Advance the Cause of Freedom
Sustainable
Development, the
Constitution, and
what you can do
By Michael Shaw
Synopsis
Achieving
Abundance Ecology requires a direct relationship between man
and the land, Abundance Ecologist Michael Shaw said in a
presentation to
the Trans-Heritage Association annual meeting and conference
in Alpine
for creating an ecological oasis from a blighted 75-acre
parcel on the central
coast of
“To
release the potential productivity and diversity of a landscape, an owner
must be free to engage in rigorous disturbance, and free to
pursue a reasoned
and creative process of trial and error. This process would
be suited to the
choice of each individual and the uniqueness of each property,”
Shaw said.
The
attached article includes key excerpts from Shaw’s presentation to the
Trans-Texas Heritage Association.
Contents
Synopsis.........................................................................................................................
i
Land
Use
........................................................................................................................1
Abundance
Ecology ..........................................................................................................1
Shortage
Ecology...............................................................................................................1
Political
Theory..............................................................................................................2
Unalienable
Rights..............................................................................................................2
Granted
Rights ...................................................................................................................2
Social
Justice ......................................................................................................................3
The
Nature of Sustainable Development ...............................................................3
U.N. Sustainable
Development Agenda 21 ........................................................................3
Sustainable
Development is Non-Partisan .........................................................................4
Funding
Agenda 21 ............................................................................................................4
The Wildlands Project.........................................................................................................4
Smart Growth......................................................................................................................5
Stakeholder
Consensus Councils..........................................................................................5
The
Three E’s of
Tyranny..............................................................................................5
Equity
..................................................................................................................................5
Economy...............................................................................................................................5
Environment
........................................................................................................................6
Conditions
for Collectivism ..................................................................................................6
Conclusion
........................................................................................................................6
Action
Steps for Advancing Freedom in the 21st Century......................................8
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Sustainable Development, the Constitution,
and what you can do
By
Michael Shaw
Land Use
Abundance Ecology
Achieving
Abundance Ecology requires a direct relationship between man and
the land, Abundance Ecologist Michael Shaw said in a
presentation to the Trans-
Heritage Association annual meeting and conference in Alpine Texas
in May 2003.
Shaw
speaks from experience. Shaw has received acclaim for creating an ecological
oasis from a blighted 75-acre parcel on the central coast of
“
“To
release the potential productivity and diversity of a landscape, an owner
must be free to engage in rigorous disturbance, and free to
pursue a reasoned and
creative process of trial and error. This
process would be suited to the choice of each
individual and the uniqueness of each
property,” Shaw said. The attached article
includes key excerpts from Shaw’s
presentation to the Trans-Texas Heritage
Association.
Shortage Ecology
“Sustainable
Development” is the current buzz term that represents the effort to
collectivize property in
Sustainable
Development is a synonym for “shortage ecology” and is embodied in
the Endangered Species Act (ESA), which is the foundation of
the land use element
of Sustainable Development.
ESA is
predicated on international treaties and is rooted in the Precautionary
Principle, which abandons the legal standard that presumes
innocence. Since ESA
puts the government in control of plants, the ideals of
private property are
destroyed, natural resource shortages arise,
and natural calamities—such as
devastating forest fires—increase.
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Political Theory
George
Washington was right when he said: “Private property and freedom are
inseparable.”
Private
property, after all, begins with our physical person, extends to our
thoughts, proceeds as our expression,
becomes our action, and results in something
we create or obtain. If an agent of force denies an
individual the use of possessions,
including land, that individual is
contemporaneously denied the liberty necessary to
advance his or her own life. When the use of one’s property and
one’s liberty have
been squelched by big government, the dignity of human life
itself has been
trampled.
Political
theory probes the question, “Who decides…?” To answer this question,
it is helpful to examine the philosophy underlying the
treatment of property.
Immediately,
a contrast is seen between the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the
of Human Rights.
Unalienable Rights
Under
the American Constitutional system, individuals decide and direct the
terms of their lives. The application of political theory that
respects the dignity of
each individual is premised on the idea that man’s rights are
unalienable, and that
justice must be dispensed equally. The political theory of
individual’s rights are inherent to, our imbued
within, the individual’s nature; from
this, it follows that the individual has a natural right to
his or her life, liberty, and
property.
Granted Rights
The
political theory behind contemporary political globalism
answers the
question quite differently. Under the
Declaration of Human Rights, the permission
to have and use property is obtained by way of government
grant. This is because
people grant “human rights” and, as such, people can take them
away.
This
idea can be illustrated using the so-called Fishnet 4C ordinance that has
been adopted by central
the coastal mountain ranges are dedicated as “fish land.”
This land, by decree of
ecology planners, is to be set aside to meet the interests of
fish. It extends the “fish
land” zone from the streamline halfway to the ridge-top. The
ordinance states
“Inappropriate
development [within the zone] shall be decommissioned.”
The U.N.
Declaration of Human Rights states: “Property shall not be arbitrarily
taken.” However, since a central authority has already decided
that human relocation
is not “arbitrary” under this set of circumstances, then no
violation of the
Declaration
can be claimed. After all, the story goes, protection of fish is necessary
to “restore” the intrinsic glory of Mother Nature! By
contrast, the standards of the
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American
Constitution strictly limit government taking of property, requiring both a
public use and just compensation.
Social Justice
A system
of human rights operates in concert with the pursuit of “social justice,”
which might be defined as a law formulated to obtain
government’s social objectives
at the expense of individual liberty. The California
Fishnet 4C ordinance exemplifies
the application of social justice.
The Nature of Sustainable Development
Sustainable
Development has three components: global land use, global
education, and global population control. The
international focus for Sustainable
Development’s
implementation is the
only country in the world where the ideal of Private Property
is constitutionally
recognized. Private Property, as codified by
the
collectivist premise of Sustainable Development.
U.N. Sustainable Development Agenda 21
The U.N.
website verifies that the United Nations Agenda 21 action plan is
Sustainable Development. Sustainable Development
works to eliminate private
property by manufacturing natural resource
shortages to facilitate control of
resources to government. Government-corporate
partnerships (also called Public-
Private
Partnerships) are the major tool used to accomplish this objective.
What
makes the
in the history of the world where management of the natural
resources is under
citizen control. Everything that city residents obtain comes
from rural lands and
natural resources. If Government-corporate partnerships complete
their assumption
of control over natural resources, urban citizens are
doomed.
Canadian
oil billionaire Maurice Strong, Secretary General at the
United
Nations 1992 Conference on Environment and Development, expressed the
goal of Sustainable Development by declaring a partial list
of what is not sustainable:
“...current
lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middleclass
[i.e. Americans]—involving high meat intake [i.e. cattle
production], use of fossil fuels [i.e. air and
auto travel, industrial and
consumer products], appliances [i.e. refrigeration]
home and work
air-conditioning and suburban housing are not
sustainable.”
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Sustainable Development is Non-Partisan
The
implementation of Sustainable Development is not a dynamic of Republican
vs. Democrat, liberal vs. conservative, or left vs. right.
Rather, it is completely nonpartisan.
The
looming battle of ideas should be recognized as the classic—and
perhaps ultimate—battle between
When
George H.W. Bush signed the Rio Accords at the Earth Summit in
Janeiro
in 1992, he obligated (without constitutional authority) federal agencies to
implement U.N. Sustainable Development Agenda
21 within the
When
Bill Clinton created the President’s Council for Sustainable Development by
Executive
Order in 1993, he laid the foundation for a proliferation of intermediate
and local councils that would set out to alter radically the
structure of government in
the
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The list
of money sources paying for the implementation of U.N. Sustainable
Development
Agenda 21 is impressive. American taxes fund the federal agencies’
present focus: implementing Sustainable Development. Over two
thousand Non-
Governmental
Organizations (NGOs) are accredited by the United Nations for the
purpose of implementing Sustainable Development in
massive tax advantages by the IRS code. Some of these NGOs are
the Nature
Conservancy,
the Sierra Club, the National Audubon Society, the American Planning
Association, and the National Teachers
Association. The third leg of the Sustainable
Development
money power elite are certain aristocratic tax-advantaged foundations.
These
include the Rockefeller Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, the
Turner
Foundation,
the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation,
the Carnegie Foundation, the McArthur Foundation, and
numerous local community
foundations.
The Wildlands Project
Sustainable
Development addresses land use through two action plans. The first
is the Wildlands Project. The Wildlands Project is the plan to eliminate human
presence on over 50 percent of the American
landscape and to heavily control
human activity on most of the rest of American land. Examples
of the piece-by-piece
implementation of the Wildlands
Project include road closings, the dam-busting
policies of the
Heritage Sites—which are systematically being closed to
recreational use. The most
significant tools of the Wildlands
Project are the rapidly expanding impositions of
habitat “protection” provisions in the Endangered Species Act,
various
“conservation easements,” and direct land acquisitions from
battered “willing
sellers.”
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Smart Growth
The
second action plan is called Smart Growth. Smart Growth will increasingly
herd Americans into regimented and dense urban communities.
Smart Growth is
Sustainable
Development’s ultimate solution, as it will create dense human
settlements subject to increasing controls on
how residents live and increased
restriction on mobility. In the words of one
smart growth activist: “It will be the
humans in cages with the animals looking in.”
Stakeholder Consensus Councils
Agenda
21 is being implemented through the use of facilitated stakeholder
consensus councils, not by vote. These
councils fit almost perfectly the definition of
a Soviet: a system of councils that report to an apex
council and that implement a
predetermined outcome. Members of a Soviet
council are chosen by virtue of their
willingness to comply with that outcome and
their one-mindedness with the group.
Soviets
are the operating mechanism of a government-controlled economy, whether
it be socialism or government-corporate partnerships.
The Three E’s of Tyranny
The
symbol of Sustainable Development most frequently found in the literature
of its proponents is a diagram of three connecting circles,
representing three E’s. The
three E’s are: “equity,” “economy” (through global and local
government-corporate
partnerships) and “environment” (nature before
man).
Equity
Sustainable
Development seeks the restructure of human nature. Like
communism, it relies on a system of social
justice that requires force to suppress
individual freedoms and private property in
order to pursue a common good.
Economy
Like
Italian fascism, it relies on businesses that want the protection afforded by
government’s legalized force and governments
that want the power of business
(government-corporate
partnerships), effecting the international redistribution of
financial resources.
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Environment
Sustainable
Development is not about saving nature. It is about a revolutionary
coup in
concerned with destroying its antithetical
ideal—individual liberty, equal justice, and
limited government.
Link by
link, Sustainable Development seeks to complete the destruction of the
governing authority of the United States
Constitution and to turn our sovereign
nation—indeed, any sovereign nation—into a globally governed
“homeland” where
human beings are treated as biological resources subject to
temporal “human rights.”
Conditions for Collectivism
A 21st
century global collective requires the satisfaction of four conditions, as
follows:
A global
collective requires an imperialistic military power capable of
squashing all others. If
unalienable right to life, liberty, and
property, collective governance will
assume control of
waiting.
Government must control the monetary system. This was
achieved in
Reserve
is the granddaddy of Public-Private Partnerships.
Government control of the educational system is
necessary. If understanding
the attack on private property makes you ill, wait until you
hear how the
federal government is partnering with states to indoctrinate our
children with
global-collectivist values, attitudes and beliefs.
Facts and knowledge are no
longer the basis for education.
A
collective must have control of rural lands and natural resources. This is
why the ranchers in Alpine Texas and the farmers in the
central coast of
Conclusion
The
Foundation Principles of the
threat. Posterity will long live with the consequences of the
battle over Sustainable
Development
and the anti-human ideas it represents.
Sustainable
Development activists and supporters are often—but not always—
unaware that tyranny is the natural consequence of their
environmental, social equity,
and “third way” economic movement. Yet, these dire
circumstances also propel the
greatest opportunity in history to advance
individual liberty, human happiness and
genuine peace.
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As the
Sustainable Development initiative gains approval, it is wise to recall what
George
Washington said: “Private property and freedom are inseparable.” Freedom
and a healthy planet are also inseparable.
If
Americans come to a timely understanding of the threat and face the challenge
squarely, the deceptive fraud of Sustainable
Development will quickly come to light.
reason and respect for the dignity of individual determination.
We are
charged with protecting the ideals of
implications of Sustainable Development become
clear,
grandparents will increasingly come to
understand the consequences of eliminating
private property. The circle sounding Paul Revere’s
warning is growing. Join in now,
because the green coats are a-comin’!
Protect your property, your children, and the
American experiment.
Draw
upon the American heritage of industriousness, the hope that springs from
western civilization’s culture and the human spirit to expose Sustainable
Development and Advance Freedom in the twenty-first century.
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Action Steps for Advancing Freedom in the 21st Century
Each
of us must choose between two paths. The road to liberty requires
a conscious
decision to defend our neighbor’s rights if
we are to be secure in having a life of our
own. The road to a collective tyranny is traveled on the
back of apathy.
What can
you do to protect and advance individual liberty and equal justice?
How can
individuals defend against the march of a global tyranny cloaked in the
warm and fuzzy term Sustainable Development? How can we
advance the cause of
freedom in the 21st century?
Here is
a place to start:
Know the Constitution. Become
reacquainted with the principles of our
democratic republic. Commit to securing the
blessings of liberty to our
posterity and to us.
Respect the dignity of human
life. Respect the rights of others to the use
and enjoyment of their property–even if such activity does
not advance your
personal interests.
Understand and work to
eliminate harmful indoctrination programs in
the current government education system. Understand your educational
alternatives.
Advance freedom locally:
Hold elected representatives directly accountable to the
American
Constitutional
system of government that is currently being undermined
by a consensus process with predetermined outcomes.
Participate by investigating, researching, writing, and
speaking out.
Support freedom advocacy groups and spread the spirit of
liberty.
Support the repeal of the
Endangered Species Act. (The present ESA is
the primary tool used to eliminate citizen ownership and management
of
Stop contributing to
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that are
working to undermine the Constitution or who are promoting a
global
political agenda that is contrary to the
ideas of liberty.
Spread
the word to your friends, family and associates about the
existence
and nature of Sustainable Development policies and programs
that threaten
private property and individual freedom.
When we
prevail,
potential that lies within each human being.
Now is the time for all good people to
come to the aid of liberty.
Long
live freedom!