Individual rights must take a backseat to community interests. Sound familiar? That’s probably because it’s been the ideology that American presidents have been agreeing to since 1992.
Enter Agenda 21, the 40 chapter document from the United Nations that establishes environmental “principles” at local, national, regional, and international levels-and the object of Ayn Rand’s nightmare.
Defined these days as “sustainable development,” Agenda 21 seeks to transform humanity with “new global ethics.” At the most basic level, beyond the soft words like “sustainability” and “eco-friendly environments”, Agenda 21 takes away private property ownership, single-family homes, private car ownership, individual travel choices, and privately owned farms. These socialist ethics, as described by Mikhail Gorbachev at the UN Rio Conference in 1995, mean that “we should restrict and limit our consumption and also reassess our way of life, we should be more modest.”
“Land…cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market,” Agenda 21 says. “Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes. The provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interest of the society as a whole.”
Don’t worry, you measly little humans. You and your property rights no longer have to go “unchecked”! Luckily, the UN has created the Commission on Sustainable Development to check up on everyone annually!
Unluckily for the UN, some states in the U.S. aren’t taking this without a fight.
“Social injustice” = land ownership. Give all property to the government and subject all governments to the UN. What could go wrong?
The erroneous assumption is explicitly stated: “… accumulation and concentration of wealth … contributes to social injustice.”
The fact is that the *opportunity* to accumulate and concentrate wealth contributes to social *progress.*
This is all a scheme to concentrate *power* in the hands of a select few (the Ruling Class, who make up the rules) and eliminate the opportunities of the non-select to accumulate wealth or power.
So, how does this square with Ted Turner? One of the largest private land holders in the US, maybe the Western Hemisphere if you include Argentina and his misguided 1 Bn $ donation to the UN for this same purpose???? Should he be the first to divest, split up his wealth evenly to everyone (cash no check please), and have him live in a government owned studo apartment complex in Bozeman, Montana, within walking distance to his government controlled bison meat restaurant?
Ol’ Ted subscribes to the UN theory that “Rules are for thee, not for me.”, so there’s no conflict if he owns more land than most nations. It’s only if you or I would like to dream of owning enough land to start our own large country that it becomes a problem.
How is agenda 21 different than Das Capital?
Das Kapital was originally written in German.
“The provision of decent dwellings and healthy conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interest of the society as a whole.”
That worked so well for the Soviet Union. All those lovely concrete apartment buildings lining the poorly paved roads. This is their utopian vision for all of us. The matrix would be preferable.
‘Property is theft.’ Now where did I hear that one?
We have been fighting a USFWS land grab here in the Texas Hill Country under their Habitat Conservation Plan programs designed to protect threatened/endangered species even in areas where they don’t occur. They have backed off on one but people need to be ever diligent because they will be back.