Letter: UN sees itself as emerging world government
Our counties have been mandated by Virginia State Code 15.2-2223 to develop county comprehensive plans. When these comprehensive plans are in place, they will be used in part for making and revising zoning ordinances. Every citizen will be affected by these plans in one way or another.
We therefore need to scrutinize them very carefully. They are sometimes referred to as vision plans to make them seem more palatable. So what are they, where did they come from and what is their goal?
In short, "a vision plan/comprehensive plan" is a sustainable development program designed to transform a system of private property into collective land management and centralized government. Its original source is United Nations Agenda 21 and its goal is to end local control over resources such as land use and the economy.
It is part of a larger and much more sweeping agenda aimed at ending national sovereignty with global government as its replacement. That should cause grave concern to each of us.
You may wonder how something developed by the United Nations could possibly affect me here in Mathews or Gloucester. First, let me say that the United Nations clearly sees itself as an emerging world government. To understand that, you must first understand its strategy and its goal. It all began at the UN’s Rio Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro back in 1992. It was there that alleged climate change, global warming, became a tool used to promote large-scale economic change. Marxist socialism having failed caused global socialists to turn to environmentalism as their next best hope.
This is when Agenda 21, the bible for sustainable development, was unveiled. It was a detailed blueprint for use of "soft law" to gain top-down control of the world’s natural resources: land, forests, seas, rivers, oil, minerals, etc. We can credit former President George H.W. Bush for signing onto it for America. Then former President Bill Clinton took the ball and ran with it when he formed "The Presidential Council on Sustainable Development" in 1993.
This council customized Agenda 21 to fit America and passed it down to the states through various agencies and grants. Sixteen states, including Virginia, welcomed the grant money. Tim Kaine, who was governor at the time, bought into the idea big time. So the state mandated that Virginia counties develop comprehensive plans which adopt the policies of sustainable development. This is basically the path that Agenda 21 took from the United Nations down to local government.
An interesting thing about sustainable development is that it is seldom called that. It encounters opposition whenever it becomes clear how much control it gives to bureaucratic and corporate elites. Be assured, when you see terms like biodiversity, conservation zones, open spaces, urban ecology, smart growth, habitats or our global village, you are dealing with a local branch of sustainable development. Your property rights and your ability to use your land as you wish are being taken from you.