Is the UN Using Bike Paths to Achieve World Domi

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Is the UN Using Bike Paths to Achieve World Domination?


How a sustainability initiative became fodder for right-wing conspiracy theories.

Andrew Cohen
| Feb 7, 2012


https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/...on/252572/

Did you know that the United Nations is in cahoots with local land-use planners all over the country to rob you and your neighbors of your God-given right to your gun, your land, your water, your food, and your liberty?

Did you know that there is a UN document, titled Agenda 21, that sets out the plan and that Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich already has declared that, if he were to become president, he would cut funding for any activity related to that U.N directive? Glenn Beck knows all about it, naturally, and so does the Tea Party.

Like all grand conspiracy theories, the UN plot for world domination, as expressed through "sustainable development" initiatives, links together all the disparate themes the theorist wants to see linked. George Soros is in on the plot. So is the Occupy Movement. So is President Obama. So are the Clintons. So, the Agenders say, is Queen Elizabeth II herself. And don't forget the Rothschilds! The only people missing from the equation are Scully, Mulder, and the Smoking Man.

And, of course, none of this has anything to do with the only relevant question that ought to be asked about any local land-use plan: Does it make sense for the community, now and in the future, to implement the plan's recommendations? It is remarkable -- and a vivid and dour reflection of the political tenor of our time -- that opponents of "sustainable growth" are able to succeed all over the country in scuttling such plans without having to make a coherent, substantive argument against the actual initiatives contemplated by the plans.

That's not a cheap trick. After all, it cost La Plata County $750,000 that it couldn't afford. But it is quite the trick, indeed. You scare people already suspicious of the government into thinking that the black helicopters are on their way, that Soros and Hillary are in on it, and then you ask those same people to oppose land-use planning which is designed to cut back on pollution, or the dangerous misuse of land, or just plain old-fashioned over-development. Who wins? As it is with conspiracies large and small just follow the money and you'll find out.

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