 | Chattanooga is a city where America lives. It's a mid-size city -- not so big that small steps forward go unnoticed, not so small that advances have little application elsewhere. |
| For instance, we were concerned about the prospect of chip mills on the Tennessee River, grinding up our area's forests. So we marshaled business, community and government leaders to voice our collective concern and have, to this point, successfully blocked chip mill permits. |
| While we struggle daily with the issues of urban growth, we are preserving the beauty and diversity of the Tennessee River Gorge through a broadly supported land trust, we're creating public access along 26 miles of river-front, we're greening our streets and highways with an aggressive and expansive program of planting and landscaping. |
| Advocates for environment and proponents of economic development, once at odds in cities like Chattanooga, have today recognized their need for interdependence. Global pressures are forcing our businesses to be more competitive as they become more environmentally sensitive. |
Just sounds like good business management doesn't it? And I'm sure the Mayor believes that is what he is doing. But when we look behind the scenes and read between the lines we find that this American city is having much of its policy dictated to it by the United Nations.
There has been forced curtailment of business and resulting loss of jobs because of the restrictions placed on chip mill licenses. There is every possibility that the opening of 26 miles of river-front to the public required the takeover of private property -- perhaps with, perhaps without adequate compensation. (The incidence of environmental laws being used to unduly restrict the use of personal property by legal owners has seen significant growth in the last decade. Documentation is available.)
But let's now glance at some of the wording in the UN Global Plan of Action for the Habitat IIAgenda Conference scheduled in Istanbul in June of this year.
| Economic growth and [sustainable] development activities, production, consumption, and transport in and between human settlements must be managed and [adjusted], in ways that constantly replenish the total stock of resources .... |
| The deficiencies of the current global economic system with respect to gender, environmental and poverty issues should be addressed at the community, local and national levels to create a more balanced and equitable global system. (Are they going to make equatorial Africa equal to you or you equal to equatorial Africa?) |
| An equitable human settlement is one in which: 1) access by all its people to shelter, infrastructure and basic services is assured; 2) opportunities for all women, men and children to earn a dignified and productive living are provided; 3) physical and health needs of allpeople, especially children, are effectively addressed; 4) resources are husbanded in accordance with the principles of sustainability and equity; |
(Sound like socialism to you?)
The emphasis has been added. There is more, but these should give you some idea of what this
UN mandate is all about. The freedoms to develop one's business and to use one's property in the
historical American way are being slowly but surely taken away -- not by our own government,
but by The New World Order.
Drafted by The Alabama Committee to Get US Out of the United Nations
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