Property
owners in Texas have received a temporary reprieve when the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM), which attempted to grab 90,000 acres of “Texas sovereign
land” along the banks of the Red River, stopped the surveys that were ordered
by the Obama administration.
Breitbart
quoted Acting Cadastral Survey Chief Stephen Beyerlein, who wrote on March 29,
2017, “Having reviewed this deposition testimony and other new information, the
BLM believes the survey methodology was used in error and may have caused
errors in identifying the location of the Gradient Boundary.”
President of
the Texas Farm Bureau, Russell Boening, wrote, “We take it very seriously when
government decides that private property no longer belongs to those who have
purchased, paid taxes, and hold titles to it.”
Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, wrote,
“This latest action by the Trump administration protects the property rights of
Texans as defined by the U.S. Supreme Court and prevents the federal government
from infringing upon Texas’ sovereign borders. It was our contention all along
that the BLM’s surveys were conducted improperly and unlawfully. We will
vigilantly defend Texas’ border from federal overreach.”
When it comes to property rights issues,
Tom DeWeese has been fighting the federal, state, and local overreach for
decades. President of the American Policy Center, DeWeese travels around the
country giving lectures on the many facets of property rights infringements,
one of the many issues deemed unsustainable by the Sustainable Development
plans of U.N. Agenda 21 of 1992, now morphed into Agenda 2030.
Local governments are changing and Americans
are not paying attention unless it affects them directly. American philosophy
is based on individual liberty. At the core of this philosophy is the private
ownership of property, of one’s own land. Globalist bureaucrats want to change
that.
Tom DeWeese quotes in his speeches an
economist from Peru, Hernando de Soto, “In the West, every parcel of land,
every building, every piece of equipment, or store of inventory is represented
in a property document that is the visible sign of a vast hidden process that
connects all these assets to the rest of the economy.”
In his book, The Mystery of Capital,
Hernando De Soto argues that it is private property that allowed the West to
create such wealth and become so successful. Equity in private property was
used as seed investment for various ventures.
As Calvin Coolidge said, “Ultimately,
property rights and personal rights are the same thing.” The Nevadan Rancher
Wayne Hage, who first stood up to BLM and fought them to his last day, said,
“If you don’t have the right to own and control property, then you are
property.”
But, as John Adams said, “The moment the
idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God
and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy
and tyranny commence.” That is why people are fighting the government at all
levels to maintain and control their land.
In 1976, the Report from U.N.’s Habitat 1
Conference said, “Land – cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by
individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market.
Private land ownership is also a principle instrument of accumulation and
concentration of wealth, therefore contributes to social injustice.”
Property rights are important elements of Agenda
21, a 40-chapter document signed in Rio in 1992 by 178 countries. Agenda 21 is
a “comprehensive blue print for reorganizing human society” around the three Es:
1.
Economics (private public partnerships,
eminent domain)
2.
Ethics (social justice, environmental
justice, gender justice, racial justice)
3.
Environment (the excuse for it all)
Saving the environment from human activity
(the anthropogenic global warming debacle now morphed into the climate change
industry) is the given excuse for all of the globalist control of every facet
of human life, including ownership of private property. But, as H. L. Mencken
said, “A plan to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to
rule.”
The American Planning Association pushes
the Agenda 21 goals in their planning groups, calling them a comprehensive blue
print, but denies that Agenda 21 exists, said DeWeese.
The United Nations bureaucrats want to harmonize
the United States into the rest of the global matrix. You should not be able to
control your government, they say, government should control you, including
your private property.
According to Tom DeWeese, until around the
year 2000, governments were proud to advertise their compliance with U.N.’s
Agenda 21’s now turned Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development plans, including
every agency of our government that rewrote their mission statements to include
Sustainability. After 2000, the agenda continued more aggressively but quietly,
overtly calling anybody who opposes it or discusses it conspiracy theorists. DeWeese
added that politicians vacate auditoriums and are silent any time the
discussion turns to U.N. Agenda 21 as if it does not exist. Yet thousands of
documents released in the last decades prove otherwise.
U.N.’s Biodiversity Assessment Report
declared the following not sustainable:
“ski runs, grazing of livestock, plowing of soil, building fences, industry,
single family homes, paved and tarred roads, logging activities, reservoirs,
power line construction, and economic systems that fail to set proper value on
the environment.”
Tom DeWeese is the author of Erase. Richard Viguerie said, “Tom
DeWeese’s Erase presents a fictional
path through a dystopian future. However, in Erase every single policy presented in the book, from the use of
technology to change our culture; to the use of the public school classrooms to
eliminate true knowledge; to the destruction of Christianity in a drive to meld
all religions into one powerful tool for government, is all true and happening
at this very moment.”
DeWeese is working on a new book, Property Rights Matter, “covering the
issues and offering non-governmental solutions to using property ownership as a
means to build wealth and freedom, from the inner city to the western ranges.”
When completed, he plans to launch a “Property Right Network, made up of
activists and groups across the nation with the goal of making property rights
a major issue for upcoming campaigns and to create a fighting force against
Sustainable Development policies. DeWeese “fully believes that if we can protect
property rights then we can stop Agenda 21/2030.”
Talking about how property rights affect
the inner city, DeWeese wants to “build small businesses against the Smart
Growth policies that have displaced ethnic neighborhoods.”
The American Planning Association admitted
in a Special Report that Smart Growth does not work. “The current planning
policy strategies for land use and transportation have virtually no impact on
the major long term increases in resource and energy consumption. They
generally tend to increase costs and reduce economic competitiveness… In many
cases, the socioeconomic consequences of less housing choice, crowding, and
congestion may outweigh the very modest CO2 reduction benefits.”
Yet all cities continue the Smart
Growth/Green Growth planning and developing of bike paths, of stack and pack
housing with mixed use, tiny apartments with no parking and elevators, of tiny alley
or RV style diminutive homes in which the owner must constantly assemble and
disassemble furniture in order to live in it, all located five-minute walk or
bike from work, school, shopping, and play, a very attractive proposition for
single young people who cannot afford a mortgage or do not desire to set roots
and have a family.
“What we’re trying to do is see equity of
public space. When you build your streets for cars, you’re actually building in
the expectation that people are going to have cars.” This communist type
thinking has kept for decades millions of people living in the Soviet communist
satellite nations, close to the areas where they were born, their mobility highly
restricted to a few-mile radius, at the mercy of public transportation, buses,
rail, and trams.
The ideal communist city, as described by
the Soviet architect Alexei Gutnov, was very much like the ideal Agenda 21
envisioned urban areas:
“The chaotic growth of cities will be
replaced by a dynamic system of urban settlement. The region is formed by the
economic inter-dependence of its development, from the industrial complex to
the industrial area and industrial region. The region has a single system of
transportation, a centralized administration, and a united system of education
and research.” The U.N.’s various Agenda 21/2030 documents and conferences talk
about human settlements.
Local and state planning group, planning
departments and elected officials deny any connection of their plans to
international programs, that there are any concerted efforts to install the
mandates of U.N.’s Agenda 21/2030. But there are three main plans of attack:
1.
Destroy private property ownership and
control
2.
Impose regional
councils through regionalism and thus
take government away from the people
3.
Support the entire plan with federal grant
money which is hard to turn away, especially in areas strapped for revenue
The U.N. Commission on Global Governance
talks about regionalism. “Regionalism must precede globalism. We foresee a
seamless system of governance from local communities, individual states,
regional unions and up through to the United Nations itself.” All the regional
plans that have popped up around the world, Heartland 2030, Smart Growth 2030,
are identical in scope, are run by NGOs who have applied for the grants, and
have one thing in common, none of them are driven by locals.
The globalist planners and their local
representatives keep telling us what they are going to do but Americans are no
paying attention.
Ted Trainer, the author of Transition to a Sustainable and Just World,
wrote, “Nothing of lasting significance will be achieved unless it is clearly
understood that our efforts in these local initiatives are the first steps to
the eventual replacement of the present society by one which is not driven by
market forces, profits, competition, growth or affluence.”
Harvey Ruvin, the Vice Chair of ICLEI
stated, “Individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective.”
Thomas Lovejoy, science advisor to the Department of Interior said, “(We) will
map the whole nation – determine development for the whole country, and regulate
it all.”
Joe Hindman, a historian, suggested in 1966
that “The strategy is to make property ownership so unbearable by harassment
through building inspections, remodeling orders, fines and jailings that owners
give up in despair and sell to land developers at cut-rate prices. Punitive
municipal codes are the weapons in the warfare.”
According to DeWeese, when Dave Foreman
dreamed up the scheme for the Wildlands Project in 1983, he said, “It is not
enough to preserve the roadless, undeveloped country remaining. We must
recreate wilderness in large regions: move out the cars and civilized people,
dismantle the roads and dams, reclaim the plowed lands and clear cuts, -- and
reintroduce extirpated species.” So people living in the country will be stripped
of their lands and herded into the cities, the same way the Soviets had herded
villagers into the cities, bulldozed their homes for agriculture, for the
“collective good,” and crowded them all into concrete high rise apartments the
size of an average American hotel room. That is why the Bundys fought back.
We are told ad nauseam that Agenda 21 is
just a suggestion, without any enforcement capabilities. How did every agency
of the federal, state, and local government develop a comprehensive development
plan exactly as mandated by U.N. Agenda 21?
Tom DeWeese explains how it became “the law
of the land:”
After the Rio conference in 1992, when U.N.
Agenda 21 was signed by President George H.W. Bush, thousands of non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) went to Congress, through HUD, EPA, DOT, DOE, and helped
them create grant programs with strings attached that were the implementation
of Agenda 21. Then they went to state legislators to pass laws that every
community had to have a comprehensive development plan. As local officials
scratched their heads as to what comprehensive development plans were, they
were presented by the same NGOs with a box, with the whole plan and the grant
money, local supervisors did not have to do anything, they only had to sign.
And so Agenda 21 became the “law of the land.”
The rules imposed were strict building
codes, punitive municipal codes, septic tank codes, plumbing codes, electric
codes, bike lanes, high rise apartments with no parking lots, light rail
trains, public transportation, HOV restricted lanes, formerly public roads
given to developers who turned them into expensive toll roads, all paid by
taxpayer dollars but without input or vote from the taxpayers. Once the local
officials took the grant money on behalf of the community which was very often
totally ignorant of what was going on or their objections ignored, they had to
accept the restrictions.
DeWeese describes the new government
language of comprehensive development plans used to restrict and destroy
property rights: wetlands, conservation
easements, watersheds, view sheds, rails to trail, biosphere reserves, green
ways, partnerships, preservation, stakeholders, land use, environmental
protection, diversity, visioning, open space, heritage area.
The stakeholder councils, people who do not
live in your community, dictate your future according to the mandates of U.N.
Agenda 21/2030. Your locally elected officials just rubber stamp what these
NGOs envision for you and your
children, for generations to come, because you are too stupid to be entrusted
with your own future, your freedoms must be curtailed for the sake of the
planet. All these restrictions are imposed on you by the elite globalists while
they live how they want and wherever they want, with total disregard for their
carbon footprint because they are “civil
society.”
The community councils that you have not
elected, self-appointed bureaucrats, appointed hacks armed with their own
political agenda, have turned your community into a “little Soviet society.”
You no longer have a representative government. You are forced to have smart
meters on your homes, on your gas lines, on your HVACs; the councils control
what you do on your property, if you collect rain water, snow melt, your tree
and bush pruning or planting, the paint color scheme of your home, the height
of your grass, what you can and cannot grow in your own back yard, and many
other restrictions.
NGOs and regional councils know the right
way to live and how to govern in place of locally elected officials. They have
become a shadow government. Regional councils and planners answer to NO ONE. Americans
are living the wrong way and must be forced to live the way the regional
planners envision for them.
NGOs establish “the strategic vision to
insure proper growth,” transportation, housing, jobs, land use, education, property,
housing, and health care. “Under Sustainable Health Care, all the provisions of
Obamacare are found,” said DeWeese. When the regional planners draw a boundary
around your city, everything built outside of it becomes "urban
sprawl," a dirty word for city planners. But to you and me, it is our
homes; it is where we want to live, added DeWeese.
Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of
the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, described what is truly
happening to every facet of our lives.
“What is occurring here, not just in this
(conference), but in the whole climate change process, is the complete
transformation of the economic structure of the world. This is the first time
in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of
intentionally within a defined period of time to change the economic
development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the
industrial revolution.”
To sum it up, you are no longer free; you
are now a vassal to the United Nations tin pot bureaucrats who are subjugating
your freedoms and sovereignty with your own taxpayer dollars and the dictates
of Sustainable Development.
