Property Rights: Few have heard of Agenda 21, the U.N. plan
for sustainable development that tosses property rights aside. But
Alabama has, and it recently secured a victory as important as that over
union power in Wisconsin.
After Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's stunning triumph over the
excesses and abuses of public-sector unions, the London Telegraph's
James Delingpole, an indefatigable opponent of global warming fraud,
opined in a piece titled, "How Wisconsin And Alabama Helped Save The
World," that we should take note of "an equally important but perhaps
less well-publicized victory won in the Alabama House and Senate over
the U.N.'s malign and insidious Agenda 21."
Agenda 21 is one of those compacts, like Law of the Sea, Kyoto and
New START, that are supported by an apologetic administration with a
fondness for the redistribution of American power and wealth on a local
and global scale.
It fits in perfectly with President Obama's pledge to "fundamentally
transform" America, its institutions and its heritage of capitalist
freedom.
Agenda 21 has not been ratified by the U.S. Senate, but it may not
have to be if in a second Obama term the Environmental Protection Agency
pursues it by stealth, as it has other environmental agendas that make
war on the free enterprise system and rights we hold dear.
One of those is property rights. "Land ... cannot be treated as an
ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures
and inefficiencies of the market," Agenda 21 says.
"Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of
accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to
social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the
planning and implementation of development schemes."
Not liking the sound of that, Alabama recently passed Senate Bill 477
unanimously in both of its houses. The legislation bars the taking of
private property in Alabama without due process and says that "Alabama
and all political subdivisions may not adopt or implement policy
recommendations that deliberately or inadvertently infringe or restrict
private property rights without due process, as may be required by
policy recommendations originating in or traceable to Agenda 21."
Agenda
21 is intended to foster what environmentalists call "sustainable
development" in the belief that man since the Industrial Revolution has
been a plague on the planet, plundering its resources while destroying
nature and putting the world at risk of disastrous climate change,
poverty and disease.
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