Community versus Community
Community versus Community
by Niki Raapana and Nordica Friedrich
copyright June 3, 2013 all rights reserved
Across
the globe there is a massive effort underway to transfer land use
control away from the local people and hand it over to a different
community. When the word community is used in a local land use plan, you
can be sure it doesn't mean the local people. There are opposing
meanings for the word community.
Most
common born locals naturally assume community means all the residents in
their neighborhood. But to a communitarian change agent, community
means only the spiritually advanced converts seeking to control the
neighborhood.
This is
why development plans following Local Agenda 21 (LA21) suggestions
always claim the community wants the plan. It doesn't matter if 95% of
the local population have no idea there is a new plan. It doesn't matter
if 90% of the local residents would reject the new plan if they knew
anything about it.
LA21
plans rarely claim a majority of registered voters approved the plan. *
The planner can honestly say the "community agreed" this is the plan
they want, because their definition of community is: we the people who
write the plans.
Profits
from the transfer of control over the local economy to the community
are incalculable. For 20 years LA21 planners bragged how much effort
they put into enticing locals to be in their planning process. Where
they advertised is key to their success, and some locals were happy to
become partners in the global scam.
Trained
to follow TV news and kowtow to academic titles of nobility, working
class people don't choose to spend their precious few leisure hours
talking about how to build a stronger community. Whatever that is, it
sounds way too boring. Commoners don't do things they don't enjoy unless
they're forced to. If it's not reported on TV or in local papers, it
can't be very important, right?
LA21
legislation, usually in the Whereas portion, lists the hilarious ways
locals were informed of the planning meetings. If 500 out of 300,000
residents show up and participate, that is considered a very, very good
turnout. The City may even get a special award for Community
Participation if less than one percent of the population participates in
writing the final draft. Even if there is public opposition to it, in
most cases it passes the local legislature without one dissenting vote.
Elected officials adopt most everything the community asks for.
According
to the communitarians who promote the "need" for the new plans, and
then lead the planning process from start to finish, uneducated common
people cannot understand the lofty purpose for the plans. Only a small
group of trained experts are capable of determining the future use of
local land and resources. It's a huge sacrifice they've made helping the
rest of the world with their superior intelligence. To doubt their
motives is akin to doubting God. Pope Benedict declared, "Communitarian
development is God's plan" on January 1, 2013. LA 21 plans are long and
filled with complicated new regulations. It takes the Bible, the
Talmud/Cabala, the Koran and exegesis to comprehend God's secrets.
Average people are confused (and bored) by the planning meetings as well
as the plans, therefore their exclusion is justifiable.
Few
unenlightened souls are found in community oriented groups. It's not
hard to keep them out. The community isn't exactly friendly to non-grant
funded working class people. This isn't local carpenters, farmers,
housewives, bartenders or factory workers planning the future. Even if
they have the intuition and courage to speak up, commoners haven't an
inkling of the grandiose community purpose, so they never address the
bottom line. Auto mechanics can't see any good reason why they should go
sit through 100 meetings about bike paths. The ads inviting locals to
attend the meetings say many different things, but the ads never even
hint at the power the plan with have over the local economy. So, not
only do our neighbors not go, they could care less what happens at
endless meetings. Why should they care about livability and quality of
life (whatever that is)?
The
only people who join the LA21 community planning process are people who
were pre-trained and are often paid to join it. The committed people
controlling both sides, including the fake opposition, either have
degrees in the fields created by the communitarians, like urban
planning, environmental law/activism, sustainable development and
socio-economics, or they are financed by rich communitarians, or they
have a business that stands to profit from the plans, like green
building/products, eco-tourism, earth stewardship training, climate
change research, etc.
Many
LA21 planners who "volunteer" for the new community are government or
ex-government employees. In the cities, they work for recently added
agencies and departments created by the communitarians. Just a few of
them are Department of Neighborhoods, City Manager, Community Police,
Community Development and Homeland Security. In the rural areas the
community is full of BLM, Department of Forestry/Agriculture, Tribal
governments, public school teachers, Dept of Transportation, and
Community Mental Health Services.
Every
member of the LA21 planning community has made a commitment to making a
profit on sustainable community development principles. Every business
member helping LA21 planners write the plans made the same commitment.
Anyone who tries to participate without dedicating themselves to the
development community will find their participation severely
marginalized.
After
the plans are adopted into law, and the laws go into effect, it's a done
deal. Any local resident who openly objects to the law is criminally
disruptive. Concerned about a plan that drastically reduces your ability
to thrive? We're oh so sorry, but this is what the community said it
wants. Case closed.
Anyone
questioning the new junk science that justifies LA21 law is labeled,
ridiculed, attacked and discounted. Legitimate questions about the plan
are deflected by the Communitarian Left with tirades against the
Communitarian Right. Cons on both sides of the political spectrum allow
for no scrutiny of the community system. The less we all know about it,
the easier it is for the community. Even the authentic local
environmentalists who attend LA21 meetings in good faith quickly see
that the LA21 planners will not include their suggestions in the final
plan, unless it helps to achieve the desired LA21 outcome.
The
desired outcome for every land management plan in the world is the same.
Creating a global standard of law regulating all human activity on the
planet is the communitarian's phase one goal. No matter what the locals
living in the local community want, no matter how sustainable they
already are, no matter how responsibly they already manage their local
resources, the community will still insist they adopt laws that comply
with communitarian legal standards.
Locals
aren't told LA21 plans justify the community government's new powers to
invade and take private property. Locals are never told LA21 plans
establish the framework for community governance. Locals are never told
Communitarian Supremacy of Law grants the community limitless regulatory
control over all local business, resources, and people. Locals are
never told anything about Community Law. They don't even hear about it
when they are fined and jailed for violating it. Millions have lost
businesses, property and freedom to the community, without having a clue
as to why or how the transfer took place.
Community
Developers write Community Laws that are adopted by Community Councils
and enforced by Community Police. In order to stop the LA21 plan,
commoners around the globe have got to take back their local
communities. Locals could follow the communitarians' advice for Mapping
and Mobilizing Community Capacity. ** Commoners can also go house to
house, block by block, town to town doing knock-and-talks and survey for
assets. Anyone can assess and mobilize local citizens for capacity to
resist the communitarian con.
* The
2009 Bolivian Constitution is one rare exception. The French and Dutch
voters rejected the EU Constitution in 2005 because of its Supremacy of
Communitarian Law clause (it became official under the Lisbon Treaty).
The EU Court is the home of the acquis communitaire.
** See
Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) at Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois. This is where the Obamas trained to be community
activists.
Niki
Raapana and Nordica Friedrich founded the Anti Communitarian League
(ACL) in 2001, changed it to ACL Books in 2006. The ACL is not
affiliated with any political, religious or fraternal organization. The
ACL has published over a thousand free online articles on LA21 &
Communitarianism, many cited in academic papers. ACL research was used
in several lawsuits, including Dawson v Seattle (2002). Both women have
appeared on numerous radio shows and occasionally do public speaking
engagements. They co-wrote two books, "The Anti Communitarian Manifesto"
and "2020: Our Common Destiny". Combined and updated in 2012, they are
available only at the ACL Books website, nord.twu.net/acl.
