The T-shirt I wore to the FSA hearing said “Support Sustainable Agriculture.” I was part of a group that developed a comprehensive plan for the municipalities in the Palmerton Area School District. Linda and I have put thirteen acres of our land into the farmland preservation program, and we are in the process of adding ten more. I support bike lanes and what planners call “smart growth.”
According to material the local “9/12” organization has distributed, all of the above actions play into the hands of something they call “UN Agenda 21.” I’m quoting now from the handout: “It is a plan that calls for international control & regulation of virtually every aspect of human activity that might impact the environment, which is essentially EVERYTHING YOU DO--eat, drink, cook, drive, play, work and LIVE.” [The underlines, italics, and caps are in the original.]
According to a report in the Feb. 4 New York Times entitled “Activists Fight Green Projects, Seeing U.N. Plot,” Tea Party groups are showing up at local municipal meetings to fight bike lanes and urban boundaries, seeing them as evidence of this U.N. conspiracy.
If you read the previous post, you will realize how preposterous this idea is even if the U.N. were pushing some worldwide agenda. You don’t have to be an expert on international organizations, however, to intuit that people who see a global conspiracy behind preserving farmland or adding bike lanes have moved far beyond the realm of rational thought.
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