-list) that link local governments to global governance to implement the UN's radical environmental agenda.
Its first annual report, entitled "carbon Cities Climate Registry (http://citiesclimateregistry.org/)," aims to influence nations to agree to the same measurable, reportable and verifiable climate commitments made by local governments. Co-authors of the report, the World Mayors Council on Climate Change, bragged that it is "turning the 'talk' of climate challenge into the 'walk' of climate action." Read more here.
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