There is a crisis in the Conservative movement. It is a blind spot that threatens
everything the movement stands for. It is Sustainable Development, the theme of
the United Nations conference in Johannesburg. However, the conservatives who
have always been there to fight off such utopian, socialist nightmares now seem
to slumber blissfully in their ignorance at the very moment when vigilance is
most urgently needed.
Sustainable Development is the greatest threat ever perpetrated against the
American ideal of liberty. Under Sustainable Development there can be no free
enterprise, no individual liberty or private property.
As I attend traditional conservative meetings around the country where the
defense of property rights should be paramount Sustainable Development is rarely
mentioned. Speaker after speaker addresses the audience about issues like abortion,
taxes, and national defense. They declare their dedication to the fight for limited
government. I've even heard some of these speakers gleefully declare that we are
in a "conservative era."
If they believe this then they are seriously deluded. There can be no hope
of living in a nation of limited government with Sustainable Development as official
government policy. The two are diametrically opposed. Today, the Bush Administration
is continuing to help entrench Sustainable Development policies that were started
under the Clinton Administration.
Conservatives as a movement appear to be ignoring this threat. Indeed, many
Conservative foundations and major donors are actually providing funds to proponents
of Sustainable Development such as the Nature Conservancy and the Sierra Club.
By sharp contrast, proponents of property rights who are on the front lines to
stop this massive expansion of government control receive few dollars of support
from those who should be their champions.
Conservative donors are woefully ignorant of Sustainable Development. They
think they are giving their money to help the environment or to preserve historic
places. Instead they are only helping to murder the very freedoms they profess
to uphold. Conservatives would never concede their liberty to Swastikas or Hammer
and Sickles, but tuck it in a Green blanket called "environmental protection"
and they will toss those liberties on the fire like an old-fashioned book burning.
Conservatives must heed the warning now! Sustainable Development is anti-science,
anti-knowledge, anti-human and anti-reason. It is the creed of the mindless savage
who seeks brute force over liberty.
If conservatives don't learn of its evil now, if we don't heed the warning
and rip Sustainable Development out of every level of government by its well-entrenched
roots, then American life, indeed human existence as we know it, will enter a
new dark ages of pain and misery unlike any ever experienced by the community
of man.
The Conservative philosophy advocates limited government intrusion into the
lives of individual citizens. The root of that philosophy goes back to the ideals
of the Founding Fathers and particularly John Locke who said, "man creates
value and therefore property out of his own labor." He said that no government
could take the fruits of one's labor without a compelling public need and without
just compensation and then only through the rule of law.
James Madison used that theory to write the Fifth Amendment. John Adams said,
"the moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred
as the laws of God and there is not the force of law and public justice to protect
it, anarchy and tyranny commence."
Under the guarantee that government's only real job is to protect the rights
of individual Americans to engage in commerce and to protect their property and
person from thieves and murderers, Americans set about creating the most prosperous
and free nation on earth.
Today, these American ideals are under severe challenge from the international
community under the banner of Sustainable Development. Time and again, news reports
indicate that sustainable development is an environmental issue. It is not. Sustainable
Development is the driving force of what Al Gore called a "wrenching transformation"
that society must endure to repair what he perceives as the damage of the 20th
century’s Industrial Revolution. It is the same Industrial Revolution that gave
us modern transportation, medicine, indoor plumbing, healthy drinking water, central
heating, air conditioning, and electric light.
Sustainable Development is not about environmental clean up of rivers, air
and litter. It is an all-encompassing socialist scheme to combine social welfare
programs with government control of private business, socialized medicine, national
zoning controls of private property and restructuring of school curriculum which
serves to indoctrinate children into politically correct group think.
Sustainable Development advocates seek oppressive taxes to control and punish
behavior of which they don't approve and there is much these advocates disapprove,
including air conditioning, fast foods, suburban housing and automobiles.
Every aspect of our lives is affected by Sustainable Development policies.
It is top-down control from an all-powerful central government; specifically the
United Nations which seeks to assert such control. That is the true significance
of the World Conference on Sustainable Development.
The question is whether conservatives will rally to American principles of
freedom against the onslaught of Sustainable Development’s socialist tyranny?
