Latest tea party conspiracy theory: Agenda 21

[pampango]

(I)ncreasingly, the right-wing patriots are warning of an international conspiracy called Agenda 21, named after a 1992 United Nations policy statement on environment and poverty.

Tea partyers say the policy is an attempt to take away property rights in the name of smart growth and sustainability. They see conspirators embedded throughout the fabric of local governments, where they push for walkable communities, greenways, light rail and denser, urban communities.

Around the country, the tea party and associated conservative groups are making Agenda 21 a litmus test for Republican candidates. The issue came up in Florida's U.S. Senate race at a Feb. 19 straw poll conducted by the Florida Federation of Republican Women. Cindy Graves, president of the organization, told The Tampa Tribune that Agenda 21 was one of the issues her members most wanted to hear the three Republican candidates address.

In some parts of the country, tea partyers have disrupted local government meetings demanding an end to so-called smart growth and sustainable community policies they see as outgrowths of Agenda 21.

http://www2.tbo.com/news/news/2012/mar/18/memeto1-tea-party-sounds-alarm-over-lost-property--ar-382137/

How can anyone view walkable communities, greenways, light rail and sustainable communities as the result of a international conspiracy is beyond me. The right's conspiracy theorists have to reach back 20 years on this one since it was adopted by the UN in 1992. Of course, the right likes to blame things on the UN since it is one of their favorite whipping boys. Any multilateral institution that has any power is viewed as curtailing our national sovereignty and preventing us from doing whatever we want to do.

The wiki for Agenda 21 does include a the statement: "Agenda 21 is viewed by some on the American right as a plan to stealthily impose world-wide centralised control over people, attacking private property and energy usage. A resolution approved by the Republican National Committee on 13 January 2012 asserted that Agenda 21 "is a comprehensive plan of extreme environmentalism, social engineering, and global political control".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_21

[librechik]

1. But ALEC sticking its nose into state after state and causing endless harm

That's ok! A secretive organization pushing the Right's looney viewpoint is a blessing!

[safeinOhio]

2. How come the teabaggers get to

come up with all of the really good tin foil ideas?

[Flashmann]

3. How come the teabaggers

come up with all of the really good tin foil ideas?

Because,if your IQ extends beyond mid double digits,it makes your brain smoke....

[Brickbat]

4. I heard some crap about this on the radio the other day. Where do people find the energy to worry

about this kind of crap?

[hifiguy]

5. These are the same screwloose, shoeless goobers

who thought the Trilateral Commission was taking over the world back when Jimmy Carter was President.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Not to mention FEMA camps, black helicopters, U.N./foreign troops massing on border...

...to enforce martial law...and probably more scary crap I left out, lol!

[LibertyLover]

7. And don't forget

the directions to the UN invasion troops on the back of US street signs, all the coffins being amassed by FEMA and the secret information about each household written in invisable letters on the curbs by the Census people to enable easier looting. Some people just have waaay too much time on their hands.

[hifiguy]

8. Too much paint huffing will do that.