I am not a fan of big government; especially one that is UN-elected, UN-accountable, by all means foreign, and at best a self-promoting, quasi-governmental entity with a fondness for world domination at our direct and insurmountable expense.
​I’m speaking of the UN, and specifically its Agenda 21.  The UN implemented Agenda 21 back in 1992 while no one was paying attention and it has slowly and methodically infiltrated every aspect of our lives whether we know it or not, under the guise of sustainable development.  It is literally a blueprint on how someone else who isn’t you, or elected by you, or accountable to you, will run your life and own your property because you will most certainly have contact with the environment at several points during your life time.
​It basically seeks to regulate us off our land, out of our homes, out of our cars, and into something else that someone else deems better for you.  That same self-involved insulated bureaucratic opportunist unilaterally finds justification by deciding that it’s also simultaneously in the best interest of any biological anything, from a virus to whatever else that is conveniently available.
          The above generalities might seem ludicrous, but they accurately represent the goals of Agenda 21.  Look it up people! It's all there in piles of sweet sounding black and white pages with lovely sounding headings that we see and hear being pushed and distorted everyday.
​Agenda 21 is something to be feared and taken seriously because of its nature, stated purposes and actual help it is receiving right here at home.  It is being pushed and railroaded over the American people by our own representatives from the President on down through each and every department.
In Sarasota, we need to edit the County's 2050 plan with a permanent magic marker to remove Agenda 21's many permeating influences.  Join a local group or your immediate neighbors so that we can fix this all-encompassing problem together. America stops only when either our elected career politicians allow it to be stolen or we ourselves stop fighting for it.
On Wednesday morning I ever so briefly talked with my commissioner about FLERA which is the ever so sweet sounding acronym of the Florida Local Environmental Resource Agencies.  Coincidentally enough it held its annual conference down at the Hyatt Regency this past week. Why do you suppose they'd do that if they didn't consider us all and our local government nicely packed in the Agenda 21 bag? I am not in the bag and I don't think any American loving patriot with an ounce of self-reliance is either. Contact your local Commissioner and remind him or her that they work for you and not the UN which in every measure fails every reason for its unfortunate creation.
Now Agenda 21 and FLERA might sound like such a harmless organizations, but just as the UN fails to meet the purposes of its creation, so to does and will FLERA because it is head deep into using smoke and mirrors to hide its ultimate goal which again can be found by reading the very same goal of Agenda 21.
​ Your local governments are already most likely on the wrong side of this. They are most likely in bed with the UN because words like eco-friendly, environmentalist and sustainability make people awed and stupid. After all, how can loving the earth be a bad thing? It isn't a bad thing but can and will be used through the UN, Agenda 21 and FLERA as a control thing. Again pay attention to what your own local government is doing in word and deed whether they know it or not.
Sarasota County sent not 1 but 2 employees to the convention at a cost of between two to four hundred dollars per person plus room and board along with time and expenses I’m sure.  I think that was a mistake because I for one and we for many do not want our property and ultimately our freedom stolen from us under the guise of protective regulation.  There is no such thing.
​I read the FLERA agenda through the Agenda 21 looking glass and my 2 county employees learned how to manipulate the Florida Legislative session and regulatory process.  They learned the latest tricks and tactics to stop development.  They also had the opportunity to become experts at using the permitting process to further the hindrance of development and to do the same with quote un-quote, “compliance issues.”
There was also some serious note-taking during the bid-selection workshop, which I would have assumed Sarasota County had enough trouble with recently.  But still they continued learning how to slow and drive the cost of construction by adding such well polled words like “clean waterfront” to the construction site.  There was also a segment subtitled,“Creative Uses for Brownfield Assessment Funding.”  That one sounded a little to Acornish for me, but I'm sure the educated UN elite will have better luck with it.
There were also segments focusing on energy production versus energy consumption.  Special extra sessions were devoted exclusively to reducing residential energy consumption in existing homes, using such wonderfully sounding hazardous carcinogens like mercury for instance.  Now sure there was a session on reusing water but also one on making new or failing septic systems more environmentally friendly.  I’m sure no mention was to what that always does to cost or convenience either, but that is the necessary and ultimate sacrifices we are all so willing to make, at least that what they tell us we believe even though it isn't true.
There was a session on how increased development places an increased use on water resources.  That one struck me as rather obvious but I’m sure FLERA’s solution was anything but.
I found the session titled, “Reforestation of Public Lands Using Private Mitigation” troubling because mitigation can mean so many things to so many people, especially politicians, lawyers, lobbyists and regulators of every type.  But I’m naive, so maybe FLERA's attendees learned something positive that I just can’t conceive considering the operatives.
​ They closed the convention by learning how to add sustainability to sustainability programs, like it was ever an issue that government enacted programs ever end.
Tell your local commissioners that the education previously mentioned is exactly what we don’t need right now.  We need is less regulation, providing for lower costs, providing for more growth, providing for more jobs, providing for more tax revenues for the county, state and country translating hopefully to more efficient costs and services. 
​Do not accept as well-done or enough any explanation offered. Sarasota County ended its paid membership in the UN’s International Committee on Local Environmental Initiatives. That was a good first step but a necessary second step will now be to scrub the books and regulations clean deliberately removing all of ICLEI’s anti-American influences.  
Together we can make this a strong, vibrant community and that alone will create all the sustainability the County, State, Country and the environment will ever need. At the same time, by default we will solve the spending problem that plagues our local, state and federal governments.