Published: March 18, 2012
When the agents of totalitarianism come to crush you, they will do it not with tanks and guns but with electric meters and bike paths.
And your plight, according to that view, will be the work of a United Nations plot for world domination called Agenda 21.
Tea party members and others concerned about Agenda 21 are increasingly popping up at local government meetings to rail against proposals they see as part of the plot.
Among the measures they have tied to Agenda 21: growth plans for Chesterfield and Mathews counties; concerns about rising sea levels along the Middle Peninsula; the Chesapeake Bay cleanup; open-land protections; modern electric meters in homes; and things such as bike paths that are labeled “smart growth” or “sustainable development.”
“It is a methodology that has been devised to promote control over resources, the environment and ultimately, people,” said Andrew Maggard, a Mathews retiree and avid battler against Agenda 21.
In addition to tea party activists, those opposing Agenda 21 include the John Birch Society, GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich and the Republican National Committee.
Professional planners and others who have looked into Agenda 21 say the alleged plot is a nonsensical conspiracy theory stemming from long-held fears that the U.N. is bent on ruling the planet under a world government.
“The fact that local governments believe in things like smart growth, livable communities and planning for climate change … doesn’t mean that local governments are part of a nefarious U.N. plot to take over land-use decisions,” said Noah M. Sachs, a University of Richmond law professor and environmental expert.
Agenda 21 — the term means an agenda for the 21st century — is a nonbinding set of U.N. guidelines for protecting the environment, Sachs said. It was ratified in 1992 by more than 170 governments, including the U.S. during the first Bush administration.
“Agenda 21 has been a dead letter for 20 years,” Sachs said. “Its recommendations have not been implemented by most governments, and the U.S. has largely ignored it.”
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Definitely a plot.
1) Build bike paths through communities.
2) Attach a very special electromagnetic pulse unit to the valve stems on dozens of bicycle tires.
3) Ride the bikes along the paths at just the right speed to rotate the wheels at 166 rpm
4) At the target rpm, the electromagnetic pulses will create microscopic pinholes in tinfoil helmets, rendering the helmets useless for blocking mind-control transmissions from the black helicopters
5) You won’t care what happens next, but let us assure you that you will be happy.
genius
Who is John Galt?
Somewhat ironically, I might support measures that keep the liberal insolents [sic] in zoned areas.
Maybe I’m beginning to get “classical liberalism?”
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