Wildlands Network
Future Theft
Summary:
9/10/2004, KING COUNTY, Wash. — Are gardens and ecosystems mutually exlcusive? King County’s 65-10 rule denies future generations the American gardening tradition.
Year: 2004
Illegitimate Government
Pelosi and Others Promote Agenda 21 in Congress
By Michael Park, 9/10/2004 – Update to 2004 article: Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY), Nancy Pelosi and WM Broomfield (R-MI) all use the term “Agenda 21” and “United Nations” on this CSPAN video at 11:43:30.
WASHINGTON D.C. – Though Congress never voted to support and implement Agenda 21 (aka Sustainable Development) — and its implementation has been accomplished through executive orders and the activities of NGOs — there is evidence that some representatives tried very hard to push it through early on.
Education Transformation
Subverting the Constitution in High School
By Alan Caruba, 9/10/2004 – SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey — The federal government has no business underwriting the publication of a book that deliberately subverts key elements of the US Constitution.
Articles
State Supreme Court Tells Santa Cruz County It’s Not Above the Law
By Freedom Advocates Staff, 8/4/2004 –
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Santa Cruz County government is once again admonished by a high court for abusing citizens.
Police State
One Step Closer to a Police State
By John W. Whitehead, 8/4/2004 –
Summary:
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia. — In the pursuit of security, America has strayed far from the liberties envisioned by our founders. Will we stop now and reverse the trend?
Santa Cruz County
Transit Villages are a Throwback to Medieval Society
By Michael Park, 8/3/2004 –
The transportation options available in feudal society are only quaint in hindsight. Smart Growth calls for a reversion to the limited mobility of the pre-automotive society.
Private Property
Private Property and Ecological Health
6/15/2004 – LA SELVA BEACH, Calif. — Michael Shaw is the owner and proprietor of Liberty Garden, where — using a program of seedbank management — he created a native plant oasis on the central coast of California. In this excerpt from his treatise “What is Private Property?”, Shaw explains that if people are free to create voluntary associations, the laws of economics and the consequence of stewardship will cause the earth to improve. “Private property and a healthy planet are inseparable,” Shaw says.
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Sustainable Development
Agenda 21 — The Blueprint to Advance Sustainable Development
Good article to read if you are new or have friends that are new to Sustainable Development!
By Daniel Beckett, 6/15/2004 –
In this straightforward exposé of Agenda 21 — the blueprint to advance Sustainable Development — Beckett examines the notion of “sustainability.” His conclusion: The American people need to be better informed so they understand that Sustainable Development is a pseudonym for centralized control over human life.
Family Autonomy
Is There Really a Fatherhood Crisis?
WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/15/2004 – The American ideal assumes that self governance begins with the family. Fatherhood has been under a long-term attack in America. For some, the motive for this attack goes to the core of the battle about the role of government. Modern political philosophers understand that with the emergence of a global collective, the governing role of family diminishes as central government assumes the greater authority over marriage and children. Dr. Stephan Baskerville of Howard University examines how family law in America works to destroy family units and family authority.
Oceans and Coasts
The Wizardry Behind Fishery Management
Summary: FLORIDA — Like Dorothy’s Wizard, the main force driving the new paradigms in fishery management policy today have remained relatively hidden, cloaked in an obscure fog of distant international environmental policy meetings. It’s now past time to pull back the curtain and see exactly who is back there, writes Sid Preskitt.