Agenda 21 - By Lloyd Eckberg - columnist

Agenda 21 is a global action plan of the United Nations. The 21 refers to the 21st=century agenda of the UN.

It had its beginning in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992 at the United Nations Conference on Environment and its mission is related to "Sustainable Development."

Agenda 21 is a comprehensive blueprint of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the UN, governments and major groups in every area in which humans directly affect the environment.

According to the American Policy Center, awareness of Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development is spreading across the nation as citizens in community after community are learning what city and county planners are up to as they implement its program.

The term Sustainable Development was first produced by the UN World Commission on Environmental Development authored by Gro Harlem Bruntland, VP of the World Socialist Party.

The term became official policy of the UN in 1992 in a document called UN Sustainable Development Agenda 21.

Richard Raines of Valdosta, a Lowndes County commissioner speaking before the Thomas County GOP on July 19, brought the group information about the UN’s attempt to discourage private ownership of property as well as promoting equality of equity ownership of all 178 member nations resources, the United States included.

Working through local planning and zoning groups around the country, the UN’s mandate of Sustainable Development is being installed right under our noses says Raines.

Although implementation of Agenda 21 is voluntary, Raines believes the assault on private ownership of property is one of the main goals of the UN group, as well as to limit exposure of human beings to the natural resources of the nation.

In the news recently have been countless examples of local municipal planning groups trying to subvert eminent domain to implement Sustainable Development in order to confiscate private property for redevelopment for private rather than for roads, bridges and other infrastructure uses.

Agenda 21 has been criticized by libertarians, economic conservatives and many other groups in the United States as being a threat to our national sovereignty and needed industrial and technological development.

Raines maintains the ultimate goal of Agenda 21 is to downgrade the United States to a level of third-world countries and a collapse of our capitalist system as we know it today.

Although Congress has not yet affirmed Agenda 21 as a requirement for Sustainable Development as outlined in UN directives, Raines believes the goal is to have the United States fall in line by first working through local planning agencies.

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