Liberty or Sustainable Development?
Chapter
7: A Closer Look at Sustainable Development
Saturday, September 20, 2008
By Michael Shaw
Freedom Advocates
It is important to know that the land use element of Sustainable Development
has two action plans:
1. First is the Wildlands Project which seeks to eliminate human presence
on over 50% of the American landscape while imposing massive controls
on activity on the rest of American land.
2. Second is the Smart Growth action plan. This promotes
dense “human settlements”. This leads to increased central
controls on how we live and increased restrictions on our mobility.
In Santa Cruz, we have a 30 year old, two lane freeway that needs to be
substantially larger. The promise is always for widening the road, but
in 25 years it just doesn’t get done. Instead, insider “behavior
modification” champions succeed in manipulating expenditures of
hundreds of millions in US and California taxpayer money to rebuild
an antiquated, one lane train track. Their objective is to build a transportation
system infrastructure for a post-private property, feudal-like, era.
What Santa Cruz and other locales are doing is spending the Country
into bankruptcy in order to put ourselves into Smart Growth cages.
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With regard to the Wildlands Project, the Department of Interior Bureau of
Land Management has working papers dating from 1994 that say; “All
eco-system management,” (that means the planet), “should
consider human beings as biological resources.” I contend that
the contemporary education system operates on this premise.
Smart Growth mandates that human mobility be centered upon rail trains and
bicycle trails. Doesn’t that sound nice? We can ride our bicycles
to the store. We will be placed on slow moving trains that take us to
our assigned work places. Along those rail lines will be dense government
controlled real estate development with government run child care centers
on every block.
Compliant “Sustainable Developer” government partners will do the
business. Competition and free enterprise will be eliminated. Partnering
Sustainable Developers will gain guaranteed profits and the trains will
run on time – for a while.
We see this sign with increasing frequency around the country. This
particular sign comes from my hometown, La Selva Beach in Santa Cruz
County, California. The story behind this sign is a sad one. In the
‘70’s the landowner, a bush berry farmer, found a salamander.
He decided to take it up to the new University of California at Santa
Cruz. The university immediately went through the process and declared
the salamander a “long-toed” one and “endangered.”
So, the farmer was restricted from using his land. Ultimately, he lost
his land for pennies on a dollar; went bankrupt and died.
Some members of the community thought, “Gee we’re getting some
nice coastal hills where we can do some hiking!” Not so. This
property is only open to the federal agents and their Sustainable friends.
In the meantime, it has become an unmanaged, ready to burn fire trap.
People with a lot of political capital tell us the salamander feels
secure knowing that nobody will step on it. Such indulgence is nonsense!
The map below was compiled by Dr Michael Coffman, a brilliant and brave
gentleman. It was compiled from documents that were taken from the U.N.’s
Geneva headquarters in 1994. It was produced just prior to the time
the United States Senate prepared to vote on the Global Bio-Diversity
Treaty. The treaty was ready to pass until the Senate saw this map.
The treaty failed because no one would bring it to a vote. That’s
the good news; the bad news is that it’s being implemented anyway.
Let me explain the map:
• Red sections are Wildland Zones--To be devoid of ALL HUMAN ACTIVITY.
That means,
- No natural resources in it are to be extracted,
- Recreational use (for ordinary people) is to be eliminated.
• Yellow sections are for highly regulated, government managed
activities.
• The little black dot sections are for human settlements or Smart
Growth Zones--for you or your descendents.
You may say, “Well, this is not possible. This is not achievable.”
That would certainly have been my thought five years ago. But government
and other change agents have used an array of tools to implement the
plan piece by piece.
For instance; government agencies and their partners use conservation easements
to obtain control over the present or future uses of the property. These
easements are generally given by people under heavy regulatory, economic
or tax pressures. By signing conservation agreements an owner may still
be able to use the land with the government’s blessing for a while.
Within the next generation or so, that “blessing” will disappear
in the traps incident to the real goal of Sustainable Development--
centralized control over the world’s natural resources.
Environmental protection is a façade providing cover for the Sustainable Developers.
Remember, Agenda 21 is a plan for the 21st Century; A plan to remake
human societies within a collectivist political framework.
Regulation is another major tool for taking rural lands and natural resources.
Santa Cruz sits on a bay that runs from Monterey to Santa Cruz County.
It is 26 miles, as the crow flies, over the ocean from one point to
the other. But an area covering 5,000 square miles! is designated a
“national marine [bay] sanctuary”. It puts 400 miles of
the California Coast are under the ambit (range, scope, reach) of the
Monterey Bay Sanctuary.
Fishermen are feeling the pain already. What the public fails to understand is
that half of the sanctuary is the land mass that extends from the mountain
top to the shoreline. Ultimate “sanctuary” policy will control
human action both on land and sea. Twenty-five (25) government enforcement
agencies and growing regulations have been activated to enforce sanctuary
rules.
Do you know what the word ‘sanctuary’ means? We’re describing
an ocean as a sanctuary? Are pagan principles that underlie Sustainable
policy bubbling out?
Attack by regulation is coming at Santa Cruzans from many angles. Landowners
in the Redwood forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains have 4 or 5 regulatory
assaults aimed at the owners. These people’s land, lives and work
provide forest products to an eager market. These assaults happen notwithstanding
the fact that mountain landowners manage lands in a far more ecologically
sound and financially superior way than government or its Sustainable
Development partners do. Assaults have been launched from:
• The Water Quality Control Board,
• The Forestry Board,
• The National Monterey Bay Sanctuary,
• A prospective federal habitat conservation
plan,
• An International Fire Code that increases fuel
load,
• And “no cut” timber zoning rules.
Sustainable Development implementers do not stop until the land is in the hands
of their buddies. Sustainable Development is a land grab in part. The
true purpose is the collectivization of human beings ruled by a narrowing
elite.
For mountain landowners it is like having 5 ropes restraining them from
every conceivable angle. The objective is to create battered, “willing
sellers.” The government or NGO’s report this saying; “Well,
they were willing sellers, they sold it to us.” It’s like
the kid in the playground who puts your arm behind your back and forces
it up, up, up until you say “Uncle”. “Willing sellers”
who sell to the government are victims of extortion who cry “uncle”.
The most effective and egregious of all the Sustainable takeover tools is
the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The ESA puts our worst fears into
place as bugs, plants and animals are deemed equal to or even more important
than human beings. This is the core of the attack on the premise of
individual liberty. America must rid itself of the current Endangered
Species Act.
These and other measures are being implemented to give strategic control of
America’s resources to the political theory dubbed Sustainable
Development. When government and its ‘partners’ control
the natural resources and the rural land of America, they will move
to control all other types of property. That will end any limits on
government’s ability to control all human action. “Private”
will have been eliminated.
So, for neighbors, friends or family members who have been lured by the
idea of Smart Growth, ask them to check their premises:
• Is spreading out so bad?
• Is it really so horrible that our children
have the choice about where they live and how they live,
• Why shouldn’t they trade freely with
people who respect other’s property and life?
• Why is water resource development in the West
such a horrible idea?
• Why do we break our dams, create water shortages,
then tell farmers they can’t irrigate their crops?
• Why then, to add insult to injury; are framers
increasingly required to turn farm management decisions over to bureaucrats
and change agents who operate in this new world called
“Sustainable Agriculture”?
The US Department of Agriculture very actively promotes Sustainable Development
policy.
Why do we use our gas taxes to spend billions on rapid transit ideas and
projects that few want?
Why not use
our gas taxes to build more lanes and new freeways?
Why are Americans
financing double-deck freeways in Mexico City while we build empty train
lines designed to move us around after an engineered collapse?
Liberty! or Sustainable Development is a 13 Chapter serial adaptation of the
transcript of Michael Shaw’s opening speech from the video: Liberty
or Sustainable Development. Michael Shaw is President
of Freedom Advocates.org. He can be reached at Shaw@FreedomAdvocates.org.
Chapter 1: Understanding Liberty ----
Chapter 2: The Decay of Liberty – An Illustration ----
Chapter 3: Defining Sustainable Development ----
Chapter 4: Liberty or Sustainable Development? ----
Chapter 5: A Closer Look at Sustainable Development Part A----
Chapter 6: A Closer Look at Sustainable Development Part B----
Chapter 7: Sustainable Development’s
Land Use Element ----
Chapter 8: Rooting
Sustainable Development in the USA----
Chapter 9: A Healthy Planet and
Individual Liberty are Inseparable----
Chapter 10: Reinvention
of Government - Part 1----
Chapter 11: Reinvention
of Government - Part 2----
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