FEBRUARY 17, 2013 |
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COMMUNITARIANISM |
www.PostSustainabilityInstitute.org |
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Today's guest:
Kevin Eggers |
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KEVIN EGGERS |
About
Kevin Eggers
Assistant Director, Post
Sustainability Institute
Kevin Eggers is an
activist and journalist who is dedicated to stopping UN
Agenda 21. Although based in Napa, California, Kevin has
traveled all over the US to meet with other activists on the
front lines of the fight. His many articles in the Napa
Valley Register have alerted many thousands of citizens to
the political theory behind UN Agenda 21. Kevin has been the
hub of a network of writers, speakers, and activists,
providing a vital link which enables all to exponentially
increase awareness and depth of knowledge. We will post
links to Kevin's articles, but to read them now please
search Napa Valley Register Kevin Eggers.
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Search the Napa Valley Register for Kevin's
articles |
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Kevin Egger's Napa Valley Register blog |
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email
kevin@eggers.org |
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My Talk with Napa Mayor Techel about the Sustainable Community and
Collectivism |
On Aug. 10, 2012, I met with Napa Mayor Jill Techel in her office in
downtown Napa. Mayor Techel made a gesture of goodwill by suggesting
that we should visit to talk about my concerns regarding Napa’s
“sustainable community.” We discussed the “collectivist” ideology
behind the sustainable community.
The sustainable community, as defined by United Nations Agenda 21
(and California), calls for government to manage every aspect of
life within the community. A hundred years ago, public officials
would have been tarred and feathered for suggesting government has
the power to manage our everyday lives.
Americans today, however, accept being totally managed in a
sustainable community as normal and necessary. What changed? America
has been ideologically transformed into a collectivist nation.
Ideology is “a body of ideas that reflects the beliefs and interests
of a nation.” Change ideology and you change America.
I showed Mayor Techel an original, hardbound American Historical
Association’s “Conclusions and Recommendations — Report of the
Commission on Social Studies” (printed 1934). The studies and
resulting report were financed and endorsed by the Trustees of the
Carnegie Corporation, which still influence public education today.
The report tells how public education was going to ideologically
“transition” America from “traditional ideas and values” into
“collectivism” to prepare Americans for a future in which
“individual economic actions and individual property rights will be
altered and abridged.”
I told Mayor Techel I’ve had university political science professors
tell me, “There has never been a collectivist education plan for
America.” I would show them the report and ask, “Then why did we
have a collectivist education plan for America?”
How successful has public education been in the transition of
America into collectivist ideology?
Under America’s traditional ideology, Americans understood every
individual is born with natural (individual) rights outside the
reach of government. Americans understood that our Bill of Rights
tells government what rights government can’t touch.
Americans understood that individual rights are protected from
whoever we elect and from federal, state and community government
policies. Americans understood individual rights are the “freedom”
Americans fought and died for.
Opposite of America’s traditional ideology is collectivism in which
individual rights don’t exist. Instead, government distributes
privileges to citizens, which government calls “rights.” All
“rights” (meaning all citizens) are managed by government and must
conform to the “common good” policies of society as determined by
government.
An example of collectivism is the United Nations Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. Article 29 declares a citizen’s duty is
to serve the “community” and all “rights and freedoms” must conform
to the “purposes and principles” of the United Nations
(totalitarianism).
This is opposite of our Bill of Rights, in which the purposes and
principles of government must conform to protecting individual
rights (freedom).
I explained to Mayor Techel how every politician since the beginning
of time, including Stalin and Hitler, has told citizens, “We’re
doing this for the common good.” Individual rights protect every
American from a government that will always claim what it does is
for the “common good.”
Under communist and Nazi collectivist ideology (like the United
Nations) the citizen’s duty is to selflessly sacrifice for the
community. Individual rights don’t exist in the community.
All “rights and freedoms” must conform to the “common good” policies
of the community. Citizens have no protection from government, which
will always claim what it does is for the “common good of the
community.”
Lenin called communism the “perfect community.” One of the Nazi
Party planks states, “The activities of the individual must not be
allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take
place within its confines and be for the good of all ... ”
March 21, 2012, I asked Napa County Sheriff John Robertson about the
statement in our Napa County General Plan, which calls for the
“rights of the individual to be balanced with the rights of the
community.” Sheriff Robertson told me, “As you know, you surrender
some of your rights to live in the community.”
When asked how individual rights are protected from community
policies, Sheriff Robertson told me to “stop thinking outside the
system and work from within the system.” I was told I needed to
“join a council or committee and work on changing things from
within.”
At the July 24 Napa City Council meeting (Mayor Techel was there) I
explained what Sheriff Robertson said, and asked how individual
rights are protected from “sustainable” policies. Napa’s city
attorney said Napa follows the California State Constitution, which
he said is based on the “common good.”
Napa government functions under collectivist ideology. What about
Napa citizens? Is our duty to sacrifice our “rights and freedoms”
for the “common good” policies of Napa’s sustainable community
government?
Mayor Techel, thank you for your time.
Eggers lives in Napa. |
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READ THE
ARTICLE ON THE NAPA VALLEY REGISTER WEBSITE |
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http://napavalleyregister.com/%20news/%20opinion/%20mailbag/%20reader-discusses-collectivist-ideology-sustainable-development/%20article_628405b6-2fb3-11e2-9d43-0019bb2963f4.html
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VIDEO:
Kevin Eggers speaks on Communitarianism |
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Websites and
material mentioned on
today's program: |
http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/index.html |
http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/1/post/2012/04/who-does-your-sheriff-serve.html |
Kevin has worked with her a lot and shares Niki
Raapana's ideas more publically than she does.
Her links:
The
world.pdf |
http://www.nikiraapana.com |
http://napavalleyregister.com/users/profile/kevin eggers |
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