The Third Sector {Public "Private" Partnerships/The Third Way}

The Third Sector
Henry Lamb

Posted: August 9, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

A new mechanism of governance is emerging. Georgetown University calls it "The Third Sector." The United Nations calls it "Civil Society." The President's Council on Sustainable Development calls it "a new, collaborative decision process." Whatever it's called, it is a process to formulate public policy by non-elected individuals, unencumbered by the legislative process.

The process was developed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the United Nations. As the IUCN developed its land-management policy proposals, a network of "civil society" organizations, called BIONET, was created to promote the policy proposal and to lobby U.N. delegates. As the IUCN developed its climate change policy proposals, a network of civil society organizations, called Climate Action Network, was created to promote the policy proposals and to lobby U.N. delegates.

The same process created the Women's Environment and Development Organization; the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives; the International Action Network on Small Arms; and many other "networks" of special interest groups, largely funded by the U.N. and sympathetic governments.

The process has been incredibly successful at the international level. It is rapidly becoming equally successful in the United States.

In 1995, the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, a "network" of special interest groups, banded together to urge UNESCO to declare Yellowstone National Park a World Heritage Site "In Danger." The designation required a willing Clinton-Gore administration to impose additional land-use restrictions on private property beyond the park's boundary. Neither local, state, nor federal elected officials had any say in the matter.

Throughout the 1990s, the President's Council on Sustainable Development spawned hundreds of these "networks" to focus on specific issues, such as the Sierra Club's "Smart Growth" programs, and to work at the local and regional levels to generate visions of smart growth for nearly every community.

These special interest groups are often called "visioning" councils, or "stakeholder," or "watershed" councils. They are designed to appear to be representative of the affected community. Most often, however, they consist of individuals who are government employees or executives or staff of special interest groups, with only a token number of carefully selected elected officials and business leaders.

The process of consensus building to achieve "collaborative" decision making has been refined to an art. In a given community, the appropriate council is chosen and begins meeting to discuss the future of the community. When the council is fully formed, and a couple of "day-glow" big-wheels have been recruited, a public announcement explains how the wonderful "citizens'" vision will unfold.

At the public meetings, a paid facilitator leads the group to choose from several options in several categories – transportation, zoning, education, economic development – until a final set of proposals is developed, which is then presented to the governing body for adoption and implementation. Rarely do the elected officials have the necessary information, or the political will, to oppose this vision developed by the "citizens" of the community.

In reality, it is not a vision of the citizens of the community. Ordinary citizens are rarely even notified of the meetings. When they do show up to ask questions, they are often ridiculed, marginalized and dismissed. When complete, virtually every one of these plans contain the elements recommended in Agenda 21 and by the President's Council on Sustainable Development.

Councils created to represent trans-boundary jurisdictions have even less input by ordinary citizens or elected officials. When a multi-jurisdictional plan is developed, and presented to the various jurisdictions, they either adopt it, or risk political ridicule and even the loss of federal funds.

These special interest groups – the Third Sector – are deeply embedded in the policy-making process. The American Planning Association was funded by the government to produce model legislation for state governments. The Center for Civic Education has the exclusive authority to write the civics curriculum for federally funded public schools. The Nature Conservancy, and similar groups, are used by government to buy private property, which is then resold to the government for a profit.

This new mechanism of governance has become so prevalent that Georgetown University has developed a special Ph.D. program to train special-interest organization leaders to be even more effective.

" The President's Council on Sustainable Development calls it "a new, COLLABORATIVE decision process." "

'Collaborative' reminded me of the following quote from another article you posted ( The Wildlands Project Comes to Hidalgo County http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/865653/posts ), written by Judy Keeler:

"...Following one of my articles, in which I discussed The Nature Conservancy's land acquisition program, Michael Robinson, Center for Biological Diversity, recently asked if I was a "conspiracy thinker."

I explained to Mr. Robinson that I did not believe it was a conspiracy. Instead, I chose to call it a "COLLABORATIVE effort."

In the Merriam Webster Dictionary, COLLABORATE is defined as; "to work jointly with others (as in writing a book); TO COOPERATE WITH AN ENEMY FORCE OCCUPYING ONE'S COUNTRY."........"

I mentioned on that thread that Ted Turner was heavily involved in the Sky Island Project. Recently I read that he was whining that his foundation was cutting back drastically because his donations were WAY down, and his pledge to the UN was in arrears. (I haven't been to FR much in a few weeks, so I don't know if that was posted.) So, keep these articles coming, George; they may be having an impact!

By the way, we WERE sold out by the Constitution.

From George Mason and the Bill of Rights:

"...Throughout the convention, Mason consistently spoke out in favor of the rights of individuals and the states as opposed to the federal government. He spoke out strongly against a 10-mile-square FEDERAL DISTRICT that ironically came to be located just a few miles from his home. Concerning the proposed DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Mason said: "THIS TEN MILES SQUARE MAY SET AT DEFIANCE THE LAWS OF THE SURROUNDING STATES AND MAY ... BECOME THE SANCTUARY OF THE BLACKEST CRIMES! Here the federal courts are to sit ... what sort of jury shall we have within the ten miles square? The immediate creatures of government! " http://www.libertyhaven.com/thinkers/georgemason/george.html

Brilliant man, and he was proved right:

White Paper on State Citizenship
T. Collins -- 10/04/94
http://www.dlois.com/realtruth/FreedomStuff/White%20Paper%20on%20State%20Citizenship.htm . This is a must-read for everyone who values his or her freedom. (A brief summary of the paper: "......Let's restate the central premise of this paper. The government recognizes two distinct classes of citizens: a state Citizen and a federal citizen. Each has different rights and responsibilities. State Citizens created the states who created the federal government who created federal citizens. Most people are born state Citizens and become federal citizens without their knowledge sometime after birth. You can reclaim your state Citizenship status through a legal procedure. If you remain a federal citizen, you will pay lots of taxes and have no rights. If you reclaim your state Citizenship status, you will have to learn about our legal system and you will have to change the way you bank, and save, and invest, and other aspects of modern living that probably taken for granted. But a state Citizen that knows the legal system has more control over his/her life......" If you are a Federal citizen, you fall under the laws of the District of Columbia. Right off the bat, you have lost your Second Ammendment rights, and become a slave to the international banksters, via the Federal Reserve and the IRS, an arm of the private banksters. All of the land in this country and everyone with a Social Security number is collateral on the National Debt, which the banksters can call at any time by manipulating the economy. See the Revealing Story of the Rancher and the National Debt http://www.ashevilletribune.com/hage1.htm .)

I recently learned that none other than George Washington himself, unConstitutionally divided the states into regions
(See Regionalism: The Implementation of the New World Order http://www.penncrier.com/penncrier/pcnwoimp.html ). I would have to look it up (I read his letter in MESSAGES AND PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS 1789-1897 outlining what he had done). I also read on-line a paper referring to it, but I don't have the article handy either. My old memory fails me, but I think the on-line article stated that THE PURPOSE of George's actions were in order to give himself the power to call up the militias of the several states against the farmers of Pennsylvania during the Whiskey Rebellion. (The small farmers were rebelling in ALL the states. The tax was far greater on them, than it was on the big producers. Nothing new under the sun. George chose to make an example of the 'wicked' Pennsylvania farmers.) A king making war against the citizens of this nation (and so soon after many had given their blood against another king - What was it Mel Gibson said in "The Patriot" I would rather live with one tyrant 3,000 miles away, than 3,000 tyrants one mile away.(??) - i.e., the resulting 'swarms of unelected officers'.) EXACTLY what George Mason and Patrick Henry had warned against. Patrick Henry said the nation might rise or fall on the question of "is it WE THE PEOPLE or WE THE STATES?" It became WE THE PEOPLE, as we all know, wrecking havoc with the sovereignty of the States, and in turn, effectively diminishing the people's rights, rather than enhancing them. Hence, we get the 'swarms of unelected officers' made possible by treaty powers, federal regulations, district court rulings, etc.,
and alphabet soup agencies to enforce them, and unending "States of Emergency" to make them palatable to the sheeple.

Many thanks for your efforts.
EA

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