Friday, July 23, 2004
Session
7 – What “Sustainable Development” is Doing to Freedom
Tom DeWeese,
President of the American Policy Center, analyzed just how sustainable
development is eroding the principles of freedom in local communities throughout
the country. His recently released
DVD, “
“Sustainable
development is hard to describe; it’s
like goo.” Sustainable development
will lead us into the dark ages.” “It’s
either liberty or sustainable development.”
Sustainable
SustainableOregon,
State of Oregon's Sustainability
Initiative - http://www.oregonsolutions.net/
Sustainability
in Oregon
- www.oregonsolutions.net/oregon/index.cfm
Alternatives
to Growth - A Sustainable Oregon
- www.agoregon.org/page83.htm
Resource:
Sustainable Oregon
- www.nextstep.state.mn.us/res_detail.cfm?id=411
[PDF]
A Sustainable
Oregon for the 21 Century - http://egov.oregon.gov/DAS/OPB/docs/Sustain/Guidance.pdf
Sustainability
at Home, Citizens & Communities, Sustainable
Oregon
- www.sustainableoregon.org/citizens/home.cfm
All
states have similar sites.
Michael Shaw is a founder of Freedom 21Santa Cruz – Ground Zero
for sustainable development.
“Private
property is more then a ‘thing’.” “Private
property owners determine use of their property.”
“Sustainable development guarantees us shortages and total control over
our entire lives.”
The
U.N. definition of Sustainable Development:
“Meeting
today’s needs without compromising future generations to meet their own
needs.”
What
is ‘collectivism’?
It is the suppression of individuality by the state with components of state control.
What
will it do?
What
does “Soviet” mean?
Sustainable
development embraces free trade and no borders.
The European Union came about because of sustainable development plus
other important factors. NAFTA,
GATT, and the new proposed FTAA (Free Trade Area of
the
Sustainable
development will revamp our judicial system to the point where you will have to
prove your innocence. (Aren’t we
there already?)
“Sustainable
development borrows equity from communism and economy from fascism.”
(Mr.
Shaw put up a wonderful slide showing where our rights come from.
I was only able to get the following down on paper)
Source
Unalienable Rights
Community Rights
Grantee
Individual Sovereignty
Primary duty to the community
Grantor
Endowed by
Granted by community government
Life,
Pursuit of happiness
“Evil
will triumph when good people do nothing.”
“This is being slipped in under the radar of normal citizens.”
“The
‘Greencoats’ [like: ‘Redcoats’] are Here!”
This
is a big part of the ‘Green Movement’ in this country.
(Special Note: Mr. Shaw will soon be providing the outline and possible transcript of his presentation for inclusion here. - KBB)
Michael
Chapman works with EdWatch and showed how the sustainable development agenda is
embedded in your children’s curriculum and now mandated by federal law and is
part of the “No Child Left Behind” program.
“Preparing
our children to live in a ‘Global Village’ and believe in global
citizenship.”
Check out these two websites:
www.edwatch.org
[ http://www.edwatch.org ]
“On
United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization – UNESCO - http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=15006&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
and click on Education
“Education is a key element to changing our
government toward sustainable
development.” “Preparing minds
for a different future and a total transformation of our nation.”
“Primary elements of education – world citizenship and people of the
world must embrace.” US
Department of Education Home Page
“Education is not about teaching facts and figures anymore.”
“Total transformation of the nation – ‘dumbing’ down of
“Don’t teach the past; keep people uninformed so
they can’t make defined decisions.”
“Don’t teach history; instead, prepare students to transform society.”
In
less then 100 years, this county will be run totally on the collective system.
Sound like communism? That's because it is! There will be no
property rights, everyone will swear allegiance to the state, and our
great-grandchildren will have no liberties at all. Our children are being
taught in school that our Constitution is a dead document and that the Bill of
Rights gives power to the government over us – instead of its original purpose
to put the power of government in the people’s hands and protect us from
the government. All the schools, and I mean all the government-run schools
are using a book they get for free called "We the People."
Sounds like it would teach true American history and the principals we were
founded on. But the truth is just the opposite. Our nation’s
history is being subverted, and this has been going on for almost 30 years.
The really shocking point of all this is that our present government (both
democrats and republicans) are helping bring this about! Our children are
being taught ‘sustainable development’, environmentalism and treason!
The
primary purpose of “We the People” is not to fill your head with a lot of
facts about American history. Chapter
3 explains the future: trans-loyalty
to the global village. “What
advantage might be offered by World Citizenship?”
Knowledge
is no longer the primary purpose of education but has become more of an
“attitude adjustment.”
“More
education increases the threat to sustainability.”
Tests
are being replaced by government “Assessed Attitudes.”
World view attitudes.
Lenin
said, “Take away a peoples heritage and you control them.”
Our
history has been censored in schools for the past 45 years, which has changed
history. Students are no longer
taught about the Constitution, securing
our rights or defining our rights.
“The
Bill of Rights means whatever the current
[Supreme Court] justices declare. The
Second Amendment is not spoken about in school today.”
The Bill of Rights is ‘negative.’ The United Nations is
‘positive.’ Universal human
rights are ‘positive.’ But who
decides what Universal Human Rights are? The
U.N.
The
current curriculum is working in our schools.
“A new God has emerged. “Our
rights come from the U.N. and Man
has become God.”
“Citizenship
means serving your new master and you now owe allegiance to the government.”
“We
the People” is teaching treason.
Tom
DeWeese continued
“And
they arrest parents for child abuse.” “[There’s]
something funny about our children’s schools.”
“We
think our fight is against gun control, the ESA, water rights, democrats, [and]
evil liberals. We’re wrong.
Our fight is against a well-thought-out
plan to destroy
“Transportation,
waste management, employment, guns, schools;
everything is covered under sustainable development.”
“The
rules are changing. A new power
elite is emerging. Sustainable
development is written in almost a foreign language so we don’t understand
it.”
“The
Adkins Diet is not sustainable!” “Grazing
is not sustainable. It’s to stop
us from eating beef. They try to
trick us, using scare tactics like BSE
and meat kills.”
“Behavioral
modification [is introduced] by
scaring us.”
“Political
correctness is sustainable development, mass transit is sustainable development,
suits [lawsuits] against farmers
using pesticides is sustainable development, and zoning is sustainable
development.”
“Sustainable
development is the official policy of the
“This
is not a myth!” “Agenda 21, the Biodiversity
agenda, the Conference on the Rights of the Child – all are sustainable
development.”
“Sustainable
development is being implemented in all government agencies without any new
legislation; it’s growing like a cancer.”
“Bush
hasn’t had one of the Clinton EO’s
[Executive Orders] concerning sustainable development overturned.”
“Christianity
has been attacked by proponents of sustainable development; in such a society
you must not arm citizens.”
“We
just focus on our one issue and don’t see the whole picture.
It’s all part of one big program
attacking
“Property
right activists get it! We choose
liberty over sustainable development.”
“Christians
get it and choose liberty over
sustainable development.”
“Gun
owners get it and choose liberty
over sustainable development.”
How
do we fight sustainable development?
Uneducated
people think sustainable development
is a plan for recycling, keeping their
neighborhoods ‘family friendly’, zoning
and landuse laws.
“Congress
can’t pass legislation to implement sustainable development because it’s
against the U.S. Constitution!”
“County and city governments need to stop getting grants to implement
sustainable development.” MONEY IS
THE KEY! “If five
counties out of the 3500 [the
3,500 counties in
“To
save
Session
8 – Reports From the Field
Lori Waters is the Executive Director of Eagle Forum’s Washington office and
Loudoun County, Virginia, Commissioner. She
spoke about reversing many of the sustainable development programs imposed by
her predecessors in
When
Lori was running for
Traffic
congestion is a big problem and easing it with more and better roads is
being blocked at every turn by the ‘greens.’
‘Greens’, who see more roads as meaning more people; but if
the people living there now get tired of gridlock
traffic, they’ll move away. (Typical green thought) On
the east side of the major highway
that crosses Loudoun County north to south, zoning
now requires 50 housing units per acre and on the west side
zoning
has one housing unit per 50 acres. The
plan was to make the people living on the east side use mass transit.
Lori
listed some of the regulations in
“Most
people are in favor of smart growth until they have to deal with the regulations
and bureaucracies involved in smart
growth.” Lori wakes up
every morning thinking, “What can I undo today.”
Surrender to Wildfire, by Dr. Madeleine P. Cosman, Esq.
Summary:
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- What you haven’t heard about the San Diego Wildfires and
how changed policies have destroyed lives, property and nature.
Subversive Environmentalism
Federal and state forests long have practiced "Let It Burn" natural
fire management, especially popular during the Clinton administration. No fire
road cutting, no clearing of diseased, dead trees, no disturbing natural
habitat. In San Diego, no aerial drops of fire retardant are allowed on land or
buildings within 300 feet of water. Why? Retardant might pollute the water that
might poison fish and aquatic plants. A few days before San Diego erupted in
fire, the United States Forestry Service's Environmental Ethicists brought suit
in Missoula, Montana, to prevent aerial firefighting drops of fire retardant
chemicals and to prohibit bulldozing of fire-breaks near animals and plants
protected under the Endangered Species Act. Firefighters would be obliged to get
permits for spraying retardant from the Environmental Protection Agency and for
bulldozing, from the Army Corps of Engineers.
Fire-fighters on the line work heroically, valiantly, and merit praise, honor,
and gratitude. They and other citizens are exposed to extraordinary hazard
because bizarre environmental restrictions subvert protections of land,
property, and people. Subversion? The US Forestry Service has adopted practices
called for in the United
Nations "Agenda 21," especially Chapter 13: Managing Fragile
Ecosystems. United Nations' Sustainable
Development plans for global, national, and local economies, ecologies, and
social equities imperil American private property, lives, and livelihoods.
America also is one of twelve nations that signed the Montreal Protocols that
represent control of 90% of the planet's boreal and temperate forests.
Australia's Minister for the Environment ominously stated at the Montreal
Protocol meeting in 1996: The "global forest estate...[is the] common
legacy of all mankind."
California forest firefighting is directly influenced by the United
Nations-inspired international fire policy of the Urban Wildland Intermix Code (UWIC)
that appears in San Diego as law of the Wildland Urban Interface. This local law
copied almost verbatim from the International Council on Local Environmental
Initiatives (ICLEI), overpowers Congress and America's national sovereignty and
bypasses state legislatures. More than 450 cities worldwide, including Santa
Monica, California, Muncie, Indiana, and Chicago, Illinois have signed these
international local government sustainable development regulations. Interface
private land is scheduled soon to evolve into nature preserves or conservation
corridors that link nature sanctuaries. Wildland Urban Interface firefighters
invite US Fish and Wildlife experts to map potentially endangered species, and
then create Habitat Conservation Plans. If your land is in an HCP, it is yours
in name only.
Toxic Regulation
California Department of Forestry (CDF) has an aerial firefighting rule: no
aircraft takes off or flies one half hour before sunset. The Precautionary
Principle governs. If there is potentially risk of any possible harm, no action
is permitted. The Cedar fire was reported 5 minutes after the no-fly cut-off. No
one requested a waiver, no one asked permission to violate this absurd
regulation.
This was the high fire season. Fires burned out of control just miles to the
north. Local San Diego fire crews lent personnel and equipment to fight northern
fires. Fierce Santa Ana winds were forecast. Yet the fire burned, unfought,
throughout the night. Shari Lee, Administrator of Ramona Airport Air Attack, 10
miles from the Cedar Fire ignition site, said that if the fire had been reported
five minutes earlier she would have dispatched two bombers with retardant and
one helicopter with water. But it was not, so she did not. Rule, not reason,
ruled.
Worse, CDF Director, Andrea Tuttle, appointed by then newly-recalled Governor
Gray Davis, refused all outside firefighting assistance. Chief Tuttle, an
environmentalist and marine ecologist, directs the largest fire-fighting force
in the world: 4000 full-time employees, 1500 seasonal employees, 1000 engines,
23 air tankers, 13 helicopters, 15 air attack ships (OV-10 Bronco helicopters
for command and control), and an annual budget of $500 million. Though fires
raged out of control, CDF aero-chief Mike Padilla rejected help from US Navy
Helicopter Squadron HC85, based at North Island in San Diego, with 240 active
duty and Naval Reserve officers who exclusively fly firefighting helicopters.
Volunteering by phone, by internet, by flying one helicopter to Ramona Airport
to demonstrate they were ready, willing, and able, they were rebuffed. Commander
Ellinger faxed 26 pages of his flyers' training and personnel records to CDF.
CDF Chief Mike Padilla claimed to not know the Navy flyers existed. Furthermore,
he would not allow them to fly in the same airspace as CDF men for Navy men were
not CDF-tested or CDF-certified. Moreover, he was "overwhelmed." Navy
firefighters spent time in their Ready Room until on Day #6 the Navy Helicopter
Squadron was permitted to make what CDF Chief Tuttle called "cosmetic
waterdrops."
CDF and Governor Gray Davis even refused help from Washington, D.C. On Day #1 of
the fires, San Diego Congressman Duncan Hunter (Chairman, House Armed Services
Committee) got a promise from General Richard Myers, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of
Staff for America's defense to send six C-130 Mobile Aerial Firefighter Units.
He gave Congressman Hunter his home phone number. California had to officially
request; he would provide. Governor-Reject Davis did not respond. CDF Tuttle and
her subordinate Mr. Snodgrass took the offer to "committees." Four
critical days passed. Aircraft never came to San Diego. Duncan Hunter's home was
one of the thousands burned to the ground.
Tolerance for Arson
People intentionally set the Cedar, Paradise, and Otay fires. Whether the arson
was malicious or negligent is irrelevant. Cedar was ignited by a "lost
hunter" named Sergio Martinez, age 33. He lit a "signal" fire in
99 degree heat in the high fire season in a high fire area during daylight. Most
specific information about him is suppressed. He has not been charged with a
felony, not held in detention, but was cited for blameless
"carelessness."
The Paradise fire was set where "young people hang out," suspects
investigated, but no one as yet charged. "We haven't decided yet whether it
was just recklessness or malicious intent, but arson is arson," said CDF
Capt. Gary Eidsmoe. Sgt. Darrell Carr of the Sheriff's Department said, "We
do have witnesses…."
A cooking fire, started by people who illegally crossed the border from Mexico,
ignited Mine Canyon at Otay. 10,000 daily illegal crossings go uncaught.
There was little to no media condemnation of the October arson. Martinez's name
was media-suppressed. But there was media compassion for the fire-setters'
feelings. Some proposed protective custody for Martinez since people were angry
with him. In our colossal politics of deviance, perpetrators were not prosecuted
but venerated as victims.
Sabotage of Intelligent Self-Help
No evacuation plans exist for most San Diego communities. Even today my
vulnerable community is classified for evacuation, not for "shelter in
place." We got tantalizing rudimentary information but no precise
instructions for saving ourselves. Citizen self-defense is not taught,
discouraged ("Call 911 for professional help"), and punished when
caught. Cut a firebreak on your own land to protect your house? You risk fine
and prison if you destroy environmentally protected shrubs.
Advice for disaster preparedness (and terrorism) is condescending, cosmetic, and
aimed at 6th grade reading comprehension. During the October firestorm, San
Diego's Office of Emergency Services (OES) refused to sound the Emergency Alert
System. Terrified San Diegans had no central source for information or advice.
Davis-appointee, OES Chief Deborah Steffen refused to use the Emergency Alert
System because it was "old," the fire was "fast-moving," it
occurred at night-time, and we must avoid "panic."
Saint Paul said it was better to marry than to burn (with passion). San Diego
thinks it is better to burn than to panic.
Surrender to Wildfire is Assault on Excellence
Surrender to Wildfire assaults human excellence. Subversive environmentalists,
toxic regulators, coddled arsonists, and contemptuous Office of Emergency
Services grandmothers protecting citizens against panic do not love the
environment. They hate success, achievement, competence, invention, wealth,
productivity, and happiness. Dangerous nihilists intend death to civilization.
We must choose to surrender to wildfire or to fight wildfire. Surrender to
wildfire is surrender to collectivist America: land of moral ambiguity and home
of pacifist appeasement. Fighting against wildfire is fighting for
individualistic America: land of moral strength, and home of responsible
liberty. As we fight wildfire, so we defend our nation.
Session
8 – Developing Effective Response
Jim Burling is an attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation
who has litigated many important cases that establish case law
pertaining to private property issues.
Jim
started with a joke about property rights that went all the way back to creation
– the first private property was in the Garden of Eden.
Adam and Eve’s fig leafs were the first.
“God said have dominion so we own it on orders from God.”
“Property
is something that people are willing to kill themselves over in
“Property
originated men’s work – planting crops, trees, irrigating and harvesting –
per Locke.” “The labor theory
from self to goods to land.” “English
law – Blackstone, the Magna Carta – all traced property rights from the
Garden of Eden to the US Constitution. Jefferson
and Madison all read Locke and used his teachings in writing the
Constitution.”
“The
more you have to beg from a government the less liberty you have.”
The
Pacific Legal Foundation grew out of Reagan’s Welfare Reform in
“Yes
you can fight city hall by knowing your rights.”
“Contact us if you think you have a case.”
Chuck
Cushman known as “Mr. Rent-a-Riot” was unable to attend.
He’s been having heart problems.
Session
8 – More Reports From the Field
Sylvia Allen, Founder of Arizona’s People of the
West in 1992 and now founding President of Freedom for America League, reported
on the events before and after the devastating Rodeo/Chediski fire that burned
500,000 acres – right up to her back door.
I
really wanted to hear Sylvia but missed her presentation.
I got to talking to several people during the break about the current
Klamath situation and we all missed this report from the field.
Clarice
Ryan reported on events and activities in
I
also missed 99% of Clarice’s presentation though I did pick up her handouts.
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learn more about Freedom 21:
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Hall
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