Regarding Agenda 21

"Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is the action plan to inventory, monitor, and control all aspects of our lives.  It is the process of merging government with corporations, such as Monsanto, Siemens, IBM, GE, and others."  Rosa Koire, Democrats Against Agenda 21

Regarding Agenda 21:

We have spent our lives actively espousing a philosophy of caring for our world in its entirety as well as caring for the integrity of our own behavior.   We were brought up with ethical standards reinforced by our various faiths and we adopted the care of the planet as if it were dogma, with marching orders to do the right thing. We’ve been thinking globally and acting locally, recycling and pushing for clean energy.  We’ve literally put our blood, our sweat and our tears into what we believed was good for ourselves, our families, our country, our planet and our children’s future.

We have also spent decades diligently if skeptically, listening to experts who have determined “best practices”, set strategies and “action plans”, informed our “consensus” and created an international language for environmentalism. We have hesitantly accepted increasing bureaucratic power over all aspects of our lives and the land.  But we have come to realize that our relationship to the land, like our relationships to our children and our planet have shifted into very tenuous and surreal realms. Our instinctual requirement for personal boundaries is a now a sign of emotional dysfunction. Boundaries of nation or jurisdiction are called backwards and unsophisticated unless that jurisdiction is global.  We are considered selfish to put the concerns of autonomy, of privacy, of independent thought, of creativity and personal freedom above or on par with the needs of the consensus bureaucracy.

We accepted these changes out of conformity with the supposed wisdom of the consensus, even when that wisdom conflicts with our own deep knowledge and because we feel we have no choice.  We accept the changes because we fear the power claimed by the ever growing bureaucracy, by the courts and the by the institutions set in place to protect our natural and constitutionally guaranteed rights, which oddly seem no longer to exist. 

We have been as the dutiful worker bees and drones who served the needs of the Queen Bee, but it was not nature that we have served. Many of us in non-farming jobs work either for a governmental agency be it local, county, regional, state, federal or even global or for a megacorporation through its vast number of subsidiary companies. We rely on these agencies and corporations for our livelihoods and our subsistence. Our governmental policies are dictated and our consensus is informed by those who shape our compliance. Our compliance is dictated by our dependence.

We have been the soldiers who carry out the corporate land and resource grab and we have been the bureaucrats who enforce the laws and codes that did not arise from a democratic process but from a false consensus that we were manipulated into accepting as our own.  We are made to police ourselves and one another not to serve a greater good, let alone our own needs, but to serve as the workers and drones to the same small thinking that favors a powerful few who have locked down their control of the land, the wealth, the resources and our rights. 

As sincere as those of us who are environmentally minded have been in our good intentions, we have ignored or been in denial over accusations that Agenda 21 had indeed shaped environmentalism to undermine our relationship to the land.   From the forced extermination of domestic hogs on small hog farms to the war on raw milk, the influences of Agenda 21 have absolutely brought us to the edge of the precipice.   We are working so diligently to grow healthy food, against difficult odds, that the thought that our methods have been subverted to aid the ultimate land use coup d'état doesn't register to many of us, except as the need to further accept globalized stewardship and surrender our self-determinism and sovereignty. 

The conservative among us have been quick to be suspicious, analyzing the risks that are faced in oncoming change and are adverse to consensus being enforced that ignores legitimate concerns.  Conservatives question science reached by consensus over critical thinking. The liberal among us are willing to trust more readily in a prescription for change and trust the experts, especially when sharing a voice in forming the consensus that imposes the change. We should value our differences as important to the discernment process rather than become entrenched in our differences.

Meanwhile, valid clean energy has been discouraged so that nuclear power, coal, fracking and dirty electricity are hailed as “green”. Islands of plastic and toxic chemical clog our oceans as corporation continue to pollute. Weather modification and aerosol geoengineering are being linked to the increases of carcinogenic chemicals being found in our crops and in our water. SMART technologies may be affecting our health and that of the bees. Dividing ourselves into opposing forces has served to keep us all distracted from these devastating injustices that are being thrust upon us by separating us from our land and by disavowing our rights.

We must refuse the mandates of global-to-local control and put the focus back on our own relationship to and wisdom of the land. We must cease our work as drones and stand down when told to carry out the mandates of bureaucracy over autonomy.  We must reclaim our own authority and we must do it now.