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Understanding Sustainable Development — Agenda 21 <br />Understanding Sustainable Development — Agenda 21 <br />governance that ultimately abolishes private property. <br />Let's take a look at an excerpt from the United Nations' Agenda 21 <br />document concerning transportation planning: <br />Earth Summit - Agenda 21: <br />The United Nations Programme of Action <br />Chapter 7 — Human Settlements <br />Section 7.52: Promoting...urban transport <br />systems...should be a comprehensive approach <br />to urban -transport planning and management. To <br />this end, all countries should: <br />• ...encourage development patterns that reduce <br />transport demand <br />• Adopt urban -transport programmes favouring high - <br />occupancy public transport... <br />• Encourage non -motorized modes of transport by <br />providing safe cycleways and footways in urban and <br />suburban centres... <br />Towns across the country are adopting these transport systems. This <br />is because these systems are imposed upon locales by a regional level <br />of government largely unknown and when known, underestimated. <br />Regionalism might sound benign, but the consequences must be <br />understood by freedom loving people or liberty will be trampled. <br />Citizens must know about the following regional planning and <br />development agencies: <br />• Council of Governments (COG) <br />• Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) <br />Council of Governments (COG) <br />COGs are region -wide associations of local governments — regional <br />bodies, typically defined to serve an area of several counties to <br />address issues such as regional and municipal planning, economic and <br />community development, cartography and Government Information <br />Systems (GIS), hazard mitigation and emergency planning, aging <br />services, water use, pollution control, transit administration, and <br />transportation planning. <br />Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) <br />MPOs are federally mandated and, like COGs, are the instruments <br />for restructuring American government. They are setting up an <br />infrastructure for a new economic system based on public private <br />partnership to replace free enterprise. <br />COGs and MPOs are federalized organizations that break down <br />America's constitutionally formulated government structure. Their <br />purpose is to control and direct local government from behind the <br />scenes. <br />Today, they propel the federal injection of the globalist agenda into <br />local government policy and thereby negate the protections afforded <br />by our constitutional system of government. <br />In the words of Charlotte Iserbyt, former Department of Education <br />official and author of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, <br />"Regionalism is Communism."" <br />Regionalism promotes soviet style councils that develop policy that is <br />then rubber-stamped by elected officials, with no meaningful public <br />oversight. It is an extra level of government that operates outside the <br />provisions of the Constitution, thus advancing globalist objectives <br />whilst insulating most elected officials. <br />24. Iserbyt, Charlotte. "Regionalism is Communism." NewsWithViews.com, <br />February 4, 2004, http://www.newswithviews.com/iserbyt/iserbytl3.htm. <br />— 16 — <br />— 17 — <br />