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Kansans – Learn about the UN “Agenda 21″ and its threat to your liberties. AFP sponsors upcoming educational events.

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  March 23rd, 2012 at 08:22 PM  | 

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This week, Americans for Prosperity is hosting four educational events about the United Nations’ “Agenda 21,” which is an attempt to implement international policy through local government.  So far, Agenda 21 has been rather successful, unfortunately.

From AFP-Kansas:

What is Agenda 21?

Agenda 21 is a plan to develop our communities under the guidance of the federal government and the U.N. Questions exist regarding whether this is an attack on individual liberties.

There will be a presentation about Agenda 21 and sustainable development in Pittsburg next Monday. Also, a national expert on this topic will speak in Overland Park, Wichita and Topeka, regarding the push of Agenda 21 in the name of economic development.

Pittsburg: 6 p.m. Monday, March 26 at the Homer Cole Senior Center (3003 N. Joplin, Pittsburg)

Tom DeWeese, President of the American Policy Center, will speak March 29-30 in Overland Park, Wichita and Topeka. Details are below:

Overland Park: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29 at the Regnier Theater of the University of Kansas Edwards Campus (12600 Quivira Road, Overland Park)

Wichita: 11:45 a.m. Friday, March 30 at The Petroleum Club meeting (100 N. Broadway, 9th Floor, Wichita. This presentation is part of the Wichita
Pachyderm Club’s regular meeting.)

Topeka: 5:15 p.m. Friday, March 30 at The Celtic Fox (118 SW 8th Ave., Topeka. This presentation is part of the Topeka 9-12 Project’s regular meeting.)

DeWeese will explain the U.N.’s Agenda 21 initiative, and help you translate the vague terminology associated with Agenda 21 (think “community visioning,” “sustainable development,” “livable communities,” etc.).

We encourage you to attend one of these presentations, and learn more about this important topic. You can read more about it here.

 

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Connect with Benjamin Hodge at Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, The Kansas Progress, and LibertyLinked. Hodge is President of the State and Local Reform Group of Kansas.  He served as one of seven at-large trustees at Johnson County Community College from 2005-’09, a member of the Kansas House from 2007-’08, a delegate to the Kansas Republican Party from 2009-’10, and was founder of the Overland Park Republican Party in 2011.  His public policy record is recognized by Americans for Prosperity, the Kansas Association of Broadcasters, the Kansas Press Association, the Kansas Sunshine Coalition for Open Government, the NRA, Kansans for Life, and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).

 


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  • lineholder

    could you put a follow-up diary on RS and let us know how this goes, please?

    For right now, a lot of people still think that the talk about Agenda21 falls in the realm of “conspiracy theories”. I don’t, but that’s because I’ve had the opportunity to do some research on the ICLEI, Office of Sustainability initiatives, etc. Also, there was (and may still be as far as I know) a situation in SC where Dem legislators in a county had made the decision to go with the “smart growth” economic development plan that ICLEI promotes. The one that mandates “urban limits”, decreases properties values outside the “urban boundaries”, deprives property owners of various rights if they live outside these “urban boundaries”, etc.

    This a subject matter that still isn’t well understood for the most part. I hope that there will be people in Kansas who will read your announcement and attend the meetings. But it would be helpful to get feedback on how people are responding to it, if you could.

    • westcoastpatriette

      I can see how people who haven’t researched it would think it sounds conspiratorial because it sounds wild on the surface. But, I have done a lot of research because my city and county are dues paying members of ICLEI and so many of the local Tea Party groups are very informed. They have made inroads here in California’s local and state government and it is creepy the ways they infiltrate and amass power and control. Like most leftist agenda’s, they operate stealthily and are very busy trying to steal our liberties out from under us in the guise of environmentalism.

      • lineholder

        Three years ago, I probably would have thought that it sounded like a conspiracy theory type of idea myself. But that was before I really started understanding how the left works. They present an idea as being a “good thing” and that they are doing “what is best for society as a whole”. That’s just a smoke screen. They always have an agenda of some sort going on behind the scenes. It’s seeing and understanding the agenda that we don’t always look at.

        If people knew how much money our government has been funneling into this particular initiative…whether it is through HUD or the EPA or several other programs, they’d be stunned.

        I had written a previous diary about this topic, and it included a video by a Democrat legislator in SC (and no, he wasn’t supporting it). I’m going to include it again, just to give a people an idea of how this works.

  • citizenkh

    Here in Louisiana there was pressure from “Agenda 21″ crowd (all big Glenn Beck followers) to stop school reform agenda most of them had attended seminars on this. Conservative GOP state house members from these areas voted against reform due pressure from constituency.

    They see anything by government as “Agenda 21″

    • lineholder

      even though I think it is possible that people could go overboard with their concerns about this issue…I don’t think it should be just swept under the rug either.

      If you take the time to study what the Office of Sustainability actually does, in regards to both current and future initiatives, it does present a threat to citizens where devaluation of property is concerned. Based on the events that have taken place under the “smart growth” program in SC, it also provides government with a legal basis to confiscate property for the purpose of “preservation”.

      It deserves a lot more notice than just sweeping it under the rug or writing it off as nothing more than a conspiracy theory.