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1 by Michael Shaw President, FreedomAdvocates.org PART 1 September 2012 Unalienable Rights Throughout history government owned the citizenry. Some forms of authority were violent; others managed the people to the benefit of the rulers. No society recognized the value, much less the sovereignty, of the individual. Until

2 America was the exception to centralized authority. That is our heritage. The foundation of America rests on the political recognition of each individual s natural or unalienable rights. Today, that recognition is lacking. Resurrecting that idea is why Freedom Advocates exists. Valuing life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness coupled with an honest monetary system predicated on the practices of a moral citizenry, produced a society where individuals were free to pursue their lives. Liberty requires a foundation. 2

3 We all gain in such a society. One example: Free enterprise based on honest money grows standards of living and advances human achievement at a pace consistent with the nature of humanity; the challenge today is how to restore government s role as protector of life, liberty and property. Woefully, our government has abandoned its commitments to the protection of unalienable rights and to honest money. As a consequence America flounders. Instead, a new philosophy with an accompanying action plan has been inserted; One that intends for humans to take on the status of livestock. The point is that power has been allowed to consolidate and grow. Our political and economic systems are controlled by a globalist monetary system that intends to create a one world governance society. Already equipped with an international framework that includes the U.N., the World Bank, the World Trade Organization and the Bank of International Settlements, a new political economic order is well advanced. 3

4 Today, the globalist objective is to work at the local level to monitor and control human action. For this the globalists have a plan. The plan is called Agenda 21 Sustainable Development. What is Agenda 21? Agenda 21 is a document that outlines the implementation of Sustainable Development, which is a comprehensive plan for the restructure of society and the remake of man. Sustainable Development is a communitarian program that is designed to transform people into the globalist ideal of the new man. This concept requires individuals to become subservient to the needs of the community. Individual rights are lost. You become an asset or a liability to the community and treated accordingly. After nearly 20 years of implementation, I can report that Sustainable Development policy is now deeply embedded in every county in America! It is time for all 4

5 Americans to understand that Sustainable Development is not about protecting the environment. UN SD/A21 Agenda for the 21 st Century Presented by FreedomAdvocates.org 4 Meaning every exhale of our breath. a United Nations dept. 5

6 The U.S. Department of State reports Federal Agencies progress on implementation of Agenda 21. Agenda 21, Sustainable Development is the modern battlefield over future political-economics and more. i. Despite its appearance as an environmental movement, Agenda 21 incorporates decades of 6

7 U.N. world governance policies. Agenda 21 was written for and disseminated at the Rio de Janeiro U.N. Earth Summit in ii. 178 nations signed on including then President George Bush, the father, signing on behalf of the United States. iii. The last four presidents, 2 Democrats and 2 Republicans, and both major party candidates in the 2012 presidential election have made implementation of Agenda 21 the quiet cornerstone of their careers. Agenda 21 Sustainable Development is the Action Plan for the implementation of a controlled society. The Plan is not conjecture. 7

8 It is laid out in several documents: 1. Agenda 21: This is the global plan. UN Agenda 21: Global to Local The United Nations program of Action Produced by ICLEI This is my County s plan - the Santa Cruz County local Agenda 21. Mid 90 s 8

9 Local infiltration is what proves how serious this program is! Remember, Agenda 21 describes itself as a Comprehensive Plan of Action. Only a few communities have titled their plans Agenda 21. Discover your county s Plan or Plans. Anticipate sweet sounding titles including: Sustainable Fresno, Vision, 2030, Milwaukee Green, etc 2. The second document of the Agenda 21 blueprint is the U.N. s Global Biodiversity Assessment Report (1150 pages). 9

10 This is the guidebook for world-wide environmental action. To save the environment, this official document calls for a reduction of human population and puts nature before man. 10

11 Global Biodiversity Assessment Page 773 states: Population growth has exceeded the capacity of the biosphere [false premise] It is estimated that an agricultural world in which most human beings are peasants, should be able to support 5 to 7 billion people. At the more frugal European standard of living, 2-3 billion would be possible. In contrast, a reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be 1 billion. See FreedomAdvocates.org article What is Unsustainable? Presented by FreedomAdvocates.org Based on this false premise: The Global Biodiversity Assessment also calls for the abolition of private property by directing the elimination of suburban housing, ranching, fossil fuels, dams, reservoirs, and much, much more. Today, I will show how this process is unfolding. 11

12 3. The third document is Sustainable Development s short bible, The Earth Charter, which was authored by Steven Rockefeller, Mikhail Gorbachev and Maurice Strong. Strong was Secretary General of the 92 Earth Summit and a Canadian oil billionaire who is now residing in China to escape Western justice for his role in the infamous U.N. Oil for Food scandal. Each of the authors has proclaimed that the Earth Charter is to replace the 10 Commandments. The Earth Charter and its principles are taught in American schools in substitution for American principles. The Earth Charter centralizes all authority over humanity. Centralization of human power combined with proclamation of total authority is known to be a scary proposition. 12

13 To help you recognize local infiltration of Sustainable policies, I m going to share a Freedom Advocates tool for showing the Warm and Fuzzy terms that arise regularly. These terms reveal Agenda 21 in operation. This is a partial list. Agenda 21 Sustainable Development Warm and Fuzzy Expressions Environment New Economy Equity Consensus Affordable housing Friends of Action Protect Preserve Quality of life Benefit of all Sanctuary Social Justice Watershed Facilitator Traffic Calming Triple Bottom Line Habitat Conservation Plan Best Management Practices Outcome Based Education Endangered species Invasive Species Restoration Public/Private Partnerships Common good Regional Collaborative Comprehensive Plan Stakeholder International Baccalaureate School to Work Historic Preservation Vision Sustainable Medicine Liveable Communities Blueprint Copyright FreedomAdvocates.org Agenda 21 rarely calls itself by that name. Instead warm and fuzzy terms are used. 13

14 Supporters of Agenda 21 use a mantra illustrated by the Three E pattern. The Three Es represent a summarization of Agenda 21 s blueprint. The often repeated Three Es concept looks and works like this: 1. Equity Sometimes characterized as Social Equity Use of sociology for group conditioning and a replacement system of justice called social justice in order to re-engineer humanity into a world collective. 14

15 2. Economy Economy (1) International redistribution of America s wealth through trade policy, foreign policy and more. (2) Replacement of free enterprise with government/business partnerships (so called public-private partnerships). 15

16 3. Environment Environment Nature before man. This is the premise that nurtures the globalist call for a massive reduction in human population. This accounts for the rise of Earth Worship or Gaia which is intended as the dawning of a new world religion. 16

17 My purpose is not to scare you but to alert you to globalism s implementation of the Agenda 21 Sustainable Development Global to Local Action Plan. This is where the rubber meets the road. This is why the defense of America begins in your neighborhood, your hometown, and the broader local community. Recognition of this fact will compel informed ordinary American people to gain control of school boards, fire boards, sheriff s office, water boards, city councils and board of county supervisors. Remember: We can turn back the assault. 17

18 It is important to understand Agenda 21 is not a left vs. right fight. By evaluating We can see that both the left and the right contribute to political Globalism. Our need is to understand how both sides of the contrived political spectrum contribute to the Globalist Action Plan. 18

19 Sustainable Development policy has infiltrated almost everything. In that regard, it is worth noting that The Grand Old Party is a member of the International Democrat Union or IDU.org. The IDU s mission is the universal adoption of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Under the U.N. system all law is man-made. Nothing is immutable. George Bush, Sr. and Governor Haley Barber represent Republican leadership at the IDU. 19

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21 Both major political parties are committed to Globalism. That is why top leadership of political parties would not approach the issue of party commitment to the implementation of Agenda 21 for two decades. Can we trust either of them now? I am now going to contrast the difference between the American philosophy of individual rights with the Globalist philosophy of community rights. That s what we re really fighting about. 21

22 The Judicial system that protects individual rights is based on the principle of freedom called equal justice. Equal justice supports true diversity a respect for the independence and unalienable rights of the individual and genuine respect for individuality. Equal justice protects us from mob rule. A system of human rights or community rights operates to pursue social justice, which can be defined as: Law formulated to obtain government s social objectives at the expense of individual liberty. The Sustainable Development agenda is based on the principle that the collective good and Democracy are more important than recognizing unalienable rights and the Republic designed to protect them; the Sustainable Development agenda is in direct opposition to America s cornerstone principle of equal justice. Equal Justice is the wonder within mankind s greatest achievement the American Declaration of Independence. 22

23 I am going to shift gears to provide news of a Californian legislative endorsement of Sustainability. This legislation will ultimately squelch free enterprise. B Corporations B Corporations roll out a new economic system that uses social manipulation to destroy free enterprise. We re talking about a new American system of economics where insiders pick the winners and losers. Today s government operates like the clique at junior high school. Cool is in. Others are excluded. 23

24 In October 2011 Governor Brown signed AB 361, a bill that will ultimately wipe out independent and private businesses in California. AB 361 establishes "California B Corp Benefit Corporations," a program for businesses who agree, by requirement of the statute, to advance the principles of Sustainable Development Agenda 21. Benefit Corporations and B Corps are a new type of corporation and business sector that purports to use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. In reality these corporations support the implementation of Agenda 21 Sustainable Development which is based on the 3 E objectives discussed earlier; equity, economy and environment. Other terms for the same objectives are "People, Profit, Planet" or "Triple Bottom Line." Because B Corps are legally recognized by government for their willingness to undertake Agenda 21 Sustainable objectives, state and local entities will be encouraged to allow these companies to go to the front of the line for licenses, permits and tax incentives. The companies that refuse to become 24

25 benefit corporations will have to wait. Of course, eventually, it will be the big companies that get the favors from government by going along. Government uses these elite businesses to accomplish their social engineering ideals and to acquire more power without having to answer to voters. Terms: The company will support B Lab s public policy of objectives passing legislation to create a new corporate form of corporate purpose, accountability and transparency, as well as incentives for certified sustainable businesses Sign the B Corporation Declaration of Interdependence as a symbol of their commitment to our shared collective purpose Presented by FreedomAdvocates.org This is about creating incentives for buddies and beneficiaries of the new economic order. To indicate the establishment of global governance policies into 25

26 our state legislature, take note of the B Corporation s Declaration of Interdependence. Now that Governor Brown has signed this legislation it is a giant step into the unknown. The text of the bill doesn't even try to define what the standards will be only that there will be standards, and that those standards ARE NOT subject to the approval of the voters but instead to B Lab. In short, the governor has signed into law a bill that has the potential to give economic carte blanche to a group or organization that the public has neither vetted nor approved. To date, 7 states have passed B Corp legislation: California, Hawaii, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Vermont and Virginia. Already, Colorado, Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania have legislation pending. Globalism is on the march. We have more on B Corporations on the FreedomAdvocates.org website. In particular, Stephen Poole has written a comprehensive 4-part article 26

27 entitled, Benefit Corporations: Expansion of the Public-Private Fascist State. There are 3 broad principles that underlie Agenda 21: The step by step program for the abolition of private property. Education for global citizenship. Do you think the notion of unalienable rights is presented in today s schools? Take notice of the number of young Sustainablers, many of whom identify themselves as Global Citizens. Universities are building an army of young college graduates, some with degrees in Sustainability For even younger people there are the policies and assessments of No Child Left Behind All geared to neuter the next generation s understanding of liberty and of the American experiment while training them to be serfs. 27

28 The third driving principle of Agenda 21 is: Control over human action. For instance, we see technological advances used by government to monitor the individual. We see this happening through federal legislation that would direct biometric identification of you embedded within your state driver s license. We see the advent of cameras everywhere, of internet health records, the TSA body grabbers, drones, GPS or other satellite technologies that can watch and trace every move you make, and government accessible data bases including fusion centers that have everything about you that you now think is private. Sustainable Development is about assessing, monitoring and controlling you and everybody else. Smart electrical meters talk about managing and controlling us. 28

29 That is why policy for decades has been driving us toward shortages, including the often contrived shortages of electricity and water throughout much of the west. Policy coupled with technology has made possible the attainment of centralized management and control over resources and individual action. Smart water is around the corner. We have turned our back on water development. Available water supply has been managed in order to create the shortage that we are now and will be increasingly experiencing. I will focus comments on the first objective of Agenda 21: to abolish private property, concerning land. To understand what is at issue we have to understand private property. 29

30 Private property; includes your person, your thoughts and your relationship to something. By relationship I mean the power to use and enjoy that thing. This includes living on and working land to the benefit of one s self or a waiting market. We also have to understand that a fiat money system (money from thin air) undermines the notion of private property because it defeats free enterprise while enabling public-private partnerships to take over. While lip service is being given to preserving the family farm, independent farmers around the country are being set up to sell to major corporate interests or to conservation groups like The Nature Conservancy; the perfect partners with government in a new age, new world economy and politic. It is time to take notice and then action to restore the Republic! 30

31 As America implements Agenda 21 s land use programs called Smart Growth and the Wildlands Network, recognition of unalienable rights is obliterated. Let me explain these land-use programs with the help of this map. 31

32 To define terms. Wildlands : Is the removal of people and prohibition of resource extraction. These areas are indicated in red. This explains why America s resources are not being tapped. The yellow areas are buffers to the Wildlands where public-private partners will engage in limited and controlled activities. Smart Growth : Is the stacking and packing of human beings in dense cities where people will depend on public transportation and the development of walkable communities rather than auto mobility. Smart Growth areas (also referred to by the U.N. as Human Settlements) are demonstrated by the black dots. The Wildlands Network is helping to create and implement policies and legislation that promote massive land grabs. Ladies and gentlemen, Smart Growth and the Wildlands Network this is why you re here today. 32

33 You re seeing the same plans that are overwhelming California and other places. The same types of plans (programs and proponents) are in every town. The Wildlands Network and Smart Growth policies are an epidemic everywhere in the U.S., not just here. 33

34 The land policy of the United Nations was first officially articulated at the United Nations Conference on Human Settlement in Vancouver, Canada in This quote is from the Preamble of the U.N. Policy on Land: [emphasis mine] If private property and freedom are inseparable, our freedom is in trouble. 34

35 The wonderful open areas become more and more restrictive until eventually We are told to keep out! This used to be land owned by a berry farmer in my town. 35

36 NAFTA Superhighway Trade Corridor and Toll Road System MAP-21 Congress has succumbed to Regionalism on a grand scale 1984 style. The Trans Texas Corridor (TTC) is, or was, an implementing element of the continental Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) agreement between Canada, Mexico and the United States. The SPP intends to create a single North American security zone, borderless trade, unified transportation systems and a harmonization of our respective laws as a core for a continental union similar in nature to the European Union. Citizens turned back Governor Perry s and the Texas legislature s dogged and dirty schemes to misrepresent the nature, scope and national sovereignty threat inherent in the nature of this public-private partnership. The TTC proposed the sale of the state highways to a foreign multilateral corporation who would then charge residents to drive the road. 36

37 The transportation and utility line scheme is intended to reach Pacific ports in central Mexico, heading north they cross the border in Corpus Christie spread out through Texas, expand across the U.S. with similar international financing schemes and roll into Smart Growth enclaves in Canada. Think of the European Common Market of the third quarter of the twentieth century. The growing trend of public-private partnership is designed to further indebt and subjugate the citizenry to an international cartel designed to advance the political economics of world governance, Region by Region. Texas s real citizens drove the TTC into submission. But the concept is back after opponents enjoyed a two year hiatus from Perry et. al. This time the attack comes from the federal government. CONGRESS passed a bill authorizing the construction of not one but three continental distribution systems! It is called MAP

38 Terri Hall, founder of Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom (TURF) writes: Some have tried to convince the public that the Trans- Texas Corridor and NAFTA Superhighways are dead, never existed or are even a myth. Yet, Congress recently passed a new, two-year federal highway bill called Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) that not only gives priority funding to these 38

39 high priority trade corridors, but also makes it easier to hand them over to private multi-national corporations using controversial public-private partnership contract arrangements that promote and enhance the tolling of America at the taxpayer s expense. Now three intercontinental U.S. corridors are planned by the federal government. Change agent determination does not easily abate. This is but one illustration of the boatloads of American government policy pursuits which are motivated by internationalist directives. Each of us must find out the focus of the Agenda 21 pursuit operating in their area and then take local action against it or become prepared to live in a regulated regional enclave that operates with a much different set of mores and values. America is being transformed right under our noses and in full view for those that are willing to see. 39

40 I am going to shift the focus again to reveal how our Constitutional government is being transitioned into one of globalized central control. To understand this let s examine Regionalism. Regionalism The American political structure has been transformed. This has occurred for more than 50 years without public awareness of the mechanisms underlying the change. Today, the effect of a communitarian philosophic approach to government dominates public expectations and legislative agendas. At the core of this transformation is the political process of regionalizing the country. Political regionalism is the antithesis of representative government. Regionalism restructures or reinvents the operation of American government. 40

41 What you will learn is that regionalism is the blueprint for your serfdom. It has infiltrated cities and counties everywhere, affecting your transportation, water, farming and land use systems, cities and counties every aspect of government. Regionalism is being used to destroy traditional political boundaries such as county lines. Regionalism ushers in a transformed system of governance that ultimately abolishes private property. Let s start with an example showing how Agenda 21 programs are brought into your town via Regionalism. 41

42 Here is a look at an excerpt from the United Nations Agenda 21 document concerning transportation planning. Earth Summit - Agenda 21: The United Nations Programme of Action Chapter 7 - Human Settlements Section 7.52: Promoting urban transport systems in all countries should be a comprehensive approach to urbantransport planning and management. To this end, all countries should: encourage development patterns that reduce transport demand Adopt urban-transport programmes favouring high-occupancy public transport Encourage non-motorized modes of transport by providing safe cycleways and footways in urban and suburban centres Presented by FreedomAdvocates.org Your town is adopting these transport systems. This is because these systems are imposed upon locales by a regional level of government largely unknown and when known, underestimated. Regionalism is an important political concept. 42

43 Regionalism has overtaken the country. The large scale version of U.S. adoption of modern regionalism is a federally imposed extra-constitutional layer of government covering the entire nation. Regionalism might sound benign, but the consequences must be understood by freedom loving people or liberty will be trampled. According to the website of the National Association of Regional Councils (NARC): 43

44 These Regional Councils are running your towns. They dictate major zoning decisions, infrastructure decisions and more. They are bringing in transit oriented development and sustainable transportation aimed at getting you out of your cars. In addition to NARC, citizens must know about the following regional planning and development agencies that work to implement NARC s goals: Councils of Governments (COGs) Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) What is a Council of Governments (COG)? COGs are region-wide associations of local governments regional bodies, typically defined to serve an area of several counties to address issues such as: regional and municipal planning, economic and community development, cartography and Government Information Systems (GIS), hazard mitigation and emergency planning, aging services, 44

45 water use, pollution control, transit administration, and transportation planning. COGs run your town and your county from behind the scenes. Federal funds allocated to COGs coordinate the local implementation of Agenda 21. What is a Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)? An MPO is an agency created by federal law to provide local input for urban transportation planning and allocating federal transportation funds to cities with populations of greater than 50,000 Presented by FreedomAdvocates.org MPOs are federally mandated and, like COGs, are the instruments for re-structuring American government. 45

46 They are setting up an infrastructure for a new economic system based on public-private partnership to replace free enterprise. COGs and MPOs are federalized organizations that break down America s constitutionally formulated government structure. Their purpose is to control and direct local government from behind the scenes. Today, they propel the federal injection of the globalist agenda into local government policy and thereby negate the protections afforded by our constitutional system of government. This violation of the American essence and of our natural rights must stop! In the words of Charlotte Iserbyt, former Department of Education official and author of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, Regionalism is Communism. 46

47 Regionalism promotes soviet style councils that develop policy that is then rubber-stamped by elected officials, with no meaningful public oversight. It is an extra level of government that operates outside the provisions of the Constitution, thus advancing globalist objectives whilst insulating most elected officials. In short, American regionalism is the instrument used to advance globalist goals of political restructure: The government no longer operates the way traditional eighth grade textbooks explained it. 47

48 People know that a soviet system of government is a dismal failure. A failure so bad, in fact, that it s inconceivable to consider that soviet-style change agents might actually be Americans living and working in our own neighborhoods. Even worse, would be to discover that your smiling political leaders might also be agents of change. In fact, there is a whole soviet system of councils, including MPOs and COGs that are directing your local government. 48

49 A soviet is a hierarchical system of interconnected councils that work to destroy individual personality, suppress individual potential, and centralize power into the hands of those who seek to control human action and human production. The scary part is that these sovietized federal regional organizations are throughout the country. But the battle is always local. Our prospects for the future hang in the balance. Restoring the American republic requires that political regionalism be terminated. 49

50 There is an issue that has arisen in areas across the country. Recently, several in the freedom movement have called for the municipal creation of Property Rights Councils (PRCs). The argument is that government officials need input for this special interest. A Property Rights Council does not exist in the operation of the American Republic. Property Rights Councils are soviets. The creation of such boards means the fall of the republic. If 100 communities created Property Rights Councils, we would have substantially more than 100 definitions of what private property is. To barter or reconstrue the meaning of private property though a soviet council is the abandonment of America's founding principles. Let s examine another important aspect of the Local Agenda 21 Action Plan: 50

51 ICLEI The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, now also called Local Governments for Sustainability. This is the most vulnerable globalist organization operating in America today simply because they are an international U.N. partner working under contract with local governments and your regional soviets. 51

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53 ICLEI is an important NGO that: Uses the fraud of man-made Global Warming and Climate Change as a scare tactic and as a legislative tool. ICLEI has formed an international Congress filled with city and county representatives. This Congress acts as a shadow World Government. ICLEI directs local governments and provides statutory and regulatory provisions that implement Globalist Sustainable policy locally. 53

54 ICLEI is a world-wide organization. ICLEI Secretariats and Offices California Office Oakland, CA Canada Office Toronto, Canada U.S.A. Office Boston, MA Mexico Office Mexico City, Mexico European Secretariat Freiburg Germany World Secretariat Bonn, Germany Korea Office Jeju City, Korea South Asia Secretariat New Delhi, India Japan Office Tokyo, Japan Southeast Asia Secretariat Manila, Philippines Latin America & Caribbean Secretariat San Paulo, Brazil Africa Secretariat Cape Town, South Africa Oceania Secretariat Melbourne, Australia Presented by FreedomAdvocates.org Article 1 Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution makes the following prohibition: No state shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance or Confederation with a foreign political entity. Neither may a city. Ask: Is it treasonous for city or state leaders to contract with ICLEI, an International NGO accredited by the United Nations for the purpose of implementing Agenda 21 and participating in a World Congress? 54

55 Yes! ICLEI contracts are treasonous. There is a light beginning to shine on ICLEI. ICLEI represents a pattern of government infiltration in America. As the light begins to shine, local officials show which side of the great battle they are on. Contracts with ICLEI guarantee implementation of international political and economic policy at the local level. Drive city alliances with ICLEI out of the communities surrounding you. The number of communities with citizens working to remove ICLEI is expanding as citizens begin to tie the links between ICLEI and Agenda 21. ICLEI has lost 20% of its members as citizens begin to push back. America will not revive without kicking out ICLEI and the more challenging and difficult step of withdrawing from the COGs and other regional governing organizations. 55

56 I recommend you visit the FreedomAdvocates.org website and review the ICLEI Primer and get started on kicking ICLEI out! Before I get into your local Agenda 21 programs, I am going to give a brief description of three Congressional Breaches of Constitutional authority that opened the door for implementation of the Global to Local Action Plan of Agenda

57 Major ongoing Congressional Breaches of the Constitution Congress has done much to put us into the grasp of globalism, including these three breaches: Major Constitutional Breaches Undertaken by Congress: 1. Ownership and/or Management of Broad Landscapes 1. Federal ownership and/or management of broad landscapes. Implementation of the Wildlands Network is a violation of Article 1 (Legislative Branch) Section 8 (legislative powers) of the U.S. Constitution. 57

58 Constitutional authority for land ownership is set out in Article 1 Section 8. U.S. Constitution: Article 1 Section 8 The Congress shall have Power To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding 10 Miles square) as may become Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful Buildings; Presented by FreedomAdvocates.org There is no mention of a need or authority for creating the Department of Interior for the creation of massive Wildlands zoning anywhere in America! There is no authorization for the various federal land ownership or contemporary Wildlands bills that have been processed by Congress. 58

59 The Constitution was written to protect the unalienable rights of the people, not to abrogate them. The Wildlands Network works to abrogate unalienable rights, not protect them. Who is Congress working for? There is a war on American ideals and Congress is on the wrong side. Remember government powers are granted under the Constitution they cannot just be taken by a narrow mob, with political front men, seeking power and control over resources. And yet that is exactly what is happening. Defaulting to federal authority in the area of land and resource management is a huge mistake. Government parks should be determined and owned by states and/or local governments. There is no federal authority for the ownership and management of parks and the resources they hold. 59

60 A second Congressional breach of Constitutional responsibilities is: Major Constitutional Breaches Undertaken by Congress: 1. Ownership and/or Management of Broad Landscapes 2. Delegation of Trade Policy to International Institutions 2. Delegation of trade policy to international institutions. Congress has delegated authority over U.S. trade policy to the World Trade Organization and to various multi-lateral trade pact organizations. This abrogates national sovereignty. 60

61 The effects of surrendering trade policy control include: A disintegrating border; Example: NAFTA agreement 124 mile or 200 kilometer wide International Zone of Cooperation to facilitate globalist trade policy and environmental concerns along the southern border. Constitutional taxing authority (Article 1 Section 9) becomes neutered. The Constitutionally intended form of taxation known as indirect taxation consists primarily of import and excise duties that are lost to the World Trade Organization s so-called free trade requirements. It is not free trade that is being established; it is a managed global trade control exercised over America. This policy is designed to economically equalize nations in accordance with the Earth Charter mandate to equalize wealth within and between nations. 61

62 American Industries are lost to the Globalization process. Average American earner wages are reduced toward global norms. Multinational Corporations profit from cheap, often slave, labor from overseas. A massive profit arrangement is protected by the World Bank from American duties. Domestic production is sacrificed. And America sinks. The Designs of: Globalist Managed Free Trade 1. Multinational Corporate Control in Partnership with World Government Agencies 2. Redistribute America s Wealth 3. Neuter American Sovereignty 62

63 The modern trade regime results in manufacturing job losses starting with a shuttling of resource extraction activity. Production has left the U.S. Finished goods are then imported, often from slave labor nations, always concentrating wealth into the hands of global business partners of prospective world government while draining American capital. Prince Charles established the Sustainable Business Council with major multinational businesses. Globalist corporate coordination has occurred. So what do we do? American trade policy must again become American made. America cannot surrender its trade making power and remain a sovereign nation. American involvement in the World Trade Organization is designed to destroy the Nation. The Sustainable problem is more than green. 63

64 A third Congressional long standing abrogation of their Constitutional responsibilities is: Major Constitutional Breaches Undertaken by Congress: 1. Ownership and/or Management of Broad Landscapes 2. Delegation of Trade Policy to International Institutions 3. Delegation of Monetary Authority to a Private Consortium Presented by FreedomAdvocates.org 3. Delegation of monetary authority. Another Congressional long standing abrogation of their Constitutional responsibilities is the delegation of its monetary responsibilities to a globalist system of central banks, resulting in the loss of a Constitutional and honest monetary system. This is another Congressional breach of Article 1 Section 8: This time it regards the establishment and maintenance of Central 64

65 Banking within a world system of Central Banking the indispensable ingredient for creating World Government. Congress has NO authority to delegate an exclusive monetary system authority to a third party. That is what happens when a Central Bank like the Federal Reserve is formed. This accounts for, at least, the financial aspect of the dilemma we face. The existence of Central Banks, like the Federal Reserve, allows for the printing of the money necessary to fund the globalist movement while accounting for its creation as debt owing from us. The monetary system is designed to cause a financial collapse which allows opportunity to further consolidate and strengthen globalist power. America will need a new monetary system. Today we must understand this issue if we are to avoid becoming trapped in an arranged future that has little regard for human life. 65

66 The collapse of the monetary system appears to be in process now. So: Each of these Constitutional breaches is a pillar upon which Globalism and Agenda 21 is being constructed. 66

67 American people s goal must be: To reign in the federal government and to get rid of non-elected or regional councils. How do we do that? Not easily. To get there the battle we can and must win soon is the local battle. Citizens must prevent the arranged development of Agenda 21 policies from being adopted, and/or reversing these policies when already adopted. This action is being taken in locales across the country. To win your local war, you must first learn of your area s local Agenda 21 program, which we will explore in Part 2. The pattern you will see is the same pattern in operation everywhere across America. I recommend you go to FreedomAdvocates.org to learn about efforts to fight back against Agenda 21 coming in from all over the country. For those not yet familiar enough with understanding Agenda 21, you can visit and study the subject at 67

68 FreedomAdvocates.org. Then join in or kick start the citizen awareness in your neighborhood. 68

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