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Sustainable
Development Comes Secretly To Falls Township And
Middletown Township, Pennsylvania
Guest Opinion Submission - Behind
The Green Mask - UN Agenda 21
The Bucks County Courier Times
Attention: Guest Opinion/Editorials
February 11, 2013
Source: Koire, Rosa
(2011), “Behind the Green Mask: U.N. Agenda
21”, Santa Rosa, CA, The Post
Sustainability Institute Press.
Behind The Green
Mask - UN Agenda 21
President George
H.W. Bush ratified Agenda 21 shortly after it
was launched at the first Earth Summit in Rio de
Janeiro in 1992. President Clinton,
thereafter, signed a little noticed Executive
Order establishing the President’s Council on
Sustainable Development. It was that
Executive Order (EO-12852) that provided the
implementation mechanism for Sustainable
Development, with its three philosophic pillars
of Ecology, Economy and Social Equity, within
American governance.
Therefore, whether
you live in communities like Falls and
Middletown, which are active participants, or
Lower Makefield, which was a participant but has
now withdrawn; no American community is safe
from the machinations of this United Nations
sustainable development program, since our state
and federal governments are as heavily ensconced
in Agenda 21 as are our local and county
governments.
State facilitation
of LA21 involves creating the Agenda 21 friendly
template used in formatting the “agenda” into
the Comprehensive Plans required by the state of
all municipal governments. It’s a furtive
way for states to implement the program without
having to actually acknowledge its existence.
ICLEI (Local
Governments for Sustainability) functions as the
local implementation arm of Agenda 21. The
master plan calls for modern housing to be
placed inside what are termed “Urban
Growth Boundaries”; areas that contain
high-density “Transit Villages” where car use
will be heavily regulated, and eventually
curtailed; and where bicycles are envisioned to
be the primary mode of individual vehicular
transport. Not to worry, however, the
centerpiece of your new “Transit Village” will
be its multimodal light rail transportation hub.
Once pledged to
LA21 local municipalities acquire all sorts of
ICLEI provided goodies as well. Things
like UN approved climate software and case
studies of climate litigation, together with
sample policies, ordinances and
resolutions. Beyond that, they also
receive local, national and international “peer
networking opportunities” as well as updates on
UN sanctioned regional, state and federal
grants.
But how exactly is
LA21 and Sustainable Development being
implemented?
Simple.
Through your municipality’s Comprehensive Plan,
as within it is the General Plan that contains
all their Agenda 21’s stratagems.
Specifically, the Plan offers the framework for
the restrictive zoning changes required.
After
implementation a new argot suddenly inundates
local working groups; where phrases like
transit-oriented development, high-density
development and visioning become the
vogue. Moreover, taxpayer supported
special interest groups (like bicycle clubs)
begin springing up overnight.
Eventually, local
property owners are notified that their
properties are “nonconforming”. Often
their land has been re-designated “mixed use”
without their knowledge. Locally owned
small businesses (often ones where the mortgages
have been retired) are suddenly declared
“blighted”, essentially because they generate
less tax revenue than their larger corporate
counterparts. This is permissible because
blight can be defined as either physical or
economic.
As soon as
“blighting” has been accomplished the property
can be seized under eminent domain (Kelo v.
New London), and given to politically
connected developers for government-subsidized
redevelopment.
Moreover,
Sustainable Re-Development is being financed,
many times, by federal and state “Open Space”
programs made available to county
governments. The key in financing these
purchases is to do so using “Open Space”
redevelopment bonds, as redevelopment debt
doesn’t generally require voter approval like
school debt. These obligations are
subsequently paid-down over many, many decades
by diverting property tax revenues.
Additionally, a
great amount of these stratagems are being
implemented, circuitously, under a new scheme
called regionalization.
Regionalization
represents the transference of jurisdiction over
some aspect of local community life (police
services, transportation, economic development),
from publicly elected officials to regional
appointees; appointees who are ultimately
responsible to the system that appointed them
not the electorate.
What’s more, these
regional boards often institute new regulations
that necessitate local governments amending
lawfully enacted community ordinances in
repudiation of previous voter directives.
In essence, strong-arming local communities into
ceding their right of self-determination, by
using the collective coercion engendered through
regionalization.
These are just a
handful of the intrigues uncovered by Rosa
Koire, in her fight against Sustainable
Development, and detailed in her new book “Behind
The Green Mask: UN Agenda 21”. You
need to buy this book and read it. If for
no other reason than to find out how your
government actually operates.
Particularly, when you’re not paying very, very
close attention.
Sincerely,
(name
redacted)
Thank you for your
consideration.
Word count: 711
words
*Signed hard copy
to follow by snail-mail
About the
author: Township: Falls, Bucks County, PA
Annotations,
Quotations and Attributions:
1. Presidential
Executive Order No. 12853; Establishment of
the President’s Council on Sustainable
Development: http://clinton1.nara.gov/
2. Governor’s
Center for Local Government Services:
The Comprehensive Plan in Pennsylvania:
http://www.adamswatersheds.
3. Member List —
ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability USA
(Lists
all Pennsylvania communities involved in ICLEI): http://www.icleiusa.org/about-
4.
Agenda 21 - ICLEI Update: 138 ICLEI Members
Quit ICLEI in 18 Months! (Lower
Makefield and Penndel Borough, Bucks County,
PA quit ICLEI): http://www.varight.com/news/
5.
ICLEI-Creating Climate Awareness (comprehensive
list of all US communities that have joined
ICLEI - including Falls, Middletown and Lower
Southampton Townships)
- GreenTowns.com: http://www.greentowns.com/
5.1.
Contact
Information for ICLEI member, as listed on the
ICLEI “Green Towns” website for (local) Bucks
County, Pennsylvania communities:
a. Falls
Township, PA
Name: Philip Szupka
Email:
pszupka@fallstwp.org
Website:
http://www.fallstwp.org/
188 Lincoln Highway
b. Langhorne,
PA - Penndel Borough (former ICLEI
member now withdrawn)
Name:
Website:
http://www.pendelboro.com/
300 Bellevue Ave.
c. Lower
Makefield, PA (former ICLEI member now
withdrawn)
Name:
Email:
admin@lmt.org
Website:
http://www.lmt.org/
1100 Edgewood RD
d.
Middletown Township, PA (Curiously,
Middletown Township is listed as Middletown,
PA not Middletown Township, PA, which tends to
confuse readers regarding these two
communities, and obfuscate Middletown
Township’s participation in ICLEI.)
Name: Robert Reid
Website:
http://www.middletowntwpbucks.
60 West Emaus
Street
e. Lower
Southampton Township, Pennsylvania
Name: John
McMenamin
Email:
administration@lstwp.org
1500 Desire Ave
7.
FederalExpression: Agenda 21 in Your Hometown
Comprehensive Plan: http://federalexpression.
8. N.J. Voters
Approve $400 Million in Open Space
Redevelopment Bonds - Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/
9.
New Jersey Open Space Bond Issue - Wiki/index:
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/
10.
New Jersey Department of Transportation:
Transit Village Grant Program Handbook:
http://www.state.nj.us/
11. Sustainable
Cities and Human Settlements in the Post-2015
UN Development Agenda - UN Habitat:
http://sustainabledevelopment.
12. State of New
Jersey, Department of Transportation: Transit
Village Initiative Overview: http://www.state.nj.us/
13.
Urban Growth Boundaries: A “Smart” Approach
for our Communities: http://smartcommunities.
14. Doylestown
Township Chief Calls for Regional Police
Department - Doylestown-Buckingham-New
Britain, PA Patch: http://doylestown.patch.com/
15.
Tysons Comprehensive Plan - Transportation -
Multimodal transportation Hubs: http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/
16.
High Marks for Transit Hubs - New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/
Editors rejection notice:
-----Original
Message-----
From: <@Phillyburbs.com>
To: <@aol.com>
Sent: Tue, Feb
12, 2013 7:41 am
Subject: RE:
Guest Opinion Submission: Behind the Green
Mask: U.N. Agenda 21
This sounds like
some huge conspiracy theory. What’s the hard
evidence of actual impact in Bucks County?
Without such evidence, this sounds a bit
hysterical like it was written by an
Elvis-isn’t-dead disciple. I don’t mean to be
offensive; just making a point. I think
readers would find it all a bit nutty.
mans response to rejection notice:
Sent:
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: Guest
Opinion Submission: Behind the Green Mask:
U.N. Agenda 21
Dear
I'm not the
Lord. I can't make the blind see nor
the deaf hear. Especially, when some
of them, like yourself, refuse to
acknowledge the 15 separate links I
provided, which illustrate the exact
(factual) points Ms. Koire makes in her book
- from transit villages being establish
throughout the Delaware Valley, to the chief
of police in Doylestown calling for their
police department to regionalize.
Moreover, I
challenge you to ask around
your office, or your circle of friends
- especially the ones that live locally -
and see how many of them are aware that
numerous local communities (like Falls and
Middletown Township) are involved in ICLEI
and the United Nations; or more importantly,
if they've ever even heard of ICLEI or
Sustainable Development at all.
Additionally,
see how many, if any, residents are aware
that Bucks County's "Open Space" programs
are affiliated in some respect with
ICLEI and the United Nations; or whether
they know that these Open Space
programs, for which local taxpayers are "on
the hook", utilizes bond issues that aren't
paid off for forty years.
How
many people know that there's a President’s
Council on Sustainable Development, or
an
Executive Order (EO-12852) that provides for
its national implementation?
Not to mention knowing that a
non-governmental agency (NGO) of the UN
is providing their local townships
with sample
policies, ordinances and resolutions. Yes, I
believe that is (and would be) news to
most residents of Bucks County.
Quite frankly,
what surprised me most about your response
was your total lack of curiosity
regarding the issue; you being a person
involved in the news media. After I
finished Ms.Koire's book a few quick
questions jumped into my mind, even as a
non-news person. Questions that,
quoting you, "WOULD ACTUALLY IMPACT
BUCKS COUNTY". They are:
Do ICLEI
members (participating townships) pay
dues?
Are ICLEI dues
paid by the participating township's
taxpayers?
Where are the
regional ICLEI meetings held?
Are ICLEI
meetings open to the public?
(Especially, if the taxpayers are the
dues)
Are minutes
kept of the ICLEI meetings? (Are they
covered under the FOIA laws?)
Are minutes
available to the public?
Are ICLEI
minutes provided to the participating
townships? (If so, who keeps them and
are they covered under the FOIA laws?)
Is there, or
has their ever been,
correspondence between the regional
ICLEI governing body and the individual
townships? Who maintains that
correspondence? Are they open for
review and inspection and are they
covered under FOIA statutes?
How are ICLEI
representatives chosen by the participating
townships and how long do they serve?
Do township
representatives to ICLEI have to live in the
townships they represent?
What are the
qualifications needed to become a township
representative to ICLEI and have they
been memorialized?
Are any of
their (the township's representative to
ICLEI) expenses paid for out of township
funds?
Are receipts required
by the various townships, for reimbursement
of ICLEI related expenses incurred by their
township's representatives to the
organization? (Are they open for
public inspection and covered under FOIA?)
Furthermore, I understand
the Couriers reticence in publishing facts
that will expose our local political class
(over issues that most Bucks County
citizens/taxpayers - those paying for these
programs - don't know anything about), to
derision. I also understand the paper's
reluctance in publishing an opinion piece
that reports on a story that the paper
itself has a fiduciary responsibility to
divulge, but chose not to. After all,
I'm not a paid reporter just an average
citizen who loves his nation and his
community. Trust me, by trying to
publicly disclose this story I didn't
intentionally mean to hurt your feelings, or
the feelings of anyone else associated with
the Courier Times. If I have
I apologize.
In closing, I
don't own the paper, and you hold the final
say over what the public does (and doesn't)
get to know. As for me, I don't take
any personal umbrage over your decision
either way. I stand by what I've
written, with the proviso, that I didn't
write the book. I only read it, and
reported a portion of the main points the
author tried to establish as best I
understood them. I did, however,
endeavor to go the extra mile and provide
you with mainstream media stories - even
from the New York Times - which further
established the points Ms. Koire made in her
book. I also realized before sending
my Guest Opinion that it probably would not
be published.
That said, I
still believe you, personally, to be a firm
believer in the First Amendment.
However, I was saddened by your
name-calling. I don't believe in name
calling in any form. I don't believe
in calling black people the "N word", or gay
people the "F" word, or in
calling people's opinions, who are
well informed, but disagree with
my own, the other "N" word: "nutty".
In fact, I believe that type of
threatening offensive speech should not be
used by educated enlighten individuals.
What's more, I don't believe bullying
of that kind has a place anywhere in society
today, not even in the schoolyard. As
it's not the type of behavior illustrative
of a well-balanced
professional mind; nor is it the type
dialogue, hate-speech
really, that leads to respectful
civil discourse.
Again, I thank
you for printing most of the compositions
I've written over the years. However,
I do believe that our community's public
discourse will be that much more diminished
for my non-participation.
Sincerely,
PS: For the record: In two separate e-mails
now you've referred to my
essays as "conspiracy theories: For you edification,
theory is supposition based on general principles of something
to be explained. Fact is a thing that is indisputably
the case. Therefore, what I've provided you is not
"conspiracy theory" but "conspiracy fact"; and you should
know better...
editors second email: -----Original
Message-----
From:
<@Phillyburbs.com>
To: <@aol.com>
Sent: Wed,
Feb 13, 2013 7:40 am
Subject: RE:
Guest Opinion Submission: Behind the Green
Mask: U.N. Agenda 21
I’ll give it
some second thought. Your submissions are
always well written and thoughtful. I just
find this one a little farfetched; other
editors here likewise found it a bit out
there. By the way, I don’t agree that I
was “name calling”. There’s a difference
between that and plain language. Sorry if
I offended but I tend to be direct in
order to be clear and avoid
miscommunication. Regarding your list of
impacts: Other than the possibility that a
municipality paid dues, how has this hurt
or affected the towns you cited. And with
regard to regionalization, we support it
as a logical way to save taxpayers money
and avoid duplication of services. Not a
conspiracy from our perspective.
mans response to editors second email:
-----Original
Message-----
From: <@aol.com>
To: <@Phillyburbs.com>
Sent: Wed,
Feb 13, 2013 12:21 pm
Subject:
Re: Guest Opinion Submission: Behind the
Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21
Briefly, to
answer your question. The
participating towns have been hurt in
one major way.
Their affiliation with this
United Nations program of Sustainable
Development (and the various
townships' relationship with
ICLEI) is being kept hidden from
the very people affected by it, and
paying for it, in those communities.
It's that simple. A
democratic republic cannot function
without an informed citizenry.
If Agenda
21, Sustainable Development, Open Space
and regionalization programs, etc., are
in fact what they say they are, than
there should be no problem in full
public disclosure. Besides, most
Americans don't realize that
non-governmental actors, within our
borders, are using that regionalization
process as part of a larger
global strategy. Remember,
regionalization like most other things
in life can be used as a double-edged
sword. It can be used to same
money and reduce duplication, but it can
also be used for purposes of
political manipulation
and coercion. They are not mutually
exclusive.
One final point; what went implied, but not directly express in my list of impacts, is that at these regional ICLEI get-together, their has to be an agenda being compiled for each meeting. The question becomes who is setting that agenda and what exactly are the agenda's short and long-term goals? What are the 5, 10, 20, 50 year, and longer term objectives of these programs; and are they in the best interest of the participating communities and our nation at large? These are the real questions, and we won't know the answers until the public is informed. And informing them is your responsibility. Best
regards,
man tells newspaper to shove it:
-----Original
Message-----
From: <@aol.com>
To: <@Phillyburbs.com>
Sent: Fri, Feb 15, 2013 11:00 am
Subject: Re: Guest Opinion Submission: Behind the Green
Mask: U.N. Agenda 21
Dear Mr.
Please be advised
that after showing my last Guest Opinion, and
the related email exchanges regarding it, to 30
or 40 of my closest friends, relatives and
colleagues, I have decided to revoke my
submission to the Bucks County Courier Times and
deny you permission to print the essay.
What’s more, it was
the consensus of the group that there was, in
fact, great “news value” in what I had written
and astonishment that you
couldn’t see it; and further, that you had gone
over the bounds of good taste and common decency
with your bullying, name-calling and
hate-speech.
As one colleague
put it, “ask him to send you the thesaurus that
lists ‘nutty’ as a synonym for
‘farfetched’.” Another close family
friend, who has a daughter that’s autistic (a
medical condition that effects the human
cognitive processes) said that she was so
offended by the comment that she’s canceling her
subscription.
These then were the
determining factors in my decision.
Your attention
towards this matter at your earliest possible
convenience is appreciated.
Sincerely,
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