Agenda 21: Kansas Lawmakers Endorse Measure Opposing U.N. Sustainability Plan
From the same folks who brought us the "Lying Kansas Doctors" law--
Sustainability: A Communist plot?
The Kansas House recently passed a resolution labeling all kinds of sustainability planning (including bike paths and wastewater maintenance) a plot of UN world government, designed to take away our property rights and car keys.
If you think that's an exaggeration, you haven't read the floridly worded resolution opposing UN Agenda 21, a non-binding and long-forgotten agreement from the 1992 Rio conference which has recently become the latest conspiracy theory on the part of the climate-denying right.
The Republican-controlled Kansas House of Representatives on Thursday adopted a resolution condemning the United Nations' Agenda 21 environmental action plan, which focuses on sustainable development.
Kansas lawmakers adopted the non-binding resolution following intense debate over what supporters believe is the U.N.'s attempt to "indoctrinate" the public on sustainability issues and its desire to control the local government planning process. Agenda 21 was adopted by world leaders during a 1992 climate change summit in Brazil. It has not been ratified by Congress and does not have the force of law in the United States.
"This resolution informs policymakers of the aggressive environmental, social engineering and global political control that is Agenda 21," Rep. Dennis Hedke (R-Wichita), the resolution's sponsor, told fellow lawmakers. "The notion of sustainability is not necessarily a bad thing. However when guidelines are transformed into indoctrination, globally, nationally and with each state and local government, and that indoctrination is connected to an intense socialistic philosophy, questions are raised."
Hedke spoke of issues surrounding a lawsuit filed by the conservative Goldwater Institute in Arizona, regarding Tombstone, Ariz.'s dispute with the federal government over access to mountain springs. He said the federal government's rulings show connections between federal forest laws and Agenda 21.
Hedke also suggested that Agenda 21 was behind the Obama administration's new coal power plant regulations and wetlands permits. He told colleagues that he believes that the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture and other federal agencies are working together to implement Agenda 21.
He also took aim at U.N. plans for implementing green technology around the world, which he said will cost the U.S. and other countries billions of dollars. He said he blames the United States' membership in the World Bank for the fact that the federal government is contributing.
"They are demanding first-world help for third-world problems," Hedke said. "The social engineering comes through the transfer of wealth."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/agenda-21-kansas-un-sustainability_n_1507823.html
Here's the legislation--
Session of 2012
House Resolution No. 6032
By Committee on Federal and State Affairs
5-2
A RESOLUTION opposing and exposing the radical nature of United
Nations Agenda 21 and its destructiveness to the principles of the
founding documents of the United States of America.
WHEREAS, The United Nations Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan
of environmental extremism, social engineering and global political
control that was initiated at the United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992;
and
WHEREAS, The United Nations Agenda 21 is being covertly pushed
into local communities throughout the United States of America through
the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives through local
"sustainable development" policies such as Smart Growth, Wildlands
Project, Resilient Cities, Regional Visioning Projects and other "Green"
or "Alternative" projects; and
WHEREAS, This United Nations Agenda 21 plan of radical so-called
"sustainable development" views the American way of life of private
property ownership, single family homes, private car ownership,
individual travel choices and privately owned farms as destructive to the
environment; and
WHEREAS, The United States federal government nor any state or
local government is legally bound by the United Nations Agenda 21, the
influence of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
has now infiltrated approximately 600 local and regional entities in the
United States, with as many as 54 of such entities withdrawing
enrollment during 2011, due to the negative consequences experienced
through implementation of Agenda 21; and
WHEREAS, According to the United Nations Agenda 21 policy,
social justice is described as the right and opportunity of all people to
benefit equally from the resources afforded us by society and the
environment, which would be accomplished by redistribution of wealth:
Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Kansas:
That we recognize the destructive and insidious nature of United Nations
Agenda 21 and hereby expose to public policy makers the dangerous
intent of the plan; and
Be it further resolved: That the federal government and all state and
local governments across the country should seek to be well informed
about the underlying harmful implications of the implementation of
United Nations Agenda 21 destructive strategies for "sustainable
development", and that we hereby endorse rejection of its radical policies;
and
Be it further resolved: That the Chief Clerk of the House of
Representatives shall send an enrolled copy of this resolution to each
member of the Kansas Congressional Delegation.
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