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Understanding Sustainable Development — Agenda 21 <br />Understanding Sustainable Development — Agenda 21 <br />This fact alone casts a serious shadow of doubt on the motives of <br />Sustainable Developers who would discard the unalienable rights <br />to life, liberty, and property in order to pursue dubious programs.12 <br />When Sustainable Development is implemented, ordinary people will <br />be left unprotected from de facto decrees placing nature above man, <br />while relegating man to the status of a "biological resource."13 <br />Educating Youth: <br />Molding the Minds of Tomorrow <br />"All who have meditated <br />on the art of governing mankind <br />have been convinced that the fate of empires <br />depends on the education of youth." <br />— Aristotle <br />To ensure continuing support of their anti -human programs, <br />Sustainable Developers mold the minds of the next generation. <br />Chapter 25 of the U.N. Sustainable Development Agenda 21 calls for <br />the need to "enlist and empower children and youth in reaching for <br />sustainability." <br />Even a cursory look at the federally -mandated curriculum being <br />taught in classrooms would show that the doctrines of Sustainable <br />Development are finding their way into every subject. French <br />classes teach students to "save the earth;" economics classes feature <br />lectures that discourage individual initiative in the marketplace and <br />decry private ownership; history classes obscure the importance <br />of America's founding documents; mandatory "service -learning" <br />programs enlist students to work for government -approved Sustainable <br />Development partner organizations. <br />12. cf. Taylor, Jerry, Sustainable Development: A Dubious Solution in Search of <br />a Problem, Cato Institute (2002). <br />13. Bureau of Land Management, Internal Working Document for ecosystem <br />management, (March 1994). <br />The list goes on and on. <br />While taxpayers foot the bill for the increasing costs of government <br />education, parents are increasingly shut out of decisions crucial to <br />the molding of their child's mind. Controversial programs designed <br />for "values clarification" are being performed in government schools <br />that employ powerful behavior control techniques and peer pressure <br />to make a developing child question his or her individual worth <br />and values, and are designed to disrupt parental oversight in the <br />upbringing of their children." <br />Stakeholder Councils: <br />Restructuring American Government <br />"I believe there are more instances <br />of the abridgement of the freedom of the people <br />by gradual silent encroachments of those in power, <br />than by violent and sudden usurpations." <br />— James Madison <br />The way that Sustainable Development is carried out in local <br />communities around the world is particularly alarming, especially <br />to those who seek accountability in government. Operating within <br />a system of stakeholder councils, organized to give third parties a <br />"stake" in the control over property in neighborhoods, proponents of <br />Sustainable Development systematically promote their own ideas and <br />marginalize any local opposition, particularly those individuals who <br />advocate the freedom to use and enjoy private property. <br />The product of a stakeholder council, often called a "consensus <br />statement" or a "vision statement," is typically approved by local <br />governments without question, requiring citizens to submit to the <br />predetermined conclusions of a non -elected regional authority that is <br />not accountable to the voters. <br />14. http://www.freedomadvocates.org/articles/education_transformation/ <br />aptos_high_school_%22crosses_the_line%22_with_secret_behavior_control_ <br />exercise 20060927321/ <br />— 10 — <br />— 11 — <br />