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Public Schools - Past Time to End That System and Others
The SierraTimes ^ | 03. 1. 05 | Nancy Levant

Posted on 03/02/2005 10:51:30 PM PST by hedgetrimmer

All taxpayers should vote NO on all school levies because all public schools in America need to be closed. Our schools are teaching multiculturalism, globalism, conservation U.N.-style, and secularism, which means no God and no faith – all of which are un-American and go against the beliefs and values of most American people. Can we please and finally say ENOUGH! Can we please stop funding the curriculum and people training our children to be globalist socialists and not Americans who value their liberties? Since when did American schools become blatant centers of Socialist re-engineering? Well, my first guess takes me directly to the No Child Left Behind Act.

America is being changed from a free country, where individuals and their human rights lead government, to global capitalist socialism, which is Global Fascism, plain and simple.

It only takes the social re-engineering of one generation to put America on a collision course with Kofi Annan and his sexually deviant forces, and that generation of American youth is being re-programmed as we speak in every public school in this country. Surely you’ve noticed that all our schools have financially “partnered” with some of the largest conglomerations in the United States? WAKE UP!

The truth is that it is way past time for American people to get off the pot. It is time to shake the stuffings out of our politicians, to fire them, and to refuse to play the America end-times game. But how, you ask?

1. Pull your children out of public schools today. There are a thousand home-schooling options. If American people will commit to this, that despicable mind control system, with its despicable teacher’s union will collapse in weeks.

2. Organize groups in every city, village, and burg. This is especially important for small communities. Prepare to fight the land grabbers, which come in many flavors – from conservation groups, development outfits, eminent domain bureaucrats, enormous wildlife and forest organizations, and others. Each and every time they attempt to take one more acre, one more city block or lot, blow horns as loudly as you can. Call the press, radio, and television stations. Write articles, post posters all over town(s), and gather in public places to make as much human noise as you possibly can. These are the rights and responsibilities of free people. Have senior centers create and organize mailings and gatherings. Never take seniors for granted when it come to America. They are your very best friends and workers for they remember freedom. Young people in their 20s and 30s don’t’ remember what true liberty was like.

3. Organize children of all ages to help in the fight for freedom and our way of life. We MUST teach the up-coming generation the truth about global governance, the United Nations, the conservation movement, which is really the land acquisition bureaucracy used to destroy private property rights. Teach them that it is a privilege and a duty to defend freedom and liberty. If you don’t teach your children these things, they will find you to be a foolish relic in 20 years, and equally, their faith in God, and in you, will be changed or ended.

4. Think very carefully about a mass exodus out of the suburbs. Look very carefully at the scooping up of landmasses in this country and around the world. “Conservation” organizations are taking land as partnerships with the largest corporations in the world and for the U.N. (Biosphere Reserves). Maybe we all need to go to those places, plant ourselves there, and protect them from the biggest polluters in the world – big business. Buying acreage should become a top priority for all American citizens. Something to think about.

5. Equally, your water rights are in serious danger from the same eco-corporate schemes. If they want to control people, all they have to do is control fresh water. Look to the Klamath Basin for an example of conservation-style water theft. Put in irrigations wells everywhere that you can and as many as you can on your private property.

We have to act. We cannot wait. If you believe in America, liberty, and freedom; if you believe in the value system and the religion that created this country, then it’s time to take major steps to prove your loyalty to country. We need to take organized action. It’s time for all the lies and manipulations to be exposed, and we have to fight together to end them.

Remember, they still haven’t told us about Agenda 21. And though everyone knows that “bio-diversity conservation” and “sustainable development” are scams, no politician dares to talk about it. Media remains totally silent – surprise, surprise. If we don’t do something drastic, now, to protect our children and ourselves, then we won’t recognize this country in a decade - maybe much sooner.

Also, be aware of large-scale distractions and events that tend to take our focus off of critical matters, issues, votes, and background news. Think about that.

Website for wisdom -www.afsc.org/youthmil/news/nochild.htm.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: agenda21; biospherereserves; conservation; development; freedom; homeschool; landgrab; liberty; mab; pspl; publiceducation; publicschools; schools; sustainable; unitednations
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1 posted on 03/02/2005 10:51:31 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
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2 posted on 03/02/2005 10:58:13 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
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To: Famishus

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3 posted on 03/02/2005 11:20:30 PM PST by mother22wife21 ("Mama, Mama, wake up , God has brought us another day present.")
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To: hedgetrimmer

While I am not unsympathetic to the author's diatribe, there was simply too much soaring rhetoric and not enough concrete details. For example, rails against No Child Left Behind but never mentions specifics. Casually mentions project 21 but doesn't explain. Does he expect his audience to be on familiar terms with these things?


4 posted on 03/03/2005 12:09:15 AM PST by TradicalRC (I'd rather live in a Christian theocracy than a secular democracy.)
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To: hedgetrimmer
America is being changed from a free country, where individuals and their human rights lead government, to global capitalist socialism, which is Global Fascism, plain and simple.

This article is falling of deaf ears - sadly, probably 98% of freepers are globalists.

5 posted on 03/03/2005 5:03:56 AM PST by Nephi (Compassionate Conservativism: Sure it's socialism, but what were you gonna do, vote for J-effing-K?)
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To: TradicalRC
Big Media Won't Touch Agenda 21

What's happening in US Schools?

BIG GREEN : Inside the Nature Conservancy Nonprofit Land Bank Amasses Billions

Protect U.S. Sovereignty: Sink the Law of the Sea Treaty

Sustainable Development

Understanding Sustainable Development Agenda 21: A Guide for Public Officials
6 posted on 03/03/2005 8:50:50 AM PST by hedgetrimmer
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To: hedgetrimmer

BTT


7 posted on 03/03/2005 9:00:25 AM PST by JustAnotherSavage ("We are all sinners. But jerks revel in their sins." PJ O'Rourke)
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To: TradicalRC
While I am not unsympathetic to the author's diatribe, there was simply too much soaring rhetoric and not enough concrete details.

I would have to agree with your statement.
This author is speaking to a very targeted group of people.

Move out of the suburbs?
Sure. Quit your job, sell your home, buy rural land, and now what?
Where are you going to make your living from?

8 posted on 03/03/2005 9:07:28 AM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: hedgetrimmer; Born Conservative

BTTT


9 posted on 03/03/2005 9:09:14 AM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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To: TradicalRC; hedgetrimmer; ruoflaw

If you really want to know what Agenda 21 is all about, refer to the article "Big Media Won't Touch Agenda 21" posted by Hedgetrimmer. The article contains numerous links. Take the time to read the linked articles and you'll see just how great a threat Agenda 21 is to our liberty.

As for the no child left behind article, I suggest that you dig in and start researching the details for yourself. Don't stop with just that, read about the deliberate dumbing down of our children. A search engine should give you lots of links to articles that will enlighten you.


10 posted on 03/03/2005 9:17:05 AM PST by Dixielander
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To: Just another Joe
Since the author has written some number of articles on Agenda 21 and sustainable development, I expect she expects her audience to know the rudiments.

For Freepers, there is a slew of articles on the same topics that have been posted to this site. There are still people who want to pretend this global socialist philosophy doesn't exist. They will be the death of America because they won't act to help to reinstate American culture and values and the idea that Americans should want to hand freedom down to our progeny.

I suspect many lurkers and posters on this site have a vested interest in continuing the push for agenda 21 and sustainable development because
1. they are invested in a public private partnership with the federal government or state government either as a tax exempt NGO or as a business entity pushing this global socialist philosophy
2. they are attorneys for or investors in companies that are promoting agenda 21 and sustainable development as a way to eliminate competition a global scale and deflate US wages to redistribute wealth to off shore countries
3. they are a member of the education establishment and have been coerced or brainwashed into taking agenda 21 into the curriculum
4. the think they are environmentalists, and they don't see any problems with using the environment to impose a collectivist government on a once free society.
11 posted on 03/03/2005 10:22:06 AM PST by hedgetrimmer
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To: TradicalRC
Summary:
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Though Congress never voted to support and implement Agenda 21 -- 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.

Full text:
Why didn't the American public find out a long time ago how some members of Congress are pushing for the United States to submit to an international regime of comprehensive control? After all, the evidence is in the open -- all congressional bills are in the public domain, along with a list of every representative that sponsored or cosponsored them.

Perhaps it is the case that the evidence is only damaging in retrospect, since most researchers didn't see the significance of the bills when they were proposed. After all, even a cursory look at the resolutions and legislation that roll through the congressional calendar reveals how inane most of it is, with resolutions declaring this week to be National Metal Siding Week and next Thursday to be John Doe's Annual Day of Recognition. It's no surprise, then, that actions that pose a grievous threat to the individual liberties of Americans and the sovereignty of our nation sometimes slip through unseen.

Agenda 21 in the Halls of Congress

Congressional support for Agenda 21 arose quietly in 1992 and 1993 in the months before and after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 3-14, 1992. As early as January of 1992, Congressman John Porter (IL) introduced a resolution (H. J. RES. 394) calling for President George H.W. Bush to lead a delegation to Brazil.

During the UNCED, also called the Rio Earth Summit, Bush would sign the Framework Convention on Climate Change and endorse the Rio Declaration and the Forest Principles, and adopt Agenda 21 on behalf of the United States of America. Though Bush refused to sign the Convention on Biological Diversity due to technology transfer language, President Clinton signed it immediately after taking office the next year.

Some members of Congress were eager to get the ball rolling: an aide from Congressman Porter's office told The Scientist (registration required), a magazine for the scientific community, "We have to get something in place this Congress, or we'll have another excuse to do nothing." On July 17, 1992, Porter took the next step and introduced legislation (H.R. 5424) calling for the establishment of a "Commission on Environment and Development" that would monitor all who signed Agenda 21 and the other agreements laid out in Rio, with the express purpose of "advancing the objectives of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development."

"The Rio Commission will help ensure that the promise of the Earth Summit will not be forgotten, but fulfilled," Porter told The Scientist.

Though it appears that Porter's legislation wallowed in committees, the momentum from Rio was still quite strong. Just weeks later, on August 5, 1992, Nancy Pelosi (CA) introduced a concurrent resolution in Congress (H. CON. RES. 353), saying that the United States of America should reform all domestic and foreign policy to adhere to the agreements of the Earth Summit, develop a national strategy to implement Agenda 21, and regularly report to the United Nations our progress on that path. Pelosi's resolution passed the House of Representatives on October 2, 1992, but failed in the Senate.

Back on the international playing field, the United Nations was hard at work establishing an institutional framework to ensure that Agenda 21's comprehensive regulation affecting every aspect of daily life would be enacted. On December 22, 1992, the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was established by the United Nations Economic and Social Council and empowered by the General Assembly to "examine the progress of the implementation of Agenda 21 at the national, regional and international levels..." The CSD is entering its 13th year, and the United States of America has been a member of the CSD since the very beginning.

Undaunted by slow going in Congress, Nancy Pelosi returned to the House floor on March 29, 1993 and introduced a joint resolution (H. J. RES. 166) to renew the call for the United States to "assume a strong leadership role in implementing ... Agenda 21 and other Earth Summit agreements." Pelosi eventually gathered 67 co-sponsors for her bill, 32 of whom are still in Congress.

H. J. RES. 166 was referred directly to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and then on April 16, 1993, it was referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Policy, Trade and Environment. By all indicators, the bill went no farther than that subcommittee.

Down... But Not Out for the Count

After a flurry of activity to get the United States on board with the international environmental movement to eradicate individual rights and subvert the Constitution, there was a relative calm in Congress, with all the dangerous elements resigned to a purgatory of subcommittees. Historians could consult the federal records, where they would find no concrete evidence that these bills had gone any farther. They would be wrong, however, for the actions called for in Pelosi's resolutions were being carried out, regardless of Congressional support -- or the lack thereof.

On June 14, 1993, President Bill Clinton, after just six months in office, signed an executive order establishing the President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD), which would carry out the exact functions called for in Pelosi's resolutions. In a White House press release, Clinton announced that the Council's primary goals would be to:Through the PCSD, Agenda 21 policy recommendations filtered into every federal agency in America. Many of those agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), had their own representatives in attendance at the Rio Earth Summit and were already acting upon Agenda 21, but this new source of support from the White House gave extra muscle to their activities.

Apart from the PCSD, a multitude of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) were working in communities across America to translate the overarching principles and recommendations of Agenda 21 into local policy. One of the most prominent NGOs was the International Council on Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI). ICLEI, launched in 1990 at the World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future, is based in Toronto, Canada, but has offices around the globe, including Berkeley, California. Its stated mission is to provide policy recommendations to assist local governments in the implementation of Sustainable Development. ICLEI was instrumental in the development of Agenda 21, having drafted Chapter 28 in 1991 in preparation for the upcoming summit. Their boilerplate sustainable development policies are being implemented in every county in the United States.

As Pelosi's resolution dictated, the United States has been giving periodic reports to the United Nations showing progress in "advancing the objectives of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development." The United States Country Profile report (PDF), available for download on the United Nations' website, was submitted in 2002 as part of the Country Profile series presented at the Johannesburg World Summit for Sustainable Development. According to that report, the Country Profile Series is "the most comprehensive overview to date of the status of implementation of Agenda 21 at the national level." The United Nations also has a map on their website designating the international progress of the implementation of Agenda 21 (PDF). The United States is shown as having "components of sustainable development in place."

Conclusion

Members of Congress are held accountable to their constituents for any actions they undertake contrary to their oath to preserve and protect the Constitution. However, when their bills are stalled in subcommittees, giving them a comfortable excuse for denial of culpability, the responsibility lies with all Americans to remain vigilant as federal, state and local agencies move forward with the piecemeal implementation of Agenda 21's anti-human and anti-liberty policies. Those elected officials who continue to show support for sustainable development despite the clearly detrimental effects should be voted out of office and replaced with Constitutionally-minded individuals whose primary concern is the protection of unalienable rights.

Note: Thanks to a good friend, PD, who tipped me off to H.J.RES 166.
12 posted on 03/03/2005 10:24:13 AM PST by hedgetrimmer
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To: hedgetrimmer
I know that the globalist socialist agenda is there and that it is being pushed within our borders by various entities for their own purposes.

Still, if the author expects to reach a broader audience, and have them understand her stance, she needs to go into a little more detail.

While I am none of the four vested interests that you explain, I cannot for the life of me understand how the author expects large groups of people to uproot from their present sites and careers and go galivanting into rural America where even to make a living, much less have a career, can be problematic for even those that were raised in that type of area.

Instead of pulling the kids out of schools, how about changing the school system back.
Would one be harder than the other? I don't know.
I do know that I inoculated my children against the social engineering of the school system from the time they could have an inkling of what I was talking about.
Did it make a difference?
You bet it did!
They got an education from the public school system because they questioned, kept bringing the teachers back to the subject matter, and used their brains.

13 posted on 03/03/2005 10:53:10 AM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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I wonder if this author would have advocated secession from the Union back when the libs had control of the White House, Senate, and House, as a means of fixing the problems brought on by our Welfare State?

I agree that there are MANY problems, but running away from them won't fix them.

14 posted on 03/03/2005 11:15:48 AM PST by Born Conservative ("Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work" - Winston Churchill)
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15 posted on 03/03/2005 11:16:43 AM PST by Born Conservative ("Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work" - Winston Churchill)
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To: Just another Joe

If you could let me know exactly what kinds of things you would want to know in another article, I would be happy to make that recommendation.

The fact of the matter is its hard to motivate Americans to act to save their liberty. Please help me understand what can be said to the majority of Americans to get them thinking and get them to help stop this loss of our culture and our freedom.

I am very interested in your answer.


16 posted on 03/03/2005 12:16:45 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
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To: Just another Joe
Instead of pulling the kids out of schools, how about changing the school system back. Would one be harder than the other? I don't know. I do know that I inoculated my children against the social engineering of the school system from the time they could have an inkling of what I was talking about.

We did this too, undoing the socialism and democratic party support each night at home. As far as undoing the school systems and its problems? I don't know what would be easier, change from within when the teachers unions have so much control and are all socialist democrats or knocking it down and starting over with the attendant transition costs. But the point that something should be done.

I don't understand the criticism of agenda 21 and NCLB. The problems started well before these programs. And they are not the same. NCLB is an attempt at putting accountability back into the school system and forcing teachers to spend more time on basics so that they must spend less time on social engineering and team learning. but the present system is very well entrenched. Multiculturism and Political Correctness are being pushed to undo conservative values and lead these kids to grow up and vote themselves into a no borders world socialist state. The socialist teachers expect to be the leaders of the state and share in the distribution of the spoils. But like all utopias, this one won't work either.

17 posted on 03/03/2005 12:21:28 PM PST by KC_for_Freedom (Sailing the highways of America, and loving it.)
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To: Just another Joe

...Instead of pulling the kids out of schools, how about changing the school system back.
Would one be harder than the other? I don't know...

Your mileage will vary from district to district, and state to state. Homeschooling is defintly a viable option of taking control of your childrens education, but arguably it is not an option for everyone (both parents working to make ends meet, for example).

But that does not necessarily mean that we need be at odds with each other (homeschoolers vs school reformers).

Both sides are basically in agreement on the big picture, that to many of our schools are no longer functioning in an acceptable manner.

Now we just need to figure out how we are going to cut the head off of the beast. Swords swinging from different directions aimed at its neck could be very effective.

"The homeschoolers are still a small group, but are growing. Today an estimated 1.6–2.0 million children are being taught at home by their parents.

Brian Ray, Worldwide Guide to Homeschooling, Broadman & Holman, 2002, p.7."

"The number of families choosing to homeschool grows at an estimated annual rate of 7-15 percent.

Ray, p. 8."

(source link: http://www.youcanhomeschool.org/starthere/default.asp?bhcp=1)

As you can see, the homeschool movement, though small, is expanding at a nice clip. It could grow even faster then that. One idea that occured to me is that I am only teaching my two children at the moment. If it were legal, could I not teach four?

Every time a parent pulls a kid out of school to homeschool, that school loses one more reason for it to exist. They lose fed and state funding. It's a slap in the face of incompetence.

We need to work together to cut off the money. A starved beast is a weakened beast. Whether it can be tamed after that, or just has to be put out of its misery, remains to be seen. But that the beast continue eating our own is not an option.

I'm open to suggestions. Hope this doesn't sound too nutty. :-)

Remember though, the American Revolution began for the same reason. Taxation without representation. They threw that frickin tea into the harbour!





18 posted on 03/03/2005 12:49:45 PM PST by planekT
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To: hedgetrimmer
If you could let me know exactly what kinds of things you would want to know in another article, I would be happy to make that recommendation.

Well, for one thing she shouldn't assume, you know what happens when that word comes into play, that all her readers know the agendas she refers to.
I realize that she is probably writing to a targeted audience but if she wants to expand that audience she needs to explain the agenda in terms a 9th or 10th grader can understand.
Not very many people in the general population know what Agenda 21 is.

For another thing, she needs to give options that are available to the general population.
Some of the ideas she posits are very good but not everyone can homeschool and not everyone can uproot and move to rural areas.
Very few people will know what you are talking about when you say the words, "Klamath Basin".
Water rights are almost as obscure.

The fact of the matter is its hard to motivate Americans to act to save their liberty.

You are VERY correct with this statement.
To motivate the general populace you have to give them a problem that hits them in the gut.
Water rights? They get their water from the municipal water system.
They've never had to dig a well, or have one dug, or have a cistern, or depend on a stream or river for their water. They don't understand what you're talking about. It won't motivate them.

Talk to them about their state, and national, parks being taken and time alloted for them to use them. Use the time or lose it.
Talk to them about our soldiers being accused and tried for defending our country if the UN gets a toehold.
Just about everyone has a relative, or knows someone, in the military, active, reserve, or prior.

Use your base to get the word out.
Flyers, newsletters, etc. Put them in grocery stores, service stations, convenience stores, pass them out at fairs, festivals, holiday get togethers, etc.

The most important thing is to get the word out in a way that the general populace can understand and empathize with.

19 posted on 03/03/2005 8:04:55 PM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: planekT
But that does not necessarily mean that we need be at odds with each other (homeschoolers vs school reformers).

I agree completely.
The best of both worlds, IMO, would be to go back to the school system where parents chose the teachers for the schools.
If you could get enough parents to care.

20 posted on 03/03/2005 8:07:49 PM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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