I
heard Martha speak to a gathering of 25 friends, farmers, and vintners from
Fauquier County. She brought a basket laden with tomatoes and peppers grown on
her Liberty Farm, vegetables that she is no longer allowed to sell. She can
give them away to food banks. Through passionate tears, she outlined her
childhood dream of owning a farm, finding the perfect land in 2006, and the six
year nightmare that followed.
Martha’s
70 acre farm is located in Fauquier County, a rural, agricultural community 15
minutes from Washington, D.C. if the traffic cooperates. The rich soil in the
area is perfect for growing grapes and producing wine. Many of the rich farm
landowners understand farming as running beautiful horses and leaving the land
unspoiled – actual farming is a nuisance and an inconvenience. They are the “penny
loafer farmers,” as someone had named them. They are offended by Martha’s farm
that actually produces food that people need and enjoy.
Martha
bought her farm with an agricultural conservation easement. Since there was no mention
of any activities that she could not engage in on her farm, she proceeded to
repair the historical barn. She built an apiary, harvested hay, grew herbs, and
rescued 165 animals, sold chicken, duck, turkey, emu eggs, candles made from beeswax,
birdhouses, and fiber from lamas and alpacas. She had a business license. A lot
of hard work went into breathing life into the previously abandoned piece of
property. The grass was five feet high and the barn was leaning when she bought
the property.
She
was told through letters and unauthorized inspections on her property that she
could not even cut grass on her property. She had to fence off 20 acres for 2
years because it was considered “hallowed ground” although nobody has ever died
there during the Civil War; it had been just an encampment area. Animals and
children could not seek shelter from heat or play under a beautiful oak grove.
The family was never reimbursed for the fencing or the loss of use of their
property for two years – it was a “clerical error.”
A
trench was dug to prevent parking on her property because it obscured the view
shed. Although holding a business permit and special permit to operate a farm
store, her business permit has recently not been renewed by the county. Liberty
Farm is the only farm in focus for this environmental harassment. What happened
to property rights and economic freedom in our country?
Some Americans are waking up to the insidious UN Agenda 21 across the country. Their legal battles come in many forms at the local and state levels, all involving zoning issues, driven by one ultimate goal, global governance.
UN
Agenda 21 “soft law” document has been in place and ratified in Rio, Brazil by
178 countries since 1992. The recommendations that are not legally binding but
morally obligatory provide specific rules about local organizations and their practices,
limiting everyone’s behavior and freedom.
The
idea of global governance, a.k.a. UN Agenda 21, was seeded a hundred years ago.
Americans and their private property are
under such a concerted and well-orchestrated attack, that it has become a full
assault on private property and redistribution of wealth in the last stages of
full implementation.
Would
ordinary Americans succeed in deflecting and destroying the evil UN Agenda 21,
the multi-headed Hydra? It is a hard question to answer since a good majority
of Americans are blissfully unaware of what is going on under their noses nor
do they seem to care.
The
privileged elites are so convinced they are best suited to rule the world, that
they are willing to dedicate their vast fortunes to achieve global governance.
Cecil Rhodes, for example, of the Rhodes scholarship, believed that the whole
world should be dominated by the British Empire. His vision is no longer a
possibility since the once mighty British Empire is now overrun by hostile Muslims
thanks to its failed and misguided multi-culturalism.
The
modern granddaddy of globalism is Maurice Strong. “Since Cecil Rhoades, …there
has been a group of people who actually believe that society is best served
when it is managed by a benevolent government populated by the enlightened
intelligentsia.” Many Congressmen on both sides of the aisle support globalism,
thus Agenda 21. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report in
April 2010, detailing the creation of a global currency as the path to global
economic stability. (Henry Lamb, Founding Director of Freedom21, Inc.)
The
main stream media does not discuss Agenda 21 and has labeled those that do tin
foil hat conspiracy theorists. Americans believe what they are told by the MSM
until they have problems keeping their farms, use their land, build a fence,
plant a tree, a bush, use rainwater on their property, build a barn, plant a
garden, or use trees for shade to animals. Once property owners run afoul of
the many permits they are required to get, they become believers.
There
is no end to the asinine rules that various Boards of Supervisors write and
implement. These boards are populated by individuals who pretend to be
Republicans in order to get elected but are Democrats who enjoy controlling the
sheeple minions in their counties.
Liberals
love to micro-manage other people’s lives. If you are unlucky and belong to a Home
Owner’s Association, you will witness first-hand the self-appointed tyrannical
behavior of little people with power to turn your existence upside down on your
own land.
The
control does not stop there. On August
21, 2012, Dick Morris TV discussed “Obama’s War on Suburbs” - how “Obama wants
suburban taxes to fund inner city projects and he applies UN agenda 21 to force
people to move to the cities. …Barack Obama opposes suburbs. He wants to force
everyone into the cities from whence our ancestors fled. He wants the suburban
revenue to subsidize the inner cities. …Because of carbon emissions and global
warming, we have to reduce the dependence on the automobile, increase people
walking and biking and we have to reshape the way we live with that in mind.”
The
environmentalist concern over carbon emissions and Obama’s funneling resources
to the inner cities from the suburbs combine into Obama’s program called
regionalism. He has already given regionalism planning grants in Ohio, Virginia,
and Florida. Regionalism means getting rid of counties, cities, suburban
government and put everything under the regional authority. The regional entity governs and makes all
decisions for a large metropolitan area such as transportation, zoning, land use,
education, wetlands, funding, open space regulations, and environmental
regulations, all designed to force people from the suburbs into the cities.
(dickmorris.com/obamas-war-on-suburbs-dick-morris-tv-lunch-alert/)
Unnecessary
traffic jams and congestion on suburban roads, taking access roads out of
circulation, blocking zones and roads to traffic, narrowing roads, high and
frequent speed bumps, arcane and expensive regulations, expensive gas, road
fines, drones hovering over our homes, expensive tolls for roads, are designed
to force people to move back into the cities. President Obama wants to
fundamentally change the way we live.
Global
governance restricts individual freedom by setting up rigid environmental rules
and regulations that set limits on individual behavior, on organizations, and
on businesses, covering every facet of human life. Non-elected bureaucrats and
NGOs (non-governmental organizations) set policy and decide what is good for a
community through “visioning” committees and grants.
“Visioning”
grants come from the EPA and other federal agencies to local communities slated
to undergo the visioning or zoning change and to the American Planning
Association that would help states develop model legislation favoring their
re-zoning plans and re-distribution of property and wealth.
Local
planning agencies, an NGO, or ICLEI (International Council for Local
Environmental Initiatives) start the process of sustainable development,
sustainable community, or green growth and request a federal grant. Who is
going to oppose the “greening” of their area and protecting the environment for
their children’s future? It is land use control plain and simple by the local,
state, or federal government bureaucrats.
Control
of land use denies “farmers the right to sell their land to city dwellers
because of an urban boundary zone, or greenbelt, or conservation area, or
because of the ‘unjust compensation tax.’” Worse yet, farmers themselves are
not allowed to use their own land and are fenced in, forbidden to use it or
develop it at all. Water can be denied or cut off to an entire village or town.
The installation of septic tanks is forbidden in Maryland, discouraging farmers
to build on their own property. The conduits of such restrictions of the
behavior of land owners and farmers are the Board of Supervisors through
re-zoning and permit.
Martha’s
plight is one example of thousands across the country who are fighting their
local zoning czars for economic freedom, the use of their land, property
rights, free of intrusive, photographed, unauthorized, and illegal, often in
the middle of the night land and home inspections, and the freedom to engage in
encumbered agricultural activities from environmental groups funded by wealthy
globalists who would rather see humans disappeared or moved into government
approved urban ghettoes where they can be better controlled and herded.
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