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Kansas GOP House Reps: water conservation and building bicycle paths are communist plots
http://www.necn.com/05/08/12/3-Kansas-House-members-oppose-UN-initiat/landing_scitech.html?&apID=d17abf1c64864a26b423afd8ef94dad6
3 Kansas House members oppose UN initiative
May 8, 2012 9:53am
Rep. Greg Smith, R-Olathe; Rep. Forrest Knox, R-Altoona; and Rep. Dennis Hedke, R-Wichita, testified Monday in support of a Kansas House resolution for "opposing and exposing the radical nature of United Nations Agenda 21 and its destructiveness to the principles of the founding documents of the United States of America," The Topeka Capital-Journal reported.
Agenda 21, which refers to the 21st century, is a nonbinding U.N. agreement signed by 178 nations in 1992 that encourages using methods such as conservation, management and changing consumption patterns to promote sustainable development.
Smith, Knox and Hedke said Agenda 21 is a power grab by radical environmentalists who want to end private property rights and implement communism.
"This is the most aggressive attack on individual liberty and the foundations of our country we have ever seen," Hedke said.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/agenda-21-kansas-un-sustainability_n_1507823.html
Agenda 21: Kansas Lawmakers Endorse Measure Opposing U.N. Sustainability Plan
Posted: 05/11/2012 10:33 am Updated: 05/11/2012 1:25 pm
The Republican-controlled Kansas House of Representatives on Thursday adopted a resolution condemning the United Nations' Agenda 21 environmental action plan, which focuses on sustainable development.
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Republicans joined Hedke in pushing the measure. They said that Agenda 21 has taken over local land-use boards around the country through the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, which the resolution states has "infiltrated" 600 land-use groups nationally. Several argued that local governments were not aware of the U.N.'s role in promoting such programs as bike paths, solar panels, easements and land-use regulation, which they called "radical" and "destructive to the American way of life." They said that local officials were seeking grant monies for these programs to avoid using tax revenue.
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Rep. Bill Otto (R-LeRoy) said during the debate that he believed the EPA is making laws and that the federal government should follow the Constitution instead. He also invoked a conspiracy theory surrounding President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Lee Harvey Oswald could not have been the only shooter, he said, because it would have been impossible for him to have gotten off multiple shots in such a short amount of time. He suggested that JFK's assassination and Agenda 21 are connected because people don't believe there were multiple shooters and that they don't believe that Agenda 21 is powerful.
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Democrats largely opposed the measure, suggesting the House should focus instead on numerous other pending issues, including taxes, the budget, redistricting, education and pension reform.
http://cjonline.com/news/2012-05-08/house-committee-rebukes-uns-agenda-21
Smith, Knox and Hedke described the nonbinding U.N. agreement signed by 178 nations in 1992 as an unauthorized power grab by radical environmentalists bent on ending private property rights in favor of communism. They said it is pervading local governments and is "an aggressive attack on individual liberty and the foundation of our country."
The Kansas Senate didn't take the resolution up after House passage.
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