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Swede

(33,236 posts)
Sun Jun 24, 2012, 12:19 PM Jun 2012

Alabama defeats communism with anti-sustainability law

With chronic budget shortfalls, dangerously overcrowded prisons and the nation’s biggest municipal bankruptcy filing, we here in Alabama have a lot on our minds.

But at least we can cross one worry off the list: Our property cannot be confiscated by the United Nations or any of its myriad stealth agents in the name of “sustainability,” “smart growth” or “environmentalism.”

For that, we can thank our hard-working state legislators, who in mid-May voted unanimously – yes, they did – in favor of a bill barring the enactment of any policy recommendations traceable to the U.N.’s Agenda 21 that infringe on property rights, at least without “due process.”

That’s right. Thanks to the legislation sponsored by GOP state Sen. Gerald Dial, Alabama farmers who have been planting less produce this spring due to labor shortages caused by the state’s draconian anti-immigration law (the latest version of which includes a “scarlet letter” provision requiring the state “to post a quarterly list of the names of any undocumented alien who appears in court for a violation of state law, regardless of whether they were convicted”) can feel confident their fallow fields won’t be taken over by agents of the “New World Order.” Families can enjoy the benefits of the newly shortened school year (enacted this spring over a gubernatorial veto by state legislators who claimed longer summer breaks will encourage tourism and generate revenue), secure in the knowledge that they will not return from their vacations to discover their property has been seized by blue-helmeted troops.

http://www.salon.com/2012/06/23/alabama_defeats_communism_with_anti_sustainability_law/

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Lunacy treestar Jun 2012 #1
Lunacy? Turbineguy Jun 2012 #2

Turbineguy

(37,324 posts)
2. Lunacy?
Sun Jun 24, 2012, 12:54 PM
Jun 2012

Maybe. But I don't think we are there yet. Things will need to get a lot crazier in some areas.

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