The Perfect Society: Whose Vision is it Anyway?

Will Americans be governed as citizens of city-states within globally-designated mega-regions, or within state and national borders under the US Constitution?

I read with interest a recent Laconia Daily Sun letter from "agent of change for social justice" Professor Bruce Mallory. He wrote about the activities of the Carsey Institute's PR firm "NH Listens".  Mallory claims that NH Listens does not employ the Delphi Technique when it "facilitates" these so-called "community" listening sessions. He says these discussions are intended to garner the opinions of the public. If that is true, NH Listens is doing a mighty poor job, since no criticism is ever included in its final reports. That might explain why these meetings are viewed as nothing more than dog and pony shows.

The Delphi Technique, as laid out on the NH Listens website was first developed by the Rand Corporation, a company which has been dubbed "The Think Tank That Controls America" 

The idea was to create a consensus of opinion on an idea or condition based on the input of several "experts" in the field. Today it is being used in a similar way to give the impression that certain groups (such as teachers or people in the community) have come up with and/or have accepted ideas that never came from them in the first place. In NH, the problems that the community is supposedly "struggling with" may not even exist. Specific goals outlined in the Granite State Future program are coming from somewhere else, and pretty much the same as they are everywhere these "sustainability" programs are being imposed. We say imposed, because the "experts" and "believers" are on hand to give the false impression that the government has earned the taxpayers' stamp of approval.

These "listening sessions" are traditionally under attended. You will not find many participants who are ordinary citizens, as the groups are stacked with "stakeholders". Most either work for NH Listens as facilitators, the Carsey Institute, environmental NGOs and law firms like CELDF.org, or commercial "green" companies looking to be awarded the projects that would be created by the public grant money.

The Regional Planning Commissions used to be about coordinating towns that shared overlapping resources (such as fire trucks and bridges). But lately they have strayed far from this purpose. Whether you agree that their ideas are the brainchild of the UN or not, the RPCs certainly have been acting as if they were mini-UNs, selling their vision of the perfect utopian, planned society of the future. The North Country Council website asks the silly question "What do you want the North Country to look like in 20 years?" (Suppose we ask instead, "where is all this money coming from, money that we're supposed to spend, when the US is $14T in debt?")

RPCs, while claiming they are "advisory-only", are acting as an extra layer of government, using a top-down process to steer towns into accepting EPA/HUD/DOT money (money that comes with strings) to create "master plans" that include promotion of new state and town "sustainability" policies.  For example, measuring CO2 emissions might result in the imposition of a VMT (Vehicle Miles Traveled) tax. Deeming all water a "state-owned resource" might be used to justify a water fee on your private well. The list of consequences is endless, considering that their plans boast of the intent to manage transportation, energy usage, water usage, housing types, land use, medicine, food production, broadband access, recreation, "and MORE!"

Perhaps you filled out an invasive American Community Survey for your family. Micro-farmers are now getting a survey of their own... as data mining is a very important part of this regional process. Before they can tax or control your products, they need to know what you are producing. People in Utah were asked to register their private gardens with the government.

Education is among the long list of items the central planners of the RPC hope to manage for you here in New Hampshire's newly planned society of the future. Winnisquam and Pittsfield have been targets of these educational change agents.

At the WRSD "listening session", it was made to appear that the idea for all-day kindergarten came from the "community" when it did not. In fact this idea was already voted down by the "community" in a legitimate election. So, what could have been the purpose of the discussion? In Pittsfield, Keith Catone, a friend of William Ayers from the Annenberg Institute, met with teachers to advise them to teach for "social justice". Did anyone from the community ask for this? Most likely not.

Recently when one resident asked what would happen if a town were to reject membership or participation in plans such as Granite State Future, the reply was that the region would go ahead with it anyway. Does that sound like the RPCs are advisory or that their plans are voluntary? The Granite State Future program is a binding legal agreement with HUD. Some of the goals of the environmental religionists are: stack'em - pack'em housing, restrictions on building in rural areas; the dramatic reduction of the use of cars, reduction of the consumption of meat, and transferal of the ownership of all water to the "state". Those who can read simple documents and who have matured beyond the right-left paradigm can acknowledge what is contained within those documents.

Do not ignore these meetings, as you may risk paying for these utopian boondoggles for the rest of your lives, and not just with money.

Find your town's Regional Planning Commission and get out to their meetings for Granite State Future. You will find that their vision is not the same as yours, and that you have been kept out of the process. You will find that these "regional" problems are mostly a creation of the same groups who offer the solutions. Plan to attend Saturday April 13 from 8:30 AM-12:00 Noon in New Boston when Granite State Future will host a "Regional Vision Workshop" focusing on the towns of New Boston, Weare, Goffstown and Bedford at the Whipple Free Library, 67 Mont Vernon Rd, New Boston. (RSVP to Linda Moore lmoore@snhpc.org)

As we have shown before, most of the entities promoting GSF are not elected but private, well-funded organizations. One of the biggest questions that remains unanswered is; what gives towns the legal right to join groups like ICLEI, or any type of NON-governmental "club" it might choose, for that matter, using OUR public tax dollars? Any NH Reps who voted down HB 144 should be asked this. Membership in ICLEI for towns is an absurd and illegal use of those local tax dollars. Imagine if ICLEI was behind a conservative cause? I can already hear the progressives squealing...

For those still unfamiliar with ICLEI here is a self-description:  A Worldwide Movement

"ICLEI USA is part of an international organization that operates 13 offices on 7 continents. The ICLEI global network works on clean energy, climate protection, biodiversity, sustainable procurement and water issues.

ICLEI's work is carried out through non-profit affiliate organizations nationally incorporated in the United States, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, India, Mexico, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Africa and Korea. ICLEI also conducts project activities through our regional offices in P.R. China and Indonesia."

Really? Since when do we need private special interest groups from outside of the country to tell us what to do in our towns?

In related news, Senator Jeanne Shaheen (who is fond of UN treaties and repeatedly votes against your second amendment and other rights) recently wrote back to a constituent to say that she supports the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) which is sure to be another sovereignty-busting, NAFTA-style boondoggle for America. We also discovered her name among the list of people who have signed on to the agenda of yet another non-governmental group that hopes to "regionalize" New England -- New England Futures (how original!)

I'll end with a quote from my friend Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, Former Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. Department of Education during the Reagan Administration and Author of "Deliberate Dumbing Down" who says -- "Regionalism is Communism"

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