A wide-ranging group of Republicans—including Glenn Beck and National Republican Committeeman Bruce Ash of Tucson—is concerned about U.N. Agenda 21, an innocuous-sounding 1991 resolution supported by former President George W. Bush. Agenda 21 calls for sustainable development, conservation and women’s rights. This has been translated by right-leaning analysts as an attack on private-property rights and another step in the U.N.’s plan to take over the United States. (BTW: Some on the right do not believe in the plot.)
In response, Republican Sen. Judy Burges of Skull Valley has sponsored SB 1403, which would forbid state agencies from participating in anything that could advance the cause of U.N. Agenda 21. This creates a number of problem for state agencies involved with water and energy conservation, since such programs now may be considered in line with the goals of Agenda 21.
Despite those concerns, Burges—citing the “seductive evils” of energy conservation and sustainable development—has pushed ahead with the bill, which passed out of the Government and Environment Committee last week on a 4-3 party-line vote and passed the Senate Rules Committee on Monday, Feb. 25, but was retained on the Committee of the Whole vote on Thursday, Feb. 28.
This article appears in Feb 28 – Mar 6, 2013.
“…”seductive evils” of energy conservation and sustainable development…”
Every time I think I’ve heard the stupidest thing I’ll ever hear from the right-wing, one of them opens their mouth and surprises me.
Do your own homework, good resource page: http://www.rightsidenews.com/agenda-21-lin… and watch the WildLands video and video series just above it
Someone has to be spiking the water there…
It’s too bad that here in the “Meth Lab of ‘democracy'”, idiots like this are currently allowed to turn their silly paranoid delusions into laws…
I sure hope the old, white, racist, paranoids who vote these cretins into the Legislature finish their process of dying off … soon ….
Oh, and when we’re suffering through 50 or 60 days per year with temps above 120 degrees in the summer (by 2025), come back and tell us about the ‘”seductive evils” of energy conservation and sustainable development’
I checked out Jeff’s link above and regret to inform folks that it is pure right-wing property rights propaganda as far as I can tell. Lots of links to “christian” this and that – what, nothing for the Buddhists, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Agnostics, Atheists, and etc.? Anyway, you get the drift. So check it out if you wish, but be forewarned. I don’t think there is an alternative centrist or leftist site on this issue as counterbalance.
Judy Burges is another proven non- thinker of the Arizona state legislature. Non- thinker is the kindest word to speak of this woman who clearly does not have a rational thought and clearly cannot possess critical thinking skills in any arena in which intelligence is required.
When do the people of any intelligence decide that representatives who present these paranoid and irrational searches are a waste of time. When do the political persons who represent the citizens honestly pursue the causes that will further our “common good?”
What is the worth of pursuing idiotic conspiracy theories? what is she doing about poverty?
What is she doing about education.
Obviously, if GW Bush is promoting it, it must be a left-wing conspiracy…it is just as obvious why Beck got bounced from Feaux News…he has lost all touch with rational thinking.